We had so much fun on our big outing this week to the high school to make Christmas sweaters out of clay! It was a long walk there and back, but none of us complained even once. Champs! We loved working with the high schoolers and had so many creative ideas for our little projects! Meeting "Swim Shady"... ![]() It was an artsy week! We also worked on making ourselves into reindeer to decorate our classroom door. We learned all about Kwanzaa, too, and practiced drawing a "kinara" - one of the symbols of Kwanzaa. We loved dancing around to some African music throughout the week in honour of this celebration. Nana Kesler brought us some fun little items for making Christmas crafts and Madame left them out for us to use as our imaginations saw fit. Among the items were some sweet little jingle bells. Nana Kesler likely never envisioned those bells turning us into punk rockers. But it just goes to show that our imaginations can be sparked in many different ways and there is not one "correct" way to use an item. These bells inspired a whole lot of out-of-the-box crafting by us, boys! We read a book about how in Mexico, they celebrate Christmas for 9 days and have a party with a piñata. This idea sounded pretty great to us, so Madame let us get knee-deep (almost literally) in some paper maché. Just as fun as making the piñata was the clean-up process afterward! There were many gleeful expressions of: "This is more fun than the piñata!" Give the children sponges and a spray bottle and magical things happen... And the book fair was this week! So many fun things to see and buy and inspire us! Extra photos...
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