9/11 Day in the life of a 2nd grader

Hello! Well yesterday (9/11) was a somber day, but it is always enlightening to teach such sweet innocent students about the events, because somehow they can still see the good in a bad situation. We focused on hope, courage, and heroes. We made a chart on heroes, after doing multiple read alouds about 9/11, for students. Some of the answers of who their heroes were, were beyond precious..."My papa is my hero because he protects me from snakes!" Love their little minds! After that, my brother came to volunteer his time with us, and we donated all but five minutes of our recess time to do a good act in honor of 9/11...and we picked up trash all around the school. I even had some students that didn't want to play for the last five minutes of recess, instead they continued to pick up trash. WOW.  (Don't worry, we washed our hands thoroughly after!) Then, we came back inside and we decided that we were going to build the towers back up with hope, and ideas of how we can be an everyday hero. It turned out beautiful. Thank you for all you do, and thank you for sending your sweet child into school ready to learn. each and everyday.

A sweet student of mine from last year, who brought me in a beautiful rose!