The Centennial Avenue School Kindergarten Team, with the support of Principal, Dr. Barbara Solomon and Assistant Principal, Ms. Charlene Stroughn, decided to celebrate a holiday tradition of making gingerbread house with their students’ families.

 On Thursday, December 19^th, Kindergarten families were invited to join their children in this fun, engaging activity that helped them understand that being a citizen of the United States includes an understanding of the holidays and celebrations of our nation.  This activity encouraged creativity, cooperative learning, following multi-step directions, counting and creating and extending patterns.

This was a culminating activity recognizing one of the many holiday traditions celebrated in December.

They were joined by a Newsday photographer who captured some of the children engaging in this activity.  Below is a link to the article from Newsday. They were also featured on Verizon FIOS channel 1!