Martin Luther King

Wow I have not posted in a long time. I will try to catch you up on what we have been up to in 4K. We have had some extreme cold weather which is making teaching a little crazy!

For Martin Luther King we talked a lot about how Martin might of felt. One way to show the kids how this feels is through a coloring activity. I gave half of the class black paper and black crayons. The other half got white paper with black crayons. The students were instructed to draw me a detailed picture. They were not allowed to talk. After a few minutes I gathered all the students at group and we talked about how they felt. Some students talked about how they were frustrated because they could not see their pictures but their friends were drawing nice pictures. I then tied in, how this is how Martin Luther King felt. We played out other scenarios to help the children understand Martin Luther King's life a little better. ( for example, I told them that today only half of the class would get to play outside and the other half had to rest. It was so cute, one little boy said but Mrs. Post that is not fair to the friends that have to stay in and rest, that is when I knew they were starting to understand!) It was a lot of fun!

We also talked about Martin's dream. We then brainstormed many ways we could have a dream like Martin Luther King to help people. We then wrote about those dreams.