On September 17, fifth-grade students throughout McVey Elementary School celebrated one of the most important events in our nation’s history, the drafting of the Constitution. On this day, teachers prepared an array of activities to study this historic event, including each classroom’s drafting of a constitution.
Constitution Day commemorates the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and recognizes all who have become citizens, whether by birth or by naturalization. Fifth-grade students are currently studying the end of the Revolutionary War, the Articles of the Confederacy, and the formation of government, as well as the Constitution and its Preamble and Bill of Rights.
“The students have also been involved in their class elections, so they are really living this lesson,” teacher Joe Targove stated.
In Mr. Targove’s class, the students created a preamble and bill of rights for Room 109 that symbolizes respect and dignity for their classroom peers. The students agreed to not only try their best and pay attention, but to not judge their classmates by the color of their skin or country of origin and to utilize positive words in the classroom. In their preamble, the students also included language about establishing a “bully-free environment,” providing a helping hand and being helpful to one another. After the classroom constitution was edited, each student in the class signed their name to symbolize the 39 men who signed the U.S. Constitution.
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