Today we learned about Cinco De Mayo.
In preparation for our first craft the students helped sort all the pony beads by color. I took advantage of the time and we learned how to count to 10 in Spanish.
We continued counting in Spanish as we put pony beads on our chenille stem. First we folded the chenille stems in half and then we put ten beans on each side.
To complete the chili pepper craft we made bunny ears and then twisted them together and we had our chili pepper.
We started our lesson with a origami book I made using pictures from apples4thteachers. Using the key words we talked about the significance of the holiday.
We watched a short video Mexican Hat Dance video. After watching the video, we got out our sombrero and did our own Mexican hat dance.
For snack we made sombreros. We made a variation of a picture I saw on pinterest, I did not have bread so I used flour tortillas and made peanut butter tortilla rounds instead of bread.
Here is a picture of our finished sombreros. We also had yogurt and juice with our sombreros.
Outside we had an obstacle course the students had to run. They ran to the tunnel, crawled through the tunnel, run to the beach ball, kick it into the goal, return the ball to the kicking place and race back to the start. They were able to run the course in forty to forty-five seconds.
After running the course the students decided to pick bouquets of beautiful flowers for moms or grandma who was arriving today.
Next the students cut fringe into tissue paper to make a paper bag pinata to hide a dessert for their families.
This is a picture of our finished pinata.
The special treat we made for our families were sombreros. These are variation of what I saw on Pinterest.
The finished product.
We finished all of our projects and had some cookies left over so we took a break and sat out on the deck and had a quick snack.
We also took some time to do the Mexican Hat Dance again. I couldn't find the music fast on my phone fast enough so we just hummed the song and did the dance.
For homework the students were given a dot to dot sun picture, a copy of the Cinco de Mayo origami booklet I made, a Cinco de Mayo Sudoku, and the assignment to share their pinata contents (sombrero cookies) with their families.
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