Chinese New Year Earth Day Groundhog Day Halloween
Thanks to Marg Stimson at the Pembina Trails DMC for many of these suggestions and her excellent annotations.
December/January
Celebrations
Awesome Clipart for Educators
Christmas Around the World
Christmas Scavenger Hunts
For those who like to collect facts and visit a lot of
different places around the digital world. The links could be good for
comparison charting.
December Celebrations
Scholastic site has simple
explanations of the December celebrations. An activity sheet is provided.
Ed Helper : Christmas
Math and art connections, puzzles, stories about Christmas
EdHelper: Hanukkah Activities
Crafts, games and other fun activity ideas
Education World : Holiday Resources
Recipes, activities, games, clip art for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa,
and Ramadan
Gander Academy Christmas Page
New address for the Gander Academy site about Christmas
HGTV: Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa
Craft Ideas for Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Hanukkah. There are activities for
everyone.
Holiday Food Ideas
Includes recipes for
Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa
Kids Domain
The Kids Domain is
place to check for any holiday. Links here are up to date and will lead you to
some fun and free things for your students
Christmas
Chanukah
News word
Site has seasonal activity sheets, mostly word puzzles.
The
Real Story of Christmas: History Channel Presentation
Santa Claus and
Christmas at the Northpole
Enjoy Christmas at the North Pole in Santa's Secret Village. Send a
letter to Santa or a Christmas card to a friend. Find recipes, stories,
etc.
Snow and Ice Links
Teacher Planet: December Calendar
The calendar leads to some good resources for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and
Human Rights Day
Teach-nology - Hanukkah
This very useful searchable site has links to resources on many topics including
Hanukkah and Christmas
Virtual Christmas Tree
The site has the stages of growth and caring of a Christmas tree. There are also
some recycling suggestions. This comes from the Christmas Tree Farmers of
Ontario
World Wide Chanukah Live
This site has links that will lead you to other good Chanukah pages
Yahoo Directory: Holidays and Observances
Links for every holiday you can imagine. This will lead you to many good sites
and resources,
such as the more than 800 sites for Christmas and over 100 sites for Hanukkah
Groundhog Day - February 2nd
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Enchanted Learning - Groundhog Day - great groundhog crafts and
printables |
| Groundhog
Crossing - cute video on the history of groundhog day |
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| Official Site of
Punxsutawney Groundhog Club |
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Visit Pennsylvania - This is an informational site about Punxsutawney, PA. This site also provides a live webcast at 7:00 a.m. February 2nd |
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Chinese New Year - February
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Chinese New Year Calendar - it's the year
of the Rooster. Find out what they're like.
Chinese New Year - foods, decorations, and 15 days of celebration
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Earth Day - April 22nd
Earth
to Rosie
Exciting, environmental, ethical,
educational, musical, interactive and fun!
CNN Earth Day for Kids
A good quiz to check how well kids know how to conserve energy.
Wilderness Society - Earth Day
This site for teachers and students is
brought to you by The Wilderness Society. IIt has activities, print material to
download and teacher information.
Earth Day - Kids' Domain
Activities, crafts, games, print material to download and stories.
Eco Kids
A kid friendly site, information for teachers and activities.
Environmental Protection Agency
Games, activities, teacher and student stuff.
Earth Day Online
Photo gallery, games, links.
Billy Bear for Kids - Earth Day
Especially good for really young students.
National Geographic : Earth Day
Games, news, wallpapers, audio, video, photos, interviews, conservation tips,
"lesson plans" and more. High quality site.
Manitoba Environmental Issues
Manitoba contacts for environmental issues. Student letters make a difference.
If you or your students wish to comment on aspects of the health of our part of
the Earth, such as the algae blooms on our large lakes, you'll want to visit
this page. Links are available for other provincial and federal contacts.
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Halloween - October 31st
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Halloween The 2Learn team has assembled a link collection for Halloween that includes French sites. You'll find the links to NASA and UNICEF here. |
Halloween
at Teach-nologyGo on a Halloween web quest or download one of the Halloween puzzles
from this site. Teach-nology is a searchable site that points the way to
songs, stories, puzzles, songs, activity sheets, and craft ideas.
ESL Kidstuff
Halloween game ideas. Also includes Halloween origami patterns and
flashcards.
CASLT: Halloween
History & traditions, language activities, puzzles, quizzes, crafts,
games, songs & stories
clip art, colouring pages. En français aussi. The Canadian Association
of Second Language Teachers promotes the advancement of second language
teaching and one way they do that is through the exchange of ideas among
second language educators.
Halloween at the Google Directory
Links to hands-on activities develop observation and estimation skills,
scary story starters, bookmarks, mazes, shape books, and stationery and
more.
Busy
Teachers - October Resource Page
Piles of links to Halloween resources as well as a lot of links to good
fire prevention sites (Fire Prevention Month) and fun pizza sites
(National Pizza Month).
Halloween Makeup and Costume Ideas
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/_hcostume.html
http://www.robinsfyi.com/holidays/halloween/costumes.htm
http://www.kidsdomain.com/craft/_hcostume.html
Halloween Party
Ideas
Links to pumpkin carving plans, party ideas, costume suggestions
Teacher Planet : October
A calendar of events, all with links to resources for October. The
calendar is missing International School Library Day on October 25th!!!
To learn more about that go to
http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html