This week our Theme is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas Around the World. Today we learned about Christmas Trees from around the world. Not all countries put up Christmas Trees, some put them up, but use different things to decorate them. In Brazil they decorate their tree with cotton to look like snow, in China there are very few trees, but the ones you do see are artificial and usually decorated with lanterns, Japan also very few and they like to use Gold Fans to decorate theirs. Germany is the source of many of the world's Christmas traditions, they use red balls to symbolize apples that represent the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden they attach small candles to represent the stars. We asked the children if they had their tree up at home yet and 10 said they did and 4 don't yet. We decorated our class tree during circle time, and during table time we made Christmas Tree Ornaments decorated with buttons.
http://www.pickyourownchristmastree.org/global.php
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