Veteran's Day Activities

Veteran's Day is a special time at Purple Sage. The day is a hustle and bustle preparing for our beautiful Veteran's Day assembly where we honor all our visiting veterans with music and song.  Ms. SadatPurple Sage's music teacher, does a magnificent job in preparing each grade level with a patriotic song.  Then we have Grisham's band and choir and Westwood's color guard to help complete the program.
In the classroom, Ms. Robinson, fourth grade teacher at Purple Sage, used an interactive lesson from Gynzy.com. As we saw in our assembly, many students have a veteran in their lives, but many don't really know what the holiday represents.  This lesson included videos and activities about the military, and what a veteran and freedom means.

Ms. Robinson writes, "Just wanted to relay that I did this lesson with my class. They, of course, didn't know the wars although some used the context clues of looking at the pictures to figure the time-frame out. It was a really powerful lesson, and I would definitely do it again. Thanks for suggesting it!"