Annie
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I bought the Schoolhouse Rocks DVD for my kids.
They got to learn the Preamble just like I did.
You are a good parent! I think School House Rocks is an underutilized tool in our arsenal. I actually use it to introduce units of study.
That makes a lot of sense. It gets the basic concepts in their heads, starts their interest, then you can talk more about it. Of course, my kids just started kindergarten this year. More of their questions are about what some of the words mean than anything. Oh well, vocabulary building is good too. And 5 is a little yhoung to be contemplating the nature of a Federal Republic.
Steps, that's what it is. You are bringing up the same topics as my 'lower grade' teachers. Did you see the link to here? http://gresyn0.100webspace.net/constitution_day_lessons.php
Mind you, they are lesson plans, but parents that wish to could adapt them.