Our 5-8th grade trip to the capitol is coming up next Monday. The parent volunteer who has been organizing the trip came to school today to teach the kiddos about the stuff that happens at the state capitol. It was really good! She had a powerpoint and everything.
She showed them pictures of our representatives for both Nicollet and Brown County, how a bill becomes a law, what it means to be senator/representative, what the Ways and Means Committee Hearing is (we'll be sitting in on part of one), and expectations for them the day of the trip (NO JEANS, firm handshake, sack lunch, etc.).
To wrap it all up, Mr. E found a website that had pictures of the renovations at the capitol (you can see them here). We want the students to have things to say to the representatives about us/our school, so the parent is going to write a 'script' and we'll have student volunteers read/say specific things to the people we meet with. Things like, our school is pre-8th grades, over 150 years old, teaches such and such, etc. I told them if we didn't get enough volunteers, I'd start drawing sticks to get enough. And the volunteers would get to have first pick on what they say. So far there are seven volunteers to speak.
Hopefully the weather will be good for our trip! We'll be gone all day, 8:30-6:00ish.
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