This Tuesday is a very important day in history. Your parents will be voting in the 2008 Presidential Election. Our vocabulary words this week (inspired by our Book of the Month- Grace for President) will teach you about some of the words you will be hearing on the news and maybe at the dinner table during the election.
We have found a video from Nickelodeon to inspire some discussions (and comments). The video introduces the presidential candidates with a fun song and gives a lot of information about the upcoming election. Nickelodeon actually had an election on their TV station and website just for kids. Kids around America voted on the candidate they thought would be the best candidate for President of the United States. The candidate the kids chose was Barack Obama.
Watch the video below and leave a comment about your thoughts on the Presidential Election of 2008.
(There are pauses between each clip...keep watching until the end!)
Ms.Launey and Mrs.Lopez
16 comments:
I thought that the video was great! I liked how you could see who all the presidents are. I like how this boy wanted to be president. -Morgan RP5
Hello, this is Janine Patterson from the University of Regina. What a great video, it did a great job showing who was running for president. It encourages people to vote too which is also very important. We just had an election here in Canada too. Did these clips play on T.V.? I'm interested to see who will win!
Hi Janine! I'm glad you visited our blog. These videos were shown on a national network for kids. I'm interested to hear about your elections in Canada. What kinds of positions were the candidates running for there?
Ms.Launey
Hi Janine! I'm glad you visited our blog. These videos were shown on a national network for kids. I'm interested to hear about your elections in Canada. What kinds of positions were the candidates running for there?
Ms.Launey
Wow nice video. There's been a lot of publicity about the elections here in New Zealand and we have our elections on Saturday although the system here is a little different we've got a MMP (mixed member proportional system). Our class is always looking for contacts etc. so if you want to visit our class blog, in Auckland, New Zealand, the address is tamakitoday.blogspot.com
Mr Webb and Room Six
Tamaki Intermediate School
Auckland, New Zealand.
I think that the video was awsome! I learned about Obama and McCain. It teaches us about the people who are running for president. Also they list all the people that have been president before! What a great way for us to learn about the presidents.
Sky ML#11
I think that this video is such a good idea to help children understand more about the election and who is running. I know when I was younger, I didn't know anything about the Canadian elections or the candidates.
It will be exciting to see if who the kids chose wins or not!
I so agree Sky!! Thats basically all what I was going to say except I liked how it showed how presidents get picked.
I cant belive that there are so many presidentsthat have gotten picked. Every 4 years it happens I like how they pick the president each state has a number of electorial votes for example Florida has 27 electorial votes anyway the hole video was awsome Niko ML2#
Wow, I think that I should know all of the presidents by now,since I've seen it so much!!! -Kiala rp#8
A conection with me and mccain i have a cat named oreo.But who ever wins will do a good job.
monica rp#6
I like the video becuase Ilearned a whole lot about mcain and obama.
sincerly ,
maddie #18
Hi, This is Janine from the University of Regina. We had a lot of the same issues as you did, I think the economy was a big one though.
i love that wonderful vidio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i would
LoVe to know all president!!!!!!!!!!!
heather#16
I can't believe Obama won!
That video was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
I liked the part were they would tell you about the people that were running for president!A.K.A Mc'Cain and Obama.
-Kristin B.ML#3
cool stuff about our elxction. Justin j rp10
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