Christmas cookies

Before summer vacation, the curriculum head at this school approached me. He said he wanted the students this year to learn more about American culture and holidays and asked if I was willing to teach it. "Of course!" I said. I was so happy that a school had shown such interest. (This is the same school that we had Halloween Day last month, and I dressed as a dinosaur). Christmas was a perfect opportunity to cook. The school agreed, so we made plans for 5th and 6th grade to make Christmas cookies. Each student in the whole school would get two cookies (about 300 cookies total) and were to eat them following lunch. They asked me to buy all the ingredients and cookie cutters. Luckily I found a generic cookie mix off The Flying Pig that I had tried out in October to make Halloween cookies for a party. We used the same cookie mix and only needed to add water to the mixture. The school only owned one microwave oven, so every teacher brought their own ovens from to the school.





We couldn't cook the cookies as fast as the students cut them. Every free moment in the day the teachers and I were running up to the kitchen, baking the cookies. This was on top of me teaching four other classes that made cards and crafts instead of cookies. The day was a huge success. We ended up making well over 300 cookies. Turns out we actually made nearly 600!! Most of the students had never made such cookies before. They were very proud of their creations, as they should have been.