Sep 25
With my Story Time Felts business I’ve been involved as an advertiser with the American Montessori Consulting organization and today in their blog, 21st Century Montessori, Heidi Speitz shared some fabulous links to lessons and websites to use when teaching kids of all ages about the upcoming presidential election. Check it out
http://montessori21stcentury.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/new-presidential-unit-study-grades-prek-10/
Aug 10
With the Olympics going on and a Presidential Election looming in the near future I thought I’d share this list of questions and answers about US history and government that was shared by a friend. These are questions that people applying for citizenship have to take and many Americans don’t even know all the answers. Play this as a trivia game with your older kids or students. Many questions have several possible answers listed, any of them will do.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
A. Principles of American Democracy
1. What is the supreme law of the land?
A: The Constitution
2. What does the Constitution do?
A: sets up the government
A: defines the government
A: protects basic rights of Americans
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
A: We the People Read More
Jul 03
Patriotic Lessons & Activities
Happy Birthday, America! Celebrate with the kids by making some of these crafts or doing these activities on the 4th, and continue to teach patriotism all year round!
US Veterans
Have your family look for Veterans License Plates and tell your children how they keep our nation free and because of all the past Veterans we are a FREE country today. Even go to a Veterans Hospital and Thank the men and women there for keeping this country FREE THANK YOU
A Cool Independence Day Treat
Take a tall glass and in the bottom put strawberry yogurt then add fresh (washed and cut) strawberries, add Cool Whip in the middle, and then add blueberries (whole). On top, add some blueberry yogurt, and on top of that a little dab of Cool Whip. For extra fun, get inexpensive red/white/blue decorations on a toothpick to stick in the top. Read More