During the month of February our class will begin a unit on Presidents.  A wonderful way to share information about our leaders is for each student to pick a president and give a presentation to the whole class on that particular president. This presentation will include many different parts to help each student properly prepare for their presentation.  Listed below is an outline to help you and your child organize the time tp spend on each aspect of the report. Please work on this project for 10 to 15 minutes every school  night during the month of February.  Please note that each child is to write all of the information by themselves in their own handwriting. All items of the report are due on Friday February 24, 2006.
 
Picking a President (This is done in class on Tuesday, January  31, 2006)
On Tuesday each student will choose a president  to do their presentation on but picking the president's name from a hat.  The president that your child has chosen is listed on the "Mind Map" paper.
Research:  Date Completed _________________________
 Please go on the internet with your child and search for information on your child's particular president.  If you do not have internet access please consider making a trip to the library to research your child's president.  If you are not able to do that please let me know and I will print out information for your child and send it home with them.   I have listed many different sites for you to gain information from on our classroom web page.
Mind Map:  Date Completed _________________________
 Please read all of the research with your child and fill out the "mind map".  Your will see that this is a wonderful way for your child to organize his or her thoughts before creating the outline.
Outline of President Report:  Date Completed _________________________
Use the information from the Mind map to complete the outline for the report.  The outline will help your child put information into a written report using complete sentences.
Rough Draft:   Date Completed _________________________
The next step is for your child to copy what they have written from the outline on a lined sheet of paper creating the rough draft.  Please feel free to help your child improvise or edit their outline to help it to flow better or make more sense.
Final Draft:  Date Completed _________________________
 Help your child edit their rough draft for spelling and grammatical errors then transfer it to the final draft paper.   This is the paper with an Americana theme.  Please remind them to use their best handwriting.
Make Presidential Portrait:  Date Completed _________________________
Each child is to draw a portrait of their president using crayons or pencils.
Please use the rest of the time  to finish preparing and rehearse in front of your family.
Present report to class
On Friday February 24, 2006 all students will give their presidential presentations.  Please make sure that your child brings all items of this project  in on Friday morning.