Veteran's Day

Thank you Veterans!!

Who are veterans?  Veterans are people who serve in the military and survive that service.  Veterans Day used to be Armistice Day,  People remembered World War I at 11:00 on 11/11.  Now, we honor all the soldiers that serve in the Armed Forces on Veteran's Day.

WE HAVE SCHOOL TODAY!  It's a holiday, but not a day off from school!!  Thank you for honoring our Veterans with a minute of silence at 11:00 AM.

This next song is a great example of a south-eastern rural US accent. "Ain't" is an "uneducated" way to say "aren't."  Cus or cuz aren't words.  They are "text" for "because."

 Do you make XXXX to mean kisses, and OOO to mean hugs in your letters?

How often do you write letters?  Were letters ever really important to you?  What makes you proud?  Do you know anyone that serves in the military?  Can you describe that person and what he or she does?

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Compare something you have now to a similar item from your past.  What do you like better?  What is not as good?

Things will get better. Keep trying....

Tell me about doing something hard.  Tell me about a time that you felt like stopping, but you didn't stop.  You kept trying until it got better.  You did it!

I want a happy, healthy family. What should I do?

Now, remember, "ain't no" is not educated English...

What do you do to keep your family happy and healthy?  What do you want to do?

I want to be rich. What do I need to do?

Video from a study for a book: daily habits of wealthy people (fast with ads)

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I want peace. What should I do?

We have school today! Did you change your clock?

Last Saturday night(Sunday Morning at 2 AM) the time in the USA changed.  We moved our clocks back one hour to move from "daylight savings" time to "standard time."  We say "Fall back!  Spring Forward!" to remember to go back an hour in autumn, and forward and hour in spring.  Many people replace the batteries in their smoke detectors at the same time as fixing all their clocks.

(My husband likes to joke that since daylight savings time is now longer than standard time we should change the names to "standard time" (for the summer rather than the winter) and "daylight wasting time.")

Many kids don't have school today and tomorrow.  We have school.

Did you change your clock?  Do you have to do this in your native country?