i bought dr. king’s “i have a dream” speech on itunes to use at preschool. i had several photographs of dr. king to show as a slideshow while we listened. we turned off the lights and got quiet. it is a rare occasion to have screen time in preschool, but worth it. i located the places of his speech where he speaks directly about children, first his own then his dream for all children.

one little girl piped up: hey! he’s talking about us!

oh yes he is.

with hundreds of tiny photographs of dr. king, preschoolers covered a capital M. First was the work of making a capital M shape with four strips of paper (how clever that it first looked like a lowercase L, then an upside down V, then a crooked capital N, then finally a capital M!).

then choosing and gluing dr. king all over the M. there were three different poses and most children were very specific in which they choose…the smiling one, the thinking one and the listening one (descriptions determined by the TTH class).