You guys are so great! Some of you just couldn't wait to pass of your Presidents until I came back this Friday. Way to go! That is motivation for you. I told you the Presidents song was easy, so easy a toddler could do it!
Well here is the States and Capital song. It is a little longer than the Presidents, but still doable! This video does it twice, so you watch it once, you sing it twice. Yeah, a two for one!
Hey there 5th graders! This is a fun new blog to help you memorize everything you need to in order to pass-off your Great American Award by the end of this school year.
So Here is the text for the Gettysburg Address if you need it:
The Gettysburg Address
Four
score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure.We are met on a great battlefield of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live.It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
But in a larger
sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground.The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or
detract.The world will little
note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they
did here.
It is for us, the
living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work, which they, who
fought here, thus far so nobly advanced.It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave their last full measure of devotion—that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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And
This is my favorite song to go with it...
It is also fun to hear an actor portray Abraham Lincoln...
