As Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday approaches, we took some time to learn more about him. We first watched a Brain Pop Jr. video about his life. We learned that he was very smart, about the segregation that people faced during his time, he became a reverend, and he fought for equal rights. We discussed segregation in simple terms such as the separate water fountains they used and attending different schools. We cut and assembled a small booklet that reviewed facts about Martin Luther King Jr.
We also discussed landforms and bodies of water in our session today. We got an introduction from an educational video on Brain Pop Jr. We saw various landforms including hills, islands, mountains, valleys, and peninsulas. Danny scored a 4/5 on a modified follow-up easy quiz. We then worked on a booklet entitled, My Book of Landforms. Danny was presented with the words plain, valley, mountain, and hill. We went through each word and looked at the starting letter and the sound it makes. We then read the sentences on each page and used the pictures to help us determine which of those four words was needed to complete the sentence. We then worked to find the correct word from its starting sound. After filling in the blanks, we then reread the booklet. Finally, I gave Danny three pictures: an island, river, and desert. I described one of the pictures based on its features as a landform for Danny to try to choose the correct picture. After we found the correct picture, we then looked at pictures on the Internet to match the landform. Danny really liked the pictures of islands, especially one we found shaped like a hand!