Presidents Day

 

For Presidents Day, the students explored several different books on George Washington and Abe Lincoln.  We also looked at interesting facts about each president and played a fun trivia game on an app called Presidents vs Aliens.  In the app, students have to answer questions about the presidents.  For example, which president preceded Teddy Roosevelt?  The students used different resources in our classroom to look up answers.  If they answered a question correctly, they get to fling a president to knock down cartoon aliens.  Ha!  I know it sounds silly, but the students were so engaged and getting really good at using different non fiction resources to find answers quickly and efficiently.   

The resource the students are using above is a presidential timeline.  On the other side, is a beautiful map of the United States.  A big thank you to Floberg Real Estate, MSU Billings, Wells Fargo, Billings Gazette, and AlphaGraphics for this year's Maps for Kids.  Maps for Kids is a program spear headed by Floberg Real Estate.  Every year, they make sure every first grader in Billings is given a United States map and every fourth grader receives a Montana map.  These first graders were so thrilled to get and use their new maps!  Besides Presidents vs Aliens, we used the maps to help us play a game (app) called Stack the States.  This app asks different questions about the United States.

The students used their maps to help them answer the questions.  When the children get the answer correct, they earn that state to "stack."  The object is to stack your states up to the finish line.  You can turn the states to be on the tallest, flattest side.  When you stack your states above the line, you get to move to the next level.  The students LOVED the game.  They did a great job reading their maps and working as a team.  Thanks again, "Maps for Kids!"