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:
It has been really hard to find books on Veteran’s Day to share with you this week. I have already shared the two books that are in my library system and on Amazon.com. I made the decision to teach JDaniel about the American flag instead of focusing on Veteran’s Day.
We found The American Flag by Elaine Landau at the library. It is chockfull of facts about the flag and its history. What held JDaniel’s attention in the book was the pictures. We picture walked our way through the book.
When JDaniel asked questions about the flag, we searched for answers in the book. He has just started to say the Pledge of Allegiance in preschool and had a lot of questions about it. It was fun to hunt for the answers.
What did we do?
Visited a Memorial
Our local veterans’ memorial is across the street from JDaniel’s school. I decide to take him for a picnic after school to the memorial. We had a great lunch and talked about the flags that are flying there.
Flag Lunch
JDaniel had a Veteran’s Day muffin tin over the weekend. He loved building his own sandwich with the stripes.
Wonderful Memorial Day activities!
Maggy
Those look like great exploration activities!
You are making such wonderful memories for your son. Thank you for sharing them with us.
That flag lunch is so cute!
What a lovely blog post. I love the pic in front of the memorial and the lunch!
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Have a great day!
The flag lunch was way creative!
Very nice activities. F is for Flag is one good book about American Flag.
All fabulous Veteran’s day activities! Very creative.
What a wonderful idea to take a picnic to the Veteran’s memorial. And I love your flag lunch.
What great activities for Veteran’s Day. Absolutely adore that striped sandwich, such a great idea!
So cute! What a beautiful idea to take him to lunch
Happy Veteran’s Day! I wish we had more books on the subject for children. Maybe I’ll write one.
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What a great thing to do!!!
Love the frame, wish we would have made one for Marc! 🙂
There is a book, My military dad… see if the library has it or can get it… we reviewed it and it was a good one about being deployed…
Those look like great activities to do for Veteran’s Day.
Perfect ideas! Love that frame! Those kid workshops are fun
Oh! I want to make that frame for the boys’ great grandpas! Thanks for the idea!
You are honestly one of the most creative and hands-on moms. I love the things you come up with to do with your son, it’s really inspiring!
Wonderful activities for Veteran’s Day! I think all little boys love to use a hammer to make something…the frame looks very nice!
What wonderful Veterans Day activities … love the muffin tin lunch and the picture frame! I stumbled your post and added it to my new Kids’ Patriotic Activities Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-patriotic-activities-u-s/
First time here,I linked my bento post,it is my first Bento & anyway tutorial is not from a book,but from a web site….
I didn’t know Home Depot did stuff like that. Cool.
D’oh. I had our Grands on Friday and I never even thought to do anything like this.
Love the flag lunch, what a great idea!