Veteran’s Day plans
Nov 11th, 2007 by lapazfarm
I know, it is really TODAY, but we are going to observe it tomorrow since today is Sunday.
To be honest, we don’t usually do anything special for Veterans day. Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate veterans and soldiers and the enormous sacrifices they have made and continue to make to this day. But other than just talk about Veteran’s day and what it means, we’ve never really done much. I think it is just due to lack of inspiration on my part and the unfortunate proximity to other major holidays which, right or wrong, command more of our attention.
This year I intend to do better.
We will begin by doing a little study of the history of Veterans Day using info from here. That document contains great historical info, plus a description of the Veteran’s Affairs Seal, which we will draw and color. The littles will paste pre-cut stars and stripes to make American flags, and then Superboy will demonstrate proper flag folding technique (also in the above-linked document) to the little ones. They will practice by folding paper flags. They may also do some coloring pages from here. And there is tons of stuff here that we could choose from.
I may adapt some of the ideas from Michaela’s fantastic Memorial Day Lapbook as well.
Because Superboy’s current interests lie in the Civil War, we will be watching together the movie Gettysburg (during the littles’ naptime) and reading the Gettysburg Address.
We will look at and discuss data from all of the US wars (see also here)
We will also be discussing the Iraq War and looking at that data.
(Note that the official name of this war, according to the Department of Defense is the “Global War on Terror” and includes operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. We will certainly be discussing the appropriateness of this name in regards to each of those areas.)
We will continue by learning about Martinmas, the Feast of St Martin of Tours, patron saint of soldiers, baking horseshoe cookies, and making paper-decorated glass lanterns.
And if we get only a small percentage of that actually done, I will be thrilled!
Thank you so much for the wonderful links! We will try and do better this year as well!
Sherry
http://educatingemme.blogspot.com
Thank you so much, Theresa! I am ashamed that I had not planned anything in particular for Veteran’s Day until I checked your blog this morning. The link you provided was wonderful! We read from it, checked out more about the The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, listened to Taps and now dd is writing about Veteran’s Day. I, of course, have been teary off and on. I’m so grateful to the men and women who have served our country! Thanks for the reminder!