Puesta del Sol Elementary students joined students across the nation learning about the U.S. Constitution last Thursday. Third-graders put on a spirited performance educating and entertaining their fellow classmates on the history and importance of the Constitution.

The event was part of a national observance called Constitution Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the signing of this historic document.

Georgia Babb’s third- grade class did a mini-play replicating the events of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia.

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“The Constitution is a living document and is one of the most important documents in American History,” Babb said.

Thursday, Sept. 17, marked the 222nd anniversary of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when 55 delegates held their final meeting in Philadelphia to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. 

Londa Hargett and Veronica Sanders’ class lifted everyone’s patriotic mood with a stirring rendition of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” while Jessica McCord’s class creatively delivered the preamble to the Constitution.

The assembly ended with everyone reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance” in English and Spanish.

Constitution Day has been annually observed since 2005, when U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) sponsored a federal law requiring all schools that receive federal funding to hold an educational event about the Constitution on Sept. 17 every year.

U.S. Constitution

For more information on the Constitution, visit thomas.loc.gov/teachers/constitution.html.

Preamble to the Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”