President's Day story by Anne Rockwell (Author), Lizzy Rockwell (Illustrator)
Feb 18, 2020Presidents Day written by Anne Rockwell and ICI images Rockwell Presidents Day is when we celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both were born in February many years ago, both were great
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s of our country, the United States of America grew- ups vote every four years to elect thepresident
of the United States each person votes for the person he or she thinks will be the best leader not everyone agrees so whoever gets the most votes wins becomes president we decided to host a President's Day assembly program to tell the rest of our school some things we learned about some of our presidents we worked hard preparing painting and cutting stirring and cooking flour paste and ripping strips of newspaper for papier-mâché Sam Evans Sarah and Michiko used the papier-mâché mountain that did hello everyone we are Mount Rushmore they all said ju How many the faces of President George Washington Thomas Jefferson Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are carved 60 feet up into our hard granite cliff now each of these presidents will tell you about himself I was George Washington that's because my birthday is on same as yours i was born on february 22nd six years ago but george washington was born more than 200 years ago good morning i said in a deep voice i led the american people when they fought to free themselves from the king of england we won so i was elected the first president of a new country called the United States of America.Abraham. Lincoln was very, very tall and Charlie is the tallest boy in our class. I am the 16th president of the United States. He said that I held the United States together when it divided. I said that a house divided against itself cannot stand and I meant it. a long war to keep our nation together that is why it is called the United States of America United means many stand together as one Nicholas is a good writer who can always think of the right words when he took the stage with a red wig with a short ponytail on her back sat at a desk writing with a pen made from a feather everyone waited patiently as she scrolled and scratched her head crumpled up pieces of paper and tossed them into the bin finally yelled it's finally done he stood with his back to the audience and said good morning my name is thomas jefferson third president of the united states i wrote something called the declaration of independence that said why we wanted to be free from england hmm thats pretty good if i do say so myself he started read what he wrote but suddenly Jessica galloped off on a toy horse good morning she yelled my name is Theodore Roosevelt but you can call me teddy i am the 26th president of the united states when i was a kid i was sick a lot and couldn't go outside to play but when i grew up i was healthy and strong and loved the outdoors i wanted so much of this big beautiful land to always be wild , that's why we set aside more land to be national parks where pla Ants and animals would always be wild Pablo and Evelyn came out on stage with the long mural we've painted of giant sequoias the Grand Canyon Old Faithful throwing up and animals in the Everglades on rest of us joined them mount rushmore george washington abraham lincoln thomas jefferson and teddy roosevelt on his horse we bowed while everyone in the audience applauded for a long time in the classroom we had an election everyone wrote the name of someone who would be a good leader on a piece of paper I wrote Pablo's name because he is smart and we never seriously put every sheet of paper paper in a box this is matt from he counted the votes the person whose name appeared most often would win the election guess what i won as george washington thomas jefferson abraham lincoln teddy was the world and today's president of the united states now i am the president of Mrs.

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Maddox's class when I grow up I want to be the first female president of the United States of America wouldn't that be cool after all I have the same birthday as George Washington
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