Holidays Around the World!

Bon Voyage! It's my most favorite time of the year...holiday activities and our Holidays Around the World unit. I find myself getting wrapped up in this unit and put lots of love and time in planning. Yesterday we took off and headed to Mexico: boarding passes, check! Passports, check! Holiday scrapbook, check! Señor Norman joined in on the fun in the afternoon. Today we hit the sky again and we're off to Italy where we learned about La Befana, yummy Itallian food and famous landmarks. We had lots of reminders during today's lesson which will set us back tomorrow to finish up Italy and take a break for a day to see if we can handle it for Thursday. We still have so many fun places and traditions to explore so I'm hoping our class discussion today about how much time and effort goes into teaching and planning will follow through with them ready to be learners and have some serious fun the next few weeks! I know they can do it, unfortunately we seemed to have a tough adjustment back from break. We will continue to touch on the seven continents, explore maps and an abundance of curriculum all rolled into this holidays unit! When the unit concludes, they will bring all their treasures home to keep as a souvenir.