mamakven Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Just curious... trying to figure out what to do besides just read a book :-) Nothing happening so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeidiKC Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Watching the Disney movie, "Selma, Lord, Selma". MLK is in the movie. Also, in the next week or so we'll watch the Disney movie, "Ruby Bridges". Sunday we watched an educational DVD on Civil Rights. I think it was a Schelssinger video. Read a couple of books. Downloaded the "I Have A Dream" speech and some civil rights songs ("Oh, Freedom", "Blowin' in the Wind", "We Have Overcome", etc.) and will have them listen at bedtime. Found them all free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scholand Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 We just discussed MLK. My one son is much better at absorbing things this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
learning2gether Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Friday night my two oldest girls sung in the "I Have A Dream" youth mass choir. Saturday dh and I went to the re enactment of Dr. King's funeral. Today we listened to a couple of his speeches and talked about how important young people were to the movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 You could read the "I Have A Dream" speech and then ask your child to tell you or write about his or her "dream" for a better world. You could do a "dove of peace" craft: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/newyear/dove/ You could do a "Freedom" or "Dream" Acrostic Poem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena1277 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 While there were tons of MLK events going on today (we live near DC), we spent a lot of our day in the car getting dh from the airport. Some genius decided today would be a good day to repaint the lines on the Beltway, closing 2 of the 4 lanes and backing traffic up for miles. :glare: We will learn about MLK, but not today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubamama Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 We watched youtube of the I had a dream speech and talked about it...ok we talked about it as much as we could with the littler ones fighting and such. It's a start, I figure they'll get many more years of MLK day. I did love it when my 8yo said, "Why were people so mean to black people? Who does that?" It really opened up the conversation and made us think about how we (as a nation) can be sooo wrong. Then we had Chex mix and I had to sing the abc's with the 3 yo. Michele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 For older kids (and adults) today's Fresh Air episode on NPR is fascinating: http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/ http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=13&d=01-17-2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 My guys are pretty young but we did read a couple preschool level books. Our local museum had a Peaceful Dove Collage art activity that we went to as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 In fact, thanks for the reminder :) We just finished talking about it a little bit, reading the speech together in its entirety online, and then making the "peace dove" craft I mentioned in my last post, from enchanted learning. It was quick and easy and my daughter enjoyed making it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamakven Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 great stuff! thanks ladies!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest momk2000 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 We read about MLK, and then I had dd watch video of the "I Have a Dream" speech online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murmer Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Along with reading Martin's Big Words (one of my favorite MLK Jr books) we went to a local candle light vigil at the university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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