I was also 11 and remember it vividly. I also visited New York last year and Visited the memorial site. It was heartbreaking and harrowing and warming all at the same time. Definitely not too young to care.
however I also teach Year 5 and this week we have been looking at place values and the word ‘AND’ when writing large numbers. I’m being nit picky but she has tried to be intelligent and shocking with writing a large number rather than numerically. She has missed out the word AND.
Zoph, it’s Two thousand, nine hundred AND ninety seven lives. Every one of my year 5s got it, why can’t you?