Gingerbread Houses

With all of the excitement from the holidays, the kids have been talking about making gingerbread houses. Instead of baking the gingerbread, the kids started making them out of boxes and cardboard. We used icing and lots of candy to start creating our houses...............

As the houses are coming together, we are starting to incorporate PATTERNS! For different parts of the houses, we are making patterns out of the candy.

We are using marshmallows to make patterns out of two colors, and once we got the hang of that, we moved up to 3 color patterns!

Preparations for the International Festival

Thank you to all of the parents who brought in information on your family background! We have started looking in our books to find out what our family's flags look like...........

Once we found our flags, we started working hard on recreating them.......

We are also reading books about what types of foods they eat in the different countries. We are making Mexican food, Italian food, Cajun food, Persian food, Indian food, Greek food, and Caribbean food! Yummmm :0)

Here is a sneak peek at some of our flags..............

And some of our food (made out of clay) is almost done! Below you can see a bottle of olive oil from Greece, and a taco! Don't they look good enough to eat??? ;0)

vote, vote, vote

I have great news! Mikayla and Ella have been chosen as final contestants for the costume contest from Kiwi Magazine!

Please, please, please take a couple of seconds out of your time to go on the following site and vote for the girls!

http://www.kiwimagonline.com/contests/diycostumes/voting.php

They are choosing three girls, so please go on the site twice so that you can vote for each one once so that both of them will win!

Yea! We are so excited for them!

Maryam

International Winter Festival

Our International Winter Festival will be held on December 18th, beginning at 3:00 pm.

Ice Express will be there to blow 10,000 pounds of snow in our backyard for the children to play in!

We will also have our "Taste of Food From Around the World"!

Parents, please check your email or be looking by the check in computer for a letter with more details on the festival.


If you have questions please feel free to ask Maryam!