The Results Are In

And let me thank the nearly 30 of you who logged on and voted in Gracie's mock election yesterday and today. You should have seen her; she wanted to check the votes every hour. We even made a large ballot to keep track of votes.

And, I really think she got a lot of of the whole project. She understands better know what voting is like, and how we have to live with the outcome.

Take the dress up category for example. She wanted "Ariel" to win. That was the first question we tallied today at noon. While "Ariel" got 9 votes, "doctor" got 12. She immediately burst in to tears and I had to hug her for a while.

While this sounds traumatic, I am glad that not everything she wanted won. Think about it, tonight (or tomorrow) there will be a lot of disappointed people, because someone has to lose. So, this set the tone to talk about how elections work and how there are lots of people who don't get what they want.

When her tears dried we continued on.

I made special worksheets for the project and she made graphs and easily answered the questions. She really enjoyed doing it, and she was thrilled when the choice she wanted for dinner won. We in fact had spaghetti tonight.

While she is only 4, I really think that she is old enough to handle some of the larger concepts of our world, and I love to watch the light bulb go on--so to speak.

We also did some fun election papers from Scholastic that Candice sent to us that helped reinforce the idea of elections. Thanks again to her--she is always thinking of us :)

Since you are dying to know...here is how the election ended up:
(you can click on the graphs to make them larger)

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