As a part of our Social Studies unit on holidays around the world, we read The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola. We talked about how poinsettias are thought to have first appeared when a child, having nothing else to offer, left green weeds at the nativity which then turned red. The students then created poinsettias of their own. (Fellow teachers, I did not take a picture of these but we just layered the a five-pointed flower shape three times - twice in red and once in green. We then added yellow hole punches to the center.)
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