We successfully completed our first week of
Christmas Around the World from Christina Bainbridge's website. Despite having a snow day on Tuesday, we still managed to get through many of the activities. Here are some of the projects we have been working on.
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| Here is our Christmas Tree. Each day the kids have been writing how to say Merry Christmas from the Country of the day on their ornament. |
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| Here are the ornaments we made when visiting America. |
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| Apple Cinnamon Ornaments |
I used a slightly different recipe to make the ornaments. It was simple and turned out great. Here's the recipe we used.
Cinnamon Applesauce Ornaments
3 cups cinnamon
2 cups applesauce
1/2 cup glue.
You
may need to add a little water to this: it needs to be the consistency of thick
cookie dough. Have the children pound out to 1/4 inch thick and use cookie
cutters. If you do not have time to let them dry naturally you can stick them
in the oven at 275 for 45 minutes x 3. Flip after each 45 minutes. I always do
it in conjunction with math lessons on measurement. Makes 21 ornaments with a
little left over.
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| Here are how our Poinsettias turned out for Mexico! |
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| Here are the fireworks from Brazil! |
We have 5 days of school left. Everyone's so excited for Christmas here, especially since we received snow in the NM desert. Normally we are lucky to see a couple of inches a year. We got about 4-5 inches and still have some on the ground in the shady areas.
Happy Holidays Everyone!