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With the upcoming holiday, I wanted to take this coming week to introduce a little basic government to our kids. We have never even broached the subject before now, so I thought it would be the perfect time! In a nutshell, we will be learning about what a president is, what he does, where he lives, and a little about a few of our more famous presidents. We probably will mention the upcoming presidential election and the voting process. Of course most of this will be done through wonderful picture books! So, here is a bit of what we will be doing for our president unit. I thought I would go ahead and share in case any of you are still needing ideas for a presidential unit.

Happy President's Day!

Books to read

Online helps and links

President's Day Resources on homeschool share - homeschool share has a great book list, lapbook components, printable freebies and more! We will be doing quite a few of these printables this week.

Dawn's Lincoln ideas - Dawn has some great crafts and links listed!

Crafts and activities

Pretzel log cabin  -- this looks cute and fun!

Make your own Oval Office -- from crayola

Make your own White House - also from crayola

We will add a few presidents to our timeline - probably Washington, Lincoln and Bush