So you want to be class president…..

My class has started learning about the three branches of government. This week we are focusing on the executive branch. We are focusing on the president and his responsibilities. We began this section of our unit by watching a Brain Pop Jr. video about the president.

 

We then brainstormed a list of the president’s responsibilities and discussed what each of those meant.

 

After discussing the President of the United States, I told the class that we were going to elect a class president this week. We will be writing an opinion paper (campaign speech) about why we or someone else in the class would make a good class president. We will also make campaign signs, and end the week voting for our class president out of our top four candidates. We will hold a vote on Friday and the class president will serve a term of one month.

As a culminating activity for our introduction to the president and the idea of electing a class president we read “Grace for President,” by Kelly Dipucchio.

 

There is also a YouTube video for this book.

I will share more as we go through the week. The kids are so excited! I can’t wait to see how it turns out.