Senator Whitehouse goes to school

This week, Senator Whitehouse came to visit the fifth grade at the Providence Hebrew Day School (PHDS). The reason he came was because we wanted to present a gift to him. On the day before Thanksgiving, we had a Thanksgiving assembly. At the assembly, students in grades 1-5 wrote (on special pieces of paper) why they are thankful to live in the United States.

Because our teacher, Mrs. Ilana Weissmann, was in charge of the assembly, our class wrote many reasons in alphabetical order, from A to Z. Our class read all of the students’ work and selected the ones we thought were the best. We put these on a large piece of bulletin board paper. Our teacher then arranged for Senator Whitehouse to visit.

On January 6, when Senator Whitehouse came, we presented the bulletin board paper to him. Each student read his/her paper in alphabetical order. After that, we each read other selections from the display. Senator Whitehouse spoke to us about Rhode Island’s role in establishing religious freedom in this country. When he was finished speaking to us, he visited all of the other grades in our school. It was a special treat to have Senator Whitehouse come to our school.

Note: Meir Mordechai Peromsik lives in Pawtucket and Gavriel Schwartz lives in Providence. They are both fifth-grade students in PHDS.