Holidays Around the World

Find your holiday in the list below.  Use the links below your holiday to do your research.  You will then be posting your findings to a classroom blog.  In this blog, you can post pictures, text, videos, and much more!  Lastly, we will examine and evaluate each others blogs. 

The following items are required for this project:


Rosh Hashanah

Did You Know?

Food

More on Food

Symbols

History


Eid al-Fitr

Did You Know?

Social Studies for Kids

What Do People Do?

Five Facts

How Do Muslims Celebrate Eid al-Fitr?


Thanksgiving

History

The First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Information

Recipes


Hanukkah

Games

How We Celebrate

History

Virtual Dreidel

Traditions

Food

Hanukkah for Kids


Christmas

History

Fast Facts

Recipes

Traditions

More Information on Traditions

Christmas Around the World

Food

Symbols


Kwanzaa

Everything About Kwanzaa

The 7 Principles of Kwanzaa

The Story of Kwanzaa

Lighting The Kinara

The Symbols of Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa Recipes

Kwanzaa for Kids
 


MLK

History of the Holiday

Timeline

More Information

History

A Day of Service


President's Day

History

More History

Info

More History

President's Day WebQuest

All About President's Day


St. Patrick’s Day

History

Who was St. Patrick?

Customs

The Real Blarney Stone

Legends and Stories

Leprechauns

Recipes


Cinco de Mayo

Information

History

Where is this holiday celebrated?

Celebration Pictures

Cinco de Mayo

The Flag

Recipes


Memorial Day

History

Origin

Decoration Day?


Independence Day

The Story

History

Traditions and Food

Video Gallery

History of 4th of July

Symbols

Recipes


Armistice Day

Origins of Veterans Day

Veterans Day

Veterans' Day (November 11)

Veterans Day. Lest We Forget

Veterans' Day

 


Podcasts and Vodcasts