Let's Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day With These Books, Songs & Resources!

On January 21, 2019 we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  He was born on January 15, 1929. 

As we remember all that Martin Luther King Jr. did this week, there are lots of wonderful books, songs, sites and other resources that are perfect to use with all of our students and communities. 

I have brought these resources together in the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection by Destiny that you will find here if you are from Van Meter, and here if you are outside of our school.

Within the Collection, you will find a Martin Luther King Jr. Symbaloo that contains a recording of his I Have A Dream Speech, links to the MLK Jr. PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles, several eBooks from Capstone Interactive and EPIC! Books, a wonderful video from BrainPop, and one of my favorite things.....

...this special story and song, Peaceful Leader Martin Luther King Jr., from Cantata Learning.

I added a link to the eBook within Capstone Interactive for Van Meter and included the YouTube video too.  Our students love Cantata...I can't wait until they hear this one.

We always make sure our students can find these new Symbaloo's on our main elementary one by placing it towards the top.  They will find the Martin Luther King Symbaloo and Collection where it is circled above.

I also wanted to make sure I mentioned one of my favorite picture books about Martin Luther King Jr.  It is from our friends at Capstone and called When Martin Luther King Jr. Wore Roller Skates.  We have this one in Capstone Interactive so all of our students and teachers will be able to read and listen to it this week.

You will also find it here on the Capstone site.

Make sure you check out this fun STEM Challenge from Maker Maven, Can You Build A Podium For Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr? too!  You will find it here. 

And please let me know what else we should add.  I am happy to add to both the Collection and Symbaloo so all of us can use these important resources at our school too.