9/11 Day, which is now also known as Patriot Day AND as National Day of Service and Remembrance, is coming up on Wednesday. I have a couple of age-appropriate picture books about September 11th that I read to my class each year. Today we read The Little Chapel That Stood, which tells of St. Paul's Chapel, adjacent to the World Trade Center, which was (amazingly) was undamaged that day. It then became a place of respite for first responders and those working on the clean-up for months to come. You child may come home with questions about that day, so I wanted to give you a sense of how we're handling it in class. Ms. Tonoli has asked that we all wear red, white, and blue in honor of Patriot Day on Wednesday.
Today is California Admission Day - the day, in 1850, that California was admitted to the Union as the 31st state. We learned that California was admitted as a free state (no slavery) as part of a compromise (The Compromise of 1850, tied to the Mexican-American War, but we didn't get into that). Then, during math, we got out our math journals and used a couple of strategies to determine that this happened 169 years ago (open number line was our favorite strategy).
9/11 Day, which is now also known as Patriot Day AND as National Day of Service and Remembrance, is coming up on Wednesday. I have a couple of age-appropriate picture books about September 11th that I read to my class each year. Today we read The Little Chapel That Stood, which tells of St. Paul's Chapel, adjacent to the World Trade Center, which was (amazingly) was undamaged that day. It then became a place of respite for first responders and those working on the clean-up for months to come. You child may come home with questions about that day, so I wanted to give you a sense of how we're handling it in class. Ms. Tonoli has asked that we all wear red, white, and blue in honor of Patriot Day on Wednesday. Comments are closed.
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