Cinco de Mayo

It's Cinco de Mayo Day!

It's Cinco de Mayo Day!

Let's clap or hands & shout Ole!

It's Cinco de Mayo Day!

This is one of the songs my 4th grade class learned for the Fiesta.

We all made Flag briefcases to hold the paperwork we did about Mexico.
We learned the colors, days, months, people & school things in Spanish.

We also learned how to sing Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Spanish.

One of our teachers Mrs. Reyna showed us how to make homemade tortillas!

Yum!

At the end of the day we had a parade in the school

& visited all the classrooms to show off the pinatas we made!

My friends Cheyenne, Erin & Audrey made a skittle candy pinata!

My other friends Kelsey, Traley & Hannah made a cupcake pinata!

Katie, Amber & I made a bumble bee pinata!

Remember the Alamo

As part of my (Kayleigh) 4th grade social studies, we had a project to build a model of the Alamo. I have not seen the Alamo other than pictures. It had to be a certain size & could be made from any materials. Our parents could help, but we had to do most of the work. I had ideas & knew what some of my friends were doing. Some used waffles, star burst candy, sugar cubes, & clay. I wanted mine to be real looking. We went to buy supplies, I used a snickers box & covered it with sand paper. I used dowel rods, wrapped with sand paper for the 4 posts & darker sand paper for the door. I used black sticky pads for the windows. I put moss around the Alamo & found twigs to use for trees. I used a piece of a wire hanger for the flag pole & colored the flag myself. Mom, Dad, Nan & Pop Pop helped me with cutting & the hot glue gun. We worked on it over spring break. All the Alamos were displayed on the stage for people to see. I was proud to get a 100!!