Modern Day Heroes

Modern Day Heroes

Daily Question: Do you know a Modern Hero?  We got lots of fun answers to this question: Batman, Wonderwomen, Spiderman, etc.  The best answer was little Brody who said, "ME!"  We are talking about being brave, men and women who changed our world for the better, and what we can do about it today.

Toys: (New) Trains, City Blocks and Town Rug, and Dress Ups.

Eleanor, the Ice Queen, praised Ethan--"That's my fearless knight!  He's protecting me!" (...from his twin brother, Kayson?)

Snack: Banana wheels, Animal crackers, and mini carrots.

In Circle Time, we saw and talked about many books of Modern Day Heroes/Heroines. We learned that after the start of America, people in Africa were kidnapped and taken by boat to America to work as slaves on plantations that grew tobacco and cotton. We talked about how the slaves (People from Africa who became African Americans or were sometimes called Blacks or Coloreds) were treated poorly--not allowed to vote, hold a paying job, use the same water fountain, or marry. We talked briefly about the US Constitution, the Civil War and President Lincoln (whose birthday is celebrated in Feb.), Segregation, Civil Rights, "Separate but Equal," Martin Luther, Coretta Scott, and Rosa Parks, and Montgomery Bus Boycott. We also talked a little about Helen Keller, one of my personal Heroines.

Share & Teach:

Brody: Transformer to "play with."

Dade: Stuffed ghost and Yak.

Eleanor: Thundercats Sword

Ethan: Lego Fireman (Modern Day Hero)

Eva: Toy to "p

Kayson: Lego Police Officer (Modern Day Hero)

Seth: Glowpet

William: Spiderman (Hero)

Heroes/Heroines Book:
Martin Luther King, Jr. A Dream of Hope by Alice Fleming (Sterling Biographies)--PCL copy, use for pictures--too advanced for preschoolers.
What's So Great About...? Rosa Parks by Jim Whiting (A Robbie Reader) PCL
Helen Keller by Sean Dolan (Rookie Biographies) PCL
Bio-Graphics Abraham Lincoln (Graphic Planet, Red Wagon) written by Joe Dunn, ill. by Rod Espinosa
The Bus Ride That Changed History; The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Ill. by Danny Shanahan
Coretta Scott Poetry by Ntozake Shange, Paintings by Kadir Nelson