Holidays

Upcoming Events on the Calendar
A page for each month of the year with activities, poems, famous birthdays, intesting dates, and links to other sites that build on the themes of that month.

Christmas Sites

Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day on the Net http://www.holidays.net/mlk/ MLK Online http://www.mlkonline.net/ Kid's Domain http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/mlk/index.html Fill in missing words from the "I have a dream" speech or take an online quiz. MLK crossword puzzle http://essentials.tomsnyder.com/mlkpuzzle/ Simple MLK Word Find http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag177.html Enchanted Learning MLK site http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/ The Dr. King Timeline Page - created by young elementary students http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html Another timeline created by students http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm Seattle Times - you will find a biography, photos, timelines of MLK's life and the Civil Rights Movement, speech audio files to listen to ("His Words"), articles/photos/stories about MLK from past decade, a quiz and other MLK links. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html Important Dates in life of MLK - http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm I Have a Dream Speech (video clip) http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/ Click on "Black History Video", then click "Historical Events", then click "Dr. King" I Have a Dream Speech (written) http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/dream.html I Have a Dream Speech (audio) http://www.king-raleigh.org/history/speeches.htm "I Have a Dream" is 5 min. segment - last 5 min. of "March on Washington" speech. "March on Washington" is the same speech, but the first 11 min. of it. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance.html Classic Images of MLK Time Life - http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlkpics.html Seattle Times - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/photogallery.html

Black History Month (February) Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Black History: http://school.eb.com/blackhistory/ - wonderful site From Education World: Their Black History Page: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/black_history_2001.shtml - links to lessons - check out a couple great lessons - "A Black History Treasure Hunt" and "A Mirror into History". Also, check out the links to more lessons like, Five Lessons in Black History. A Black History Hotlist: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html From Yahoo Kids: Black History: http://kids.yahoo.com/search?p=Black%20History%20Month&vm=r African American History: http://kids.yahoo.com/search?p=African+American+History&vm=r PBS African American World: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline.html - Black History Timeline and more PBS Kids African American World: http://pbskids.org/aaworld/ AA Kulture Zone - Kulture Kidz: http://www.aakulturezone.com/kidz/index.html AfroAmerica Kids Zone: http://www.afro.com/kidszone.htm Black History Quiz: http://www.afro.com/children/brain/historyquiz/q1.html - Who was famous for making products from peanuts and sweet potatoes? Who invented the railway telegraph system? Try this quiz and find out! National Gallary of Art - African American Artists: http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html Black History Page: http://members.aol.com/klove01/main.html - go to the "Calendars" menu to find a 12 month calendar of important events in black history, also find biographies, famous speeches, and a quiz. The History Channel - Great African Americans: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/proindex.html - brief biographies of important African Americans. African American History Challenge: http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/ - Provides biographies of 12 historical figures, followed up with quizzes at three levels. Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Tubman, Henry McNeal Turner, John Mercer Langston, Mary Elizabeth Boswer, Mary Church Terrell, Mary Ann Shadd, Nat Turner, Richard Allen, Sojurner Truth. (This page is divided into several frames, which makes it a little confusing to navigate and view on a small monitor) Beyond Black History Month - African American Studies Toolkit: http://creativefolk.com/toolkit/elem.html - web sites, lesson plans, and a list of CDs, books, and videos. Culture and Change: Black History in America - from Scholastic: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/tguide.htm - online activities for students.

Halloween Halloween clip art site: http://www.clipartguide.com/clipart_halloween_sites.html Halloween Fun Sites: Yahoo! Kids - scroll down and browse through the many fun sites - check out Ben & Jerry's site - they have a cool virtual haunted house and really cool online games! Also check out the Brain POP site to watch a video on the history of halloween. http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/halowen/halowen.htm - Billy Bear's site where you can play online Halloween games. http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/fall00/fall00.hh.menu.htm - Have your class create a Website of Halloween poems, stories, pictures, or whatever, and include it in the Midlink Virtual Haunted House. This is a collection of Halloween sites created by classes from all over the world. http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf - Carve a pumpkin! http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead - Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

Groundhog Day List of sites: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/Holidays/Groundhog_Day/ Groundhog Day History http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm ...a presentation of the history of Groundhog's Day and the shadow results since 1897; great chance to use a spreadsheet and graphing to use this page and analyze the data PunxsutawneyPhil.com http://www.punxsutawneyphil.com/ Click on the "Interactive Fun" link and try the Groundhogese Translator!

St. Patrick's Day

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/Ireland/Cultures_and_Traditions/Saint_Patrick_s_Day/ - Yahooligans list of sites for St. Patrick's Day.

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/

www.geocities.com/Heartland/7134/Green/index.htm -
go to the Children's Section to play the Leprechaun Maze, read about Clover Green And The Seven leprechauns or The Leprechauns And The Shoemaker, color a St. Patrick's Day picture, and print out decorations.
 

Birthdays
Here is something fun you can do when your kids have birthdays!  Simply enter in their birth date and submit!  It gives all kinds of neat facts! (Top sports news of the year, top songs, top news, cost of homes, postage stamps, who was president and vp, and other people who share the same birthday.)

http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process
 

April Fool's Day
http://www.surfnetkids.com/aprilfools.htm

...links to various sites to help the celebration of April 1!
 
 
 

Easter
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/easter/
http://tac.shopnetmall.com/www.funroom.com/easter/
http://www.night.net/easter/
http://www.goldenbooks.com/easter/home.html
http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/easter/
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/easter/fun.htm
http://www.bonus.com/bonus/list/holidays_easter.html?referrer=KG
 
 
 

Cinco de Mayo
Mexican Flag Jigsaw
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/mexico-utjs.htm

Send a Mexico Postcard
http://www.surfnetkids.com/postcards/mexico-pc.htm

Mexico
http://www.surfnetkids.com/mexico.htm
Mexico, our diverse neighbor to the south, is the third most
populous country of the Western Hemisphere, ranking only behind
the United States and Brazil. Although it is impossible to
characterize an entire country with a selection of just five Web
sites, today's tour is a sampling of Mexico's history, culture
and geography.

Discovering Mexico
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mexico/
This National Geographic feature written by Michael Parfit
highlights the challenges that Mexico faces today. "Mexico is
struggling. This country, 756,000 square miles of deserts,
forests, highlands, volcanoes, endless seashores, and trembling
earth, populated by 95 million people, is classified in the
jargon of world economics as a developing nation." Join Parfit
as he flies from one end of the country to the other, or follow
the seven daily dispatches of photojournalist Richard Olsenius
as he explores Mexico City.

Mexico for Kids
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/index_kids.html
"The Constitution calls our country the United Mexican States
because it consists of thirty-one states and the Federal
District, which have joined together to form a federation."
Created by the office of the Presidency of the Republic of
Mexico, this site introduces Mexican history, government, and
biodiversity, and includes a page of current news (such as
President's Bush recent visit.)

Mexico from Empire to Revolution
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital/mexico/
Based on two recent exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute,
this site" presents nineteenth century photographs suggestive of
the romance and the reality of European imperial dreams in
Mexico. Images of failed French attempts to establish an empire
in Mexico in the 1860s are juxtaposed with images of the ruins
of ancient empires." This summer the online exhibition will
expand to "document Mexico's emergence as a modern,
industrialized nation over the latter half of the nineteenth
century, culminating in the tumultuous decade long revolution
that began in 1910."

World Book: Cinco de Mayo
http://www.worldbook.com/fun/cinco/html/cinco.htm
"Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrated on May 5 by Mexicans and
Mexican Americans. Its name is Spanish for Fifth of May. Cinco
de Mayo commemorates the victory of a Mexican army over a French
army at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. The Mexican army,
led by General Ignacio Zaragoza, won the battle even though the
French force was better armed and three times as large."  This
special Word Book feature is a compilation of related
encyclopedia articles, including History of Mexico, Modern
Mexican Culture, and Hispanic Americans.  Each section includes
an interactive quiz.

Virtual Palenque
http://www.virtualpalenque.com/
"Welcome to a virtual tour of the Maya ruins of Palenque.
Located in Chiapas, Mexico, Palenque is one of the grandest of
all Maya ruins. So much has been found from this exquisite site,
from the hieroglyphs and the tomb of Pacal in the Temple of
Inscriptions, to the unique architecture and beautifully carved
sculptures in the Palace."  This virtual tour is absolutely
magnificent! You have the choice of being guided by archeologist
Dr. Thomas Guderjan, or taking a self-guided path. Either way,
you will need the free QuickTimeVR plug-in to view the
360-degree, interactive panoramas.
 
 

Valentine's Day http://search.yahooligans.com/search/ligans?p=valentine http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/ http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/valentin/fun.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/ - The First Thanksgiving - a picture timeline, travel on the Mayflower, and experience life in Plymoth. Then take the Thanksgiving Cyber Challenge! http://midgefrazel.net/wqtg2.html - a list of links, WebQuests, resources, pictures, and much more dealing with Thanksgiving. http://www.thanksgivingworld.com/index.html - Thanksgiving World! History, songs, poetry, jokes, crafts, trivia, turkey facts! Check out Billy Bear, Kaboose , and Thanksgiving on the Net! http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/historic/plimoth/plimoth.html - Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation

President's Day Activities and Crafts for President's Day - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/presidentsday/ List of sites - http://kids.yahoo.com/search?p=Presidents+Day&x=0&y=0&vm=r Lots of Sites for each - click on one of the birthday links on the left to go to the sites for that president: http://rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/special_events/presidents_day/index.html History of holiday, biographies, lesson plan, links - http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/index.html Quiz - http://a4esl.org/q/h/tf-lb-pday.html Virtual Museum of Lincoln and Washington's lives for primary students - http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/presidentsday/ Abraham Lincoln Information, timeline, quiz, printables - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/pres/lincoln/ http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/lincoln http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/cgcc/projects/bright/lincoln01.htm List of sites - http://kids.yahoo.com/search?p=Abraham+Lincoln&vm=r Treasure Hunt - http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/treasure.htm George Washington Information, timeline, quiz, crossword, printables, etc - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/pres/washington/ List of sites - http://kids.yahoo.com/search?p=George+Washington&vm=r Mount Vernon - http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/explore_mv/index.cfm/

4th of July http://wilstar.com/holidays/july4.htm http://www.dial-a-teacher.com/july_fourth/index.html

Veteran's Day http://www4.va.gov/kids/k-5/index.asp - VA Kids Page - facts about veterans, activities and games, facts about the flag, and links. Here is a Scavenger Hunt to go with it! (Please check scavenger hunt for accuracy before using, as it may have become dated.) http://www4.va.gov/kids/teachers/index.asp - VA Teacher's Page - includes resources, links, and facts about veterans. Check out the Veteran's Day Teacher's Guide - contains history of the holiday, description of the national ceremony, stats for each American war, flag etiquette, a letter from the president, and much more. Great resource! http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/veterans/ - crafts, projects and printouts

 
 
Women's History Month (March)