We are close to finishing up week 1 of gingerbread and jingle bell theme.
I think it is important to educate the kids on different holidays just so that they know the history of them and may have a friend that does not celebrate Christmas, but a different Holiday.
On Tuesday Hanukkah was the Holiday we learned about, since I am 1/2 Jewish, I was looking forward to teach the kids more about it.
A menorah was a new thing for them. Instead of having just one day to open presents, Hanukkah was for 8 days and a present was given each night .
Kaelis said "no fair" ha!
We looked at a menorah on the web aijnd went over each peice and what each one meant when lighting the candles.
Every month funshine provides sign language words that goes with the topic we are talking about and yesterday we learned the word cookie in sign language .
We read The gingerbread man.
I like to read this book with different voices. Especially the Rhyme.
Run,run, as fast as you can,
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!
After we read the book, the girls decided they were going to reinact the story.
One of them was the gingerbread man and then one of them was the different animals.
We made the cutest gingerbread puppets that came in the funshine express box.
I added real cinnamon so they smelled so good.
Funshine has the best games and they are easy I play and understand.
For example , we played the Gingerbread Run math game.
The kids roll the dice with a number and then they move their game pieces that any spaces .
We had a busy first half of the week and today we had a snow day.
What things do you do in snow days?
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