Today our school will be celebrating the inaugurations of President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden. Our school will have the students in grades 5-8 watch the inauguration and talk about the events of the day. Students in grades 2-4 will watch is in another room and talk about the events. I will be in the room with the Kindergartners and 1st Graders. We will be singing a patriotic sing-along, eat our box lunches, and watch President Obama and Vice President Biden take their oaths. The school felt that this is a very historical event and that all of the students should be able to view it. I like the fact that they are grouping the students in three separate rooms so that the activities surrounding the inauguration will be age-appropriate.
To prepare for the sing-along, I went through some of my fake books, “Get America Singing…Again!” (published by Hal Leonard), and Get America Singing…Again Volume 2, to choose some age-appropriate patriotic and world songs. I also included our National Anthem, which is a bit difficult for grades K and 1 to sing at this age so I will sing it for them, and I included the words to Hail to the Chief, since they will hear the President’s Own Band perform it as the inauguration.
If you would like to see and download the powerpoint that I made, please click here.
I hope that you will get a chance to watch this historic event today around 11:30 am.
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