Happy Birthday Martin Luther King Jr....edited

My class tried to make you a video today.
They are 1st graders, Sheltered Immersion.
Anyway it was a special day today as we learned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It was a special birthday. I sure hope this works.



And to see it clearer in a slideshow.
I'm awfully proud of these 6 year olds.
We had to add in the pictures of our kids that missed the project so I was talked into this movie version two with Mingus playing this time.....they have come to enjoy watching these pieces. Tuesday as we watch the inauguration, facilitated by our school, we will draw President Obama and Vice President Biden and try to write a bit.



Some 1st grade thoughts....

"Dr. King was important to me because....he helped us to think about love for one another."

"Dr. King helped people of all ages. He taught friendship. If we love we will live."

"Dr. King helped the world. He was a great person. He had children, they had to go on after he lost his life."

"Dr King helps people to be nice. Black people were now able to ride a bus or be freerer trying to live a life."

"Dr. King changed the way it was."

"Dr. King told us not to fight and just be friends. I think we should follow Dr. King because he taught us to listen to something worth learning to do."

"Dr. King helped black Americans not lose their self. And to let us black and white be in the same school."

"Dr. King was a helpful man and he seemed kind and he made America better."

"Dr. King was important to me he made us to think of love and not to fight."

"If Dr. King did not stand up for himself we would not have a model today."

"Dr. King made us equal and he made us think about loving each other not fighting and try not to lie to each other."

" Dr. King was a great man cause he helped all the people cause when he doesn't know he goes and learns it in school and books."

"Dr. King he helped the world. He was a real person. Real. He happened. He had his own kids too. He was shot for his new and important ideas."

"Dr. King changed and used laws for blacks and whites. He said don't get mad and use your fists or kill the enemy. Try to see them as yourself."

"Dr. King helped us to be in school with very different people."

"Dr. King told us it doesn't matter what is the skin color but we are all family no matter what."
( the last Elvis wrote....but I forget the pen names here at home and I typed for them this time we only have one working computer, so this is just their text.....)