Presidents' Day

We spent last week studying Abraham Lincoln, so everyone has been pretty excited to continue our study of Presidents this week. Because it is a short "mini-unit" (we will be focusing on our study of the Presidents in more length and detail next year in our U.S. History unit) I chose 4 presidents to look at; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln (the Mt. Rushmore stars).

Today we reviewed Abraham Lincoln shortly before moving on to Thomas Jefferson. I thought he would be a nice focus today as we took a look at the Constitution. We kept the group study pretty brief so as not to lose the two little munchkins in the abyss of boredom. But Missy's individual study went a little more in depth.

We looked at a few of the "Symbols of the USA":
The Flag
The Great Seal
The Statue of Liberty
Mount Rushmore

Enchantedlearning.com has so many fun activities for Presidents' Day!

We read Presidents' Day by Anne Rockwell
 and U.S. Presidents The Oval Office All Stars by Dan Green
(This one comes with a pull out poster of all of the Presidents.)




The kids loved making Tissue Roll Flags to hang in the classroom.

MATERIALS:
1 Clean Tissue Roll for each student (I pre-wrapped each roll in white construction paper).
1 Strip of blue construction Paper to wrap around the top half of the roll (cut to size).
Red, White and Blue streamers
Star Stickers or a white crayon to draw stars
Glue and scissors

 Because everyone finished their flags so quickly,  I printed Uncle Sam hats on card stock for them to color. They wore them during school today. (A few creative liberties were taken with these).