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KIRKSVILLE, MO -- Students at Kirksville Primary School learned about their states history on Wednesday.  State Rep. Rebecca McClanahan spoke with second graders as residents across the Show-Me State celebrated Missouri Day.  The law encourages Missouri teachers and students to spend part of the day reflecting on Missouri’s history as well as prominent figures in the state.

“The kids are very excited” said McClanahan.  “They want to tell me about all of the ideas they have about lawmakers and have great ideas about all of the people that might want to do this.”

This isn’t McClanahan’s first time visiting with the students either.

“We’ve developed a tradition of me coming here to the Kirksville Primary School to talk to the second graders” said McClanahan.  “I was invited by one of the second grade teachers several years ago that had this idea and having a guest come into the classroom really reinforces them learning.”

Throughout the day, McClanahan talked to numerous classes about law makers and how politics run in the sate of Missouri.

Now Missouri Day has been a Show-Me tradition for 95 years.  In 1915, the 48th General Assembly declared that each year, on the third Wednesday in October, Missourians should celebrate their history.  In 1939, Missouri Day was officially signed into law.