I volunteer in Franny’s classroom twice a month, and I love it!  I have the opportunity to see so much more of what they are doing and what they have done.  We receive daily communications, but it doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what they do every day.  Today, I was able to see one of the projects they did on Martin Luther King Jr.  One of my tasks was to type the kids’ comments about Martin Luther King Jr. into the computer.  Earlier in the week, they drew pictures of him and then told another volunteer what they thought he would say to them.  Their comments were very sweet and insightful, from something as simple as Use good words, be nice to each other, to  Don’t judge anyone by the color or their skin.  Others, were obviously drawn from their readings or discussions, like I have a dream that our nation will rise up.  Franny’s was a little like that: I have a dream of you and me.  Martin Luther King Jr. is such an important and timeless historical figure, I was very excited that they spent so much time on him.  I received an email from her teacher earlier this week stating that Franny was ‘very sweet and empathetic’ during their discussions, and that she was ‘quite aghast by some of the stories [they] read about MLK and Ruby Bridges’.  I was very pleased to know that Franny had this reaction.  I think it says a lot about her, and what a wonderful heart she has.  She is quite the little girl!

Franny’s picture

All the class pictures