Presidents Day

And reading poems and weekly readers….

 BOOKS:

Did you know he was on the $5.00 bill AND the penny? Cool! We knew it too…And Washington is on the quarter and the $1.00 bill.

HERE is a link to all the biographies of past presidents from the White House website. It’s interesting and informative for some background info.

We wrote about Washington in our own words…on sloppy copies, then we made our Washington art projects, then final copies after Mrs. Moss had edited them for spelling boo boos.  

We are learning coin money so here are Mrs. Moss’s tips…. Nickels have a building with a bump on the back, pennies have a flat topped building. Dimes have oak leaves and olympic torch on back, Quarters have an eagle on back, Washington on Front. Pennies have Lincoln on Front.

1. Nickels are worth 5 cents so they get 1 leg. (Draw a small line coming from your nickel)
2. Dimes are worth 10 cents so they get 2 legs. (draw 2 small lines coming from your dime)
3. Quarters are worth 25 cents so they get 5 legs. Each leg is like a nickel. (draw 5 lines)
4. Pennies get no legs.  
5. Then count by 5s and add feet to each leg as you count (just an oval shape) as you count by 5s. When you get to the pennies, count only by ones.  You can add a group of coins on a page this way. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!  Put on the legs 1st, put on the feet as you count by 5s, then add pennies by ones.

   

We will write facts about Lincoln on Log Cabin paper.  He lived in a log cabin, don’t ya know? He would keep reading books inside his tall hat.  Yup, he liked to read just like all the first graders!