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May 24, 2017 : A Day for Remembering

The Mini Page is a syndicated, four-page tabloid written for young children found each Wednesday in The Denver Post. This issue of The Mini Page is available through the eEdition Archive to registered eEdition subscribers

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Activities:

1. Write the letters M-E-M-O-R-I-A-L D-A-Y down the left side of a piece of paper. Next to each letter, paste a newspaper word that starts with that letter and relates to Memorial Day.

2. With a friend, race through the newspaper to circle words and pictures that are about Memorial Day. Include patriotic pictures such as flags and stars.

3. Create an invitation to a Memorial Day event being held in your community. Include the speakers, the music groups, the time and location of the event, and the activities that will be part of the eve nt.

4. How are these important to Memorial Day: (a) Decoration Day, (2) 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, (c) poppies and (d) Tomb of the Unknowns?

5. Make a list of words that describe military service in the Middle East: U se words that describe the desert, the environment and the military equipment the troops use. Then use your words to write a poem remembering the veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.

This week's standard:
Students understand people and events honored in commemorative holidays. (History)

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

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