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title: La Navidad Mexicana Celebration
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# [La Navidad Mexicana Celebration](https://blog.moravianacademy.org/blog/la-navidad-mexicana)

 Written by [Veronica Guevara & Anne Fessler](https://blog.moravianacademy.org/blog/author/veronica-guevara-anne-fessler) | Dec 18, 2019 6:54:36 PM

This week, our fifth-grade post Immersion students and their Spanish Immersion Program buddies in Jardín de Infancia (Kindergarten) celebrated La Navidad Mexicana and holiday traditions with a Tamalada (the community making of tamales). 

<https://www.flickr.com/photos/185237502@N04/albums/72157712262014382>

Kindergarten teachers Sra. Damaris Torres, Sra. Melika Matlack helped with four different stations of celebrations:

1. **Reading of [*Qué Montón de Tamales*](https://www.amazon.com/%C2%A1Qu%C3%A9-mont%C3%B3n-Tamales-Spanish-Gary/dp/0698114132) and discussion about Carmen Garza Lopez' '[Tamalada'](https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/tamalada-35507) illustration** **(seen right).** The students discussed what this community cooking of tamales means to the Mexican/ Mexican-American community.
2. **Making of tamales with their buddies.** Fifth-graders helped their Kindergarten buddies spread masa (corn dough) and fill it with vegetarian or chicken fillings. They also sampled warm steamed tamales and wrote their own 'recipes.'
3. **Learning about Mexican Chocolate Caliente** and how cacao is harvested, toasted and ground to make this delicious drink. The students then sang the "Bate-Bate-Chocolate" song (seen below) as they whipped their Mexican hot chocolate nice and frothy with their [molinillo](https://www.gourmetsleuth.com/articles/detail/molinillo) (chocolate whisk or stirrer).

4. **Commemorating time together with a Feliz Navidad Photo Booth.** The students will share out these photos with families soon.

We hope you all have a lovely communal celebration time together over the winter break, with songs, warm and spicy food, cooking and celebrating the season!

¡Felices Fiestas!

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