What We Learned About Dr. KIng

Despite our short(er) week we packed in a lot of learning about Dr. Martin Luther King. We started last week by reading a few of my favorite picture books about MLK. Each author wrote about MLK in a unique way and we learned important information about Martin's childhood and his teachings. One of our favorite books was written by Doreen Rappaport and is called Martin's Big Words. In this book we learned all about Martin's big dreams of peace, equal rights, and love.

A second favorite book of ours was written by Martin's big sister, Christine King and is called My Brother Martin. Christine shared lots of experiences from their childhood and we learned that Martin loved school, liked playing with his friends, and like pulling pranks!

Here are a few of the ways we demonstrated our learning:

Once we read all of our books and had some great class discussions we made a web to demonstrate some of the big ideas we wanted to hold onto.

At the art center we made mini Martin Luther Kings. Then during writing time we talked about Martin's big dreams and then shared some of our own dreams in writing.

We were inspired by Martin's words. I love that this is the first thing you see when you walk into our classroom!