The pre-K students in Kathleen Murray’s class at Circleville Elementary school watched and listened intently to a video book,Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Margaret McNamara. The students in the book were young, just like them. They learned that Dr. King had a dream that all people would be treated equally and fairly. That was his life’s work.

 

 

The students in the book talked about their dreams – they wanted no one to be poor or sick and they wanted everyone to take care of our world. The students in Ms. Murray’s class shared those dreams.

After watching the video book, Ms. Murray pulled out two eggs that looked very different – one was brown and the other white. She asked her students how they think the eggs would look on the inside – the same or different? Opinions varied as most of the class thought the eggs would look different inside.

 

Excited, the students watched as Ms. Murray cracked the eggs open to reveal identical contents!

 

“Everyone is the same inside,” Ms. Murray told her students, no matter what we look like on the outside. “You can be who you want to be and do what you want to do.”