Proud to be an American

Today we celebrated Veteran's Day by having in our very own Mr. English as a guest speaker. He talked about and shared a slide presentation with us about his deployment over in Iraq. We so appreciate him and all the other men & women in the Armed Forces that fight for our country & our freedom. We learned some pretty cool facts about what he did over there, but I think the favorite one was "how many blackhawk helicopters could fit in the cargo plane with room to spare for bunks on top? If your child can answer that, write the number in the planner. We started our morning by reading about the history of Veteran's Day. We found out it wasn't always called this and it used to be called Armistice Day. Ask them why this date & time in history was chosen. Next, we watched the "changing of the guards" at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Quite amazing-the students were intrigued by the seriousness of it and what one has to do be selected to be a guard of the tomb. Ask them how many steps they take on the walk as they guard the tomb and why this number is significant. If they can tell you, write the number in the planner. Then we read a book called "America's White Table". Very powerful-ask your child to tell you about it. If any of you, would like to read it, I will borrow it out to you. The pictures below show the things on the table so ask your child what they stand for to see if they can remember. As you can probably tell, we learned a lot today which makes us even more grateful to all those military men & women out there who are fighting for us & our freedom. Tomorrow we are making our flash cards for the NE states & capitals to study here at school and then we are starting our tour. Finally!!!! Math story problems today using multiplication. Some may have these for homework. Good computation practice. Remember to practice those facts!!!! Test over all the 0-12's is SOON!!!!! Remember PE shoes tomorrow. Have a great night.