This is one of my favorite units to teach due to it hitting home for me, Veterans/Heroes. Learning about Veterans Day is a great way to help thank all those heroes who have served for our country and who are currently serving for our country and freedom.
This week we also learned what being 'thankful' means since Thanksgiving is coming up and we are also thankful for our Veterans. After reading a story about being thankful we listed some things that we are thankful for.
One of our Veterans Day crafts.
The Kindergartners singing at our Veterans program! They did an amazing job!
We learned about Soldiers/Veterans, the types of soldiers and what they did/do for us.
To incorporate in with our handwriting they had to think of something to thank a soldier for. I gave them some examples on what to say and then after that they started listing some good reasons why we should say thanks to our soldiers/Veterans. We attached our writing to our soldiers.
I said earlier that this unit really hits home because my husband is a Veteran. He was in the Army for 8 years and did two tours overseas. He really helps out with teaching this unit because I get to use some of his Army items to show the Kindergartners what they all use. This year he surprised us all and came in to talk about all of his items (he does such a better job at explaining everything :) ). The Kindergartners were very excited and they had TONS of questions about everything for him to answer. Here are some pictures of him showing them his items and some Kindergartners trying some items on.
Thank you to all the Veterans and soldiers who fought and are currently fighting for our country! Words will never describe how thankful we all are for your time and sacrifices you have had to make! Thank you again!
Here we are working on some word work by using letters and building our sight words.
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