Literacy Week and MLK

Last week we celebrated Literacy week!

On Monday we chose The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss as our class book.  We also happened to be checking out different types of communication such as signs, invitations, announcements, and reading maps.  During our work time students created announcements about our class book!

The announcement I modeled for the class.

NH's announcement, so colorful!

Our book of the month happens to be Martin's Big Words.  As we were reading and discussing The Sneetches I noticed my students making incredible connections between both stories.

"It don't matter what skin color you are." 

"At the end of both stories the sneetches and the people both learned that it doesn't matter how you look, what matters is you are nice."

I loved that they were pulling the main idea out of The Sneetches and connecting it to the non-fiction events in Martin's Big Words.  They dug really deep this week and I'm one proud teacher.

Click here to get the Sneetches and MLK responding sheet for free!

Finally, at the beginning of the month I used Peace and Dreams {A Martin Luther King Jr. Literacy Unit} created by Gladys over at Teaching in High Heels to introduce Martin's Big Words!  Her writing activities were really helpful in kicking off report writing!  I love it!