I don't think we have celebrated Flag Day before. In my quest to try to have more knowledge of special days on the calendar, religious or secular, I decided we needed to celebrate Flag Day - especially after my son and husband spent the Saturday before Memorial Day at the National Cemetery in Bourne helping to place flags on every soldier's grave.
I was off to a doctor appt with Frank, so while I was gone I had the children read a book about our flag appropriately called: "The Story of Our Flag".
Kind of funny - it has my name in the front cover, and based on the writing, I was in 5th grade (yep, I know that because I loved my 5th grade teacher and how she wrote so I tried to write the way she did. She had a very distinctive cursive capital 'J') and according to the inside page, was copyrighted 1960!
Then I had then create flag books from Enchanted Learning
They then had a question and answer fact sheet to complete - also from Enchanted Learning
They got to do a code activity - again from Enchanted Learning
- Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Enchanted Learning!
I printed out some pictures of the US flag to color.
We had lasagna (red) for dinner with fruit salad (red and blue in that) and some garlic bread (which was close enough to white). The children set the table with the blue tablecloth and white dishes and red napkins (forgot to take a picture).
Then, their favorite part, we had cake:
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| had to keep sending the littles to the garden for more strawberries! Then they got angry because it didn't have 13 stripes! At least they learned something. |
I know they did the work because during dinner we had a friend stop by who is a Naturalized Citizen and she was quizzing the children on their knowledge for flag day - and they passed!
Hope you had a good Flag Day!
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