Celebrate with Us and Winter Holidays

 Wow!  Two short weeks in a row.  We wish you all a safe, healthy and happy winter break.

Here is a few things from the last 6 days of class.

Hand strength building with Aaron Putty

Celebrating Holidays Around the World

Russian Christmas with the Miracle of the Spider

Polar Express Trains

Celebrating St. Lucia - The Festival of Lights for the longest day of the year. (Dec 21)

Making Light Patterns!!!

The Grinch headbands

Decorating Ornaments

Thank you everyone for coming out and making gingerbread houses with us!  I loved seeing the family interactions!!!

December Holidays and Traditions from Around the World

 We are learning about other countries and families and discussing what holidays/traditions are celebrated. We started the week off with some Gingerbread puppets, since so many cultures make treats for their holidays.  Then on Tuesday we made reindeer paintings, they are decorating our room.  Many families celebrate a form of Christmas.  

Then we talked about Hanukkah-

To wrap up the week, we learned a little bit about Dwali and created a paper lantern. Diwali, or Dipawali, is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year. The festival gets its name from the row (avali) of clay lamps (deepa) that Indians light outside their homes to symbolize the inner light that protects from spiritual darkness.


Here our some photos that capture a little bit of our fun we had learning this week.

Elf & Evergreens

 We started our traditions around the world.  This week we introduced the elf, his name is Sparkles and he loves catching our kids doing great things.  We learned that Christmas Trees come from evergreen trees.  St. Nick was the end of our week and we learned about stockings.

Elf or Elf on a shelf

Traditions dramatic play

Evergreen trees decorated for holiday trees

 

Thankful & Bear Says Thanks

 Thankful for our great friends and our hard work.  We were all thankful for our families!! We just love them.

The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey

Watercoloring our Bear Says Thanks.