Grade 1 Elections

With the Canadian elections taking place today,  I decided this would be a great teaching opportunity.
We began our elections by meeting our candidates, Scaredy Squirrel, Spike the Hedgehog and Spot the Dog.  We then sat through the campaign speeches. Finally, the time had come to vote.  One by one we went to the voting station and voted for the best class Prime Minister. Once everyone had a chance to vote for their favourite candidate,we had to decide how to count the votes.  We then incorporated some math and discussed how we could use a tally to help us get the results. We practiced counting by 5's.  It was a close race but Spike the Hedgehog won by 3 votes.

  Meet our new class Prime Minister, Spike the Hedgehog.