Students learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!
We learn that when we are nice to our friends, we keep
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream alive!
 

Students get to write about their own dream/wish for the world we live in! The students do a wonderful job putting their personal dreams into a sentence! We attach their dream to their shadow portrait. We hang our portraits in the hallway for others to read our dreams.
 

 

To kick off this unit, I give each child 3 peanut M&Ms (these are bigger than the plain--however if you have a child with peanut allergies plain works fine). We talk about the colors of the M&Ms we are holding. We talk about their uniqueness' too! After we talk about the "skin" of the M&Ms ach child gets to bite each of their candies in half. We then talk about the inside of our M&Ms....the children draw the conclusion that they look the same on the inside. That's when I drive home the concept...just because we look different on the outside, we are the same on the inside!Then we sing the version of "Jesus Loves the Little Children," HOWEVER, since I teach in a public school I have to with all respect change the lyrics. So we sing:

Mrs. Herbic Loves Her Children! Mrs. Herbic loves her children all the children in the world, red and yellow, black, and white, they are precious in her sight, Mrs. Herbic loves the children in the world. by: Mrs. Herbic

We've got the whole World In Our Hands We've got red friends in our hands We've got yellow friends in our hands We've got brown friends in our hands We've got the whole world in our hands. (we go through the different colors of M&M colors) by: Mrs. Herbic

 The long and short of this activity is to show students that no matter what a person looks like on the outside, we all are the same on the inside.  

    

I HAVE A DREAM....
Students got to write about their own dream/wish for the world we live in! The students did a wonderful job putting their personal dreams into a sentence! We attached their dream to a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream!

Dr. Martin Luther King
(tune: BINGO)

Dr. King taught us to live
In harmony and peace--
P-E-A-C-E,
P-E-A-C-E,
P-E-A-C-E,
In harmony and peace.

He taught us not to fight or quarrel,
But love one another.
L-O-V-E, Love!
L-O-V-E, Love!
L-O-V-E, Love!
He said to love each other.
-Scholastic-

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