Election Activities

This week we read three fiction books about elections: Duck for President, My Teacher for President, and Grace for President. We compared and contrasted the characters in the story using venn diagrams and decided who we thought would be the best president. Each student chose one of the three characters to campaign for. We made campaign posters for our choices. On Friday, students cast their ballots for either duck, Grace, or their teacher. They went behind a curtain to mark their ballots. They made "I Voted" buttons afterwards to wear. It was an exciting election: all three candidates were tied and the final vote was the deciding factor! Their teacher (hooray for me) was the winner!

 

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.