Presidential Scholars

Last year in first grade, we memorized a song that helped us learn the presidents of the United States. Mrs. O pulled it out to see how many of the presidents we remembered.

First, we got in groups to make a list of presidents we remembered.
We all contributed, but one person was a scribe and wrote the names down.
We worked really hard to name as many as we could in 7 minutes!
The results? The groups came up with 15, 16, 12 and 19 names in their presidential lists!
Mrs. O pulled out our chart from last year and we sang it a few times to kind of remind us of the order. She told us we would be concentrating on two presidents today. These president's birthdays are celebrated in February on President's Day. We underlined them in red: Washington and Lincoln.
We went to www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents to watch a slide show of the presidents pictures. We read their names and the dates they served.
Next, we went to BrainPop Jr. to watch very short videos on Washington and Lincoln. We listed carefully for interesting facts.
Everyone tweeted one fact about either Washington or Lincoln. You can read the tweets at twitter.com @obumblebees.
At recess today we missed L. Mrs. O is trying to figure out if she had the wrong date or if something happened to keep him from coming to visit. Here we find E (sporting an MJ t-shirt his parents brought him back from Motown...I mean New Orleans), C , and J (who is the Mummy King.)

At the end of the day, Mrs. R and Mrs. D came to help with garden time.

This group put up bird feeders to help the birds out in the winter.


They had a very special helper today. (We are always glad to have L in our classroom whether he is eating marshmallows or just making us happy.)