Students at Island View Elementary are corresponding with their counterparts in Ukraine.
ANACORTES, Wash. — It was a world history lesson Monday in Heather Shainin’s fifth-grade classroom, where history was being written in real time.
The guest teacher was Marketa Vorel, an Anacortes mom who grew up behind the Iron Curtain.
Back from her third humanitarian trip to Ukraine, Vorel told the class about playgrounds being shut down because of land mines, and students having to do drills in case bombs start falling.
“It’s crazy because we don’t have to worry about planes overhead bombing our schools, whereas they have to be
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