Our 7th grade leadership class is wanting to host an educational celebration for the second and third graders in our town, Alma Michigan, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It came to our class' attention that in our community, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is not celebrated to the level we feel it should be. Not very many people in our grade don't even know when Martin Luther King Jr. Day is. We are trying to get Martin Luther King Jr. more recognization. To help fix this problem we decided to go to our local elementary school and devote the entire day on teaching the second and third graders about what Martin Luther King Jr. Day is all about and how Martin Luther King Jr. did to earn a national day. We live in a primarily white and hispanic community.We think that this day should be acknowledged better to celebrate differences and learn about service. Our goal is to teach the children about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he helped to stop segrigation without violence. To do this we set up four stations. One station will be a cloud for each class. Each student will write their dream on the cloud and decorate the cloud. Another station will be a snack. The children will make buses out of graham crackers and decorate them with candy. They will make buses because we wanted to show them what Rosa Parks did. The third station is an activity center. We are going to give each child a Martin Luther King coloring book. We are going to set up a contest. The contest is who can put a Martin Luther King Jr. Day puzzle together the fastest. The fourth station is a multicultural craft. It is a face painted in different shades of skin color (on a white hankerchief), for the kids to draw themselves on in marker and crayon. The 2nd and 3rd graders will in also put their name, and their "dream" on the material. The supplies we will need to do this are glue, hot glue, glitter, hot glue guns, hankerchiefs, graham crackers, candy, Martin Luther King Jr. Puzzels, paper, markers, crayons, Martin Luther King Jr. coloring books, multicultural paint, string, paper clips, and transportation.I am Katie Duffy, I am 12 years old, I am the president of the leadership class, and have the full support of my teacher, Peggy Yates, and principal, Carolyn Studley
