We made these Gingerbread Men last week after we read lots of stories about them. In every story, the Gingerbread Men ran away and had an adventure.
So we really shouldn't have been surprised that when we came to school on Thursday, our Gingerbread Men were gone! They left a letter for us that told us they wanted to see how Christmas was celebrated in other countries.
The first stop for them was Japan. The kids got to eat with chopsticks and then they made origami ornaments.
The next country was Sweden. They learned about the tradition of Christmas caroling and how the kids take cinnamon rolls and coffee to their parents on Christmas morning.
In Mexico, they learned about a Christmas tradition of decorating houses and whole neighborhoods and then going from house to house to find the baby Jesus.
In Ukraine, we heard the story of the Christmas spiders. You will soon have a spider to decorate your tree at home.
Don't forget about the Christmas party on Wednesday. Everyone needs to bring a wrapped book for the book exchange by Tuesday.
Christmas spiders sound creepy. I wish my kids would learn about the Swedish tradition and implement it in our house on Christmas morning!
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