By Susan Dillon
Product Description:
'Tis the season for dreidels, roses, reindeer, kinaras, pinatas, and noisemakers! What's the occassion? The season is winter, and here are great ideas and activities to help you celebrate December holidays:
• Hanukkah
• Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
• Winter Solstice
• Christmas
• St. Lucia Day
• Las Posadas
• Winter Festival
• Boxing Day
• Kwanzaa
• New Year's Eve
Teaching Tip:
The menorah is the best-known symbol of Hanukkah. The special menorah of Hanukkah is called a hanukkiah. It has nine holes for candles—one for each of the eight days of Hanukkah, plus a shamesh, or “servant” candle, from which the other candles are lit.
Grades 1-6