Air Carmelite by Gayle

In the SK room, winter celebrations have been a focus in December, January and moving into February. The SK’s boarded “Air Carmelite” and travelled around the world to discover traditions surrounding Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. For February we have been making and hanging lanterns in anticipation of Chinese New Year. Students have gained an appreciation for the Earth and environment around them by discovering where their favourite foods are grown and favourite animals live. The SK’s made Mexican dip using a variety of herbs and spices and donned their home-made goggles to go “deep sea diving” in the comfort of our classroom!

In keeping with the theme of winter (despite our own lack of snow) the SK’s wrote about the first snowfall, responding to pastel drawings they created in Art. Having learned about and used burlap in a variety of Art projects with, the SK’s are presently working on taking pictures with their best friends to place in burlap frames made in art for Valentine’s day. Our goal is for the SK’s to recognize that like burlap protects our trees, friends need to care for a protect each other!