We had our last travel day; this time we studied Mexico with it's habitats of deserts and rainforests. Students wrote their first factual report on their favorite desert animal as well as made "serape ponchos" with math pattern blocks to show off Mexican weaving skills!
Everyone had a chance to fry their tortillas to make fresh nachos, Spanish counting books, bird seed filled cascarones and a paper poinsettia to accompany the folktale "The Legend of the Poinsettia." 
(Note: Cascarones are like confetti filled mini- pinatas made of empty eggshells. The tradition is to crack them over their heads! We altered that to be bird seed filled and we cracked them against our mystery tree so the birds could enjoy our efforts too.)
As usual, we all have to thank our kind parents and grandparents for volunteering their time and donating items for our activities! We could have never put this together without their help.
