Christmas Festivity

Christmas

Christmas is nowadays a worldwide religious and secular celebration to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ and includes many pre-Christian and pagan traditions. It is on December 25th and people usually use decorations like Christmas trees and lights or Nativity scenes, complete an Advent Calendar, listen to Christmas music and sing carols, exchange cards and presents and have a family special meal.

Easter Festivity

Easter

 Easter is a festival to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Traditionally there are some customs associated with Easter like Egg Hunting, the Easter Bunny, Easter parades and special Easter foods.

Primary Easter Festivity

Easter pictures

Primary children play Easter Pictures Pairs games and are entertained working out their attention and memory and reviewing Easter vocabulary.

Primary Christmas Festivity

Christmas pictures

Primary children play Christmas Pictures Pairs games and have fun working out their attention and memory and reviewing Christmas vocabulary.

Bonfire Night Festivity

BONFIRE NIGHT

Bonfire Night is a traditional festivity that involves bonfires and fireworks. In the United Kingdom it is on November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day, to commemorate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot on November 5th in 1605, when one of the plotters, Guy Fawkes, was caught guarding gunpowder to blow up the the Houses of Parliament.

Primary 4 Bonfire Night Festivity

TRADITIONAL BONFIRE NIGHT RHYME

Primary 4 children know this famous 17th Century rhyme about Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Day and the Gunpowder plot:

Traditional Guy Fawkes Mask

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot

I see no reason why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot

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Halloween Festivity

HALLOWEEN

The word Halloween comes from (All) Hallow(s') E(v)en and means the evening before All Hallows' Day or All Saints Day. It is a festivity on October 31st and people usually carve pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, wear costumes, do trick-or-treating, go to parties, play apple bobbing, eat sweets, watch horror films...

Primary Halloween Festivity

HALLOWEEN PICTURES

Primary children play Halloween Pictures Pairs games and are entertained working out their attention and memory and reviewing Halloween vocabulary.