Mr.+President+Goes+to+School

=Mr. President Goes to School = = by Rick Walton = = Illustrated by Brad Sneed = Walton, R. (2010). //Mr. President goes to school.// Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers. Picture from Barnes and Noble. (2011). //Barnes and Noble.// Retrieved July 25, 2011 from [|www.barnesandnoble.com]

Summary:
=== When the president finds that being president is stressful and overwhelming, he decides to take the day off. He ends up back in kindergarten and enjoys the day finger painting, building forts, and listening to stories. When he returns back to the White House, he is brought back to his real life full of problems. Mr. President is able to use important lessons learned in kindergarten such as friendship, having fun, and respect in his duties as president. ===

2. Why do you think Mr. President decided to go back to Kindergarten instead of doing something else?
===3. Do you think that by doing the hokey pokey and eating cookies while sitting in the floor would really help with big problems between different leaders? Why or why not? ===

Activities

 * Writer's Workshop:**
 * **Write a story about a bad day that you have had.**
 * **Write about what you could do to make that bad day better (just like what Mr. President did).**


 * Writer's Workshop:**
 * **Write a story about what you would do if you were the President.**
 * **Could enhance this activity by creating a podcast using Audacity or Garageband.**


 * Scavenger Hunt:**
 * **Use [|www.whitehouse.gov] to create a scavenger hunt for students.**
 * **Bring students into the computer lab and have them navigate [|www.whitehouse.gov] to find answers to the scavenger hunt to learn more about the president and where he lives.**

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