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Saying thank you to those who served
Veterans Day is celebrated every year on November 11 to thank everyone who has served in the United States military. Kids learn that a veteran is a person who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or Space Force. The date comes from the end of fighting in World War I, which stopped at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. Kids also learn how Veterans Day is different from Memorial Day. The click moment is when a child realizes that their own grandpa, aunt or neighbor is a veteran.
This holiday is all about gratitude. These moves help kids understand it and say thank you in a real way.
Show kids a few national holidays and talk about what each one celebrates. Then zoom in on Veterans Day and Memorial Day side by side. Model the difference: Veterans Day thanks everyone who served, and Memorial Day remembers those who died serving.
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 withHappy Holidays National Holidays ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Put Veterans Day words like honor, flag, serve and veteran in ABC order. Talk about what each word means as kids work. It is spelling practice with a lot of meaning.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withVeteran's Day ABC Order WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Look at pictures of patriotic holidays and ask kids what they notice: flags, parades, uniforms. Then ask which picture shows Veterans Day and why. Visual clues make the holiday concrete for young learners.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
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Veterans Day is on November 11 every year, no matter what day of the week it falls on. It marks the end of fighting in World War I in 1918.
Veterans Day honors everyone who has served in the military, living or not. Memorial Day, in May, remembers those who died while serving.
Tell them a veteran is someone who served in the military to help protect our country, and Veterans Day is the day we say thank you. Making a card for a veteran helps them understand.
The official spelling is Veterans Day, with no apostrophe. The day belongs to all veterans, not one veteran.
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