On Friday, December 5 we sang Jingle Bells and rang our bells, a kind of jingle bell orchestra. I told the children that the bells in the song refer to the bells on a horse's tail, because when the song was written people did not have cars and used a sleigh and horses instead. I'm not sure whether that idea was grasped, but everyone loved ringing and singing. We then learned a song, "It's Going To Be A Long Winter, And What Will The Little Birds Do?" (Later that day a child pointed out a flock of geese outside and we wondered if they were flying south to stay warm.) After our singing we took a walk to the bakery and I asked the children to notice all the bakers wearing white hats so that their hair didn't get into the food. The children preferred to think the hats were so the food didn't get into their hair, which is another way of looking at the reason for hats.