Wednesday, September 11, 2013   I always find today to be a
tough day to be a teacher. How do you explain to 10 year old's
that there are awful people out there that want to hurt us? They
just don't understand why anyone would want to hurt another
country. I even had a boy tell me that "that is really emptying
someone's bucket." How true that statement is. We just talked
about being bucket fillers yesterday, so that really hit home to
a lot of my class.  In trying to explain this awful tragedy to
my class, I searched for the best ways of showing and explaining
the day without being too depressing or graphic. I wanted it to
be a serious lesson, but still give them hope and pride for
their country. They were genuinely interested in the topic as
well. I used the handout created by "What the Teacher Wants."
You can find it here. It is a great, simple worksheet that
students can fill out to reflect their thoughts and feelings
about what we talked about.  I also used Brain Pop's video. The
9/11 video was the featur