Kitah Gimmel Votes!

With the midterm elections upon us, our students have been apart of the buzz of the importance of voting. We've even heard stories of families who knock on doors to talk to people about voting.  We felt that we could really connect to this concept so we decided to vote ourselves on rainbow or chocolate sprinkles on top of our ice cream.  The children were thrilled to hear about the ice cream and were open to share their preference and why.  Some of our students chose chocolate because they love anything chocolate.  Most of the students who chose rainbow sprinkles said they loved all of the colors. 

Individually, each child picked one piece of paper from the bucket. 

Then they went to the polling desk where the two options were presented once again. For chocolate, we did brown specks on the paper, for rainbow, multicolored dots were the option. Not only does this look like fun to do, it promotes early literacy. See how focused everyone was while casting his/her ballet?!

 

We then carefully placed our ballets into the matching envelopes.

But, what about the students who were missing? We had an absentee message go out to the parents of the students who weren't in class that day and their ballets were counted as well.  We had a total of 10 rainbow votes and 6 for chocolate.  

While some were a little disappointed, everyone was happy to have ice cream and generously covered the ice cream with rainbow sprinkles.