So, with that, we just finished a week of celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in our first grade classroom!
We started the week by hearing about his life and me telling the story. I showed pictures and read the story to my students on our large Smart screen in our classroom!
We learned about his dream and then unscrambled part of the famous speech in our interactive notebooks!
The next day, we started practicing our reader's theater. I gave each of my 26 students a part. There were parts that worked for my lowest all the way to my highest. We practiced this play 2 times a day for 3 days! This is only the first page! I actually split the narrator parts into 2 to 3 places so that more of my students could get a part! There are parts for 27+ students! :)
On Friday, we put on the program for our Kindergarten friends, and our First grade friends! My students were stars in their little play!
What brought tears to my eyes were their little voices that ended the play,
"I have a dream that my four little children, will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
If you are interested in these activities,
What do you do to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
