March 9

After first the students thought we were going to watch School of Rock instead of School House Rock. One student even made the comment that he watched this same video when he was in the third grade. I love School House Rock though and I think that may be helpful to some students (differentiation!!).

Block 2: We got through most of the bill to law process; we only have the four options that the President can take left to go over.

Block 3: We found out during the first half of class that Officer Pennycuff was going to come after lunch, so students were excited and did not want to get through the necessary material. But when I asked them to come back and work with me, they did, and we actually got a lot of information covered.

I made this awesome flow chart diagram for the students so that the students could see each step of the bill to law process. I had some cheesy stuff on the worksheet (bunny ears on the box that was supposed to represent the hopper) which the students made comments about. Hopefully it will help them remember the material.

There were a lot driving questions for Officer Pennycuff. Students also got a mini lecture on their fourth amendment rights in schools.