Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Election Day

Yesterday our friends invited us to join their family in a lesson about elections. We made pigs and wolf puppets to go along with the stories we heard about the 3 Little Pigs, and an alternate version of that story told by the wolf's point of view.

(I really wanted to post the photo with all the kids and their puppets, but someone was wearing a shirt that had our state's name written on it. You can find the photo on our family blog instead.)

After listening to the story we each got to vote on which story we liked the best. Aly made this really cute ballot box and tally sheet.
The kids took turns tallying the votes on this bar graph.
The pigs version won, but just barely. Aly explained that every vote counts and if anyone had decided not to vote the results would have been different.

Afterwards, we voted on which kind of cookies to eat. The sugar cookies won!


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