Create Your Own Homemade Magic This Season

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"Teacher, teacher! What is a luminary?" the 7-year-old with dozens and
dozens of red-and-white-beaded braids blurted out as she bounced up
from her seat in the front row.
Thirty-two sets of curious eyes were drawn to the overhead screen, and
to the illuminating image, a luminaria, that cast prisms of light into
the darkened night of a small village.
"Oooh, aah!" the children echoed at the dazzling foreign visions that
zoomed to life in front of us and captivated our imaginations.
"Mrs. Dameron! That's pretty!" another child called out.
My second-grade class was studying some holiday customs from around
the world.
Every afternoon during the month of December until our Christmas
vacation, we had a Holiday Celebration Workshop. As the designer,
writer and teacher of this multicultural curriculum, it was one of my
favorite units of the entire school year.
From an educator's perspective, when a unit of classroom study could
be integrated to tie together all of the different subject areas into
the real world in a meaningful way - that rated A+ in my lesson-plan
book....

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