Good Evening Parents,

This month for writing your student will be working on researching a winter holiday from another culture! In order to live by Habit 5:Seek first to understand, then to be understood, we are taking a step in someone else’s shoes and learning how they celebrate a winter holiday. This week your child has picked from a list of six potential holidays: La Posada, Chinese New Year, St. Lucia’s Day, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Hanukkah. They will be working on researching a new holiday and presenting the information in either a poster, slideshow, brochure, or paper.

While selecting the list of holidays, I tried to pick holidays that your child does not celebrate or may not be familiar with so that we can learn about other cultures. However, great leaders also try to find common ground between people! So to encourage this your child will also be comparing the researched holiday to a winter holiday that they celebrate.

We will be working on this project the entire month of December, with our culture celebration day on December 21st. Listed below you will find the rubric for the project, and the research packet that your child has in class. The research packet includes links to websites where they can find more information and informational sheets for each holiday.

Holidays around the World Rubric

Holidays around the World Student Packet

I hope this gets you in the holiday spirit! I know we are excited in our classroom! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. I’m always here if you need me!