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Constitution Day
Students in Hicksville Public Schools recently celebrated the birthday of our Constitution with thousands of other children across the nation. Constitution Day is set aside each year to honor and celebrate the privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, while commemorating the creation and signing of the supreme law of our land. Each school highlighted the importance of the Constitution and Bill of Rights to their students through a variety of age-appropriate educational lessons and programs.
The Color Guard from Dutch Lane Elementary carried the flag to their Constitution Day assembly. Students joined with those across the nation for the Pledge Across America recitation at 2pm.
Fifth grade students at Burns Avenue wrote and performed a skit to all the school's grades about the framing members of the Constitution.
At Hicksville Middle School, Social Studies students examined how the Bill of Rights impacts their daily lives. They reviewed the Ten Amendments, critically analyzed why these amendments were added to the Constitution, and discussed how they serve to protect individual freedoms while limiting the role of government.
At Lee Avenue, students participated in "Flags Unfurled" an informational PTA-sponsored event.
Hicksville High School Social Studies students explored how the writing of the Constitution was influenced by the colonial experience as well as the Preamble's importance and its connection to Enlightenment ideas.
Students at Old Country Road School collaboratively decided how they could uphold the Constitution in their school and wrote their goals on a giant scroll to be displayed in OCR's lobby.
The elementary schools celebrated Constitution Day in their own unique ways for example, at Burns Avenue, fifth grade students wrote an informational skit about the Constitution's "framers", the writers who identified the rights to be established for U.S. citizens by the Constitution, and circulated throughout the building's classes performing it. At Dutch Lane, Pre-K to 5th grade students participated in a Constitution Day assembly which culminated in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. Part of Pledge Across America, the Dutch Lane students recited the pledge at 2pm - the same moment that thousands of other children across the U.S. were also reciting it, including the students at East Street and Fork Lane. At East Street, students also dressed in red, white and blue to commemorate the day and participated in age-appropriate grade level activities focused on various aspects of the Constitution. While at Fork Lane Elementary, seventeen different lessons revolving around the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were taught. At Old Country Road School, Principal Anthony Lubrano's morning greeting included words about the Constitution, "Today, on the birthday of our Constitution, ask yourself how you might do something incredible for your country someday." The students in each classroom developed their own Constitution promises to add to a large scroll to be hung in the school's lobby. At Lee Avenue, the PTA sponsored "Flags Unfurled", an informational and hands-on program by vexillologist Gerry McCavera. The program included a history of the Constitution, a showing of flags from around the world, a history of United States' flags, and proper flag etiquette demonstrated during the unfurling of 2 giant flags by Lee Avenue students. In addition to participating in Pledge Across America, Woodland Elementary students dressed in red, white and blue for the day, learned the meaning of the pledge words, and discussed the rights and freedoms the Constitution guarantees during Social Studies classes.
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