FREE Activities to Celebrate Martin Luther King!

This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.This is a really short week for me…we were off Monday for MLK Jr Day and Tuesday was a planning day, which I took off, so I have only 3 days to pack in some awesome activities to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr!  I have been scouring the web (and by web, I mean Pinterest)  for the past few weeks to find free activities to use for this week and I am excited to share what I found, as well as my own creations.  Up first…my craftivity 🙂

• I found really cool and FREE clipart you can download from ATLTeacher and printed out one Martin for everyone.  Then I cut lots of little clouds.  We looked through King's speech and wrote down a list of words with the kids' sounds in them, then they wrote them on the clouds.  They glued it all to a piece of construction paper.  It was great because I could adjust my expectations depending on the grade level and I felt like they all enjoyed it.  It was a great way to tie in curriculum!
• Next up is an activity to work on judging whether specific situations are Just or Unjust!  I used this with a group of students working on pragmatic goals this morning and it was great!  Lots of opportunities were presented to talk about what is fair.  It does print in color, but I chose to just use B&W.  You can find it over at Elementary Matters.  She also has links to some great videos you can include in your sessions.

• Speaking of videos, I used a video of a book that Jenna posted over at Speech Room News, called “Martin's Big Words” by Doreen Rappaport.  It is a fantastic book!  Jenna also had a couple of other great videos she found, plus a freebie craft idea.  You can find these HERE.
• I also used a little bit from a packet that Tracee Orman created and is offering in her TPT Store.  This targets middle & high school students and has CCS. It has the transcription of the “I Have A Dream” speech and a Reader's Theater script which I used to work on artic & fluency goals with my 6th and 8th graders.  There are also questions included that students can answer.  It is a phenomenal packet for older students.  Make sure to leave feedback if you grab it!
• I also found this download with some writing pages and graphic organizers that you can download HERE.  I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but it is super cute and I will probably fit it in somehow!Whew!  Have you been using any of these great freebies?  What else have you used in therapy for MLK Jr?