This morning, Danny and I continued our study of elections. We reviewed the current presidential candidates and then read a little booklet that shows how people vote. We then assembled a ballot box and made ballots. We discussed different topics that we could ask our fellow schoolmates to vote for, and Danny decided it would be favorite ice cream flavor. We set-up our ballot with the choices: vanilla, chocolate, and cookies and cream. We set our ballot box outside of Danny’s door and slid the ballots under each student’s door. We will count the ballots in our next session, in order to make sure everyone has voted. Danny and I both made a prediction that cookies and cream will be the winner. We completed a worksheet to practice counting for votes with a bar graph of vegetables. We determined which had the most, had fewer, and which was the winner. We watched a video reading of the book, Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio, in which a young girl participates in a school election and wins! Her goal is to become the first female president when she gets older. Next, we completed week 3 in our Florida Studies Weekly Social Studies program. This lesson was entitled “Follow the Rules”, which covers that good citizens follow rules in the home and school. We completed the follow-up activities in which Danny had to find the good citizens in the pictures and then classify items (find the one that doesn’t belong). He scored a 5/5 on the follow-up assessment. We read a non-fiction selection, Safety in My Neighborhood by Shelly Lyons to reinforce following rules to keep us safe. We wrapped up the day with a cute easy reader, Clifford and the Halloween Parade by Norman Bridwell, and some short e vowel practice on Starfall.