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Hi everyone!!! Last year I put together a list of classrooms to exchange valentines with! We mailed 1 valentine to each class and included a picture if we could, and a few things about where we live and things we do!
I currently have 13 classes signed up! The more the merrier!!
We have classes CA, WI, PA, KS, TX, RI, MI, Canada, New Zealand.
I have a form to fill out if you are interested! I will email everyone the list probably at the end of the week if not sooner!
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As a history teacher and a veteran, we play trivia games. I am a 4th (consecutive) generation veteran and have pictures of family in many different uniforms. I put them up on the board, number them, and have students guess what branch of service, rank etc. I also invite students to bring in pics of their family members to share with their class.
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We had a whole assembly It was amazing
Look up the song Hero in this Place. Our music teacher teaches the entire school this song and we sing in during our building wide morning meeting where we invite veterans to be celebrated. But you should teach your just your class and have them sing for special guests in your classroom
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We had students and staff bring in photos of their veterans or themselves if they served. The media specialists then created a photo presentation that named the veteran, his or her branch of service, and his or her submitting relative. Morning announcements were extended to be sure all veterans were saluted. Staff members wore their uniforms (if they still fit).
Yesterday would have been Kurt Vonnegut’s 100th birthday, so I read my class some carefully-chosen excerpts from the prefaces of “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Breakfast of Champions”, where he writes so eloquently about the futility or war, the disgusting glamorization of war, and the difference between Veterans Day and Armistice Day.
What’s fun about Veterans Day? Didn’t it start as a day to remember those who died fighting in World War I? Pretty somber stuff.
IHS1, I agree. I have a lot of sympathy for veterans, and I think the way our government treats them — or literally doesn’t treat them — is appalling. However, I object to the way veterans as a group are revered as heroes. Many vets were heroes, but many others helped make the world worse, not better, and are not heroes. There was nothing heroic about US aggression against Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Iraq, for example. Nothing heroic about bombing Tripoli. Or making war on the Philippines or Mexico. Or occupying Nicaragua. Or the ethnic cleansings of North America.
Our vets deserve far more economic and medical support than we give them. But they also deserve that we take an honest look at the destructive endeavors to which we set them, so that we might build a future in which fewer of their brethren are sent to kill and suffer and die in needless and immoral wars.
We don’t do anything in class, but our ROTC group puts on a fabulous program every year in our stadium that all classes attend, and that veterans and active duty military in the community are also invited to attend. It is a very nice tribute to our military and veterans.