Each one of us are unique....

"Each one of us are unique, but when we come together the picture is complete."

This is a great quote from one of my many favorite books The Crayon Box that Talked.   This week we learned about having helping hands, bullies, being a good friend and MLK Jr.  They all tied into together to show how we can continue doing Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.  

We started off the week by learning what helping hands are.  We listed ways that we can have helping hands.  

Meet Billy the Bully!  After we read some books about bullies - we listed some things that Billy the Bully would do.  We also talked about what to do if a bully is bothering you or someone else.

Working on some sight word work. 

One of our amazing words this week was: tangled.   We read a story about a lion and a mouse where the lion got all tangled up in something.   To help us better know what the word means - we tangled up some things in our box with some string. 

Our bugs.  We talked about some things that 'bug' us and how we can deal with it.  On the bugs we wrote one thing that really bugs us.  

An activity that went with our book:  The Crayon Box that Talked.  I told them to get out a black crayon and that was the only crayon we could use.  They had to copy the picture that I drew on the board.  Afterwards I asked them what the picture looked like to them - I got as a response:  dark, boring, black, very black.

We then read our story.  After reading our story we drew the same picture, but with all the colors that we had.   We compared the two pictures and I asked them which one do they like better - of course they said the one with lots of colors.  The moral of this lesson is that when people of all colors come together things become a lot better than just one color.  Our picture is complete when you use all different colors. 

In Social Studies we talked about leaders and what makes a good leader. 

Sight word puzzle spelling. 

Along with Billy the Bully we met Freddy the Friend! 

Center work 

Doing some journal work with some more amazing words.  They had to draw an animal that can snarl and nibble.  

Sight word center work. 

Journal work with our amazing words. 

Our Bug chart that went along with our bug crafts we made. 

Doing some more tangling of our items. 

To go with MLK Jr. we did another activity that I love to do.  I had two eggs - a brown one and a white egg.  I asked them how they are different and what would happen if I cracked them - would they be the same?  I really stressed that they are different colors on the outside - so are they really going to be the same on the inside? 

After cracking one egg (the white one)- we discussed what it looked like.  Then we cracked the other (the brown egg) and guess what ...it was the same!! We learned that we all look different on the outside but in the inside we are all the same. 

Here are our Martin Luther King Jr. craft we did.  

Another picture of our bugs. 

Here are some drawings that we read with our story - the all black drawing as well as some with all colors. 

CVC play dough stamping.