Pancake Day

Pancake Day in the UK is another name for Shrove Tuesday. It is celebrated as Carnival and Mardi Gras elsewhere in the world. It will be held on 4th March 2014.

Read a Pancake day text at Macmillan site:

Memorise the quantity of each ingredient, then stir and cook the pancakes in this interactive game:

 Enjoy Peppa Pig video about Pancakes:

President for a day!

Presidents' Day is a national holiday in the United States and is also officially known as Washington's Birthday. It is celebrated on the third Monday of February, which next falls on 17th February 2014.

Type some key words in this story at National Geographic site. Then click "read" to hear about your day as the USA President:

Three Kings Day celebration

January the 5th is the most awaited night for children in Spain. We are celebrating the coming of the Three Kings and waiting to receive our presents.
Children go to bed early and put their clean shoes by the window to get their presents. Only a few naughty kids will get a piece of coal(made of sugar).
And enjoy your delicious Kings cake(roscón).
Click on the picture to watch a video about this delicious dessert:

Christmas games

Find the items on the list and practise Christmas vocabulary:
 

Can you rememeber the Christmas words?

Click on the picture and tell Santa what to do. There are some commands that Santa doesn't want to do but he will do many others:

Roses are red, violets are blue

Learn this poem with this 3D animation rhyme:

April's fool day

April's fool day is observed on the 1st of April. It is not a national holiday. This is a day when people play tricks on each other for fun.
Click on the picture if you want to play a joke:

French children sometimes tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates.
Click on the picture to play a jigsaw:

Inside an Easter egg

What's inside an Easter egg?

Valentine's day

Learn some words related to St Valentine's Day:

Here you have a fantastic interactive book by Mrs Haquet:

 

Write some words and fill the heart shape, change the colour, font... at Word hearts:

Virtual cake decorator:

Chinese New Year 2013, year of the Snake

The Chinese New Year of the Snake starts today, 10th February. It is the most important of the Chinese festivals.

The Chinese Lunar calendar names each year after one of twelve animals. Here you have a story of Jade Emperor's plan to decide the order the animal years should go in at Bristish council site:

 See the special things people do to celebrate the Chinese New Year with this song:

Find which animal you are by putting in your birthday:

In this game you can help Mieli to dress up for celebrating The Chinese New Year:

Carnival 2013

We celebrated Carnival at school:

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Create a costume

Carnival is coming soon. 
In this game developed by the Museum of London you can create your costume:

Carnival

Carnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before 40 days of Lent, usually during January and February. Traditionally it's a time of colourful celebration or  parades.  People dress up and dance in the streets.

One of the most popular carnivals is the Carnival of Venice:

Carnival of Venice:

Masks are a very important element of the Venetian carnival. Paint your own mask and drag the decorations:

Read more about masks at:

 http://www.hellokids.com/c_14358/reading-online/holidays/carnival/masks-of-carnival-of-venice#LKBYh16M7PLoyllC.99 

Groundhog day

It's Groundhog day.

A groundhog is also called woodchuck. Learn more about this rodent at National Geographic site:

 Learn more about this festivity celebrated in USA and Canada:

Boxing Day

Today is Boxing Day, a traditional British holiday dating back 800 years. Boxing Day in the United Kingdom is the day after Christmas Day and falls on December 26.
Go to pages 22 and 23:

It's also known as St Stephen's Day. Learn more about this festivity:

More Easter activities

Read Mr. Bunny's carrot soup at Starfall site:


Here you have more information about Easter celebration:

Match the words and the pictures:

St Patrick's day

Here you have a fantastic interactive book created by Mrs Haquet.












Who was St Patrick?



St Patrick's Day is celebrated on 17th March each year.

What is St Patrick's day?

St David's day

St David's Day is celebrated in Wales and by Welsh people throughout the world on 1st March.

Find out more information here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/figures/saint_david.shtml



The daffodil is the flower of Wales, and on St David's Day many people celebrate by wearing a daffodil.
Click on the picture to make a daffodil pinwheel craft.

Pancake day races

Watch this funny video.



On Pancake Day, pancake races are held in villages and towns across the United Kingdom.

Pancake Day race at Olney in Buckinghamshire, England is the most well known activity on this day and it has been held since 1445.

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras means "Fat Tuesday" in French.
Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Carnival, and even Pancake Day in the UK, is an annual festival which will next be celebrated on 21st February in 2012. Falling just before Lent, it traditionally marks the last opportunity for fun and feasting before 40 days of "self-denial".

New Orleans is famous for the Mardi Gras celebrations held there. Learn how this colorful festival got started clicking on the picture.

President's Day 2012

Presidents' Day is a national holiday in the United States and is officially known as Washington's Birthday.
It is celebrated on the third Monday of February, which next falls on 21st February 2012.
Click in the image if you want to find activities, coloring pages, crafts and historical facts.



This is Mount Rushmore National Memorial, a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States

Click on the picture and you can find a colouring page.




Phineas and Ferb remodel Mount Rushmore for Candace's 15th Birthday.

Enjoy this video:





Listen to this song if you want to learn all the names of all the Presidents of the USA: