The Constitution & the Bill of Rights

Today was our 2nd program in the Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Field Trips (CW EFT). (I highly recommend these and bought them through Homeschool Buyers Co-op!) It was called "A More Perfect Union" and was primarily about ratifying the Constitution. 

In preparation for this EFT, we have been studying the Articles of Confederation (which was what our government was based on before the Constitution), the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. With our subsription to CW EFT, I was able to read some background information and there were 4 activities. With the craziness of life this week, though, we didn't get to most of it. We did, however, read some good books including:

• The Bill of Rights (True Books) by Christine Taylor-Butler
• The Bill of Rights in Translation: What It Really Means by Amie Jane Leavitt
• The Constitution of the United States by Christine Taylor-Butler
• We the People: The Story of the Constitution by Anne Cheney (plan to read tomorrow)
• requested Shh! We're Writing the Constitution but haven't received it yet

We also watched some BrainPop videos:

• U.S. Constitution
• Branches of Government
• Bill of Rights

I found some other activities to do that we'll try to do tomorrow:

• Bill of Rights Concentration Game at Quia
• Preamble Scramble
• Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists game
• Branches of Government game
• other games (including those above) found at this Constitution Day site

And we sang the Preamble song (we know one from Classical Conversations and the School House Rock song) and the Bill of Right chant several times (from Classical Conversations.)
And, from my husband's favorite show, here's Barney!