{"id":80108,"date":"2016-09-21T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=80108"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:05:01","slug":"fourth-graders-learn-about-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/21\/fourth-graders-learn-about-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth graders learn about government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4<sup>th<\/sup> graders have been busy learning about government and the rights and responsibilities of US citizens.\u00a0 Students ventured through a simulation in which they had to \u2018purchase\u2019 supplies to complete tasks for their country.\u00a0 The first attempt was without any leaders or constitution. The tasks not completed represented real life events, such as having enough fish to feed your country to being homeless.\u00a0 Classes only got four to five tasks completed.\u00a0 After discussing what went well and what needed changed, the classes amended their constitutions.\u00a0 The second run of the simulation was so much better with each class doubling the number of tasks completed!\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be great if our country was able to thrive and prosper this easily just like our students\u2019 countries?\u00a0 It is going to be a great year!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Students of the Month for September. These students were chosen because they show INTEGRITY in their daily lives. They are: Carson Fox \u2013 7<sup>th<\/sup> grade; Hanna Young \u2013 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade; Madelyn Dunn \u2013 9<sup>th<\/sup> grade; Alexandra Stawser \u2013 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade; Frankie Carey \u2013 11<sup>th<\/sup> grade; and Katlyn Wendel \u2013 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th graders have been busy learning about government and the rights and responsibilities of US citizens.\u00a0 Students ventured through a simulation in which they had to \u2018purchase\u2019 supplies to complete tasks for their country.\u00a0 The first attempt was without any leaders or constitution. The tasks not completed represented real life events, such as having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lincolnviewcolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-28 23:23:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}