Holiday time

Holidays are always more fun with children.  Granted, any explanation I give to these kids about what any given American or British holiday is, will ultimately be forgotten because they aren't celebrated here.  But that doesn't make it any less fun.
For Halloween the first graders got to color different "scary" pictures to decorate the classroom.  The third graders learned a song about a witch and her cat and performed it for the younger ones.  They wore spider masks and played home-made instruments.  It was adorable.

Thanksgiving was better.  All the students made feathers for a collaborative art project.  We made a turkey, it's feathers brightly colored, full of all the things children are thankful for.  The third graders got a special treat.  I brought in a pumpkin pie for them to try.  In order to tie it in with their science lessons, we called it an experiment with the senses.  It was great fun.
Christmas should be interesting.  We've been asked not to bring up religion when talking about holidays.  We'll see how well that goes.

As far as what I did for the holidays...not much.  I donned a statue of liberty costume for school (no, there are no pictures).  I didn't feel like going out to a club to get drunk with strange people wearing bad costumes.  I went shopping on "Black Friday", but there are no equivalent sales here that weekend, I just need to shop for winter clothes.  The weekend after Thanksgiving I went down to Toledo to visit Marissa.  We spent all day cooking and eating.  Then we went out with her friend Maria for a beer.  Nothing like Thanksgiving at home, but still enjoyable.

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