Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, our primary class participated in an experiment last week. We segregated the class so that brown eyed children could only stay on one side of the classroom, while the blue eyed children were on the other. We drew an imaginary line across the classroom. For about 10 minutes, we worked in separate groups. Luckily my assistant has brown eyes, while mine are green. (Green, hazel, and gray went with the blue-eyed group.)

After the timer went off, the children met back at our group rug and we asked them what it was like to be separated from their friends and not be able to use the whole class. The majority of the students said they missed their friends on the other side of the room. The brown-eyed children missed the snack area on the other side! We had read a story about MLK so we compared this to his story. The whole class was so glad to be back to normal!

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. " Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963