Yucca Elementary fifth graders make class constitution for Constitution Day
The Yucca Elementary School fifth grade class brainstormed its own class constitution to live by for the rest of the school year during a project on Sept. 19 for Constitution Day.
"For our fifth grade social studies project for Constitution Day, we're having them dig deeper into the Constitution and kind of figure out how the rights in that were written so that they can come up with the constitution for their own class," Yucca Elementary School fifth grade teacher Stacey Eldridge said. "They're creating the constitution that they want to follow as a fifth grade class at Yucca."
The class did a class-wide brainstorm to determine what the class constitution would be and used the preamble of the U.S. Constitution as a style guide.
"We the fifth grade class of Yucca Elementary vow to create a safe school environment by being kind, respectful, responsible, listen, helpful and do our best to work as a team in order to contribute to our school's awesomeness," the students' constitution states.
The students brainstormed the wording of the constitution, wrote it on plain paper, crinkled the paper and then dyed it in tea to age it.
The papers were expected to be ready the following day after drying overnight.
The project falls within Constitution Week which runs from Sept. 17 through Sept 23 each year.
The Constitution Week designation was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on Aug. 2, 1956 following lobbying efforts by the Daughters of the American Revolution, or DAR.
Constitution Week was designated Sept. 19-23 due to those being the dates with which the U.S. Constitution was first signed 235 years ago on Set. 17, 1787.
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