A Lesson on Gratitude & Thankfulness

Tools for Learning 7th grade class read the book, "The Candy Bomber: the Story of the Berlin Airlift." After reading the book, the students made parachutes and attached Hershey bars and dropped them like Gail Halverson! For those that may not know the story of Gail Halverson, it truly is a wonderful story of hope in a time when it was needed. 

Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (born October 10, 1920) is a retired officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force.^[1] He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.