Who will you vote for?

This week we started looking at the election process and the two presidential candidates. Elizabeth Ide will be holding their own school election on November 2nd. Every student will get the chance to vote for the person of their choice, but first we had to learn about them!

Kindergarten

We looked at pictures of the two presidential candidates and learned their names. We discussed how on election day we will be voting for our favorite person. We cast our vote by circle the persons picture on our ballot. Then we read the story If I were President by Thomas Kingsley Troupe. In the library we were able to checkout books on our current President as well as past Presidents.

First Grade

First graders learned about the election process and the two presidential candidates. Then they listened to the story My Teacher for President by Kay Winters. After reading we discussed the different ways our teacher (specific to each classroom) would make a great president. Then we did some self to text connections by writing a few sentences about what it would be like if we were President. All of the class had the honor of being displayed this month in the hallway and hanging in the library for all to read and see.

If I was President I would give you 20 minutes
of recess and let you spend time at gym and give you some extra supplies and I'll be nice.

Second Grade

In second grade we focused on details of the Presidential candidates and the responsibilities of a citizen to vote. We learned that we vote for a president every four years and we must be 18 to vote in the official election, however we still get to vote in the Ide election. Then we played a jeopardy game on Obama and Romney as well as election vocabulary. We had a terrific time working as teams to compete and try to win the game!

Come back on November 2nd to see who Elizabeth Ide students voted as President!