This Memorial Day multiplication activity has 3rd-4th grade students solve 16 lettered fact cards to crack a secret message. Practice page and answer key included.
Using this Memorial Day Mini Pack, students learn about Memorial Day through ten fun worksheets and two activities.
Remembering those who served
Fourth graders learn that Memorial Day, on the last Monday in May, honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. They learn it began after the Civil War as Decoration Day, when families placed flowers on soldiers' graves. They find out why the flag flies at half-staff until noon and why many people wear red poppies. They also learn how it differs from Veterans Day. The click comes when kids understand it's a day for remembering, not just the start of summer.
A thoughtful holiday deserves a thoughtful approach. These moves help kids understand and reflect.
Use a mini pack to mix reading, vocabulary and writing over a few days. Kids read about the history, answer questions, and write a short reflection. Spreading it out gives the topic the time it deserves.
Why it works: mixing different kinds of problems in one practice set helped students do far better on a later test (Rohrer and Taylor, 2007).
Try it withMemorial Day Mini PackWorksheetsOpen it →Draw a Venn diagram for Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Model one fact for each side, then kids add more. Comparing clears up the most common mix-up kids have.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withMemorial Day Multiplication ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Show a red poppy and explain how it became a symbol of remembrance after World War I. Kids make a paper poppy and write one sentence about why we remember. A symbol gives them something to hold onto.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
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Memorial Day is a day to remember the people who died while serving in the U.S. military. We honor them with flags, flowers, parades and a moment of silence.
It's on the last Monday in May each year. It became an official federal holiday in 1971.
Memorial Day remembers service members who died serving. Veterans Day, on November 11, honors everyone who has served in the military.
Red poppies grew on World War I battlefields, and a famous poem about them made the flower a symbol of remembering fallen soldiers.
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