Perspectives: Part IX

The first grade has been learning about our national symbols.  One week they learned about the Statue of Liberty and then took a field trip there (because that’s possible in New York City).  The next week they learned about the bald eagle.  And, this week they studied Mount Rushmore (an impossible field trip).

On Wednesday, their teachers held a trivia contest. The teams- the purple table, red table, blue table, yellow table, and green table- battled against each other for points.  I sat at one table with some of my kids and didn’t help them, per se, just nudged them in the right direction.

One of the trivia questions was, “Can you name the four presidents on Mount Rushmore?”

The class did pretty well.  One table seemingly knew the presidents a little better than us.  They wrote “George, Teddy, Thomas, and Abraham” on their post-it note.

“Apparently,” their teacher said, “some people are on a first name basis only with the presidents.”