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🕊️ Meaningful MLK Jr. Day ideas for your K-2 class
Plus, a sight word rap your students will love and a "Peace Pledge" template.
Karly Moura & Christina Sciarrotto
January 13, 2026
K-2 resources for a busy January
Welcome to the time of year where, as K-2 teachers, we cover every holiday in a span of a few short weeks—from Groundhog Day to the 100th Day of School to Lunar New Year and Presidents' Day. In this week’s edition, we’re sharing meaningful ways to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Inside:
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
📺 Teaching with TeachFlix Junior: Sight Words Rap
😄 Giggle of the Week: Snow Day Celebration
❤️ Share your ideas with us!
💡 Tips, Tools and Templates
Celebrating MLK Jr Day
On Monday, January 19th, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In our K-2 classrooms, we focus on his powerful message of peace, kindness, and equality. Below are some ways you can share his message with your students.
✏️ Explore the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
 | In this interactive activity, students use a guided scavenger hunt to explore the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. through a digital ThingLink quest. |
✏️ Have your students share their dreams for the future
 | This worksheet from Canva invites students to reflect on Dr. King's legacy and his "I Have a Dream" speech. After discussing his message, students can write and illustrate their own personal hopes for the future. |
✏️ Walk in Dr. King’s footsteps
 | Use this printable template to have students write or illustrate one way they can "walk" like Dr. King by showing kindness to others. |
✏️ My Peace Pledge
 | Ask students to take the Peace Pledge by having your students showcase how their small actions can be big steps. This activity encourages students to commit to small, daily actions that foster peace, mirroring Dr. King's belief that individual character and kindness are essential for social change. |
📺 Teaching with Teachflix Junior
🪩 Sight Words Rap
🎥 Video Link: Sight Words Rap on Teachflix
The Sight Words Rap teaches you the top 100 sight words! Learn the correct pronunciation of the most common English language words while you practice reading memorization.
Key points covered in the video:
The video features 100 sight words that students should know.
Click on the four additional videos for specific sight word practice.
Ready-made video resources:
These resources offer a multi-sensory approach to sight word knowledge that complements the video.
❤️ Heart Words Phonics Workbook: A foundational guide that helps students identify phonetically irregular "heart" parts of words that must be learned by memory.
✏️ Sight Word Worksheet: A multi-task page where students read, write, trace, and spell a specific word like "the" to build muscle memory.
🎲 Roll a Sight Word: A gamified practice sheet where students use a die to determine which word to write, making repetitive spelling practice interactive.
🔵 Sight Word Bingo: A collaborative classroom game designed to improve word recognition speed and reading fluency through play.
🔤 ABC Mouse Color by Sight Word Pack: This packet for 1st Grade contains a series of activity pages designed to build reading fluency through creative engagement.
🤭 Giggle of the Week
❄️ A true winter miracle
h/t to WeAreTeachers