We made Christmas cards this week for a special project that we are taking part in this year! It is called by Holiday Card Exchange Project which matches us with 29 other schools across the continent of North America. It is part of a variety of projects coordinated by Jennifer Wagner’s Projects by Jen. We are sending cards to a variety of places in the United States as well as one other school in Canada in Ontario. Our cards are going all over the United States. We send one card to each of the schools on our list and they send us a card back! We will be mapping out where our cards originate. A fun way to learn more about the world. I will try to find pictures about each of the places our cards come from! The theme of the cards was supposed to be Mittens, Caps, and Scarfs. We focused on the mittens.
We had to write about one interesting fact about our school and some of the details about our class! The children brainstormed some ideas and then chose their favorites to include in the card. We had to include some details about our school and classroom as well as the average temperature in Nanaimo on December 15th.
I found a special punch that lets us punch out snowflakes to add to our cards. It was a huge hit!
I mailed the cards on Friday and hopefully we will be receiving some cards soon!
We had a great time making these snowman ornaments with our buddies! We hope you like them! We had fun making them!
They all have such personality!
We have also been having fun learning about the special ways we celebrate Christmas. Over the next few weeks, the children will be taking turns bringing home our Christmas homework! We have four Christmas bags containing some “homework” for you to do about how your family celebrates the holidays. One part of the homework is sharing something special you do at your house to celebrate Christmas.
To start the bags off I had the first share! As my parents were Dutch, we celebrated Sinterclass. I brought my wooden shoes to school and shared how Sinterclass filled my shoes when I was a little girl. We learned some phrases in Dutch and I taught the children how to count to 10 in Dutch. We put my wooden shoes out the door and Sinterclass came!
We really enjoyed the first four Christmas bag shares! The children really enjoy trying to guess what is in the bag!
Can’t wait to see the next group!
Mrs. Anton's Class! 