It is over! Can you believe it? You have now officially campaigned managed and ran for President. Now we get to find out who the winner is... and the Winner is....
WE WILL ANNOUNCE ON THURSDAY!!! :)
Again I am so proud of all of you and your hard work. Talking to people and answering their questions can be tough for anyone, but you all did it and it has paid off.
Don't forget that we have to do our last task at hand and that is singing. Practice your presidents song. :) Lunch on Thursday it is GAME TIME! ;)
Now this week we do what any awesome Campaign would do and we CELEBRATE...
Breakfast POTLUCK Presidents' Party!
***I forgot to say we will be meeting in the Kitchen*** then we will see what is open in the Lunch room for eating! :)
Please bring something to share, list your contribution below so we do not have any doubles. (I will also be sending out an email since most kids said their mom does not read the blog during the school year.)
I will bring Milk and Donuts! :)
Thank you all again,
Teacher Amber
Monday, May 11, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
ELECTION WEEK!!!
Just a friendly reminder, this week is HUGE! We have our Election! I am excited for each of the teams and hope you all do put in that last minute push of effort to make your campaign a successful one. Regardless of win or lose, I am impressed at how you all have handled each task that I have presented to you.
This week I am still putting together the first hour "Campaign Trail". So far I have 2 classes that are open to letting us come in. They will have questions for you. Remember the practice we prepared you for in class last week.
During lunch, you might want to do some political schmoozing (as I like to call it) before your peers and mentors cast their vote. I will be manning the table! DON'T FORGET YOU ARE MEMBER OF FILA ALSO SO YOU GET TO MAKE YOUR VOTE AS WELL!!!
I will post more as I get more involvement in the class participation. So please check back to the blog! :)
Prepare, but remember I know you have this under control.
Use your slogan, support your clause, and make the people fall in love with you!
Stay tuned...
Teacher Amber
This week I am still putting together the first hour "Campaign Trail". So far I have 2 classes that are open to letting us come in. They will have questions for you. Remember the practice we prepared you for in class last week.
During lunch, you might want to do some political schmoozing (as I like to call it) before your peers and mentors cast their vote. I will be manning the table! DON'T FORGET YOU ARE MEMBER OF FILA ALSO SO YOU GET TO MAKE YOUR VOTE AS WELL!!!
I will post more as I get more involvement in the class participation. So please check back to the blog! :)
Prepare, but remember I know you have this under control.
Use your slogan, support your clause, and make the people fall in love with you!
Stay tuned...
Teacher Amber
Monday, April 20, 2015
Campaign Speeches
Congratulations to each of you! Your group campaign announcements were wonderful! You each pulled on my heart strings and I was so proud of you all up there. Each of your groups had your own added touch to your speech and posters. You each have a different direction you see fitting for becoming the FILA President... and I was blown away at how AMAZING you all did! Again, GREAT WORK! So Proud! (On a side note, many people came up to me to let me know how proud of you they were also, so keep you the motivation and the excitement you have caught their attention!)
We announced our Presidential runnings, now what?!
If you and your family has been following the 2016 Campaign Race for United States President, you will see that they are currently our promoting themselves and their views. They are meeting and greeting, shaking hands, kissing babies, thanking Vets, smiling and waving, and passing out campaign flare (stickers, shirts, signs, posters, pencils, pens, etc). The goal in this portion of the campaign is to make people LIKE you, BELIEVE in you, and RESPECT you to hold a good job in office. In the end you are seeking out their SUPPORT to help you become the next President. If you can see if you can watch a few more interviews from the current candidates. I recommend not just going for someone you like, but also opening your eyes to some things you may not want to say or do from the individuals you do not support.
This week, how can you help your FILA peers want to follow you. Remember having them follow you and respect you will help you earn that vote.
In class this week, Teacher Carrie and I will help your teams come up with ways you can campaign during the day, or even during the week leading to Co-op.
Continue working on Posters and prepare yourself for a couple busy weeks of campaigning to gain that VOTE! :)
Again, I am so very proud of you all and your speeches. The campaign managers did a wonderful job promoting ideas and helping their President prepare and each President did a wonderful job pushing their speech out to their audience. Again, Congratulations!
See you Thursday,
Amber Keener
We announced our Presidential runnings, now what?!
If you and your family has been following the 2016 Campaign Race for United States President, you will see that they are currently our promoting themselves and their views. They are meeting and greeting, shaking hands, kissing babies, thanking Vets, smiling and waving, and passing out campaign flare (stickers, shirts, signs, posters, pencils, pens, etc). The goal in this portion of the campaign is to make people LIKE you, BELIEVE in you, and RESPECT you to hold a good job in office. In the end you are seeking out their SUPPORT to help you become the next President. If you can see if you can watch a few more interviews from the current candidates. I recommend not just going for someone you like, but also opening your eyes to some things you may not want to say or do from the individuals you do not support.
This week, how can you help your FILA peers want to follow you. Remember having them follow you and respect you will help you earn that vote.
In class this week, Teacher Carrie and I will help your teams come up with ways you can campaign during the day, or even during the week leading to Co-op.
Continue working on Posters and prepare yourself for a couple busy weeks of campaigning to gain that VOTE! :)
Again, I am so very proud of you all and your speeches. The campaign managers did a wonderful job promoting ideas and helping their President prepare and each President did a wonderful job pushing their speech out to their audience. Again, Congratulations!
See you Thursday,
Amber Keener
Friday, April 10, 2015
2015 Campaign underway!
Our Future Leaders and now working towards their FILA Presidential Campaigns. We were able to listen to some previous Presidents' Campaign Speeches, as well as some recent runners for the 2016 Presidential Run. We pulled out key words each Presidential Candidate stated and what tools they used to get the countries attention. Big differences in these past few years verse even a century ago! We have to love Technology.
The kids were paired up into groups of two, where one will be running as President and the other will be their biggest supporter, the Campaign Manager. The kids made their own decision about who was running based on their group discussion and I am looking forward to hearing what each has to present for their running.
This is a group effort, meaning each child has someone to be accountable! Parents, please help give a little reminder that they need to make sure they are doing their part not going to let their friend down. I do not see any problems but to play it safe I thought I would send a little reminder!
The groups are as followed:
Evangeline and Daniel
Ethan and Gwen
Molly and Hannah
Issac and Kaela
The groups finished class working on their campaign strategy and then their campaign announcement speech, which will be given at lunch on April 16th!!! Remember we are not looking for 30 minute speeches, but we want to see what you can do for FILA and who you are and what you stand for! :)
In class next week we, Teacher Carrie and myself, will help look over the speeches and give some helpful pointers if needed, while the kids work on their Campaign Posters. Each group will get 2- WHITE Poster Boards and then some construction paper. They can make as many signs as they wish however they will be responsible to PUT UP and TAKE DOWN their posters. I will pull them out in the Mornings and will be at coop until 3:30pm to help put away. Parents this is another spot where I ask you for your help! :)
As for a timeline of events:
April 16th- Lunch- CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT SPEECHES
April 23rd- Posters start to be hung/ Children can do their own "soliciting" of votes!
April 30th- Race Continues. (Could mean a team decides to Greet at the door early or after Classes, have a Personal Connection Table at Lunch, Passes out fliers, makes another speech, etc...)
May 7th- Lunch- ELECTION DAY!!! Each Group along with their Peers in FILA will cast their votes for our President. We also as a class will be doing a Performance for FILA at Lunch! :)
May 14- Celebrating a Good Run: Announcing our President and celebrating with all campaign runners.
Thank you all and I look forward to seeing this project play out! :)
Teacher Amber
The kids were paired up into groups of two, where one will be running as President and the other will be their biggest supporter, the Campaign Manager. The kids made their own decision about who was running based on their group discussion and I am looking forward to hearing what each has to present for their running.
This is a group effort, meaning each child has someone to be accountable! Parents, please help give a little reminder that they need to make sure they are doing their part not going to let their friend down. I do not see any problems but to play it safe I thought I would send a little reminder!
The groups are as followed:
Evangeline and Daniel
Ethan and Gwen
Molly and Hannah
Issac and Kaela
The groups finished class working on their campaign strategy and then their campaign announcement speech, which will be given at lunch on April 16th!!! Remember we are not looking for 30 minute speeches, but we want to see what you can do for FILA and who you are and what you stand for! :)
In class next week we, Teacher Carrie and myself, will help look over the speeches and give some helpful pointers if needed, while the kids work on their Campaign Posters. Each group will get 2- WHITE Poster Boards and then some construction paper. They can make as many signs as they wish however they will be responsible to PUT UP and TAKE DOWN their posters. I will pull them out in the Mornings and will be at coop until 3:30pm to help put away. Parents this is another spot where I ask you for your help! :)
As for a timeline of events:
April 16th- Lunch- CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT SPEECHES
April 23rd- Posters start to be hung/ Children can do their own "soliciting" of votes!
April 30th- Race Continues. (Could mean a team decides to Greet at the door early or after Classes, have a Personal Connection Table at Lunch, Passes out fliers, makes another speech, etc...)
May 7th- Lunch- ELECTION DAY!!! Each Group along with their Peers in FILA will cast their votes for our President. We also as a class will be doing a Performance for FILA at Lunch! :)
May 14- Celebrating a Good Run: Announcing our President and celebrating with all campaign runners.
Thank you all and I look forward to seeing this project play out! :)
Teacher Amber
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
REMEMBER TO RESEARCH...
Hello Future Leaders,
We crammed a lot of information in this past Thursday regarding the Great Depression. This brought us to discuss the 3 Presidents around this time period. 30th President: Calvin Coolidge (pre Great Depression), 31st President: Hebert Hoover (During) and 32nd President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (after). Ask your families about any stories they have from this time period. You might learn some interesting facts, just like the ones I told you of my Great Grandmother.
Remember we are going into our Campaign part of the lesson and if you can research the different Political Parties that run for Presidency it will allow for our Thursday to run with more discussion and debate!
As you research the many options, start making notes of which one you think you would classify yourself as during our campaign for FILA KID President or better yet, if you were running the real job of President of the United States of America.
I will give you the TWO major Political Parties we hear about regularly, but REMEMBER there are more. DIG DIG DIG! :)
Republican
Democratic
Looking forward to the discussion on Thursday. See you then!
Teacher Amber
We crammed a lot of information in this past Thursday regarding the Great Depression. This brought us to discuss the 3 Presidents around this time period. 30th President: Calvin Coolidge (pre Great Depression), 31st President: Hebert Hoover (During) and 32nd President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (after). Ask your families about any stories they have from this time period. You might learn some interesting facts, just like the ones I told you of my Great Grandmother.
Remember we are going into our Campaign part of the lesson and if you can research the different Political Parties that run for Presidency it will allow for our Thursday to run with more discussion and debate!
As you research the many options, start making notes of which one you think you would classify yourself as during our campaign for FILA KID President or better yet, if you were running the real job of President of the United States of America.
I will give you the TWO major Political Parties we hear about regularly, but REMEMBER there are more. DIG DIG DIG! :)
Republican
Democratic
Looking forward to the discussion on Thursday. See you then!
Teacher Amber
Thursday, February 26, 2015
$$ Money $$
Hello everyone,
Last week flew by me. I for some strange reason thought I already posted what we did last week, but I forgot! So here is the update for last week and this week! My apologies....
Last week we celebrated Honest Ab's Birthday! We found out he was a simple man who not only was a tall farming man, but he also EDUCATED himself! He took hold of his own education, knew he could do it, became a Lawyer, then eventually became our 16th President. His roll was heavy in his time. The Civil War could have broke America in Half, or worse crumbled us as any NATION! It is sad that he was not able to carry out more actions during his short life span. I wonder what more he could have done, but with any note, he did do great things while in the office. Here is the Gettysburg Address in case you want to listen to it again.
Did you all enjoy his simple "man" meal? Who doesn't like Bacon, corn cakes and some honey! Apples topped off our celebration. What a great day to celebrate him.
*******
Today, we talked about MONEY! The green stuff that "makes our world go round". Currency of the United States has changed and continues to change. From paper notes to our current dollars and cents! We got to see the similarities and differences of each paper bill. We discussed the words listed, the numbers for each and then the photos. We ended our over all discussion with the topic of Nation Debt. Finding out that we have officially hit over 18 TRILLION dollars as a Nation! It is now more than ever we need to focus on living below our means and allowing this to carry on as our legacy. This debt of our nation, IS and WILL be put on not only your generation but also your children and children's children. Something has to change. I know each one of you will be a great start to that.
Please do not forget to look up how much money our President's make annually while in the Oval Office, but also when they "retire". Is this something you think should be changed? What could our President do to help show his Nation that he too cares about getting America out of Debt? Or Do you believe he deserves more? His job is not stop while in the office (or so we hope) and his responsibility is large, should his wallet/bank account not reflect the same?
This next week we are going to discuss those Presidents who have not only Lead our country as The Commander in Chief but also those who SERVED their nation in Uniform. My question to you all will be Do you believe it is necessary for the President of the United States, who is the Commander in Chief to all our Military Services, to have served in any branch of the Military?
Thank you all for being great Leaders... :)
And the song is starting to sound GREAT! :)
See you Thursday.
Teacher Amber
Last week flew by me. I for some strange reason thought I already posted what we did last week, but I forgot! So here is the update for last week and this week! My apologies....
Last week we celebrated Honest Ab's Birthday! We found out he was a simple man who not only was a tall farming man, but he also EDUCATED himself! He took hold of his own education, knew he could do it, became a Lawyer, then eventually became our 16th President. His roll was heavy in his time. The Civil War could have broke America in Half, or worse crumbled us as any NATION! It is sad that he was not able to carry out more actions during his short life span. I wonder what more he could have done, but with any note, he did do great things while in the office. Here is the Gettysburg Address in case you want to listen to it again.
Did you all enjoy his simple "man" meal? Who doesn't like Bacon, corn cakes and some honey! Apples topped off our celebration. What a great day to celebrate him.
*******
Today, we talked about MONEY! The green stuff that "makes our world go round". Currency of the United States has changed and continues to change. From paper notes to our current dollars and cents! We got to see the similarities and differences of each paper bill. We discussed the words listed, the numbers for each and then the photos. We ended our over all discussion with the topic of Nation Debt. Finding out that we have officially hit over 18 TRILLION dollars as a Nation! It is now more than ever we need to focus on living below our means and allowing this to carry on as our legacy. This debt of our nation, IS and WILL be put on not only your generation but also your children and children's children. Something has to change. I know each one of you will be a great start to that.
Please do not forget to look up how much money our President's make annually while in the Oval Office, but also when they "retire". Is this something you think should be changed? What could our President do to help show his Nation that he too cares about getting America out of Debt? Or Do you believe he deserves more? His job is not stop while in the office (or so we hope) and his responsibility is large, should his wallet/bank account not reflect the same?
This next week we are going to discuss those Presidents who have not only Lead our country as The Commander in Chief but also those who SERVED their nation in Uniform. My question to you all will be Do you believe it is necessary for the President of the United States, who is the Commander in Chief to all our Military Services, to have served in any branch of the Military?
Thank you all for being great Leaders... :)
And the song is starting to sound GREAT! :)
See you Thursday.
Teacher Amber
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Ab's Party
Thank you to our scholars for helping out with class. Did you all enjoy the trivia game? Let's be real there wasn't a new boat, car or vacation attached to it, so it probably was not the greatest game of Jeopardy around however with that being said....
Who is ready to party with our 16th President?
Well how about just party for him! We will be celebrating his birthday this Thursday. His actual birthday was February 12th, but we can throw this guy a party whenever we choose.
For your help, I could really use some interesting items you know of him? Or better yet ones you have found out. Bring those thoughts in so we can discuss as a whole.
Until then, lets get ready to party like it's 1861! :)
Remember to listen to your presidents song! I am getting pretty good at it! ;)
See you Thursday,
Teacher Amber
Who is ready to party with our 16th President?
Well how about just party for him! We will be celebrating his birthday this Thursday. His actual birthday was February 12th, but we can throw this guy a party whenever we choose.
For your help, I could really use some interesting items you know of him? Or better yet ones you have found out. Bring those thoughts in so we can discuss as a whole.
Until then, lets get ready to party like it's 1861! :)
Remember to listen to your presidents song! I am getting pretty good at it! ;)
See you Thursday,
Teacher Amber
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