Line of Inquiries: Exploring a variety of decorations from various cultures
Decorations tell human stories and help us know one another
Julia's culture is from Ireland and Scotland. Kai's family also shares a Scottish heritage. Julia's mom sent an email describing some decorations that are important in their family and a link to show the plaid that their clan uses in their kilts. "What's a kilt" someone asked. Julia showed the ballet skirt she was wearing and said "This is a kilt"
We researched this together and listened to bagpipes played by a man in a kilt and we watched some dancing Highland dancers wearing kilts. Byron loves music and started bouncing along. All the children wanted to dance and they studied the girls moves and tried to imitate them. Just precious!
St. Patrick's Day is a big celebration in Julia's family and they use shamrocks to decorate and make shamrock cookies. Julia brought in her special shamrock cookie cutter and her Papa's special sprinkles and we made cookies together, enough for everyone. The children decorated the cookies with the sprinkles, "But not all of them because they belong to my papa"
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