Since we were gone for two weeks and it is a new year, I wanted to put up a new bulletin board.  I thought I would put up a Martin Luther King Jr. board.  That way I can keep it up for the rest of January and it will tie into Black History Month.  I was so amazed by some of my students and their work!  How do these little minds come up with such big ideas?

We started off by reading a biography on MLK.  I actually wrote one to go along with the activity so the students would have enough information.  We read it together then we started working on a newspaper template.  We filled out the timeline together.  I explained the importance of increments in timelines.  Then we highlighted all the dates and added them to the timeline.  I also showed them how to find dates that aren’t listed.  For example where it says two years later.  Then I explained that they will need to pretend they were reporters from back in the 1960’s.  They need to choose 1 positive and 1 negative event from the bio.  I demonstrate how to create a newspaper title, heading, picture caption, etc. and then I let them write!  Here are some of their examples: