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We read several versions of the Gingerbread Man and compared them. Then we baked Gingerbread bears...	and decorated them.
Then we took one bite and graphed how we ate our gingerbread bears. Most of us ate the feet first...math sure is tasty!	Finally, we filled out a Gingerbread Man Mystery book and colored it.!
On our trip to Sweden where we learned about Santa Lucia. Don't we look great in our Star Boy hats and Lucia wreaths?	Next we 'traveled' to Africa to celebrate Kwanzaa. We weaved mats and made kinaras.
After reading and acting out Jan Brett's The Mitten (a Ukrainian folktale), we painted mittens. Do you see the symmetry?	To wrap up our study of Holidays Around the World, we graphed our favorite celebration. Most of us liked the tradition of hanging our stockings the best.
To get our class ready for January, we read about and painted snowmen. There are numbered dots surrounding the snowmen. Each day of January, we will be gluing cotton 'snowballs' on the numbers for a January Countdown.	We also learned how to make snowflakes. No two were the same!