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Read.Explore.Learn.- Veteran’s Day

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Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.

 

My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Veteran's Day Book for Children -My Big Brother

The book we read this week is called My Big Brother by Miriam Cohen. It is about a little brother who tries to fill his brother’s shoes when his big brother joins the army. This is a sweet story about how hard he works to do things just as his brother would have. It also talks about what he does to remember his big brother while he is away.

What did we do?

We have a number of members of my family that war veterans. My sister Kate has served in Qatar and Iraq. My grandfather and JDaniel’s grandfather GranDan served in World War II. I decided to share some of his GranDan’s memorabilia from his service.

Observed a Model

First, we carefully looked at a model GranDan made of the plan he flew in the Navy.

wooden plane made by GranDan

Created an Album

We looked through old pictures of GranDan and put them in a photo album from JDaniel to look through. GranDan passed away last winter. JDaniel loves to look at pictures of him.

 
ABCs of Exploring Books with Children: A-H Grandan book
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Comments

  2. That is very cool! What a great way to start teaching your son about Veterans and those who are currently serving! My 25yo brother just joined the Army on Monday!

    ~Mimi

  4. Thanks for coming by. You have a very fun blog, and you’re clearly a great mommy!
    xoRobyn

  5. I think it’s great that you are sharing you family history. We didn’t read any books about Veterans Day today, but we talked about grandfathers and great grandfathers that have served.

  10. What great acitivities to go along with you book. I like this meme. I will be back to join in again. Thanks for hosting it.
    Blessings,
    Dawn

  11. I love how you tied in family…one thing I didn’t do with our’s (too much work looking for pics of family, since they are all put away in boxes lol).

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