We began with continued discussions from yesterday on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We watched a reading of the book, A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr by David A. Adler as read by LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow. This gave us a brief overview of his life. We also read through a simple level reader highlighting key facts. We discussed how Martin Luther King, Jr. was successful in working hard at helping people be treated more equally. In an effort to provide a more concrete lesson, Danny and I completed an activity to simply examine color. We looked a brown eggs and white eggs. We talked about how there were varying shades of brown among the eggs as some were darker than others. We then cracked a brown egg into one bowl and a white egg into another. We talked about how the eggs were different colors on the outside, but looked the same on the inside. We applied this to Martin Luther King, Jr. as he wanted people to see that it doesn’t matter if we look different on the outside, we’re the same on the inside. We also discussed good and bad character. We went through various behavioral characteristics such as shares, honest, listens, steals, hits kids, kind, loyal, and rude and then Danny marked the smiling face or sad face next to each to denote if it is good or bad behavior. Danny then completed a 5-question follow-up about Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he scored correctly on all 5 items. Next, we continued our study of landforms. We reviewed our My Book of Landforms booklet that Danny completed yesterday. Then we compared the landforms of a snowy mountain and an island. We sorted 12 different items that would be associated with one of them, such as: wearing sunblock, skiing, wearing mittens, and surfing on the waves. Danny did a great job sorting the items! Finally, we looked to find the landform picture based on descriptions. These were done in two groupings and included an ocean, hill, and lake and then a mountain, plains, volcano, and valley.