Happy Flag Day! I like to think of Flag Day as an excuse to start celebrating the Fourth a bit early, but mostly it's a great day to teach the kids about our American Flag. I was proud that I even thought to dress the kids in their flag shirts (thank you Grandma Dangerfield!), but then at the last minute I thought up a quick activity.... I pulled out our little flags from the holiday stuff and we discussed how many stars and stripes there are and why. Then we colored our own 'accurate' flags. Afterwards, I had Emma write out the Pledge of Allegiance on the stripes, then cut them out, hid the pieces, and had the kids find them and reconstruct the flag in the correct order....
Good thing these kids like "school" type activities... they thought this whole flag thing was the best! :) And in case you are wondering what Claire does while we play - she usually looks like this...
I'm so excited to have some cute pictures of little Claire that Annie Miller took for me. I finally got around to putting together simple birth announcements to mail out to family....
And just 'cause it's cute... here's a video of Becca singing her America song that she learned in preschool this year - she's obviously gotten a little fuzzy on the words in parts, but I just think her singing is darling :)
