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Election Activities For Kindergarten & 1st/First Grade, Voting & Mock Election

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• Simply Kinder Election Bundle 

What’s Included:

This comprehensive resource offers 120 pages of engaging activities.

Vocabulary Building: Fun, interactive activities to help students master key terms from the book.

• Eight vocabulary words
• Posters in color and black and white in several sizes
• Printables to practice writing the words, the words in sentences, and a story

Voting Day Materials: Set up a real election in your classroom with these fun printables.

• Ballot Box, print and attach to a box
• Vote Today and Vote Here posters to hang around your room
• Voter Registration cards
• I Voted Today “stickers” to color and tape on or use a string to make a necklace

Informational Passages & Writing Printables: Learn about elections and then write about it.

• Two informational passages to learn about elections and being the president
• Graphic organizers to plan a story
• Writing printables with clipart to inspire themed stories

Vote For Me Activity: Have your students experience what it is like to be a candidate.

• Brainstorm why you would make a good candidate
• Apply to be a candidate
• Write a story about why people should pick you
• Create a campaign poster

Have A Mock Election: Pick from 4 Mock Elections to run in your classroom.

1. Cookie Election (stuffed, frosted, chocolate chip)
2. Snack (fruit, cookies, crackers)
3. Stuffed Class Pet (dog, cat, bear)
4. Duck For President (Farmer Brown or duck)

Each election includes:

• informed voter printable about the pros and cons
• ballots
• graphs to determine the winner
• writing pages to reflect

*Please note – this resource is not candidate-specific.

EXTRA BONUS: We just added additional pages to use to make an election booth with directions for your students! Woohoo!

Features You’ll Love:

• Age Appropriate: Some topics are hard to teach in early childhood. This unit keeps the lessons focused.
• Low Prep & Hand-On: Easy to prep and fun for your students.
• Perfect for Election Season: Or you can teach it any time of year.
• Not Candidate Specific: Enough said. LOL

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Real World Connections: Your students know it’s happening in the world, this unit helps them to understand in a fun way!
• Makes Teaching Elections Fun: Teachers rave about the engagement – who would not love a cookie election?
• Meaningful & Age Appropriate: A great way to talk about your duty as a citizen without getting into politics.

Other ELECTION resources from Simply Kinder:

• Election Day Easy Readers
• Editable Mock Elections

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Jennifer Kadar – Simply Kinder – Kindergarten – First Grade – Preschool

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