Today we continued our Holidays Around the World project. We first reviewed Hanukkah. Danny remembered that we studied “Hanukkah”, they light nine candles, and that they celebrate for 8 days and nights. He copied the sentence for his project: One candle is lit on the menorah each night of Hanukkah. We worked together to nicely color a menorah with the nine candles. We enjoyed a fiction book called Hanukkah Bear by Eric A. Kimmel. In this funny story, an almost blind and deaf ninety-seven-year old woman who is known for her delicious latkes, mistakenly takes a visiting bear for her rabbi! We laughed at all the silly things the woman did with the bear while examining the traditions of Hanukkah. Next, we read about Los Posadas in our packet. This holiday is celebrated in Mexico for nine days in December. People celebrate in the streets of Mexico each night and break star shaped piñatas. Danny wrote on his bubble map about the holiday: Mexico, break star shaped piñatas, nine days, and walk through the streets. Danny added a sentence to his project: Children enjoy breaking star shaped piñatas during Las Posadas. Danny worked hard to cut out a picture of a star-shaped piñata. He colored it and we added the picture to his project.