Hanukkah & Sugar Cookies.

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights and Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

We observed the festival by the kindling of the lights of a unique candeltree, the nine-branched Menorah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night .

 

We also feasted on some delicious potato latkes with sour cream and apple sauce.

Then we made our very own sugar cookies.

Once they cooled off, we decorated them and enjoyed these sweet tasting treats.

Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas everyone.

 

We made symbolic ornaments for our school Christmas Tree

                             

             We  made stars, menorahs, candy cones, wreaths & trees.

Las Posadas

Las Posadas is a nine-day celebration with origins in Spain, now celebrated chiefly in Mexico, Guatemala and parts of the Southwestern United States, recognizing Mary & Joseph's search for shelter for the birth of baby Jesus.

 

    We all traveled to each of the classroom seeking this shelter.



The head of the procession carried a candle inside a paper lampshade.

Children also carry poinsettias.

 

And Once shelter  was found, we celebrated with a traditional star-shaped Piñata.

 

We had so much fun hitting  Piñata.

Once the  Piñata broke open we ran to gather fruit candy hidden inside.

St. Nicholas comes to Montessori

St. Nicholas came to Montessori

                                                      And he left candy for kids!

Saint Lucia's Day

Saint Lucia's Day  is dedicated to Saint Lucy and is observed on the 13th of December in Sweden and Norway and other European countries and in the United States in communities with a large number of people of Scandinavian ancestry.

 

Oldest boys in class with lights (traditionally candles) to represent hope.

A traditional kind of bun, Lussekatt ("St. Lucia Bun"), made with saffron, is normally eaten on this day. We made our own delicious Saffron buns.

    

 

The oldest girl in the class wore a white Swedish gown with a red sash and candle-wreath in her hair, and alongwith oldest boys in class carrying lights distributed sweets.