Planning a Black History Month Program Skit Checklist for Teachers (2024)

Planning a Black History Month Program is no easy thing to do. Especially when you’re still lesson planning for reading and writing mini lessons, 1 on 1 conferences, and small groups. And let’s not forget about all those other subjects you teach too. If you’re an elementary teacher like me…you know exactly what I’m talking about.

Have you started thinking about how to celebrate Black History in the classroom? It’s okay, teacher friend, if you haven’t. You have a lot going on right now. Here is ONE decision you can make today if you want.

Do you want to host a Black History Month program or celebration with your class and their families? Or maybe even invite the entire school or community?

If you really want your students to put on a show for this Black History Month, let me make your planning life a little bit easier.

You can have my Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks skits for FREE. These Black History Month Skits & Family Communication Forms (👈 that's the link to the skits by the way 😃) will help make February a month your students, families, and community will never forget.

These Black History Month plays were the main attraction that got all my families, for three straight years, excited to see their child perform. I was so proud of my students that day!!!

And I want you to feel that same pride too!!!

Once you download the Black History Month Skits for Elementary Students, I highly suggest you start the planning process right now. One of the main reasons I was never stressed out and overwhelmed with my Black History Month celebrations was because I started planning early, like in November. I have another FREE gift to help you get started planning for Black History Month.

This Black History Skit Vision Board will help you map out the overall vision starting with the END in mind. That's what we as educators should do right? Have you heard of “backwards mapping” when it comes to lesson planning? Well, Black History Month planning for teachers is no different. We need to start with our end goal in mind and determine our vision before we begin. If you want to learn how to map out your vision, check out this blog post of mine.

The next important step to planning Black History Month is to create a checklist of items you will need or want to get done prior to the big skit performance. This Black History Skit Checklist included all the items I used to pull off an amazing Black History Month celebration for my students. I even provided a blank checklist so you can create your own list based on your overall vision if you want.

Here’s My TOP 10 Black History Skit Checklist:

Copies of Scripts PLUS extra copies of scripts (because we know some students will lose theirs…hehe)

Storage solution for scripts

Highlighters

Student Choice Cards

Props & Costumes

Family Communication Forms, Invitations, and Programs

Practice Time Schedule

Food

Decor

Money Collection System

Alright, teacher friend! You are off to a great start.

1. Did you make a decision whether or not you want to do a Black History Month celebration this school year?
2. If so, start mapping out your vision.
3. Then, start creating a checklist of things to get done before the big day.

After your vision board and checklistare complete, take a picture of it and DM me on Instagram. I would LOVE to see it. Oh and don’t forget to download your *free* Black History Month Skits, print it out, or open it up in Adobe and edit your Family Communication Forms right in there.

Come on over to my Facebook page for more strategies and tips for your Black History Skits, teacher friend. Because now that you’re a part of my community… you no longer have to figure out how to incorporate Black History into your classroom alone. We're in this together. Let's do this!!!

This February is going to be a month your students will never forget!!!

Oh, before I forget. I know my passion is literacy but I do like to teach math too. You have a math minor in the house! If you are looking for ways to teach black history figures in math; check out my good friend, Monaright here. She helps teachers develop a classroom that lays the foundation for engaging and rigorous student led math instruction.