Veteran's Day

Friday in our classroom we celebrated Veteran's Day.  This is a super important holiday for my classroom because one of my student's dad is on his way home from Afghanistan and another student's dad is a veteran.  Of course everyone else has grandparents etc. that are important to celebrate too.  But, since it is so close to home for some of the kids, I really wanted to make it special for them.

I asked parents to send their child in with a name and/or picture of a veteran they would like to honor.  We made Veteran's Day stars with the names/pictures of these men and women and hung them up on the wall.  The students also got to stand up and tell us a little bit about their special person.  It was really neat to hear all about them.  I even had one boy bring in a picture of his great grandmother.  She was in WWII.  I'm guessing she was probably a nurse.  The picture of her was so pretty.  I just love how women always had their hair all done up pretty back then.

Anyway, I had seen somewhere in the past, a bulletin board that had a turkey with the kids' handprints as feathers that said, "We are Thankful for our Veterans."  I thought this would be perfect for our classroom, so I did the turkey and then hung our Veteran's Day stars up.  I'm excited to keep it up for a week until Thanksgiving!

Speaking of Thanksgiving, I am going to take on the task of a Thanksgiving Day Reader's Theater!  I just love Reader's Theater!! I've never done it with students as young as mine, though, so we shall see how it goes!