With President's Day right around the corner, we'll spend some
time next week researching, writing, and drawing about our two
favorite presidents: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. I've
got a couple of books that I love to read to the kids. We web
what we learn as we go and then use the webs to help us put
together this venn diagram. One of my favorite ways to help the
kids write about what they know is using the Thinking Map called
a Tree Map. I'll use pictures and charts to make a large
thinking map for each president so that we can write a paragraph
about what we know from our research on each president. I'll
give them the hook at the beginning for the paragraph as well as
the closer sentence. Their job will be to fill in the three
details for the body of the paragraph. After we write what we
know, we'll do some directed drawing to pull the projects all
together. As we draw we'll review and revisit all the things we
learned about each president. I found the Discovery Readers
series while traveling in