Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day

Home school field trip: OK kids, let's go participate in democracy!

We got there 10 minutes before the polls opened and had 104 people in front of us. I mean that literally since the Emperor has Super Fast Head Counting as one of his many super powers.

Actually, it wasn't bad, only half an hour as opposed to the 2 hours it took in the last presidential election. They had streamlined things quite a bit and had doubled the number of voting machines.

We did the elections movies on Brainpop (I believe at least one of them is free). We watched So You Want to be President? and we did packets based on the elections stuff at Enchanted Learning.

Also at Enchanted Learning, we got some nice electoral maps to color in as the results come in tonight. They even had spaces to check off Democrat or Republican for each state. Very nice!

And we are watching this: