Preamble for school

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For constitution day, we read We The Kids and watched Charlie Brown’s The Birth of The Constitution. We wrote our own preamble for our class based upon the book. I was very impressed with what they came

Our class preamble (we'll sign at the bottom).

Rights

Chart idea on fundamental rights

This fourth grade class modeled their classroom rules after the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Declaration of Independence Anchor Chart

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5th Grade NYS Learning Standard CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC LIFE: Constitutions, rules, and laws are developed in democratic societies in order to maintain order, provide security, and protect individual rights. This is an example of a "classroom constitution" made together as a class. It allows your students to become more comfortable as a learning community. Also students are more inclined to follow and not break their own rules rather than rules that the teacher sets.