Every week N and her classmates do a Weekly Reader, and this week the topic was the presidential election. When she came home yesterday she launched into a discussion of the election. Usually N is pretty tight-lipped about school, but she was talking my ear off.
First she had to tell me that she voted for the Alligator song (the kids had to vote for either the Alligator song or the Hippopotamus song). She explained how she whispered her choice into her teacher's ear.
Then she told me about the guy who won't be president anymore, and the 2 guys who want to be president. "One is dark, and the other is light," she said. She informed me that everyone gets to vote: kids, mommies, daddies, and "even God."
She threw in that there are 43 bathrooms in the White House, although D thinks she might have gotten something confused with how many presidents we have had in US history.
Today when she brought the Weekly Reader home, she showed me how she had checked off John McCain as her selection for president because "he's light, just like us." I told her that we vote based on who we think will make a better president, not based on their looks. D asked her if she would rather vote for Shrek or Lord Farquad for president. She immediately said Shrek but then said she would sing "I feel connected" (a song from the new Barbie and the Diamond Castle DVD) so he would turn into a boy. Appearance problem solved!
She spent a good portion of time practicing saying "Barack Obama" and "John McCain" this evening. She was so proud that she could remember them.
Thank goodness we have our little Republican to make the election even more interesting than it already is.
1 comment:
Hilarious! Well, maybe she'll switch to being a Dem by the time she can vote in...2022! :-) I think it's great that her school is teaching them about the election. I'll have to see if Bailey's teachers have plans along those lines.
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