Holidays!

I hope that each and every one of you had a wonderful Holiday with your family! I have very much enjoyed getting to know all of my kindergarten friends this past semester and I am soo very proud of all that they have learned and also for how caring each one of them is! I am not for sure if they told you or not - because I won't lie it was a little crazy the last few days of school - but in Kindergarten we Kare about others and like to do little projects for others. So we made Santa's and I took them to the hospital to put on the food trays and in the cafeteria. On the back I put a little label that said "Made with love from Kindergarteners at Meadow Lane Elementary". Hopefully we will get to do a few more service projects for our community this next semester! Here is a picture of the Santa's we gave to the hospitals!

Also I have been meaning to post something about our Holiday program all break and now here I am finally posting - I am so very sorry it took me so long.

Mrs. Schroeder and I are so proud of all our friends - they really did an amazing job at the program. Here is a recap of our program - I am sorry our songs are missing!  

The two days before break we played fun holiday games and also had a photo booth which of course was a favorite - for both students and teachers and here is a video of some of our pictures which we showed before our program started...

  

Hello everyone and welcome to our Holidays Around the World program! We traveled to 5 different countries and we will tell you what we learned in each one. We also made a video of our travels for you to watch. Then we will sing a song for each country.  Let's  get started...

We first traveled Germany and in Germany families decorate Christmas trees and we made a Christmas tree in Germany! Here is the video of us in Germany...

Then we traveled to Holland and in Holland Sinterklaus leaves gifts in kids shoes and in Holland we made a wooden shoe with carrots and hay! Here is the video of us in Holland... 

We then traveled to Israel and in Israel they celebrate Hannukah and in Israel we learned how to play dreidel! Here is the video of us in Israel... 

Next we traveled to Africa and in Africa they celebrate Kwanzaa and in Africa we made kinara bracelets! Here is the video of us in Africa...

We also traveled to America and in America we made ornaments and we use jingle bells to celebrate the holidays. In America some kids get presents from Santa! We even had elves that came to keep an eye on us! Here is the video of us in America and of our sneaky elves, Snowflake and Twinkle. 

We enjoyed learning about different cultures and we liked learning how people celebrate! Here is the video of us during our travels. 

 We also made fun reindeer projects.  We hope that you like them.
Thank you for coming!

Again I am so very proud of how hard the kids worked for the program so I sure hope you all enjoyed it! I hope you have a very Happy New Year! I will see you all next year!!!!!