It was important to me to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of 9/11. At the same time, how do you address this heavy topic with first graders? Fortunately, Weekly Reader offered a great resource to help me explain the topic with my children. It basically gave me a script that made me feel comfortable. I briefly explained September 11, 2001, shared the National September 11 Memorial & Museum that was built in New York City, and remembered the heroes who tried to help. A coworker also shared an amazing book written by first graders of H. Byron Masterson Elementary in Kennett, Missouri called September 12th: We Knew Everything Would Be All Right. I have to get a copy of this book for my own classroom library. It does a brilliant job of keeping hope and I love that it was written by children with their beautiful illustrations. As tough as this topic is, I'm so happy that I talked about it with our children as we need to remember to have tolerance, to come together at a time of need, and to continue to have hope. We ended our day with a reading of this wonderful book.
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