We all have a dream to make the world a better place. This week was all about Black history and those who made a difference in this world. We started off our week talking about Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout the day we discussed how he had a dream for all little boys and girls with all different skin colors to come together as one. The children came up with a dream of their own and we placed it on our window. We did an egg experiment where we took a brown egg and a white egg and asked the children if they were the same or different on the inside. Majority of our friends said the same. In the end we concluded that just because we look different on the outside, we are all the same on the inside. On Tuesday the children learned about Jackie Robinson who was the first African American to break the color line in the MLB. The children wrote baseball words at language and put the baseballs in numerical order. Wednesday we learned about Garrett Morgan. Did you know Garrett Morgan invented the gas mask and the traffic light? That’s right, he was an African American inventor and after seeing an accident between a car and a horse-n- carriage, he decided to make the traffic light here in Cleveland, OH. On Thursday the children learned about Ruby Bridges who at the age of 6 years old desegregated her elementary school. She is still alive today! We end the week with learning about Rosa Parks and how she stood her ground when it came to keeping her seat on the bus. We learned about many different people this week and while learning about them, the children also worked on letter and number recognition activities and we did the letter of the week which was Pp. Even though we learned a lot this week, we hope that the children take away one thing from this lesson plan which is that no matter your skin color, we are all the same on the inside and that everyone deserves to be treated fairly.
In the words of Martin Luther King Jr.: “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.” We will continue to work on this dream…we thank all the wonderful men and women and children who continue to make a difference in this world!