We continued to learn more about the history of war in the 20th century. Today we learned about the aftermath of World War II, and some of the conflicts that followed, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and then later looking at conflicts throughout West and South Asia in the 21st Centuries. As we get closer to now, these conflicts start connecting more and more to our own lives. Some of us in class have family and personal experiences with some of these conflicts.
If you haven’t yet had an opportunity to talk with your kids about what they’re learning, or about how your family has been impacted by conflict, I encourage you to do so. Learning becomes more real and tangible as we connect that learning to our own lives.
Due for Friday
- If possible, wear black or dark clothing for Remembrance Day tomorrow, especially our students who are presenting In Flanders Fields during the Assembly. Avoid graphic t-shirts and hoodies if possible.
- For students who are reading In Flanders Fields tomorrow, practice reading your part again and again. Read it until you feel perfectly comfortable with it.
- Math Quiz tomorrow — study all of our decimal learning from the past two weeks
- Rough Draft of Scary Story due tomorrow. Our editing activities will require a finished draft so that students can participate. An email will go home to all families of students who don’t finish their draft on time.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the gravestones, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago we lived,
felt dawn,
saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
In Flanders fields.