Today is November 1st and the month starts with Diwali already, the festival of light which will last for 5 days.
This month starts with a party and it stays that way up to the end, while the monsters are still full of yesterday, yes Halloween!

Here is our November agenda:
On November 11th it is Martinmas. There are lantern parades all over the Netherlands and while we walk we will be singing. We make a Hollow Knight lantern on snazzie but we will walk with the kohlrabi. because this year Puk is walking in the school parade.

Also on November 11th the Sinterklaas journal starts, every evening at 6:00 PM there is a 10 minute broadcast up to and including Thursday December 5th.

On Saturday November 16th the good Saint Nicholas arrives in the Netherlands, the little monsters are already looking forward to it! This year we watch the television broadcast of the national arrival of Saint Nicholas and his Pieten in Vianen, the broadcast starts as always at 12:00 PM. We bake speculaas for the arrival with hot chocolate milk to go with it.

On November 28th we make our Sinterklaas surprise for school, this year's surprise is fun for boys and girls.

Also on November 28th Thanksgiving is celebrated in America this year. We make cute finger puppets, read a funny Thanksgiving book about The Crayons and we bake a real American Pumpkin Pie. Can't wait to see if the monsters like it.

We also read a lot of beautiful, interesting and funny animal books this month, we love those. We have a lot of fun things to do in November but we always enjoy reading. We hope you will join us again!

photo: gingerbread cupcakes (November 10th online)