CELEBRATION OF LEARNING The celebration of learning was an enormous success! Thank you so much for taking the time to join us in support of all we've learned during our expedition. The work samples that you saw will hang up for a while, but ultimately will end up coming home for you to keep. HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES I hope by now that your child told you about the day we made gingerbread cookies and they all ran away. Long story short...we had a great time making the recipe from scratch, discovering the cookies ran away from the kitchen, going on a scavenger hunt around the school (temporarily lifting the ban on running in the halls because it was too darn exciting), and eventually discovering, decorating, and graphing how we ate our delicious cookies...all thanks to a handful of amazing volunteers! Thanks so much to everyone who made the magic possible that day!!! Here are some pics from the hunt and decorating... In addition to learning about some of the customs of Hanukkah and Christmas in class, we were honored to also have Saleem's mom (thank you!!!) come in and share with us how their family celebrates Kwanzaa. We put a big focus throughout December on finding similarities in family celebrations (including those not held in December): eating special foods, getting together with family, lighting candles, giving gifts, etc. We played some fun games to help us recognize these similarities. If your family celebrates a holiday that you would like to share the customs of any time throughout the rest of the school year, let me know. We would love to hear about it!
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Shannon
12/30/2015 01:05:38 pm
These are adorable. Thanks for taking the time out of your vacation to post! :)
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Alia
12/30/2015 03:58:57 pm
It was a pleasure speaking to the class about our families celebration of Kwanzaa. Thank you for inviting me to share. Saleem loved it.
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