It’s ballot counting day! We counted Danny’s ballots from yesterday to determine the school’s favorite ice cream flavor from the choices of vanilla, chocolate, and cookies and cream. We counted the ballots and completed a bar graph to count each vote. The votes were counted as follows: vanilla had 2 votes, chocolate had 9 votes, and cookies and cream received 5 votes. We wrote down which had the most, which had fewer, and which was the winner! We posted our results outside in the hallway for all to see. We completed week 4, "Responsibility" in our Florida Studies Weekly Social Studies program. We read the packet and discussed responsibilities at home and school. We also read about school long ago and about keeping our information, like address and phone number, private. Danny completed the follow up activities and assessment questions, scoring 6/8. We then read a fiction storybook, Dixie and the Good Deeds by Grace Gilman. In this cute story, Dixie the dog helps his owner Emma complete her community service projects. Next, we performed a picture sort of good and bad citizens. We reviewed that good citizens are honest, compassionate, respectful, responsible, and courageous. Danny sorted all of the good and bad citizens correctly. For pre-map reading skill building, we completed page 1 in his Harcourt Social Studies workbook in which he had to color named items based on relational terms such as in front of, behind, next to, to the right of, and to the left of. This task also serves to build skills in following directions. We ended the day with a video version of the book, Amelia Bedelia’s First Vote by Herman Parish. This was a delightful story about a young Amelia Bedelia casting her vote at school. The principal told the class they could vote on something and he'd grant their request. The class shared ideas and developed their own ballot. In the end, it came down to a tie between ice cream sandwiches at lunch or no homework Wednesdays, and the latter won.