Flag day & Symbols of America free 3 part card download

Just a reminder...

The Star Spangled Banner

by Francis Scott Key

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming;

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

O say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam--

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream;

'Tis the Star-Spangled Banner; O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where are the foes who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave;

And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war desolation;

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!

Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,

And this be our motto, "In God is our trust";

And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Flag Day theme...
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/flag-day/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/flagday/

How to fold the flag....
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp267-02.shtml

Flag timeline....
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagfact.html

Flag to color....
http://www.printfree.com/Kids/USFlagPrint06.htm

All about Betsy Ross...
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/

Pledge with pictures... (I use mine as a sequence activity.  I cut it out and pasted them onto scrapbook paper with stars & stripes & laminated them.  Kids enjoyed them when they were younger.)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/printables/pledge.pdf

Flag day poems... ( Many poems I have written onto strips and used as a way for the kids to organize them into the proper order.  This year they're creating their own poem which will then be used.  One thing I've always done with them is ask questions about the poems...what does it tell us...And, I found questions about the Star Spangled Banner that we'll be doing tomorrow here at this site too.  We also add new words, harder words to our personal dictionaries.  Four Blocks at it's Best!!!)
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/flag-day/poems-rhymes/

Music...
http://www.lovetolearnplace.com/SpecialDays/Flag/FlagDaySongs.html#anchor702366

http://www.brownielocks.com/flag.html

Here is a download of TONS of patriotic music for you.  There are about 80 songs.  And, here are the 3 part card downloads.  Symbols of America .  Also, do not directly link to the file but link to the blog post.  Remember, downloading my works means you will not sell, claim, copyright, etc. & blah, blah anything (picture, work, writing be it a bit or a lot) as your own.

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