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| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate! Kate DePalma, 2019-11-01 Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: What Do You Celebrate? Whitney Stewart, 2023-09-26 Fourteen holidays celebrated around the world come alive in this kid-friendly guide of how to celebrate each holiday. The wide-ranging collection of holidays includes Holi, Purim, Halloween, and more! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Celebrations Around the World Katy Halford, 2019-08-27 Explore different celebrations from across the globe through fun and beautiful illustrations. Embark on an exciting journey through the most interesting and important festivals, celebrations, and holidays enjoyed by people around the world. Stunning original illustrations and fascinating facts will inspire and inform children about cultures and religions from a huge range of countries and continents. Witness a camel marathon in a celebration of the Sahara Desert, and munch on Mid-Autumn mooncakes in China. Discover why skeletons dance at the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and how the world's biggest tomato fight, La Tomatina in Spain, gets cleaned up! Children will love poring over artist Katy Halford's beautiful illustrations, which showcase every celebration in absorbing detail. Engaging factual writing introduce young readers to the most interesting aspects of each celebration, from the costumes worn to the food eaten, and encourage an understanding of other cultures and religions. It's time to celebrate! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: How Kids Live Around the World Pavla Hanackova, Helena Harastova, 2021-09-07 Have you ever wondered how children live in other countries? This book gives you a great opportunity to look inside homes on all continents and discover how different children's lives can be. People build their homes to suit local conditions and be comfortable to live in. Do you know how children live in Mongolia? Or what life's like in an icy igloo? How about in a rainforest? Come with us to take a look at homes in all parts of the world, and to make new friends who'll tell you all about their culture. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Celebrate Chinese New Year Carolyn Otto, 2009 Simple text and color images present various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration, including red decorations, the exchange of poems, Festival of Lanterns, Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Veterans Day Barbara deRubertis, 2014-08-01 Who is a veteran? By exploring the kinds of work that men and women do as they serve in the five branches of the military, we can better appreciate our veterans. And we discover some of the many reasons we honor and celebrate them each year on November 11. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Celebrations Around the World Helen Gregory, 2013 A multicultural look at international holidays. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Christmas Peter Roop, Connie Roop, 1997 Presents some basic facts about Christmas, along with jokes and riddles, Christmas crafts, and brief explanations of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Feasts and Festivals Around the World: From Lunar New Year to Christmas Alice B. McGinty, 2022-02-08 Explore the celebrations and feasts of twelve countries and cultures from around the world! From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Veterans Day Rachel Grack, 2017-08-01 This holiday is a salute to the men and women who have served in the United States military, both in times of war and times of peace. It is a day to express thanks for their willingness to wear the uniform. Through this book, kids will deepen their respect for and understanding of the armed forces. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals Claire Grace, 2021-01-05 With fact-filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from the wonderfully talented Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture. Countless different festivals are celebrated all over the world throughout the year. Some are national holidays, celebrated for religious and cultural reasons, or to mark an important date in history, while others are just for fun. Give thanks and tuck into a delicious meal with friends and family at Thanksgiving, get caught up in a messy tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina, add a splash of color to your day at the Holi festival of colors and celebrate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The World Full of… series is a collection of beautiful hardcover story treasuries. Discover folktales from all around the world or be introduced to some of the world’s best-loved writers with these stunning gift books, the perfection addition to any child’s library. Also available from the series: A Year Full of Stories, A World Full of Animal Stories, A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories, A World Full of Dickens Stories, A World Full of Spooky Stories, and A Bedtime Full of Stories. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Veterans Day Meredith Dash, 2016-08 This title will familiarize readers with Veterans Day by explaining the whos, whats, and whys of it. Complete with a More Facts section and bolded glossary terms. Young readers will gather basic information about Veterans Day through easy-to-read text alongside compelling and historical photographs. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Christmas Around the World Mary D. Lankford, 1998-10-19 Ethiopian fringed umbrellas; star-shaped Filipino parol lanterns;candlelit Swedish St. Lucia crowns-Mary Lankford bringstogether Christmas traditions from twelve different lands,like decorations on a splendid tree. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: The Book of (Holiday) Awesome Neil Pasricha, 2013-11-05 There’s nothing like the holidays. They bring out the best, and sometimes the worst, in everyone. Luckily, Neil Pasricha is here to remind us that not only are the holidays great, but there’s actually even more to celebrate than we realize. From Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, to other holidays throughout the year, such as Mother’s Day and Thanksgiving, The Book of (Holiday) Awesome will show you why holidays are…AWESOME. • Making the first footprint in fresh snow • When the in-laws leave • Waking up and realizing it’s Christmas • Just barely wrapping a gift with that tiny scrap of leftover wrapping paper • When they finally stop playing Christmas songs on the radio • Knowing “Kwanzaa” is worth more Scrabble points than “Hanukkah” or “Christmas” |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Ramadan & Eid! (Muslim Festival of Fasting & Sweets) (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 4) Ajanta Chakraborty, Vivek Kumar, 2021-03-22 **FREE** Monthly Stories & Dances Workshop. Details: CultureGroove.com/Free From the best-selling authors (nine titles) of Culture Groove, here is a book on Ramadan & Eid that highlights the cultural aspects of the festival and its roots in gratitude and helping those in need. Maya, Neel and their famous pet squirrel Chintu fly to India for yet another fun adventure. This time, they get to experience all about Ramadan including the vibrant markets of Chand Raat (night of the moon), the famous Jama Masjid, the delicious food, the exciting Eidi gifts and even a trip to volunteer at the local shelter. Each book is written with a mission of helping RAISE MULTICULTURAL KIDS irrespective of their ethnic or cultural background or helping kids CONNECT TO THEIR ROOTS. Visit our website to get additional FREE educational resources! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: A World of Cookies for Santa M.E. Furman, 2017-10-17 This beautifully illustrated book explores the traditional treats that children across the globe leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve—includes recipes! A World of Cookies for Santa takes readers on a journey to discover holiday traditions and beloved Christmas cookies from cultures around the world. Head to the Philippines, where children leave out puto seko cookies and ginger tea for Santa; jet to Russia for a honey-spice cookie; then set out for Malawi for a sweet potato cookie! And the journey continues in your own home kitchen, as author M. E. Furman provides recipes for children to bake some of Santa’s cookies for themselves. Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award and the Moonbeam Book Award! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Winter Holidays Around the World Heather Aliano, 2017-11-16 With this workbook, your student will explore how Christmas is celebrated in Australia, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. You'll also learn more about St. Lucia Day in Sweden, Diwali in India, Hanukkah in Israel, Solstice in the U.K., Kwanzaa in the United States, and Chinese New Year in China. This workbook is packed with activities and challenges, with map work, atlas work, reading and response passages, exploring cultures and languages, crafts, coloring, recipes, and more. Each country includes 6 pages of content, with coloring book style illustrations for extra fun. This unit study is designed for children in grades 2-5. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali! (Maya & Neel's India Adventure Series, Book 1) Ajanta Chakraborty, Vivek Kumar, 2018-09-05 Join Maya, Neel and their pet squirrel Chintu as they travel to India to celebrate 5 days of Diwali, India's Festival of Lights! Kids will learn about history, food, language and cultural elements of India... all while making new best friends! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Lights of Winter Heather Conrad, 2013-12-15 Describes the festivals and holidays celebrated in the winter season in different countries of the world. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Diwali Anjali Joshi, 2015-12 Harini is excited to share her Diwali story, but she quickly learns that she's not the only one! Join Harini as she learns about Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Buddhist Diwali traditions.-- |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Christmas Around the World Pavla Hanackova, Karolina Medkova, 2021-10-12 |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Celebrations Of Light Nancy Luenn, 1998-10-01 Long ago, people found a way to light the darkness. They built fires to keep warm and cook their food. They lit torches to drive away danger. To help them see at night, they learned to make candles and lanterns. Light was so important in their lives that they came to use it in worship and in celebrations. From a Brazilian New Year's celebration to the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, Celebrations of Light circles the year and the globe. The text and paintings highlight twelve festivals, showing the diverse ways in which people around the world use light as a major part of their celebrations. In each of these holidays, light plays a significant role, marking and brightening special days. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Presidents' Day Meredith Dash, 2014-08 Introduces young readers to the history and traditions associated with Presidents' Day. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Holidays Around the World Wil Mara, 2020-08 Get ready to celebrate! People around the world look forward to different holidays and honor them with special traditions. Learn about the many types of holidays and how they're celebrated in this engaging series that develops kids' understanding of our diverse global community and their place in it-- |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Earth Day Barbara deRubertis, 2019-01-16 Read Along or Enhanced eBook: On April 22 each year, more than a billion people around the world join together to shine a spotlight on Planet Earth. Let’s Celebrate Earth Day encourages young readers to learn about why this important holiday was created and about the many little things we can do to make big changes in the health of our planet. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate! Shereen Gertel Rutman, 1992 Provides ideas for thematic projects which will help students learn more about holidays. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Holiday Handiwork Gillian Souter, 2001-12-01 Provides instructions for creating an assortment of craft items for such holidays as Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Hanukkah. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Daily Warm-Ups: World Cultures - Level II , 2004 The 180 reproducible quick activities, one for every day of the school year, turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Holidays Around the World , Leslie Feid offers a collection of Web sites about holidays around the world, intended to be used with 2nd grade classes. Topics include Christmas and teacher resources. The North Attleborough Public School system in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, provides the collection online. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Festivals Around the World Gr. 2-3 , |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Morning Meetings for Special Education Classrooms Dr. Felicia Durden, Ed.D., 2017-06-30 A complete guide for improving the focus and engagement of your special education students by starting the day off right Use a morning meeting to jump-start your students’ day! This simple but effective classroom technique has been proven to help students learn better, build friendships, improve behavior and gain confidence. Offering fun games, great songs and other engaging activities, this book’s 101 ready-to-use ideas are sure to help your students experience remarkable progress in: • Math and reading • Team-building • Planning and communication • Science and technology • Goal-setting • Organization • Problem-solving • Role-playing • Fulfilling a classroom job • Creative arts |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Finger Rhymes for Holidays, Seasons, and Celebrations Lily Erlic, 2010-09-01 Poetry is valuable for stimulating the young childs brain growth. Combine poetry with fun movements and you have an effective way to actively involve children in exploring celebrations of all cultures around the world. What fun your children will have as they pretend to play musical instruments, steer a ship, look through a telescope, plant a tree, be a groundhog, fly on a broomstick, spin a dreidel, or march in a band. You can add any of the suggested small props (ribbons, small bells, maracas, miniature flags, and party hats) to the rhymes to help build large motor skills and increase the fun factor even more! A CD with the various rhymes being sung is included that provides either appropriate background music for use for singing the rhymes and/or performing the movements. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Today Diana F. Marks, 2003-08-30 This practical day-by-day calendar is a goldmine for planning exciting activities and classroom units based on national and international holidays, multicultural and historic events, famous firsts, inventions, birthdays of important individuals (including authors), and more. The entries are annotated and include contact information and Web site addresses to facilitate further research and learning. In addition, three suggested learning activities are provided for each day of the year. Designed for any year, this one-stop resource can be used over and over again as a ready-reference, daily activity guide, rainy-day resource, or idea generator for bulletin boards. Teachers, librarians, and parents can use the calendar entries and activity suggestions as a springboard to spark interest in a particular topic or event, enhance learning and awareness, or introduce students to a new unit of study. Invaluable to school and public libraries! |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Multicultural Holidays Julia Jasmine, 1994 Background information on more than 75 holidays throughout the year ... includes suggestions for ways to observe these holidays in classrooms, related activities, student contracts, and exciting culminating activities.--Page 2 of cover. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Let's Celebrate Alice A. Mendelsohn, 2010-03 |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Reading Assessment to Promote Equitable Learning Laurie Elish-Piper, Mona W. Matthews, Victoria J. Risko, Victoria Risko, 2022-09-05 Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K–5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and help to guard against bias. The book's holistic view of reading encompasses areas from text comprehension and constrained skills to building trusting relationships and promoting students’ agency. Twenty-eight assessment strategies are explained in step-by-step detail, including helpful implementation examples and 32 reproducible forms that teachers can download and print in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: More Than Pink & Blue (eBook) Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, 1998-03-01 It's not pink and blue but gray that matters! Modern research shows amazing differences between the ways boys and girls acquire and use knowledge. Here are practical, sensible and immediately useful classroom applications. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Feasting and Fasting Dorothy Duncan, 2010-10-25 Feasting and Fasting is an introduction to the foods and beverages that were a central part of how our ancestors celebrated important events. This is a sampling of their events and what was on their tables at births, weddings, funerals, religious holidays, garden parties, and more. |
| let's celebrate holidays around the world: Holiday Fractions Jennifer Rozines Roy, 2008-01-15 Presents an introduction to fractions, in simple text with illustrations, as the reader is invited to find fractions in various holidays, from the candles in the menorah, to decorating the Christmas tree and cutting pumpkin pie. |
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