I'd like to cover some of the election process since this is an election year. The kidlets are grades 3, 2, K so it won't be too in-depth I guess.

Other than discussing the process and having a mock election, I don't have a clue.

What do you plan to do?

Here are some of my thoughts...   I was thinking about visiting the party offices and seeing if they will give us a tour and talk.  While we are there I hope to find a  candidate or two to do a little campaigning for.  I figure that if we all just do a little at the the grassroots level we can make just as much difference as those who throw their big money around!  I think it would be good for them to see what an election involves then go to the voting booth with us and get a little tour there too. 

The Teaching and Learning Company has some great materials:

www.teachinglearning.com/store/index.php

Carole Marsh has some, too:

www.gallopade.com/

Both sites have the elections "front and center" on the home pages.

Edited to add - if you like some of the T&LC posters, but don't want the large pack, Rainbow Resource Center sells individual ones.

www.rainbowresource.com/index.php

My mom always works the voting booth at our local voting place (the high school). I'll take J with me when I go up and vote, and maybe we'll just hang around and talk to people - I might volunteer to do exit poling if they want it at our site. Then we'll probably watch the tallies as they come in, up to about 9 pm.