Our feature book for our Independence Day studies is The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh.  This book is popular and should be easy to find at your library, and it’s a great, easy-to-understand introduction to Independence Day! We had fun discovering new facts about Independence Day, and we even found a way to integrate… Continue reading The 4th of July Story

Each year on the last Monday in May we honor the memory of the men and women who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Originally known as Decoration Day, a day set aside in 1868 to decorate the graves of Civil War soldiers, Memorial Day became an official federal holiday in 1971. Our feature book… Continue reading The Cost of Our Freedom