Daily Idea #188: Election Day

Everyone here in the United States (or at least most people) are preoccupied with the election today. The election results effect us all in one way or another and not only us but our kids.

For today, we are going to read the following poem by Judith Viorst and then rewriting it. I want to hear what my kids would do if they were president. I’m having my oldest fill out the template on her own and share her thoughts with us and then I’m asking my other two the questions and I’ll help them fill it out.

If I Were in Charge of the World

by Judith Viorst

If I were in charge of the world

I’d cancel oatmeal,

Monday mornings,

Allergy shots, and also

Sara Steinberg.

If I were in charge of the world

There’d be brighter night lights,

Healthier hamsters, and 

Basketball baskets forty-eight inches lower.

If I were in charge of the world

You wouldn’t have lonely.

You wouldn’t have clean.

You wouldn’t have bedtimes.

Or “Don’t punch your sister.”

You wouldn’t even have sisters.

If I were in charge of the world

A chocolate sundae with whipped cream

   and nuts would be a vegetable.

All 007 movies would be G.

And a person who sometimes forgot to brush.

And sometimes forgot to flush,

Would still be allowed to be 

In charge of the world.