What a Chilly Morning!
We had lots of excited boys and girls at school today. I heard lots of stories about snowmen, snowball fights and shoveling!
I
think the weather knew of my lesson plans today, as it was quite
fitting. Each year our school puts together a tree for the Festival of
Trees. The theme this year is Christmas Around the World. The story
that we are basing our tree off of is "The Spider's Gift: A Ukrainian
Christmas Story" By Eric Kimmel. Katrusya and her brothers are very
upset that her family can't afford Christmas this year, due to poor
crops and needing to save their money for food. Katrusya and her
Grandfather go into the forest and pick the most perfect tree, to
decorate for Christmas. The family strung buttons and placed it around
the tree like garland. 'They were so proud of their beautiful tree.
During the night, Katrusya's mom let out a loud scream! Their beautiful
Christmas tree was covered with spiders!!! There were hundreds of baby
spiders spinning their webs all over the tree, in hopes of finding food.
Ask your child what the family decided to do with the Christmas tree.
Asher was our snack leader today. He brought Wheat thins and cheese sticks. Thank you, Asher!
As
the weather is changing, I know that some of our students will be
wearing snow boots to school. Please send a pair of shoes with your
child to change into. We continue to run around and play inside, and it
is awfully hard to run in snow boots.
I hope you all get to enjoy the snow!! Thursday is our cooking day, and birthday celebration. Please wear BROWN to school!!
See you on Thursday!!
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