I have been invited by my grandson, Garrett’s second grade teacher to speak to his class about the Founding Fathers. Garrett told his teacher that his granddad had written a book. She wanted to see it, so he gave her one.

She has really enjoyed reading it, and so asked Garrett’s mother if she would talk to me about coming to speak to their class. She did and I accepted. Then it turns out that this teacher has invited not only her class but all the 2nd grade classes in the school to join in my presentation. That means there will be more than 100 second graders in the audience.

Wow, I was wondering what would hold the attention of 2nd graders for more than just a few minutes. I determined they would certainly be interested in some of the stories about Benjamin Franklin. So I’m going to go get a new whistle and tell Ben’s whistle story.

Then I began thinking of other stories that would be interesting to children of 7 or 8 years of age, as second graders are. And a whole bunch of stories came to mind. I will also tell some tales from the life of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

History with stories and adventures is really fun. Now I’m looking forward to this presentation.

I’ll report how things turn out. If you’d like to read some of these stories go to Amazon and look for “Founding Fathers–Uncommon Heroes.” By Steven W. Allen, JD. Order as many as you like!