Hanukkah

We are continuing to learn about some of the major winter holidays and today we wrapped up our learning about Hanukkah, which begins this coming Saturday. We read a couple different non-fiction texts teaching us about what Hanukkah celebrates and also read the fictional stories, Moishes Miracle, Latkes and Applesauce, and one of my all time favorite stories, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins. Students made paper hand-print menorahs, we played the dreidel game, and we cooked potato latkes in class for everyone to try!

I sent home the directions for the dreidel game today and, if you are interested, dreidels can be found at the dollar store or craft store (or on Amazon where I got mine). Our latkes came from Trader Joe's and a lot of the kids loved them so you may get requests for those as well!