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America the Beautiful: How do we celebrate and honor our country? Dorothy Sisk Date Day 3 Social Studies Grade K Commander in Chief: What does a President do? Social Studies: K.9 The student will recognize the American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance and know that the president is the leader of the United States. Fine Arts: K.4 The student will create a work of art that commemorates a personal or historical event. Math: K.13 The student will gather data by counting and tallying. K.14 The student will display gathered data. SWBAT represent the role of the President through art, writing, and theater. SWBAT identify our current president. SWBAT identify the president as the leader of our country.

Book: Duck for President by Doreen Cronin Pixie on Presidents from eCart, laptop, projector Theater center: President masks/wigs/costumes/props Art center with markers, crayons, pencils, and paper Writing center with various paper, pencils, pens, erasers Listening center: CD player, headphones, pointers, 6 copies of Duck for President, Duck for President CD Assessment Observational checklist can they identify the president as the leader of our country? Can they identify Barack Obama as our president? Can they represent the presidents role through all mediums? Differentiation Differentiated process by learning profile: students rotate through all learning centers, allowing them the access content based in many different modes. MI: Interpersonal, kinesthetic (theater center); verbal-linguistic (listening center); visualspatial (drawing center).

Teacher Does This week we are learning about different ways we can celebrate our country. What have we learned about so far? We have learned about the pledge and the flag. But if we had to celebrate a person from our country, whom might we celebrate?

Students Do Students will remember and share the previous learning experiences. Students will generate ideas about people we can celebrate.

Link 5 minutes

Educate and engage 15 minutes

Play the video read-aloud of Duck for President. Lead a discussion on what the president does. Take ideas from students and write them down on the whiteboard. Show the FCPS Pixie about the President. Cross reference with student created list to see if any of the roles they identified were in the presentation. Circulate among students and check for correct representation of the Presidents roles. Use checklist. Notice if there is any gender or race discrimination in their reenactments. Bring these issues up with students individually and during reflection.

After watching the read-aloud, students will turn and talk to a buddy about different things a president does. Students will share ideas with the class.

Student will rotate through centers, spending 10 minutes at each center. Learning Centers: students will rotate through 4 centers 1. Listening center: listen to Duck for President by Doreen Cronin 2. Drawing center: draw one of the roles we learned the President has 3. Writing center: what would you do if you were president? 4. Theater: dress up and pretend to be a president Students should role play/draw/write about different roles that the President has. The Duck book will provide more ideas. Have student think-pair-share about the different roles the learned about at their stations. Think about the different roles how do they all relate to his role as leader of our country? Have you seen our President do any of these jobs?

Active learning 40 minutes Reflect

Come back together at the carpet. Refer back to list of jobs a president does. Add any new jobs that they learned about. Emphasize the presidents role as the leader of our country. All roles/jobs mentioned are part of this role as leader of our country. MATH CONNECTION: graph which presidential role is their favorite. Have student vote and graph their results. Review what role they liked best, and what role they liked least. Remind students of the presidents role when he is in the news for one of the things they listed (i.e. signing a bill, giving a speech, visiting another country). Read them an article or show them a news clip and then discuss what the president was doing and how that is a part of his role as leader of our country.

about Now and then

Have students look for these Presidential roles in the news, at home, from their parents, etc. Students should share ideas about how this is part of their role as leader of our country.