I love you, Soldier.Also, I love America. This morning I sang "American the Beautiful" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" to Hazel. She smiled. I'm going to instill a deep patriotism in her heart like my dad did for me. That's exciting for me to think about.
When I was teaching kindergarten in California, we had a four-week unit about patriotism. During that month, every day I would have my students stand up, face the flag, put their hands on their hearts, and I would sing the National Anthem to them. By the end of the month, they were all singing along with me. Every single time I sang it, I would cry. And someone would ask, "Why are you crying, Mrs. Bonner?" And I would say, "Because I love America so much, and I'm so thankful to live here." Before too many days had passed, I'd have a kid or two announce at the end of the song that they were crying, too, because they loved America. I hope I really did instill a love of our great country in some of those sweet five-year-old hearts.
4 comments:
That's awesome! Go Mrs. Bonner!
that is so sweet! I was singing some songs with my niece about America and it made me sad she only knew one of them. Good Job teacher --
That is so sweet. I love America too. And I'm also loving that you included another pic of your snazzy haircut.
good for you! i'm surprised california didn't fire you for being too patriotic or something equally ridiculous!
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