From My Son…at four…we learn what a child sees

“Martin Luther King, Junior” by my son at 4, in Answer to “What Can Kids Understand”
When my son was very young he fell in love with watching two videos, The Snowman and Our Friend Martin. Both were daily repertoire pieces for him. I thought the Martin Luther King Jr. video was wayyyyyy over his head.
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Thoughts on Dr. King from children’s lips to your ears

My class made a second movie set to music we listened to working…then they wrote.Recall they are in 1st grade, and Sheltered Immersion in a CA school trying to figure out why they get Monday home. ( I fixed some small things)
Here is what we have so far… Some 1st grade thoughts….
“Dr. King was important [...]

Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Today we tried to make portraits of Dr. King and to put his pictures to a clip from Dr. King’s famous I Have A Dream Speech.
It was fun working for 35 minutes to draw a very important leader.
Tomorrow each child will write a sentence or two about this American leader.
We are preparing for our day [...]