Good Morning everyone!
Another beautiful, sunny and crisp day. Brrrrrrrring it on! I am ready for the sun as long as i am bundled up (which I am)!!! The mountains are starting to become whiter and whiter...this is one sign of winter and the winter holiday break. The children are very excited as we have been really talking a lot about the holidays and how different people celebrate the holidays. It all started with Andrew coming in. Andrew is Annie's dad and he came in to talk about Hannukah. He read some stories, he lit the Mennorah and then handed out some delicious donuts called.......(starts with an s), but they were delicious. Then he helped out in the kitchen with the grade two children to make some latkes, which were all gobbled up, by the kids and the teachers as well. They were yummy. In the afternoon Annie played the dreidle game with all the children in small groups. The kids loved playing the game and thank you Annie, you were a great teacher!
This last week we have gone to the library and learned about how they celebrate Christmas in Germany, and the different traditions and celebrations there. We got to try a gingerbread cookie, the tradition of making and eating gingerbread cookies originated in Germany. The next day we learned about how the Swedish people celebrate Christmas. We learned about Saint Lucia and the Tomten. Then a group of grade ones along with Samara's and Matthew's mom made Rice Pudding, a traditional favourite holiday treat for the swedish people. The kids loved it, even though it was slightly overcooked, but it was still gobbled up with pleasure. Next week we will be travelling to Mexico to learn about their traditions and we will be making some delicious donuty cinnamony yummy treat called Buenelos (i think that is the spelling), but I understand they are very tasty too.
Meanwhile in the classroom we have been talking about our own traditions. And of course we all wanted to talk about Santa Claus. So we talked about him, wrote about him and made some amazing cute paintings of him (which you will soon see). The classroom is starting to transform into a holiday classroom...slowly!
We will be very busy in the classroom doing a lot of writing, reading and crafting to bring in the holidays. On Monday, December16th we will be making our own gingerbread houses. To facilitate one of my most favourite activities of the year I will be needing some supplies. Every child will need to bring in a 250 ml milk carton emptied and rinsed out ( no other size will work), also an 8 by 8 inch piece of cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil, with the child's name on the top written in sharpie. The children are also asked to bring in some candy to share with all the kids to help decorate their gingerbread houses. Great things to bring in are smarties, lifesavers, candy canes, fruit jellies, little candies, chocolate chips, marshmellows, pretzels, etc....anything you think they would like to put on their house. What I do is i take all the candies donated and i divide them up amongst all the children to share the variety. You do not need to send all of the above just a small little ziplock full. I am asking that everyone bring all the items for me by next Friday so that I can get the little milk cartons glued to the cardboard and be ready to go for Monday afternoon. If anyone would like to join us next Monday you are more than welcome.
Finally a big thank you to:
1. Scott for bringing in the Rocks and Minerals workshop a couple of weeks ago. I took some excellent pictures, but our camera had a little accident, so I cannot post them. The kids were fantastic and learned a lot of very interesting stuff about rocks. I think we may have some budding geologists!
2. That very same day we had a bat workshop. Thank you to Ronnie who came in from SFU to hold a little workshop about bats for us. The children played bat jeopardy, learned a lot about bats and then made some very cute bat puppets.
Something to write in your calendar and maybe start thinking ahead....
Feb 13th, 20th, 27th and March 6th (all Thursdays) are our skating days. We will need tons of drivers and tons of lacers for these four skating times. I am hoping that many of you may take some afternoons off from work to join us if you know in advance.
And with that...sorry that there are no pictures...awwwwww...
And i will see everyone tomorrow,
Enjoy your sunny day!!
Teri
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