A Family Tradition

Part of our love of Christmas is the special way that we celebrate with our family. We were so lucky today to have a parent bring in a yummy snack that is part of their Christmas tradition. It was a delicious yule log to mark the winter solstice and make wishes for the coming year. You can see evergreens and a beautiful bird to remind us of the season of winter. The tradition is for the family to light the candle, make their wishes and blow it out. You can see from these pictures that we really loved helping with this.
It was a delicious snack. You can all appreciate that we use our manners in our classroom and if we don't like our snack we say, "I don't care for it." Well some of us said that BUT some of us said, "I care for it a lot." Thanks so much to our mom that shared this wonderful tradition with us today. It made our day so special. (PS - The rule about the wish is that you don't say it out loud and can you believe that we really followed this rule? Who knows what wonderful thoughts went out today from our cozy little classroom?)