This afternoon, we reviewed the Florida Studies Weekly lesson on Presidents and Patriots. We briefly discussed each person and their role in history. We worked in the related activity packet for follow-up activities. We chose “flag” as our target vocabulary word for this task. Danny drew a picture of the flag and we discussed the meaning. Danny then wrote a sentence using the word, “The flag is big.” We labeled each of our American heroes in the packet as president or patriot. Additionally, we studied the map of the thirteen colonies and discussed how different the map was back when George Washington was president. From this lesson we focused on these main facts: George Washington was the first president and did not live in the White House, John Adams was the second president, and Thomas Jefferson was the third president. We enjoyed reading a fun story by Marc Brown, entitled Arthur Meets the President. The class took a trip to Washington D.C. as Arthur won a writing contest. They visited various locations in DC. In continuing with our study of the Winter Olympics, we watched some video of the sporting event alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, and skeleton. We updated the medal counts for the ten countries we’ve been tracking and Danny did a nice job to scan the list to match up the country name online with the country name on our paper. He also reviewed his 4 vocabulary concepts for this unit (stadium, Olympic torch, mascots, and Pyeongchang, South Korea). We wrapped up the day with a Time for Kids magazine entitled, Going for Gold. This colorful magazine featured facts about this year’s Olympics including the dates they are being held (February 9 – 25), the location, the torch relay that lasted 109 days, and pictures of the three types of medals the athletes can win. The medals have a texture like tree bark. They were designed to look that way as trees symbolize hard work. Danny was tasked with drawing a picture of himself competing in any event. He drew himself snowboarding in the half-pipe!