We celebrated Election Day in the Connected Combo. In social studies, we talked about the important and valuable right that we have to vote in our country. We even had our own "election." However, instead of voting for the presidential candidates, we had a vote over three election themed books.
The books were Duck for President, My Teacher for President, and Grace for President. If you click on the titles you will be taken to a video version of the book being read. In class, we read the books together and then practiced writing summaries for each book. The summaries helped us review the books when we went to vote for our favorite. On Election Day, we turned the back office into our voting both.
My election volunteers were very official. They checked off names, handed out the ballots, and had the voters sign that they only voted once. We even had a volunteer to pass out "I voted" stickers.
When all the students had voted, I had a couple more election officials count and recount the votes. For our class, the book Grace for President won the popular vote. Counting the votes also gave us another opportunity to use subtraction...but this time subtracting to compare. Happy Election Day!
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