Arsenal of Democracy Time Bike Adventure

Our first Time Bike experience was last Friday.   I always begin the year by reading a book titled "The Time Bike" by Jane Langton .  In the story a boy receives a bike as a gift, and this bike can travel through time. During my first year teaching I found an old bike and refurbished it to be my Time Bike.  Each year I ride it into the classroom dressed in costumes from the past.  The Arsenal of Democracy was a nickname given to Detroit during World War II for all the war supplies that were manufactured there, and it wrapped up our studies of the Midwest Region.  The kids have a lot of fun teasing me about my Time Bike and silly outfits.  It is a tradition I plan to continue for the rest of my career, and if anyone out there has any great costumes, I would love to borrow them!