Students at Willow Road School celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with numerous creative projects. Lessons and activities surrounding the accomplishments of this great humanitarian were the focus in classrooms. The kindergarten classes listened to biographies and learned about Dr. King from articles in their Scholastic News Magazines. They learned that love comes in many colors.
Mrs. Wahl's sixth grade class created a special project in their art class with Mrs. Geidel titled I Have A Dream. For this project, the students studied Dr. King's famous 1963 speech and Wassily Kandinsky's painting, Squares With Concentric Circles. Using rectangular shaped recycled cardboard on which to paint the concentric circles, the students painted sections of Dr. King's image in each one and applied principles of mathematics to arrange them into a cohesive painting. Excerpts from his speech were written by each student in their classroom and included in the project. This tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is being displayed in the school's main lobby.
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