Charlotte Anderson Elementary - The campus will have a program on Friday, November 11th to honor Veterans Day. The Boy Scouts will present and raise the colors, then lead the school in the Pledge of Allegiance. They will discuss the significance of the day, and conclude with some music presented by Katherine Wilson, Anderson Music Teacher. She has taught the kids “God Bless America” and if they choose, they can sing along. Students and staff are encouraged to wear red, white and blue and will invite Veterans (family members) to join them for the service. The program will begin shortly after 8:00 a.m. in front of the school.

J.L. Boren Elementary - The campus will not hold a special event on Friday, but the students will wear red, white & blue. The students will write letters or notes of appreciation to specific family members currently serving or that have been in the military. If the students do not have service men and women in their family, they are asked to write generic notes of appreciation and the campus will give them to the Marines that do Toys for Tots and request they distribute.

Anna May Daulton Elementary - Veterans have been invited to a ceremony and continental breakfast at 7:25 a.m., on Friday, November 11th in the Library. The Daulton PTA is providing the breakfast.

Kenneth Davis Elementary - On Friday, November 11th students will celebrate Veteran’s Day at Davis Elementary with a parade.

Notes will go home by end of this week inviting parents/grandparents/family members of their students who are Veterans to come walk with their student in the parade.

Each of their students will receive a small US flag to wave during the parade (students will get to keep the flag to take home).

The campus will start gathering parade participants in the library at 1:45 and will do their best to start the parade at 2:15 (after 4th grade has had time to get to enrichment, drop off backpacks and get settled in the hallway).

The campus is inviting anyone that is a veteran to participate with them.

Carol Holt Elementary - The campus will be having a program beginning after announcements at the front of school. The Boy Scouts will present the colors and lead the students in the Pledges. All students will sing the “National Anthem” and the 4th Grade Class will sing “God Bless America.” Speaker will be Rufus Davis.

D.P. Morris Elementary - The campus is having “Lunch with a Veteran” on Friday, November 11th, from 10:00 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. The staff is providing lunch for visiting veterans and an opportunity to eat with our kids.

Erma Nash Elementary - Students will invite friends and family who are veterans or active military to come and join the campus in the Cafeteria on November 11th at 1:10 p.m. for pie, in honor of Veterans Day and our military.

Alice Ponder Elementary - At 9:00 on November 11, students will gather in the cafeteria to sing patriotic songs while waving American flags. We will wear red, white, and blue clothes, and are making arrangements to have the celebration transmitted/available for our students’ and staff members’ deployed relatives to view overseas. Due to space constraints, they are not inviting visitors to join in, as their student body fills the entire cafeteria area.

Tarver-Rendon Elementary

The Legacy High School color guard will present the colors at the afternoon program; our local Boy Scout troop will present the colors in the morning. The choir will sing patriotic songs while a patriotic presentation plays in the background. Our 4th graders are participating in an essay contest, “A Veteran in my Life” and two winners will read their essay at each of the programs. We also plan to have a “Wall of Honor” including pictures of veterans that are in student’s families (K-2nd at 9:00 a.m., 3rd - 4th at 2:15 p.m.).

Martha Reid Elementary - Friends, family and community members have been invited to join students for a 9:00 a.m. program in front of the school. The school theme this year is “Dream it, Believe it, Achieve it,” and we have implemented that attitude into our program. The program honors not only our Veterans but also their “Heroes" - our police officers, firemen, nurses and others. Deanna Lemke’s (Reid art teacher) brother, Jeromey Clary, who plays offensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers, generously donated t-shirts for the entire campus to wear for the program. Also, as a special guest, recording artist, Charla Corn (who recently won Female Artist of the Year by the Texas Regional Radio Music Association, and was on American Idol, Nashville Star, and a television interviewer for CMT) will be there to sing the National Anthem and God Bless America.

Elizabeth Smith Elementary - The campus is creating a “wall of honor” to display photos and information of any Stallion family members who serve/have served in the Armed Forces. The “wall” will be completed by Friday morning and the campus will invite families to come by the school at their convenience that day to see the tribute.

Cora Spencer Elementary - The campus will be studying the meaning and significance of Veterans Day, and on November 11th fourth grade students will set up a special area to honor our veterans. All Spencer students will receive a form on which they can share vital information about a veteran and return it to school. A photograph can be included, but please send only copies, not originals. These forms/pics will be posted between the gym and the office for Veterans’ Day.

Roberta Tipps Elementary
Veterans’ Day was the theme of this week’s Tipps library blog. Mrs. Cupples has included several video and interactive links about Veterans’ Day for use by the teachers during their lessons this week. The links have been made available on the Roberta Tipps’ website as well as on Mrs. Cupples library page.

Friday, November 11th kindergarten teachers will read books about Veterans’ Day to their students and discuss with them the importance of the day. The first grade students have been asked to bring photographs of family members who are veterans and will be given an opportunity to share the photo and information about the veteran with their classmates. Every fourth grade classroom will tie a yellow ribbon around a tree with a tag to say thanks to our veterans. A parent will also visit with our fourth grade students on Friday morning at 8:45 a.m., to share information about his service to our country. Several fourth grade classes will also be writing letters of thanks to men and women who are currently deployed.

Nancy Neal Elementary
The Nancy Neal Elementary Kindergarten team is having a few guest speakers representing different branches of the military. They are bringing photos for the students. The campus has invited family members and friends to bring pictures of people they know who have served in the military. They have a flip chart that represents all branches of the military. Students are planning on making thank you cards to those that shared items and memories with the students. Teachers will take pictures of the flags being made by the students to display on the campus team bulletin board.

The Nancy Neal Elementary, 1st and 3rd grades will be having a guest speaker, Daniel Cortinas, TSgt, USAF, to come and make a Veteran’s Day presentation at 2:00 p.m. on November 11.

Intermediate Schools

Asa Low Intermediate - The campus will have a breakfast for Veterans before school.

Mary Orr Intermediate - The campus will be having a Veteran’s Continental Breakfast on November 11th. The entire campus is involved, students will be encouraged to invite any family member or friend to our breakfast. It will be held in the library at 7:30 a.m.

Mary Lillard Intermediate - Each Social Studies teacher is designing a class lesson around Veterans Day, and will read a brief history, President Bush’s 2066 Veteran’s Day Proclamation, and facts about Veterans Day in the morning announcements.

Donna Shepard Intermediate - The campus is having a Veteran’s Day concert performed by their choir on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 6:00 PM. They will be showing a slide show during the concert of family members of DSIS students and staff who are currently serving or who have served in our armed forces.

Cross Timbers Intermediate
Cross Timber’s will be having an assembly on Thursday, November 10th, 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. They will have some veterans from Cross Timbers faculty at the assembly. Summit High School ROTC will present colors.

Middle Schools

T.A. Howard Middle School - The campus will have a Veterans Day assembly for 7th and 8th grades, on Thursday, November 10th at 2:50 p.m. and 3:25 p.m., in the gym and open to the public. The T.A. Howard Band and Choir will perform, and the Legacy High School ROTC Color Guard will present the colors. The guest Speaker will be Gerald Kokenes, former Principal of Cross Timbers Intermediate.

Linda Jobe Middle School - Jobe Band, Choir and Student Council will celebrate Veterans from 9:30 until 10:15 in the gym.

Danny Jones Middle School - The 7th grade students will have a special event to honor Veterans during Student Advisory in the gym on Wednesday, November 9th from 10:30 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Michael Evans, and there will be performances by the DJMS Band and Choir.

On Thursday, November 10th, the 8th grade students will have an event to honor Veterans during Student Advisory in the gym from 10:30 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. The guest speaker, TBA, and there will be performances by the DJMS Band and Choir. On Friday, November 11th, he campus will observe a moment of silence to honor our Veterans.

Brooks Wester Middle School - Wester Middle School will host a breakfast for Veterans in the Library at 8:15 a.m., and an assembly will be held in the main gym 9:00a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

High Schools

Legacy High School - The campus is planning four videos with different themes with veteran and student interviews throughout.

What it means to be an American.

Students who plan to go into the military/vets will discuss why they chose to enlist.

The meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance.

What it means to be a veteran.

Legacy is planning to make a video of military night at the game Nov. 4 as well.

The campus plans to post the videos online beginning, Tuesday, November 8.

Mansfield High School - The JROTC will be participating in the 2011 Veterans Day Parade in downtown Dallas. It will be held on Friday, November 11th with Massing of the Colors and the 11th hour (11:00 AM) ceremony in front of City Hall. This year's theme is "REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR." The parade will begin immediately following the 11th hour ceremony (approximately 1 hour). The parade will start at Reunion Arena with the pass in review taking place in front of City Hall. Military vehicles, equipment, veterans organizations, civic and corporate display will be ready for viewing at 9:30 a.m. in front of City Hall. They are anticipating more than 150 parade units.

Student Council will be hosting a breakfast before school in honor of the Veterans on our campus. Guests are invited to join them in the Distant Learning Lab before first block starts for some juice and an assortment of breakfast foods.

Summit High School - Summit will honor Veterans through the daily announcements. The JROTC will participate in the Veteran's Day Parade in Dallas.

Timberview High School - There will not be an on campus event, but students will be supporting Veteran’s Day events off campus. The Timberview AFJROTC marches in the Dallas Veteran's Day Parade each year. Also, the band will be playing at the Anna May Daulton Elementary Veteran’s Day event.

Alternative Education Center - Each student will participate in the observation of Veteran’s Day. Julie Bothun, Social Studies Teacher, during the first 30 minutes at the start of each class on both A and B days, November 10th and 11th, will present the following lessons;
· Clip of Military History - Discovery Education
· Clip of History of Veteran’s Day - Discovery Education
· Wounded Warrior Project – website and information
· NPR Story Corp sound bite of veterans of Afghanistan
· Students discussion of military service in their families
· Compare and contrast how we treated veterans after World War II and Vietnam (Venn Diagram)

In Raymond Cook’s class, he will show to each class, the 'Darkhorse' Battalion and The Afghan War series from NPR that discusses the war today, veterans, and military families. There will be a short discussion after this.

Elementary/Intermediate BIC teachers:
In Tracy Kramer’s class there will be the following;
Veterans Day Video and Quiz
America’s Heroes Q&A
Veterans in Your Life Writing Activity
Online Guided Research Activity using VA Kids website
Compare/Contrast Veterans Day and Memorial Day

Note: The above information was sent from the campuses. Not all school observances are here. Check back as more campus information becomes available or contact individual campuses for observances. (Campuses, if you would like your information listed on this page, please submit information via e-mail.)