Give Me Liberty!

Every year the St. George Rotary Club gives money to Santa Clara Elementary for their "Give Me Liberty" program.  For the 5th grade history/social studies curriculum, the students have to focus on American History and the symbols of our country.  The money from the Rotary Club is used to print up booklets with 13 things for the students to memorize about our country.  To pass, they have to do 4 of the things.  If they do all 13, they are given a shirt and a trophy.  To give you an idea of what the things entail, they had to memorize the entire Gettysburg Address, the symbols of the United States, the preamble of the Declaration of Independence and a lot more things.  It was amazing.  Ethan did his 4 and then was finished.  He worked on getting others memorized but didn't quite get them passed off.

Last week they had a program so the kids could show off what they had learned.  They sang a bunch of songs and they recited everything that had been learned.  It was a great night!

Here are a couple of their songs:

Here are Ethan's friends from the neighborhood: Kyli, Brayden, Ethan and Brennon.