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First graders travel back to Colonial Days
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Posted: 11/19/2012
CINCINNATI -
Clad in bonnets, aprons, and of course those tell-tale buckled black top hats, the first graders at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy are getting a dose of life in the Colonial Days.
Teacher Suzanne Kloster gives directions in Scherenschnitte, a paper-cutting craft brought over from Germany.
“They couldn’t go to the Hallmark Store or Macy’s,” Mrs. Kloster tells her students, “…so they made their gifts.”
6-year-old Samantha Gregory plans to give her Scherenschnitte to the triplets her Aunt is expecting in the spring, two of the babies identical twins. “I learned that Scherenschnitte is symmetrical sometimes too,” Samantha said.
Scherenschnitte is one of 15 hands-on lessons the six and 7-year-olds will get as they move from classroom to classroom.
“They’ll be dipping candles, writing with quills, and preparing Johnny Cakes,” said Mrs. Kloster, who’s been doing this every Thanksgiving week for 22 years at the school.
7-year-old Charlie Sims gets the Thanksgiving connection. “I think that it’s awesome that I get to do this,” he said , because some kids in the world don’t get to go to school and learn, but I get to.”
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