Christmas in July

Today we started a Christmas in July unit.  The kids thought is was really fun to color Merry Christmas signs, make stand up trees and "hang" ornaments on them, listen to Christmas stories outside in the 92 degree heat and do Christmas word games and puzzles. 

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