Yesterday we read a book called Martin’s Big Words. We learned that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a reverend that wanted to make the world a better place. He didn’t think it was fair to treat people differently because of the color of their skin. He wanted to change the laws that allowed people to be treated that way. Martin believed that people shouldn’t fight with their fists; rather they should fight with their words instead. Also, when people said, “hate,” he said “love.” Then, we went to a performance put on by Mrs. Yelin’s and Mrs. Kuhn’s classes. The children acted out the story of Rosa Parks. They recited poems, and sang songs about peace and love. The performance ended with a short video clip show the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Mrs. McNamee was here this morning. She gave us our spelling test while Ms. Stern was reading with children one at a time. Many children had to shop for new, more appropriate “just right” books. How exciting!
Today we had music. We were talking about our own performance. We started playing instruments such as the xylophone, glockenspiel, and metalaphone. Mrs. Fox had us practice one of the dances from the Dance Festival last year. It is called the Hand Jive.
Today, we also played Word Wall Sight Word Bingo. We had to choose words from the word wall to write on our boards. Lots of children won.
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