Category: Black History Month
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soul train
We love watching Soul Train! There’s no better way to see some amazing moves, vintage fashions, and hear some funky music. We had our own dance party with this activity, in which we made a dance line of our own. Swing your arms, lift your leg, bend your knee, go left, go right, do the…
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aretha franklin
Here, students learn about the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin! We got to color her big sparkly eyes and her fun 1960’s earrings while listening to her amazing songs. The story of Ms. Franklin includes hardship, as a black woman in the entertainment industry in the 1960s. It was difficult for strong, talented black women…
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bo diddley
Blues legend Bo Diddley played a very unusual guitar. It didn’t look like other guitars that you’d find in a guitar shop; he built his own out of a box and some strings that he found when he was young because he didn’t have any money. His nickname could have come from a Diddley Bo,…
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prince
When Prince was a young teenager, he loved basketball but wasn’t as tall as the other kids on the team. He was teased and bullied, so he was a little shy in the beginning. But as he got older, he taught himself how to play music, which became his obsession. He didn’t let the haters…
art with ms. y. 