Aayush was our child of the day and he read A Spider Under My Bed. He did a FANTASTIC job!!!
We began the day with our vocabulary words then moved into learning about Kwanzaa. We made our own Kwanzaa Kinara. Then we opened some cards from our friends in schools in New York, Ohio, IA, and Virginia Beach, VA. We found where they were located on the globe and on the map, the we used Google Earth to zoom in on the school in Iowa. We even took a look at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Independence, IA, where our friends live. What a fun way to learn geography!
We then "flew" to New York and off to Europe, landing in Austria to learn about Holiday Traditions across the world. We visited Austria (where we learned Silent Night was first heard in 1818), to Germany, (where we learned that trees and wreaths originated here) and then to Poland (where we learned about the legend of why spider webs on a tree mean good fortune).
To help us visualize and remember what we learned we made a wreath. We also learned about non standard measurement and measured using a gingerbread man.
We ran out of time to learn about Eid and Divali...but we can't wait to hear more about these celebrations tomorrow.
We also have vision and hearing screening tomorrow. 2nd graders will take the Math MAP test tomorrow as well. Get a good nights sleep!!!
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