Students spread kindness on Martin Luther King Jr. day.

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Students at Brighton Adventist Academy took the Martin Luther King Day holiday to not only learn about the civil rights movement and the famous people who created change in our country but also to give back to their communities.

“Brighton Adventist Academy educators are honored to inspire our students to give the highest respect to others. To follow Jesus’ example, we are to love our brothers and sisters and to be responsible citizens,” said Jodie Aakko Brighton Adventist Academy.

Martin Luther King Day started with kindergarteners, rst and second graders delivering handmade, cozy lap blankets to Riverdale Rehab “It was hard to determine who had can guarantee freedom to its citizens.

Aakko said the students learned six decades of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, “ A challenge was laid before the Brighton Adventist Academy students, as they watched King’s October 26, 1967 speech to the students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, titled “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?”, Askko said.

Spreading Kindness

The student spent the remainder of the days giving back to the communities.

and Harriet Tubman, who was called Moses, and then they were taken back in time to the 1950s and 60s with a video on Rosa Parks following the Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech “I have a Dream.” en the students were assigned to map a freedom trail with an underground railroad as the trailhead. “ e students had a class discussion then created posters about what their dreams were for our country,” Aakko.

After the students watched the videos, they completed a list of questions about the Journey of Freedom in our country. e assignment is about freedom and how our country

The sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about kindness and spreading its message. They painted rocks with positive, encouraging, inspirational messages placing them at the park in town so that when a stranger walked by, it would make their day.

Later in the day, the students put together appreciation bags and delivered them to the Brighton Police Department and Brighton Fire Rescue Station.

The ninth and tenth graders learned about equal rights and respect for others with a class discussion following the assembling of one hundred burritos, and the students delivered the burritos to the homeless.

“The biography of MLK served as a key framework to the day’s quest. Teaching today means building a healthy community for tomorrow,” said Aakko.