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Date: 11/30/2006 2:28:00 PM
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Author:
janie
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Subject:The Holidays
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Our center has children of many faiths. I know it's late in the season, but I'm looking for suggestions on how to incorporate Chanukah and Christmas and Kwanzaa and other religious holidays that fall in December into craft projects for 4s. Rather than be secular and not acknowledge any of them, we're trying to acknowledge ALL of them! Any ideas are appreciated!
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Date: 12/1/2006 1:31:00 PM
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Author:
Cindy George
(cin13aol.com)
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Subject:The Holidays
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Janie, Some of the ideas my center got at the Barnes & Noble bookstore. They have some books that give you great food ideas as well as arts. Also, my center subscribes to Weekly Reader that also provides us with alot of ideas. Try some of the children web sites too! If you need any other information just e-mail me.
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Date: 12/1/2006 2:01:00 PM
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Author:
kimberly Holmes
(sunshineis4kids@hotmail.com)
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Subject:holidays
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I had the same problem that is why I went ont the internet to find suggestions. I found a great website called Prepetual Preschool. It has songs, snacks, and projects.
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Date: 12/1/2006 2:20:00 PM
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Author:
Lin
(followthebutterflies@gmail.com)
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Subject:holiday activities
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I just recently did this activity with my students they seemed to enjoy it. Since most holiday celebrations have something to do with a meal, I had them create their own holiday meal. I rounded up a few Swiss Colony catalogs and made a few copies of pictures of food from drpbody.com. They had to cut out the food they wanted and/or color the food (one child did not cut anything for his project - he instead drew all his food) and pasted the cut-out pictures onto the plate. After they dried, we discussed which foods they picked out were healthy.
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Date: 12/1/2006 8:24:00 PM
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Author:
Cindi
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Subject:The Holidays
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Hi Janie,
With my 4 and 5 year olds, I do a Christmas around the world theme the whole month of December. While my students travel around the world, they also learn about the cultures/countries who celebrate different holidays other than Christmas. With each country that we visit, I tie in a food and a traditional craft from that country, and we listen to some traditional music as well from that country. For example, when my students visit Israel, we make potato pancakes, and I hide "gelt" in their cubbies (golden foiled chocolate coins.) It takes a lot of preparation ahead of time, but my students love it! My students also get a "passport" that gets stamped when they "visit" each country. I also try to teach them at least one phrase or how to count in the language of that country.
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Date: 12/1/2006 3:13:00 PM
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Author:
Melissa
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Subject:Holidays
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How about the celebration of festivals of light? Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanza can all be tied together with the celebrations of light.
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Date: 12/1/2006 7:37:00 PM
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Author:
Ummshakur
(ummshakur@aol.com)
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Subject:Holidays
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I think that acknowledging all celebrations is important to a child's confidence and security. However, what do we do when a Muslim child or children from other faiths don't have a holiday at that time? Aren't we potentially leaving some child out and will we celebrate their holiday even if it doesn't fall in the month of December. Just a thought.
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Date: 12/1/2006 8:33:00 PM
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Author:
Cindi
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Subject:Holidays
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I agree that it is very important to acknowledge all children's customs and traditons. Who said we have to just celebrate during the month of December? Our class even celebrates Chinese New Year! One way to help incorporate the different traditions is to invite parents in to share. In this way, the child not only feels special because we are celebrating their culture, but they also have their parents or family member in as well. This way no one gets left out. I always send a note home with my students inviting in the parents to share their traditions with my class, no matter what time of year they happen to celebrate a particular holiday. Not only do the students love learning about the different cultures, but the parents appreciate it as well.
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Date: 12/3/2006 1:12:00 PM
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Author:
Mary
(mmlofty@aol.com)
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Subject:holidays
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I use the theme ' a season of loving and giving'. the children make simple gifts for each in their family. We use 'lights' and 'wreaths' because all the major holidays use lights and candles. Wreaths are made of the inclusive circle.
Some 'presents' are: hot chocolate maix inn a zip lock bag placed in a mug; puzzles made from pictures of the familly; pony tail ribbons for sisters; key chains or key racks for all the family. Keep it simple!
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Date: 12/17/2006 4:56:00 PM
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Author:
Lois M Armstrong
(lmarmstrong@mail.com)
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Subject:Ideas for a "Christmas" Party
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Although have been a while since the request of help for ideas was posted, I decided to write my idea anyways.
If you want to have like a "Christmas Party", but not calling it like that, of course, you can play with the students the "White Elephant" (gift exchange)in a Hat's Day, Ugly looking wardrobe Day, Children Around the World Party...
What you do? Ask the students to bring a nice well-decorated box or bag, a really nice one. The content of the bag should be something simple but useful (like a colorful pencil, a pencil holder, a little notebook, etc.). Sit all the kids behind their own "present" and ask who would like to begin saying which box they think they like the best. Once that is done, the student get that box that was described and the other student need to tell his choice. Each student need to participate a maximum of three times and the last "present" in their hands will be theirs.
With this activity I had the pleasure to have students that are "not allowed" to participate giving presents because of their religion.
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