Holiday Links
NOTE:
The following linked webpages are not a part of the Fort Rucker Primary School website.
Veteran's Day
Veteran's Day - the official web site the Department of Veteran's Affairs Veteran's Day Home Page. There are a number of teacher resources and activities to help you and your children celebrate Veteran's Day.
Computing Corner: Veteran's Day - This site includes a coloring page of the American flag.
Veteran's Day Crafts: KinderCrafts - Make a pinwheel from paper, a pencil and a pushpin. Make a little US flag from craft sticks. Make a great windsock from an oatmeal box and paper. Make a 5-pointed star the same way that was used for the first US flag... and more...
Veteran's Day for Kids - Tips for teaching Veteran's Day to children and more links to related sites
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Thanksgiving
General/Historical / Songs and Activities / Cards / Foods
Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade - Behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, as well as providing a history of the parade (with old photographs), a parade route map, and details about this year's parade.
The First Thanksgiving - Find out how the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native Americans celebrated the first Thanksgiving together at Plymouth Plantation. Teach students about this period in American history with Thanksgiving activities, resources, lesson plans, and teaching ideas about the voyage of the Mayflower, the daily life of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, and the first Thanksgiving feast. Most pages have a voice icon that will read the page to the children.
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General/Historical
Plimoth-on-Web - Produced by the staff at the Plimouth Plantation, this web site serves as a resource for information about the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony, and Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving with Reader's Digest - Another very good site that takes some exploring to find everything it offers. Five categories group the materials and links to other Thanksgiving-related sites: Classic Recipes; Tasty Traditions: Holiday Host; Projects and Crafts; and Thanksgiving Stories.
Thanksgiving Traditions & History - BeNovember 18, 2009 many months, days, and hours it is until the holiday. THen take the ten-question Thanksgiving Quiz.
Thanksgiving on the Net - This site offers stories of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, turkeys to take home, a holiday puzzle to play, and holiday pictures for the kids to print and color.
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Songs and Activities
Kids Domain Thanksgiving - Each fall this site provides updated links to Thanksgiving crafts and recipes, pictures to color, puzzles and mazes, and clip art.
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Billy Bear's Planyground: Happy Thanksgiving - This page includes online games, puzzles, crafts, and pictures to be printed and colored. Shows children how to make pony-bead pilgrims and offers leaf art activities
Thanksgiving Crafts - You'll find more than 40 crafts to choose from. This is a Kids Domain site.
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Cards
A Simple Thank You - A variety of thank-you certificates from the Not Just for Kids! web site.
Blue Mountain Thanksgiving Animated Electronic Greeting Cards - Send a virtual Thanksgiving postcard! Turkey Dance, Bird is the Word, and Turkey Poem.
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Foods
Butterball - Cooking tips and turkey recipes (especially good recipes for turkey leftovers). Also a just for fun page with turkey trivia, tidbits and teasers and an activity page.
The Official Circleville Pumpkin Show - Begun in 1903, this event is held each October in Circleville, Ohio, and is the sixth largest festival in the United States with an annual attendance of over 300,000 persons. This web site provides a history of the festival, photos from past pumpkin shows (including the world's largest pumpkin pie at 350 pounds), parade information, and information on the forthcoming event.
The Pumpkin Circle - An elementary school project designed to assist children with discoveries in nature related to a backyard pumpkin patch. This site includes related classroom activities, complete details on growing pumpkins, and information on obtaining free pumpkin seeds.
The Pumpkin Patch - Subtitled 'Everything you ever wanted to know about pumpkins,' this site provides links to how to grow pumpkins, pumpkin clip art, pumpkin poetry, and much more.
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Christmas
Christmas around the world - Find out how Christmas is celebrated in lots of different countries around the world.
Santa's Net - Welcome to Santas.Net Home of everything to do with Christmas and Santa Claus and How Christmas is celebrated around the world.
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Christmas Around the World
Kids Domain – Christmas around the world - Christmas in The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Ireland, Netherlands, Boxing Day, The Legend of Saint Nicholas
Christmas Around the World – The North Pole.com - This is a collection of historical Christmas celebrations for many different countries. The celebration or activity is the earliest account for each country and may not represent the current Christmas celebrations of today. Visit over 30 different countries and see how they celebrated Christmas!
Christmas Around the World - From Santa Claus.Com. The Elves have helped Santa find a few sites featuring great information about how different countries and cultures celebrate the Christmas season.
Education World - Lesson Planning: Christmas Around the World. A world of activities and Internet sites focused on the traditions and spirit of Christmas!
Christmas World -Learning about the Christmas customs of various nations helps us to understand the wide variety of traditions that families have practiced for many centuries around the globe. It's interesting to note how many aspects of Christmas have been adopted and adapted as they move across borders. When you click on the names of countries below, you will read about their holiday traditions, see pictures of celebrations, and hear some of their Christmas music.
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