The Right to Vote

On Wednesday we had a visitor from Elections MB come to our classroom to run a workshop. We learned some of the history of the vote such as from 1960 on every person in Manitoba has the right to vote. We also learned that if you don’t want to vote for any of the candidates you have the right to write declined on your ballot. After that we had a mock election in our classroom. The candidates Carter, Jonathan and Tyson worked with their teams to come up with ideas to form their platforms. They were tasked with proposing how they would spend an « imaginary » $10000 to better the classroom. Some of the ideas were more fun seating, pizza parties, more IPads as well as a class pet. It was a fun and engaging experience for everyone!