Celebrating Presidents!

This week was a busy week learning all about presidents and the job they do as well as two very important presidents we celebrate in the month of February: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  On Monday we did a shared writing and brainstormed what we thought the President did. I was amazed at how right on they were! After we brainstormed our ideas, we watched this video:
http://bkflix.grolier.com/b/node-32751/bk0099pr
Then, we came back to our shared writing and wrote down FACTS (we learned that facts are something that is true) about what the job of the President is.
Here is our finished product!

After this, the kids got to decide what THEY would do if they were the President of the United States. They drew a picture of themselves and wrote their own sentence. They are so good!
  
On Tuesday we focused on George Washington and his life and came up with facts about him.  We made our own George Washington faces and wrote down three facts so people can know more about him
  
Some of our facts:
1. He rode his horse to school
2. He married Martha
3. He was the first President
4. He led an army

On Wednesday we celebrated our flag by saying the Pledge of Allegiance, looking at a map of the country it represents (The United States) and talking about the design of the flag.  We made our own flags to help us remember what is on the flag. 50 stars and 13 stripes!

On Thursday we learned about Abe Lincoln and attempted to make our own  life size Abe’s! However, with the early out we were crunched for time and it was completed way too quickly! I am sure you saw them in your child’s Friday Folders We talked about Abe Lincoln’s hat and the important documents he kept in there. The students had a chance to write about what they would keep in Abe Lincoln’s hat! Some of their ideas included: money, gold candy, a puppy and flowers!
We had a busy, fun week learning about the Presidents and how important they were/are to us.
This week: DINOSAURS! I am SO excited!!