Kindergarden Read - Aloud

Presidents and American Symbols: Supplemental Guide 9A | Carving Mount Rushmore 143

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Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes

What Have We Learned?

• Tell students that they are going to review the five presidents that they
  have learned about in this domain.


• Hold up Image Card 2 (President George Washington). Have students
  name the president and tell you what they know about that president.


• Repeat the activity with Image Cards 13 (President Thomas
  Jefferson), 14 (President Abraham Lincoln), 15 (President Theodore
  Roosevelt), and 16 (President Barack Obama).


• Ask for volunteers to name a fact about one of the five presidents in
  riddle form. For example, they could say, “I was the president who
  protected forests and created national parks. Who am I?” Students
  should hold up the correct Response Card for that president.

Introducing Mount Rushmore

 Show image 9A-1: Mount Rushmore

• Ask students: “Do you recognize the faces carved on this mountain?”
  Call on volunteers to answer. Tell students that the faces of four of the
  five presidents they have been learning about are carved onto a big
  rock mountain.
  Note: Explain to students that the fifth president they learned about—
  President Obama—is not represented on Mount Rushmore. He
  became president many years after Mount Rushmore was carved.


• Point to each face on the monument, and have students say the name
  of each president represented. (Presidents Washington, Jefferson,
  Roosevelt, and Lincoln)


• Explain that this rock mountain is a famous national monument called
  Mount Rushmore. Have students say Mount Rushmore with you three
  times. Tell students that Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota.
  [Point to South Dakota on a U.S. map.]