Baked Beans or Clam Chowder? Needham Second Graders Vote in Mock Election
St. Joseph Elementary School students learned about the election process by helping to pick Massachusetts' state dish.
Second graders at St. Joseph Elementary School got a taste of the voting process on Monday, Nov. 5, as they cast their ballots in a race they could really sink their teeth into: Baked Beans vs. Clam Chowder. As their classmates waved campaign signs and shouted words of support for their respective candidates, the students headed down the hallway to the polls Monday morning to write down their choice for which food should become the Massachusetts State Dish. In the end, the winner by a slim margin was New England Clam Chowder. “As part of the social studies curriculum, we’ve been learning about what it means to be an American citizen. The children have been learning about elections and voting and national and state symbols,” said Kaitlin …
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