Presidents' Day for Kids READ ALOUD

Hello

kids

and welcome to this President's Day story. Hey, what are you doing here? Well, I'm presenting the story of President's Day. No, you shouldn't, but I'm the Christmas beer. I'm red, so I host the holidays, but. everyone knows I'm the obvious presidential candidate out of all our brothers uh um hey narrator this guy thinks he might be trespassing on my presidential territory and I'm the Christmas bear and I should be the one presenting all the Christmas stories because I'm

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y and I got the flag, give me the flag, no, yeah, no, stop, I vote to start

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ing, oh man, she pulled out that narrator card, she does it all the time, I can hear you, oh, I'm sorry, okay, let's start despite the interruptions. these guys we have oh look at that beautiful seal oh that's nice okay let's start president's day it's a day 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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of our country , united states of america, that's true, so adults vote every four years to elect the president of the united states, vote for me, uh, green bear, yeah, this is not a campaign ad, every person votes for the person who believes they will win. best leader, not everyone agrees, so whoever gets the most votes becomes president.

We hosted a Presidents' Day assembly program to tell the rest of our school some things we learned about some of our

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. We worked hard preparing to paint, cut and remove. and cooking flower pasta and tearing up strips of newspaper to make paper mache. Wow, that will be a great project. I wonder what they are going to do. Oh look, they made Mount Rushmore. It's okay, Sam Evan. Sarah and Michiko used the paper mache mountain. Hello everyone, we are Mount Rushmore. The faces of Presidents 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 on Like him, I was born on February 22 six years ago, but George Washington was born more than 200 years ago, but on the same day they share a birthday. Good morning, I said in a deep voice. I led the American people when they fought to be. free 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's tallest boy in our class see everyone working backstage pulling curtains pulling accessories oh exciting exciting to put on a show i am the 16th president of the united states said i kept the united states united when it was divided in two i said a house divided against itself cannot stand and i meant it we fought a long war to keep our nation united that's why it's called the united states of america united means many stick together as one Nicholas is a good writer who can always think of the right word so when he came on stage wearing a red wig with a ponytail short back he just sat at a desk writing with a pen made from a quill, it's great, everyone waited patiently while he frowned and scratched his head, he crumpled up pieces of paper and threw them into the trash can, finally he shouted, it's finally done he stood up and bowed 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 tells us why we wanted to be free from england um that's pretty Well if I do say so myself I started to read what he wrote but suddenly Jessica came galloping out on a little 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 was sick a lot and No I could go out and play, but when I grew up I was healthy and strong and loved the outdoors.

I wanted much of this great and beautiful land to always be wild so we set aside more land to be national parks where plants and animals could always be wild oh yeah I love teddy roosevelt's plan he created all those national parks I love visiting Pablo and Evelyn came out on stage carrying the long mural we had painted of giant sequoias, the grand canyon, squirting old faithfuls and animals in the Everglades I've been here I've been here I've been here I still need to go here Yes , I told you I love going outdoors in the classroom We had an election Did you vote for me?

They won? I win I don't think you were on the ballot everyone wrote the name of someone who had been a good leader on a piece of paper I wrote Pablo's name because he is smart and never wants to say that we put each piece of paper in a box ma'am madoff countered the votes and the person whose name appeared most often would win the election guess what i won as did george washington thomas jefferson abraham lincoln teddy roosevelt and today he is president of the united states now i am president of mrs. madoff's class when Growing up I want to be the first female president of the United States, wouldn't that be great after all?

I have the same birthday as George Washington and there are our boys from Mount Rushmore George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and that was the story of President's Day I won well you weren't on this ballot I want to be I want to be I want to be the first president green bear would you like your flag now? yes please we really need to hire a bad narrator yes you're not that good oh sorry I'll leave this here you should probably take it with you no I'm leaving no you can take it with you I'm gone oh man she's a troublemaker well let me turn this off, can I' I don't understand, I'll see you next time kid, I have to turn this off.