Modern Day Heroes
Daily Question: Do you know a Modern Hero?
Toys: Play Kitchen (Cookies, Cut-up Food Puzzles), Race Cars, Town Rug, and Mega Bloks.
Toys: Play Kitchen (Cookies, Cut-up Food Puzzles), Race Cars, Town Rug, and Mega Bloks.
Snack: Orange slices, apple slices, powdered sugar and chocolate doughnuts.
Aaron's Birthday Celebration! Aaron's fifth birthday is this Sunday! He told us he likes blue (all though he does not have a "favorite" color--he likes many colors!). He has seven members in his family. He has a younger sister, Lily.
In Circle Time, we saw and talked about many books of Modern Day Heroes/Heroines. We learned that after the start of America, people in Africa were kidnapped and taken by boat to America to work as slaves on plantations that grew tobacco and cotton. We talked about how the slaves (People from Africa who became African Americans or were sometimes called Blacks or Coloreds) were treated poorly--not allowed to vote, hold a paying job, use the same water fountain, or marry. We talked briefly about the US Constitution, the Civil War and President Lincoln (whose birthday is celebrated in Feb.), Segregation, Civil Rights, "Separate but Equal," Martin Luther, Coretta Scott, and Rosa Parks, and Montgomery Bus Boycott. We also talked a little about Helen Keller, one of my personal Heroines.
Happy Birthday Book:
Henry's Happy Birthday by Holly Keller. Henry feels disappointed by several things on his birthday and wishes it was someone else' birthday--in the end he has a wonderful day feeling loved by his friends and family and only regrets his birthday wish.
Heroes/Heroines Book:
Martin Luther King, Jr. A Dream of Hope by Alice Fleming (Sterling Biographies)--PCL copy, use for pictures--too advanced for preschoolers.
What's So Great About...? Rosa Parks by Jim Whiting (A Robbie Reader) PCL
Helen Keller by Sean Dolan (Rookie Biographies) PCL
Bio-Graphics Abraham Lincoln (Graphic Planet, Red Wagon) written by Joe Dunn, ill. by Rod Espinosa
The Bus Ride That Changed History; The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Ill. by Danny Shanahan
Coretta Scott Poetry by Ntozake Shange, Paintings by Kadir Nelson