Wishing all of our students and their families a relaxing holiday break! See you in 2016!
Have you ever wondered what candy canes have to do with Christmas? Or why people kiss under the mistletoe at this time of year? And just what is the Christmas Pickle?!? With the holidays upon us, 5th grade EAL students Jenna, Kalle, Sam, Massimo, and Valeriya have been working on applying their learning about identifying the main idea and key details in non-fiction text by doing a mini research project on a holiday tradition and presenting it to the class. We found out lots of little-known facts behind some interesting holiday traditions! PS - In case you were wondering, candy canes represent 'J' for 'Jesus' (we've been holding them upside down all this time!) and were invented over 200 years ago! And people kiss under the mistletoe because it's good luck, and they are supposed to pick off one berry before kissing - when all the berries are gone, there's no more kissing! And the Christmas Pickle is a pickle-shaped ornament that is hidden somewhere on a Christmas tree - whoever finds it first, gets a prize! I think I'll start hiding a pickle in our holiday tree! I loved learning more about these and more holiday traditions!
Wishing all of our students and their families a relaxing holiday break! See you in 2016! |
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