Holidays Around the World

This week our theme was Holidays Around the World. We learned about holiday traditions in Germany, Holland, Italy, and America. We read holiday stories and made crafts including wreaths, snow covered trees, ornaments, and Christmas teddy bears. During our writing time, we wrote about Santa's workshop, what we want in our Christmas stockings, what goodies we will put out for Santa Claus, and how we decorate our houses for the holidays. Our favorite moment was when St. Nicholas came during naptime and filled our decorated shoes with candy!

Our poem of the week is one of our favorite holiday songs:
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh!

Who is inside Santa's workshop?

Letters to Santa

Christmas ornaments

Mittens

How do you decorate your house for the holidays?

Christmas handprint teddy bear

Christmas ornaments shaped with play-doh and baked in the oven

Painting ornaments

Shiny ornaments

Our wish list

Counting the days until Christmas!

Helping write what we want in our stockings!

Thank you St. Nicholas!

Yummy treats in our St. Nicholas shoes

Handprint winter tree covered in snow!

Our beautiful trees

Handprint Christmas tree with ornaments

Spanish words of the week

Wow! St. Nicholas came while we were sleeping!