Stars, Fall and Veteran's Day

I feel like it should still be September! I am amazed as another week races by that we are going to be getting ready for Christmas before I know it. Where does the time go?

Every minute at school we are busy learning. I feel like I hardly have time to pick up the camera but I am working on it and I wanted to share a few pictures with you.

We have had two "Stars of the Week" since I lasted posted and both created very good posters and shared interesting information about themselves. Here is BC's:

And here is CT's:

We made time for art the other day and I had fun doing a new art project with the students. They turned out beautiful and we have received many compliments. Look at a few of our fall reflections:

Veteran's Day is always a day where we have good discussions and I always love to see how serious the children can be about important topics such as death and honor. We watched a short 10-minute video on Veteran's Day and then we read a few books. One of the books we read was called The Wall by Eve Bunting. A little boy and his Dad go to the Vietnam War Memorial and they look for the grandfather's name. The boy shares his thoughts throughout the book and they are honest and candid. A soldier is there and he is missing his legs, people are there crying, a boy his age is walking with his grandfather. The book is wonderful and I always have to fight back tears. When I finished reading the story, a neat thing happened. The children started clapping. They have never clapped at the end of a story before. This was the first serious book that we have read together and I think they felt the emotion of it and recognized how good of a book it was. Their clapping made me proud of them.

After that, we made Christmas and Holiday cards for soldiers in Iraq. Again, your children amazed me. Take a look:

This one says: Thank you for fighting for us. Be safe please.

What a special group of children!