christmasaroundtheworld

For movement, how about...
jumping rope - the class jumps a total of 2,000 jumps or
walking/jogging - each student runs or walks 2, 000 (You'd have to mark it
off so this would be best if you had access to a track.)
Body Shapes -- In groups of four, they have to find as many ways as possible
to make a "2000" with their body (eg. lying on the ground, using their arms,
etc.) Veronica Whitehead

Holiday Customs Around The World is the unit that I use for December. I turn
half of the classroom into an airplane with seats that have numbers/letters
on them (1A,1B,1C,1D). The other half of the classroom gets turned into a
different country each afternoon.
Each child has a ticket holder, a ticket good for flights on Holiday Express
Airlines, a passport and a paper suitcase to hold everything.
Some examples would be: our trip to Israel - the children make a paper
menorah and learn how to play the dreidle game. When we go to Mexico they
make a pointsetta plant and create a class pinata. Before we leave each
country to fly back home I stamp their passports using rubber stamps. I have
been able to find ones that go with the projects they make. Each project
then gets hung somewhere in the classoroom or in the hallway to make a giant
holiday wall. We talk about how in the USA we use ideas from so many
different countries. Because I am talking about customs from so many
different places, I don't run into problems about the aspect of Christmas.
Hope this helps,
Cathy Furlong
Concord,NH

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