Celebrating Los Posadas in Mexico!

Today we flew to Mexico to celebrate Los Posadas! We learned how the celebration lasts for 9 days and ends on Christmas Eve. There is normally a procession along the village streets and music, good food and pinatas. We also learned that poinsettias come from Mexico. Check out the craft one we made in your child's bag today!

 Making our poinsettias...

 Aren't they cute? The kids and the flowers!

 Eating chips and salsa for snack. Yum!

St. Lucia Day in Sweden

On Tuesday, we flew to Sweden to learn about St. Lucia! We made LuciaKatts (cat eyes) made out of bread dough and had Ms. Deb in the kitchen bake them for us. We also made crowns for the girls and star boy hats for the boys. We learned that St. Lucia Day is a celebration of light! That is why the girls wear candles on their heads and the boys have stars on their hats! 

 Make our LuciaKatts...

 What they looked like before we baked them...they are supposed to look like cat eyes:)

 Making our star boy hats and headbands with candles...

 A group photo!

 Eating our LuciaKatts...YUMMY!

Happy Hanukkah!

Even though Hanukkah does not officially start until the evening of December 24th, we celebrated here in kindergarten today. We got on our plane with our suitcases and passports and headed to Israel. We made Star of David ornaments (sorry about the glitter!), learned about dreidels and menorahs, did a challenging dot-to-dot to create a menorah and ate Latkes and Applesauce for snack. Whew! What a day!

  The pilot showing where we are going on the map!

 On the plane...

 Going through passport control...

 Making our Star of David ornaments...

 Look at that glitter!

 Eating latkes and applesauce...

 The leftovers...