President's Day story by Anne Rockwell (Author), Lizzy Rockwell (Illustrator)

Presidents' Day written by Anne Rockwell and photographs by ICI Rockwell Presidents' Day is when we celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. They were both born in February many years ago. They were both great

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s of our country, the United States of America. The ups vote every four years to elect the

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of the United States. Each person votes for the person they believe will be the best leader. Not everyone agrees, so whoever gets the most votes becomes president. We decided to organize a President's Day. assembly program telling the rest of our school some things we learned about some of our presidents we worked hard preparing to paint and cut stirring and cooking flour paste and tearing strips of newspaper to make paper mache Sam Evans Sarah and Michiko used the mountain of paper mache que Hello everyone, we are Mount Rushmore, they all said together, the faces of President George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are carved 60 feet high into our hard granite cliff.

Now each of these presidents will tell you about themselves. I was George Washington, that's because my birthday is the same as his I was born on February 22 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 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 kid in our class. “I am the sixteenth president of the United States,” he said.

I kept the United States together when it was divided I said a house divided against itself cannot stand and I meant we fought a long war to keep our nation together that's 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 came on stage wearing a red wig with a short ponytail in the back he just sat at a desk writing with a pen made from a quill everyone waited patiently while he He moved and scratched his head crumpled pieces of paper and threw them in the trash can finally he shouted, finally that's it, he stood up again towards 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 told why. We wanted to be free from England hmm, it's pretty cool if I say so myself, he started to read what he wrote, but suddenly Jessica appeared galloping on a toy horse. “Good morning,” she shouted. My name is Theodore Roosevelt, but you can call me Teddy. I am the 26th president of the United States. When I was a child, I got sick a lot and couldn't go out to play, but when I grew up I was healthy and strong and loved the outdoors. I wanted to have a lot of this great, beautiful land to enjoy.

It will always be wild, that's why we set aside more land to be national parks where plants and animals are always wild. Pablo and Evelyn came out on stage carrying the long mural we had painted of giant sequoias, the dripping Old Faithful Grand Canyon and animals in the Everglades, the rest of us joined them Mount Rushmore George Washington Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt on their horse we bowed while everyone in the audience applauded for a long time back in the classroom we had an election everyone wrote the name of someone who Make a good leader on a piece of paper I wrote Pablo's name because he is smart and never wants to say let's put each sheet of paper in a box.

This is Matt, he counted the votes. The person whose name appeared most frequently would win the election. Guess what I won? just like George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Teddy was the world and current president of the United States, now I am the president of the lady. Maddox Class When I grow up I want to be the first female president of the United States of America, wouldn't that be great? After all, I have the same birthday as George Washington.