I Voted!

Did you vote this year? Well, your student did!
We had a performance task on Thursday that combined social studies and math. Our students learned about voting by making an anchor chart, having a class discussion, and reading about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After we had some knowledge in our back pocket, we headed off to the polling booths!

We set up a polling place in our classroom!

We had a very important decision to make as a class. Since our firsties did such a FANTASTIC job at chapel, they would be rewarded with a treat on Friday! The trouble was, there were 2 choices... cookies OR popcorn.

When the students arrived in our classroom after lunch, the classroom had been transformed! There were campaign posters for cookies and popcorn, polling booths, and a ballot box set up!

The very first step to voting was to become a "citizen" of Mrs. Jarvie's Classroom. All the students raised their right hand and took a pledge to be "great friends and good students." (This was so adorable.) After they all became full-fledged citizens of our class, I announced that in Mrs. Jarvie's Classroom, the law stated that boys AND girls could vote! Yay! I also announced that in Mrs. Jarvie's Classroom, boys and girls of ANY AGE could vote! Even louder YAY! Then, we turned on some patriotic music and exercised our right to vote.

Experiencing our very own Election Day!

The students all helped to tally the votes.

Cookies won!