Halloween

Learn more about Halloween!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, JUNTA DE CASTILLA Y LEON via kwout

Ben&Jerry

( lots of games here!)

Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt

HALLOWEEN!

• the story of Halloween

watch the video at "history channel"
Or read this :
For thousands of years people have been celebrating different holidays and festivals at the end of October. The Celts celebrated it as Samhain (pronounced "sow-in", with "sow" rhyming with cow).

The Celts believed that every year on the last day of October, the souls of the dead visited the earth.

When the Romans conquered the Celts in the first century A.D., they added parts of their festivals, Feralia and Pomona to the tradition. Feralia was a festival to honor the dead and Pomona was a harvest festival named after the goddess of fruit (apples) and trees.
Around the eighth century, the Christian church made November 1 All Saints' Day to honor all of the saints that didn't have a special day of their own. Over the years these festivals combined, the mass held on All Saints' Day was called Allhallowmas (the mass of all Hallows - saintly people). The night before was known as All Hallows Eve. Eventually this name became Halloween.
In the 1800s, as a lot of people emigrated to the U.S., the holidays and traditions of different cultures merged. Halloween was not always a happy time. October 31, or the night before took on other names. Some called it Devil's or Hell night, to others it was mischief night. To some people this became a time to play tricks on others. Some of these tricks were not fun at all. Luckily, community groups and individuals took action and started to change Halloween into a family event. Dressing up in costumes and going "trick or treating", costume parades, community parties and Fall festivals are some of the ways that Halloween is celebrated today.
( information from Ben and Jerry's Halloween)

• activities related to Halloween

• mots mêlés

• plusieurs jeux

• vocabulaire à apprendre

( lot of games here!)


(a scary hangman here! "le pendu!")

Halloween | Ben & Jerry's
• Halloween e-cards

have a look at this site, there are many e-cards ( cards you can send vi e-mail)
my favorite CARD is here

• Halloween sounds

click here: Curlys Spooky Halloween Sounds
click here : Haunted Bay sounds

Columbus Day

Columbus Day celebrates Christopher Columbus arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.
It's celebrated on the second Monday of October every year.
In the US, Columbus Day became a federal holiday in 1937 and is recognized by 48 states. The two remaining states are Hawaii, who celebrates Discoverers' Day and South Dakota who observes Native American Day on the same date. 

source: care2.com

watch an animation here:

BrainPOP Jr. | Columbus Day via kwout

(found on Michelle Henry's website, thanks!!)

GUY FAWKES NIGHT

GUY FAWKES NIGHT TODAY!!  5th November


what is Guy Fawkes Night? 

• read about it on wikipedia (informations en français)
•  thanks to the blog besbello tic, I can share this great site with you!

Contents - Bonfire Night via kwout

Saint Patrick's Day

Connaissez-vous la Saint Patrick?? Cette fête est célébrée dans plusieurs pays anglophones.
Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ci dessous!
Saint Patrick's day book

Thanksgiving

Today it's Thankgiving!!

EASTER - Pâques

• tout le vocabulaire (document pdf à télécharger)
• un jeu en ligne pour réviser, puis tester le vocabulaire!
• sur eslclub, plusieurs jeux en ligne

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day is an Irish holiday celebrated on March 17th!

• on history.com you can see some videos about Saint Patrick's day!
• a funny video for children
• on MESgames, a quiz
• a hangman game
• an online wordsearch
• some funny online games at gamesaquarium
• and here a funny animated card
  

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve is on December 31, and New Year's Day on January 1.
All over the world, people welcome the new year.

The celebrations usually include a fireworks display.
It is traditional to greet the New Year at midnight and then celebrate at least the first few minutes in the company of friends and family.
Many people make New Year resolutions...a list of decisions about how they will live during the coming year, which may or may not be kept!

if you want to read more about New Year's celebrations around the world, click here!
On New Year's Eve,people in many English-speaking countries gather at midnight (usually in such locations as Times Square in New York and Trafalgar Square in London), drink a toast to the coming year and sing the chorus "Auld Lang Syne"
sing along with this video!

merry Christmas and Happy New Year in many languages...

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday  of November every year, in the USA.

• let's read about Thanksgiving! (information found on kiddyhouse)

• What is Thanksgiving Day?

Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside each year where people in the United States and Canada give thanks to God for all the blessings they received during the year by feasting and prayer.

• History of Thanksgiving

American Thanksgiving Day is probably a harvest festival at the beginning . The first Thanksgiving Day in America was on December 4, 1619. At that time, it was a fully religious thing. A group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Plantation via the James river (near Charles City, Va) on December 4, 1619 and their charter required that the day of their arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God.
In New England, the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth in 1621 by the Pilgrims together with 91 Indians. The Pilgrims first set foot at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The first winter in Massachusetts was really bad and 46 out of the original 102 Pilgrims died. It is believed that the Indians helped the Pilgrims through that difficult period and without them, the Pilgrims would not have survived.
In the following Spring of 1621, Samoset of the Wampanoag Tribe and Squanto of the Patuxtet tribe, taught the survivors how to plant corn or maize and how to catch alewives, a kind of fish to be used as a fertilizer for growing pumpkins, beans, peas and other crops. These two braves also taught the Pilgrims the art of hunting and angling. Things got better in 1621 when the corn and pumpkin harvest was bountiful. Governor William Bradford made arrangements to celebrate the bountiful harvest and to recognise the help given to the colonists by the indians with a feast which lasted for three days.
Today, Thanksgiving Day is usually a family reunion dinner celebration. Roast turkey is a favorite dish on this day.

• Thanksgiving Dinner

Traditional thanksgiving dinners those days usually includes turkeys cranberries, fish, dried fruit, clams, venison, plums and lobsters. Modern times thanksgiving dinners include the pumpkin pie.

• the first Thanksgiving

• on scholastic.com : amazing site!
• be the historian and investigate the first Thanksgiving

• Other....

• send e-cards for thanksgiving!

• make a paper turkey!

• Vous n'avez rien compris??? un peu d'info en français

funny videos....

GUY FAWKES NIGHT

Savez-vous ce qu'on fête le 5 novembre???

• Lisez ce paragraphe (trouvé sur wikipédia)
  

Guy Fawkes Night (« la nuit de Guy Fawkes » en anglais), également nommée Bonfire Night ou Fireworks Night (« la nuit des feux de joie » ou « des feux d'artifice ») ou encore Plot Night (« la nuit de la conspiration »), est une fête célébrée le 5 novembre dans plusieurs pays du monde, initialement au Royaume-Uni, mais également, par extension, en Irlande, en Nouvelle-Zélande, en Afrique du Sud, à Terre-Neuve et dans quelques parties des États-Unis

Cette fête commémore l'échec de la "conspiration des poudres"!C'était un complot visant à faire exploser le Parlement de Westminster( et le roi Jacques 1er), le 5 novembre 1605.

Partout, on voit des feux d'artifices et on construit des « feux de joie ». Une effigie représentant le membre le plus célèbre de la conspiration des poudres, Guy Fawkes, est érigée au-dessus de ces bûchers. À la tombée de la nuit, les feux de joie sont embrasés et les enfants mendient a penny for the guy.

• pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici, sur le site de l'école Woddlands-Junior
• regardez cette vidéo
  

• regardez une animation en cliquant ici
• des mots mêlés sont ici
  

MAY - important dates

• 9th : Europe Day!
  

have a look at all EUOPEAN COUNTRIES here

• 11th May: Pentecost (Whitsunday)

• 25th May Mother's Day ( aux Etats-Unis, c'est le 11 mai!)

ici, des cartes à imprimer, ou encore ici, et là

• 26th memorial day in the USA

click here to learn about it

• 31st : World No-Tobacco Day

Saint Patrick's Day

• a web quest : click on the shamrock :
• an interactive book!
• interactive games
  

click here to catch leprechauns, click here to help the leprechaun protect his gold pot!

• a lot of interesting links here

• and more links here!
  

• a Simpson video - how do Americans celebrate ??
  

Valentine's Day

• listen to the vocabulary and play the game!click here!
• Saint Valentine's Day around the world
• Valentine's symbols - matching game
• make a Valentine!
• a song by Mika!
• some valentine cards : here
• and here
• and e-cards here
• more e-cards here

January - important dates

• Martin Luther King Day : 21st January, more information, click here!
  
• India Day : 26th

• Australia Day : 26th

• my birthday!! 25th
  

Happy New Year!

Christmas

> des bricolages de Noël
> faîtes vos Christmas crackers!
> complétez la lettre au Père Noël!
> une histoire de Noël avec des jeux en ligne pour réviser le vocabulaire : the snowman
> Christmas, from A to Z
> comment dire Joyeux Noël..; en 360 langues!

thanksgiving... again!

Pour en savoir plus sur cette fête américaine, allez voir ce site :
http://perso.orange.fr/websidestories/thanks/Untitled-2.htm

en cliquant sur l'image de droite, vous aurez un petit résumé en images, et en anglais !!!

sinon un dessin animé de 1945....sur le même thème, mais moins réaliste!

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Thanksgiving

Information soon!

you can visit this site:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

Guy Fawkes Night - 5th November

En 1605 Guy Fawkes, un catholique, et ses amis conspirateurs ont essayé de faire exploser le Parlement (alors que le roi James Ier se trouvait à l'intérieur), car ils étaient en désaccord avec la politique du Roi . Ils ont réussi à entreposer 30 barils de poudre dans une cave située sous le Parlement, mais avant l'ouverture du Parlement le 5 novembre, la "Conspiration des Poudres" (c'est ainsi qu'on allait l'appeler plus tard) a été découverte. Guy Fawkes et ses amis ont été exécutés pour trahison.

Depuis, on célèbre le 5 novembre en Angleterre en brûlant des représentations de Guy Fawkes, tout en procédant souvent à des feux d'artifices. Ces fêtes peuvent être des événements de grande ampleur, ouverts au public, ou des célébrations plus petites, privées, rassemblant la famille et les amis dans des propriétés privées.

"Guy Fawkes Night" est aussi connu sous le nom de "Bonfire Night" ou de "Fireworks Night". Au cours des jours qui précèdent le 5 novembre, la tradition veut que les enfants promènent leur poupée de guy Fawkes dans les rues et demandent aux passants "a penny for the Guy". Cet argent est supposé être une contribution aux feux d'artifices.