Wednesday’s Around the World ~ The Pledge of Allegiance

So, I am behind in posting Wednesday’s Around the World.  The last couple of weeks have been a little stressed in our area.  We live in Colorado and are very near all the flooding areas.  We were blessed to not have been directly affected by the rain and the flooding.  My husband and son had to take a couple of detours to work due to closed roads/bridges, but that was it.  Yes, we were truly blessed.  Also, due to all of the rain and damp weather, I had a Fibromyalgia flare-up.  I am very thankful for the dryer weather that we are having now.

Now on to Wednesday’s Around the World.  We have started slowly back to studying history with My Father’s World.  We are using the Adventures in U.S. History this year.  The first couple of lessons covered the Star Spangled Banner, the U.S. map and where we live and also getting a time line started.

Adventures in U.S.History

The student notebooks that are pictured above, will hold their pages that they learn each day.  They will also add in the pages for each state that we will learn as well.  The first page that they put in their folder was The Pledge of Allegiance (which I forgot to take a picture of). So what is The Pledge of Allegiance, you ask?  It is a promise that Americans make to their country.  The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy.  He wrote The Pledge for a Columbus Day program celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering America.  There was a change in 1923 and 1924 when “the flag of the United States of America” was added.  Then in 1954 Congress added the words “under God”.  This is how it reads now,

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

My kids and I are saying this together, every morning.  It is important for me to teach my children what this nation was built on and to stand up for what they believe.

The next thing we did was make a time-line.  Since our wall space is limited, I decided to put our time-line in a 3 ring notebook.  This way, we can add pages as we continue to work through the ages.  We did start with Jesus being born.  We will continue to add the important dates that we learn in U.S. History.

Time-Line

Another lesson we did, was go over a map of the United States.  The kids got a blank map of the United States.  We talked about the directions of North, South, East and West.  Once they learned the directions, we got busy labeling different places on the map.  The kids learned where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are at.  They learned that Canada was north of us and Mexico is south of us.  Then, they got to put an X on where we lived at on the map.

Working on US Map

After the first day, (I had a child upset that we were not continuing on with the history we used last year), the kids started enjoying our lessons.  They can already say The Pledge of Allegiance without looking at the paper and they can point out on a map, where they live. I really think we are going to enjoy learning about the United States history this year.

I am excited to be hosting a link-up again.  I am looking forward to seeing what y’all are learning about in history.  Be sure to link up below and share with us!