History Comes Alive
I will be blogging during our trip with my eighth grade students to Washington, D.C.
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Mar 23, 2011
A Spring Surprise
Much to our delight, the cherry blosoms have started to bloom. I thought we were going to be here too early but we got lucky.
Mar 23, 2011 11:00:54 AM
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Changing of the Guard
Just finished watching the Changing of the Gaurd and laying our wreath at the Tomb. It is an incredibly moving ceremony no matter how many times you've seen it. I'm always impressed at how much the students "get it" and appreciate what they are seeing too. To quote one of...
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Still dry!
We're done with our major outdoor activities for the day and the rain has held off. We just left the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial. Aaron gave the kids a brief history lesson on 9/11 and the adults shared some of their "Where were you?" stories to try to give them a...
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Hope the rain this afternoon doesn't pound all the blosoms off.
Posted by: Christine Rossetti | Mar 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Beautiful!
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001601565258 | Mar 23, 2011 at 06:26 PM
These were at Arlington. The famous ones around the Tidal Basin bloom a little later than the others because it is somewhat cooler there, so they should be safe for now and create quite the spectacle in a couple of weeks.
Posted by: J. Brian Dow | Mar 23, 2011 at 10:34 PM