Advent calendar

Christmas is just around the corner. Check off the days until December 25 and have fun with this Advent calendar from National Museums Liverpool:

Here you have " The twelve days of Christmas" Advent calendar at
ngfl.northumberland.gov site:

This is the Advent calendar you know from last year. Click on today's sock:

St Andrew's Day

St Andrew's Day is celebrated by Scots around the world on the 30th November. 

 
Celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music(bagpipes and fiddle) and Scottish Higland dancing:

 
 

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

The Scottish love a party, and celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music (bagpipes and fiddles are the most popular), Celtic lyrics, and Scottish highland dancing.

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

The Scottish love a party, and celebrations usually involve traditional Scottish music (bagpipes and fiddles are the most popular), Celtic lyrics, and Scottish highland dancing.

Read more: Scotland Culture - Not Just Tartan & Bagpipes http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scotland-culture.html#ixzz2DfIh1kOc

Mazcuerras mill

Last October we went on a school trip to the Nansa valley. Here you have some pictures at Mazcuerras mill:

At Mazcuerras mill on PhotoPeach

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People who help us

Learn the names of some people who help us:

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Here you can find fun stuff of the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid:

You can wimp yourself:

Colour Greg,his friends and his family:
 

Jeff Kinney, the author of the book shows us how to draw the character of Greg Heffley: 

Investigating the first Thanksgiving

You are the Historian. Investigate what really may have happened at the First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day

It's Thanksgiving Day:

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving.

The history of Thanksgiving:

Play a game at Activity village site. Arrange the family members around the table, respecting their preferences of what and who they like to sit next to, or avoid:

                                        

Universal Children's day

Universal Children’s Day is celebrated on 20th November every year in most of the countries.
Pocoyo partners with UNICEF to support Universal Children's day:

We all have the right to a free, quality education that will enable us to be citizens with a concern for the respect of human rights around the world.

What can you do?

Here you have a simple video to practise what you can do and revise some animals:

I can/ I can't:

Make a silly turkey

Here you have a great game at highlightskids.com

Make a silly turkey at starfall site:

The first Thanksgiving

Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a harvest feast in 1621. That was the first Thanksgiving.
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of Novembrer.
Take a virtual tour abroad the Mayflower:

Diwali, the festival of lights

Diwali is a colorful holiday celebrated  by Hindus in India and all around the world in October or November.
Diwali will next be celebrated on 13th November 2012.
Learn more about this festival:

 

Find colouring pages and crafts ideas at activity village site.

Means of transport

Learn the names of some means of transport:

 

Paint it:
                                        

The ant and the grasshopper

Enjoy this version of the Aesop's tales at cartoonsoup site:

Colour the story:

Opposite adjectives

Match the opposite adjectives:

What is an adjective?

Firework display

Bonfire Night is celebrated with bonfires and firework displays.
Read Welephant's story:

Here you have some tips for a safe Bonfire Night:

 Here you have a safe firework display because it's virtual:

The Gunpowder Plot

Here you have a game to check your knowledge about the Gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes:

Bonfire Night

On November the 5th, people in the UK celebrate Bonfire Night, also called Guy Fawkes' night. 
They "celebrate" the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot against the King and Parliament in the early 17th Century.

The story of Guy Fawkes:

 

 What is Bonfire night?

  

Pumkin chunkin

What do you do with all the extra pumpkins after Halloween?

Pumkin chunkin is a sport where you shoot the pumpkins across a huge field by mechanical means. The pumkin chunkin contest started in 1986 and is celebrated the weekend after Halloween.

Play a game at Science Channel site:

All about the pumpkin

 How much do you know about pumpkins? Learn interesting facts: