President’s Day

Since President’s Day is right around the corner we spent the week learning about some of the symbols of our nation and a few of our great leaders.  We began with George Washington . . . 

We also leaned a few things about Abraham Lincoln.

One of our favorite books  of the week was Abe Lincoln’s Hat.  It was all about how Abraham Lincoln kept important papers in his hat so he wouldn’t lose them.  We even got our own copy of an important speech that President Lincoln gave {The Gettysburg Address} and put it in a special pocket on the back of his hat.   

We talked a lot this week about the qualities a good leader must possess.  Honesty seemed to be the one we focused on the most.  To go along with this theme we read a very funny story about the importance on honesty and did a little writing of our own about being honest.    

Here’s a peek at all the fun {President’s Day} themed activities we did at centers.

We put some famous president’s in ABC order using their last names.

We unscrambled sentences about some famous leaders and American symbols.

We created “Presidential Patterns” using coins and then recorded how much money was in each pattern.  Counting sets with nickels and dimes was a challenge.

In math we’ve been learning how to figure out what number is one more, one less, ten more and ten less using a hundreds board and what we know about tens and ones.

After doing this center we are ALL STARS at filling it pieces of a hundreds board.     

We covered a log cabin with pattern blocks.   

We also had fun playing on our mini-laptops.  One of our favorite websites is {www.ABCya.com}.  We can play lots of fun games here that review many of our 1st grade skills.