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.
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General/Historical
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Web Pages - A good starting place for factual detailed information about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower.
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.
Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation - Offers a virtual tour of Plimoth Plantation.
Plymouth: Its History and People - Presented as the official web site of Plymouth, Massachusetts, brief histories are given for the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag tribe, and prominent Pilgrims, such as John Alden, William Bradford, and Myles Standish. This is a good site for basic background information, but provides few links to other related sites.
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 - Begin by clicking on 'How long until Thanksgiving' to discover how many months, days, and hours it is until the holiday. THen take the ten-question Thanksgiving Quiz.
Aristotle's Thanksgiving on the Web - This site offers submitted stories, often funny, about 'Favorite Thanksgivings.' It also provides an eclectic list of 'Turkey Facts'
An American Thanksgiving - Provides links to other Thanksgiving web sites, including materials on THe First Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Fun, and Thanksgiving Feast.
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.
Bountiful Thanksgiving on Kate.net - A friendly, comprehensive site for Thanksgivng resources on the web. Includes historical documents, educational materials, electronic cards, food and recipes, activities, games and puzzles, and links to Thanksgiving stories and songs.
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Songs and Activities
Thanksgiving Songs - Words to a dozen Thanksgiving songs are included at this site.
Thanksgiving Games - This site includes a dozen fun Thanksgiving games for kids.
Kids Domain Thanksgiving - Each fall this site provides updated links to Thanksgiving crafts and recipes, pictures to color, puzzles and mazes, and clip art.
April 23, 2008ity of information contained within this site.')">Kids Domain Thanksgiving Clip Art - Over fifty examples of free colorized Thanksgiving clip art are provided. Includes drawings of Pilgrims, turkeys, cornucopias, and Native Americans.
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
Northpole.com - You'll find a personalized storybook, good deed calendar, games, puzzles and activities,
stories children can read, have read to them (quality sound) and color, make cards and postcards, send a letter to Santa, track Santa with NORAD's Santa Tracker. At Elf Pal Academy children can learn through a number of interesting activies such as word searches, concentration, sound recognition, mazes, math riddles, telling time, counting money, etc.
Christmas 'round the World (Wide Web) - The title of this site is misleading. It doesn't have much about Christmas around the world, but it does include:
- Like a Bowl Full of Jelly...A Technical Analysis of Santa Claus, 25 Ways to Annoy Your Roommate at Christmas, Interview with Santa, The Present Mix-up, A Tardis Christmas
- Christmas Entertainment, Christmas in the Movies, Sing-Along Christmas Carols, Christmas Music, How Christmas Works, Christmas Trivia Quiz, Misletoe Jam, Yes, Virginia, A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Gift of the Magi, Close to Home: Victorian Christmas Front Porch Tour, Awesome Christmas Clipart, Christmas GIF Images
- ...and Presents 'neath the Tree - Give a Goat for Christmas, Christmas tree and Ornaments, Holiday MP3s, Gypsy Soul Christmas, A-Word-A-Day Gift Subscription (Free), Advent Calendar, Christmas Crafts, ChristmasShopping Ideas, All About Christmas, Letters From Santa, Email Santa
Education World - December Holidays - December is a month full of special days. Education World offers resources to help educators teach about all those special days. The resources below fall into the following three categories: Holiday Lesson Plans, Holiday Art & Gift Projects, and Additional Holiday Resources.
All Things Christmas - You'll find holiday treasures such as printable cards and gift tags, lyrics to your favorite Christmas carols, Christmas songs in MIDI format, unique craft ideas, decorating tips, illustrated full length Christmas stories, delicious recipes, links to other Christmas web sites and more including our North Pole section which offers fun, games, riddles, printables and other goodies just for kids.
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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.
Christmas Traditions Around the World - An annotated listing of resources available online on Christmas tradition in various countries of the world. These pages were created to help teachers, especially those involved in second language teaching.
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