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**Lower Elementary Activity**

Make a class Hungarian quilt! The students have been learning about the country for a long time now. Using this website, the text book, and activities we have done in class the students will reflect on one fact they have learned. Each student will have a plain white sheet of paper and must draw and color what they have learned about Hungary. For example, they can draw a map of Hungary, a picture of traditional food, or a picture of the money. All of the students will tape together the paper to make a paper quilt. The class decides on a border to add to the quilt. Below is a picture of an example of what one might look like.

Journal Time! The students will make a Venn diagram comparing the life of a boy or girl from American to a boy or girl from Hungary. After they have finished that they will write two journal entries. One about a Friday afternoon as an American student and one entry about a Friday afternoon as a Hungarian student. In these entries the student must write about the world news and what might have happen that day. They must spend some money on something that represents their culture. They also have to describe their surroundings and the different types of landforms they might see. They must have something about those subjects, the rest of the entry is a free write. This is a good website to reference when doing your entries! [|Comparison]
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Ingredients

 * 2¾ cups flour
 * 1 teaspoon baking powder
 * ⅔ cup sugar
 * ¼ teaspoon salt
 * 1 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature
 * 1 egg
 * ⅓ cup sour cream

Procedure
Makes 2 to 3 dozen cookies.
 * 1) Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in large mixing bowl.
 * 2) Add butter or margarine, and, using clean hands, blend until mixture resembles coarse meal.
 * 3) Add egg and sour cream and mix until dough holds together. Cover and refrigerate for about 2 hours.
 * 4) Preheat oven to 350°F.
 * 5) Pinch off small egg-size pieces of dough and form into balls.
 * 6) Place on buttered or nonstick cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Use fingers to press to about ½-inch thick.
 * 7) Make a crosshatch design by pressing the back of fork tines on top of each cookie.
 * 8) Bake in oven for about 20 minutes or until pale golden. Continue baking in batches.

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**Fine Arts** Listen to a pianist play a song by the Hungarian artist Liszt. Play a section of the song and have the students write down how they feel. Work on getting some diverse adverbs something more descriptive than happy sad or scared. Then each student will make a wordle using those adjectives. Depending on time and grade level the students can also play freeze dance with the Hungarian music! media type="youtube" key="D9-2jM5RNSs" height="349" width="425"

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