This week was lots of fun learning about different holidays and ways of celebrating! We also got to learn about the letter O this week, which is always a lot of fun. Most kids pick up on O pretty quickly, which gives us room to do some fun activities! This week we made an 'O Ocean' in the classroom and thought up different things that start with O that could go in our ocean. We also experimented with different ways to use our bodies to make the letter O.
On Tuesday this week we traveled to Mexico. There are so many different holidays, festivals and traditions in Mexico that it's hard to decide what to teach about! We talked about several festivals, including my personal favorite, Night of the Radishes. People in Oaxaca, Mexico make some pretty amazing radish sculptures! We also got to try a traditional Mexican holiday treat, bunuelos (fried tortillas covered in cinnamon sugar). Since pinatas are common at Christmas time in Mexico, we made pictures of pinatas!
Wednesday we got to visit Brazil. We also got to try another treat, Panettone. A cake that can only be purchased at Christmas time in Brazil. It was less popular than the previous days' treat, not many of the kids liked it. We also got to talk about the fact that Christmas happens during the summer in Brazil, so their holiday celebrations often include going to the beach, barbecuing and fireworks. We made pictures of fireworks, or at least gave it our best attempt! We used straws to blow paint into a firework shape, which turned out to be pretty tricky.
Thursday this week was all about Sweden and St. Lucia Day. We talked about the traditional foods that they eat on St. Lucia Day and made our own pictures of Lucia.
