The preamble to the Constitution. Try that one for Kindergarten Kids. Mission accomplished September 17, 2009, 222 years after the "real" Constitution was written. We know this because we subtracted to get that big number! Luckily there is a great book entitled We the Kids which tells the story on a kid friendly level. We took that story to mean that as a government in which we live people make a promise, write it down, sign it and follow it. That's how our document came to be. The students brainstormed every possible thing you could imagine. It took a while for all to agree and narrow the thoughts down to five. Five?...because the majority of our class' age is five! That's how you get five promises. Logical huh? Then we all had to agree that these promises were ones we could keep AND were willing to sign our name to. Here is proof of our endeavors. The next best thing to happen to us was that Mr. Crotty our principal showed our poster to the ENTIRE school on KGIL (our school announcement/tv station). It really doesn't get any better than that. What a compliment to our class. As the Kindergarten teacher for Room 13 #4 and #5 on our preamble made my heart very happy! Maybe we should tell Washington!
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