The Week Before Christmas

Christmas Around the World Continues:

We visited the country of Italy.  This is what we learned:

• Old Befana leaves candy for the children and she is still looking for baby Jesus.  CT
• She leaves candy for the children on January 6th. SD
• January 6th is the feast of the three kings.  AM
• Old Befana was mean at first and then she turned nice.  MT
• Old Befana was baking for baby Jesus.  She got tired and took a nap.  When she woke up she was running and running and running to find baby Jesus.  Then she found she was running in the air.  AH
• We read the story "Old Befana" by Tomie dePaoloa.  TB
• St. Francis of Assisi built the first nativity scene. JN

We made crowns to remind us of the celebration on the feast of the three kings.

Bear Hibernation Day

• On the first day of winter we brought in our stuffed animal bears.   CG
• Bears hibernate in winter so we brought in our bears to hibernate.  IM
• We brought in bags to be their caves so they could hibernate in them.  FD
• We made stuff for our bears like a tv, a dog, a baby bottle.  We glued them in the cave.  EM
• We will take the bears out on the first day of spring.  KG

Here are the bears before entering their caves.

Here are the bears after they entered their cave.

We can't wait until spring to see our bears again!

This week we also made beautiful nativity scenes.  The girls worked so well together, helping each other to finish their project.  There was a great spirit of cooperation and generosity throughout the room this week!  Here is one of our Nativity scenes:

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