We started the week with strips of newspaper and starch to create a pinata. We had to dip the strips in the starch and then place them on a big round balloon. Before decorating, we had to let it dry.
To get into the spirit of a fiesta, we tried on sombreros and serapes.
Taco Tuesday had us creating taco collages, playing Mexican restaurant with taco ingredients and then to top it all off... a taco bar for lunch!
We love tacos!
When our pinata dry, we used diluted glue and pieces of colored tissue paper to make our pinata bright and colorful.
We read and reread the books by Ann Whitford Paul- Tortuga in Trouble, Manana Iguana, Fiesta Fiasco and Count on Culebra. We learned some Spanish by reading them over and over again.
Maracas make such awesome music. We used plastic bottles to decorate and fill with our choice of beans, rice, popcorn or beads. When dry, we jumped like Mexican jumping beans and shook our maracas to "La Cucaracha".
For snack we made sopaipillas and dipped them in honey.
We ended the week with our fiesta. We took turns smacking the pinata as we counted in Spanish.
Our fiesta wouldn't be complete without doing the Mexican Hat Dance. We kicked and jumped, walked and ran around the sombrero to the Mexican Hat Dance tune.
OLE!
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