President's Day Thinking Map and Writing/Art Activity

Today for President's Day I read this book to my kids about George Washington. After we read it, we made a bubble map about all of the facts they heard from the story. Next, each student traced the hat onto red, blue, and white paper. They cut it out and on each side, they chose one fact from the bubble map and wrote it on their hat. I stapled them together and now they can wear them around for the rest of the week. Easy and cute!
(I have included a picture of the template for the hat.)

"His birthday was February 22."
"He was presadent for 8 years."
"He love to ride horses."


(Sorry it is kind of hard to see, but I don't have a scanner handy!)

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