On Monday, April 4th, we will be having a short performance celebrating “Our Country”. Please join us in K2 if you can – we will begin at 8:30 (This is a minimum day!). Students can wear red, white and blue for our performance. Please practice these songs and poems with your child over the next few weeks. A hard copy will be sent home in the Wednesday Folders. Thank you!
I Know a Lot About My Country (Poem)
*Mrs. Arriaga’s class:
I know a lot about my country-
Please forgive me if I brag,
But I know that it has 50 states
And a very special flag.
*Mrs. Young’s class:
I know that it has cities
And towns and farmland, too.
It is home to many people-
It is home to me and you.
*Both classes:
I know a lot about my country
And I want to say out loud,
“My country is the U.S.A.!”
This fact makes me quite proud!
The Pledge of Allegiance
I stand up to salute the flag
Before I start each day.
I place my right hand on my heart
And this is what I say…
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic For which it stands,
One Nation under God, Indivisible, with liberty
And justice for all.
Our Flag (Poem)
by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
I love to see the starry flag
That floats above my head.
I love to see its waving folds
With stripes of white and red.
“Be brave,” say the red stripes,
“Be pure,” say the white.
“Be true,” say the bright stars,
“And stand for the right.”
You’re a Grand Old Flag
You’re a grand old flag, You’re a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You’re the emblem of The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev’ry heart beats true
‘neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there’s never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
The Star-Spangled Banner
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of our country.
The people loved him one and all. He worked to make our land free.
He led the soldiers that was hard, for they were cold and hungry.
He said “Be brave, now don’t give up”. We’ll build a brand new country.
Old Abe Lincoln
Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness, out of the wilderness, out of the wilderness.
Old Abe Lincoln came out of the wilderness, down in Illinois.
Old Abe Lincoln was our 16th president, 16th president, 16th president.
Old Abe Lincoln was our 16th president, many long days ago.
Old Abe Lincoln freed our nation from slavery, nation from slavery, nation from slavery.
Old Abe Lincoln freed our nation from slavery, many long years ago.
The Preamble
We the People of the United States,
in order to form a more perfect union,
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America
America the Beautiful
O Beautiful
For spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good
With brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!