We just finished the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry a few days ago and we all enjoyed this book very much. The story takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943 and is told from the point of view of a ten year old named Annemarie Johansen. Annemarie and her family help their Jewish friends get safely away from the Nazis and escape to Sweden. It is a story of bravery and true friendship and all of the kids were caught up in the story. It gave the kids an idea of what it was like for Jewish families during WWll, and how dangerous it was for those who helped them escape to a safe place.
We are now reading Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll and it also takes place during WWll. We still have quite a bit to read in this book, but there seems to be a little mystery involved for Olive and Cliff who are siblings that are sent away from London to be safe from bombing. Not sure how this will go, but we do like it and it also goes along with our study of WWll. This is probably our last book about the war and I think we will actually miss this unit we have been doing in history.
I’m just posting some more of the pictures from Sunday as I had a lot, but didn’t want to post them all at once – just too many.
I think this last picture of Georgia sums up how she felt about the entire event.
