We want to know
-why do we have a government?-why do they put stamps on papers?
-why do you have to give money to them
-why do they do that kind of work
What we did
Song
"Preamble of the Constitution"
we learned it with School House Rock
We the people of the United States,
In order to form a more perfect union,
Establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
Provide for the common defense,
Promote the general welfare and
Secure the blessings of liberty
To ourselves and our Posterity
Do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_words_of_the_preamble#ixzz1E2whAuUP
Set up a government at our house
Three branches of our government
legislative- Livi, Ezra, and Noah
executive- Dad
judicial- Mom
The kids made laws
1. drink milk with breakfast or you will have to stay upstairs for an hour doing nothing
2. everyone has to wear socks for three days or they will have to eat for an hour
3. if they teetor totter every morning they will have to smell a stinky sock
4. everybody has to wake up early, whenever the first person wakes up, everybody else does too, or they will have to count to 130
5. every Saturday you have to exercise, or you have to hold your breath
6. wear socks all day and night for one week you will have to get covered with a blanket for one minute
7. be nice or you'll have to wear a hat for an hour or go in jail for 20 minutes
8. you have to go outside everyday or you'll get spanked by the president
1. drink milk with breakfast or you will have to stay upstairs for an hour doing nothing
2. everyone has to wear socks for three days or they will have to eat for an hour
3. if they teetor totter every morning they will have to smell a stinky sock
4. everybody has to wake up early, whenever the first person wakes up, everybody else does too, or they will have to count to 130
5. every Saturday you have to exercise, or you have to hold your breath
6. wear socks all day and night for one week you will have to get covered with a blanket for one minute
7. be nice or you'll have to wear a hat for an hour or go in jail for 20 minutes
8. you have to go outside everyday or you'll get spanked by the president
-Mike vetoed numbers 1 and 6.
-He signed numbers 3, 7 and 8
-He changed number 2 to say- Everyone has to wear socks at least once in three days or they will have to eat for an hour.
-He changed number 4 to say everybody has to wake up early, whenever the first person wakes up, everybody else does too, or they will have to count to 130 sometime during the day.
-He changed number 5 to say, every Saturday you have to exercise, or you have to hold your breath for 20 seconds. The kids went back and changed it 15 seconds.
After the changes he signed them all. Next step enforcing them and going to court for disobeying.
Court Cases
-Sammy, Ezra, and Noah teetor tottered
-all of the kids woke up later than me on Wed
Math, Cutting, Creating
we made U.S. flags. I printed the stars. The kids cut them out and counted them as they glued them on to the blue paper. We cut stripes with white, red, and orange paper. We ran low on red. They counted the stripes as well and placed them correctly.
U.S. Flag to print and color
Good Websites for teaching about the U.S. and government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html
We Learned
Ezra- congress makes the laws, then the laws go to the president, he saw if he wanted those laws, he gets rid of some, changes some, and keeps some, he gives them back to congress to change, you have to talk to the judge if you break the law
we elect a president by voting, the constitution is the document of the rules and laws, the preamble says we should stay together, we should obey the laws
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