Voting

While the 2nd graders are not old enough to vote (they learned you need to be 18 years old to vote), they still got excited about the election.

Today we reviewed our last week's activity about the electoral college and the popular vote, and we used our map skills to learn about where the candidates were born and where they served as senators. Then we made our very own voter registration cards.

voter registration cards

He's pretty excited about it

hard at work

"I love voting!"

Can't wait until we're 18 and able to vote

You can track the election results with your child at this website: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president/big-board

Monster Draw and the Election

Today (Tuesday) was a full day of learning in 2nd grade.

After their math test, the students participated in an activity called "Monster Draw" where they rolled dice to draw monsters' body parts. Here is some of their artwork:

the key for each roll of the dice

The students also learned about the election- the popular vote and the electoral college. We had an election between apple juice and grape juice. The students voted individually by placing their ballot in the ballot box.

Apple Juice won the popular vote

Then each student represented two states from our country, and their vote counted for the electoral college. We kept track of each state's votes on a map.

Apple Juice won the electoral college too.

The best part came at the end when we all got to sample the apple or grape juice.