Dee Dee's presentation

It was International Education week last week and Dee Dee had to do two presentations about Ukraine as part of her exchange program requirements. I had asked Ben's teacher if it was OK for her to do one of them in Ben's classroom & we did it on Tuesday afternoon. She wore her National dress & looked perfect in it Dee Dee did a quick presentation on Ukraine, where it was, the National flag, pictures of the Cities, etc

The kids in Ben's class did really well with paying attention to her presentation, even the ones that usually don't listen to anything

We decided to get the kids to paint eggs. Dee Dee told them about Pysanky during her presentation. I boiled 30 eggs for them to use and we took paint & brushes so they could paint their eggs

They all did a great job painting their eggs. We had taken plenty of brushes, containers for the paint & paper to cover the desks.

Dee Dee went around the classroom & helped the kids paint their eggs

Ben was particularly proud that his sister was in the classroom getting all the attention

At the end, we put all the eggs together so that we could take pictures. I think they all did very well

After they were done painting eggs, we gave them honey cakes from Ukraine to eat as a snack, surprisingly they loved them!!! We had a little time left at the end and Dee Dee taught them some Ukrainian words. She wrote them on the smart board so that they could see the Cyrillic alphabet

Several of the boys wanted to learn how to say "shut up" in Ukrainian so that they could say it to their little sisters & not get into trouble from their parents!!!!