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West Babylon Students Celebrate Constitution Day

Students create their own class constitutions in lesson to understand U.S. government.

Students throughout the West Babylon School District recently celebrated Constitution Day in a variety of ways, all corresponding with social studies units on citizenship and community.

At Tooker Avenue Elementary School, Robert Mckeown’s third-grade class read Scholastic News and explored the history of the U.S. Constitution. The students created their own class constitution utilizing the ideas and formative process of the U.S. Constitution. Students then created a preamble to the class constitution that corresponded with the class goals they had previously established and developed rules to support those goals. 

Classes throughout South Bay Elementary School took part in similar lessons. A myriad of classes from grades one through five explored the history of the country, discussed rules and fairness, read books and poems on the subject and listened to songs such as “School House Rocks the Preamble” to support their learning.

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