Country or History Day
Find pictures of children from another country (preferably ones with different skin colors). Point out the different skin colors and then point out that they all have two legs, arms, one head, etc… They may look different, but we all have bodies that move and play.
Try playing a game that kids from that country like to play.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Where does Halloween Come From
Country or History Day
Read “Where does Halloween Come From?” and talk about Ireland, Scotland and the Celtic People.
WHERE DOES HALLOWEEN COME FROM?
We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st. Where
does the holiday come from?
The holiday originally comes from a people called the Celts.
The Celts lived in Europe more than 2000 years ago. On
November 1st they celebrated the end of summer. They thought
ghosts visited the living on October 31st. They dressed up like
ghosts so the spirits would not harm them.
Today, many countries still remember the dead on
November 1st. It is called All Saints Day. Another name for it is All
Hallow’s Day. The day before, October 31st, is called All Hallow’s
Eve, or Halloween for short.
Halloween is an old tradition in Ireland and Scotland. In
those countries, people dressed up and carried lanterns made of
turnips. When people moved from Ireland and Scotland to the
United States, they started using pumpkins. This is where the
jack-o’-lantern comes from.
They also had a tradition of giving food to the spirits. Later,
they gave the food to poor people. This is where trick-or-treating
comes from.
Halloween has changed a lot since its origins. New people
have brought new traditions, and changed the old ones. What do
you think Halloween will be like in another two thousand years?
I would probably pick one or two things to teach the kids not all they may get bored. Spruce up with pictures or crafts etc.
Read “Where does Halloween Come From?” and talk about Ireland, Scotland and the Celtic People.
WHERE DOES HALLOWEEN COME FROM?
We celebrate Halloween every year on October 31st. Where
does the holiday come from?
The holiday originally comes from a people called the Celts.
The Celts lived in Europe more than 2000 years ago. On
November 1st they celebrated the end of summer. They thought
ghosts visited the living on October 31st. They dressed up like
ghosts so the spirits would not harm them.
Today, many countries still remember the dead on
November 1st. It is called All Saints Day. Another name for it is All
Hallow’s Day. The day before, October 31st, is called All Hallow’s
Eve, or Halloween for short.
Halloween is an old tradition in Ireland and Scotland. In
those countries, people dressed up and carried lanterns made of
turnips. When people moved from Ireland and Scotland to the
United States, they started using pumpkins. This is where the
jack-o’-lantern comes from.
They also had a tradition of giving food to the spirits. Later,
they gave the food to poor people. This is where trick-or-treating
comes from.
Halloween has changed a lot since its origins. New people
have brought new traditions, and changed the old ones. What do
you think Halloween will be like in another two thousand years?
I would probably pick one or two things to teach the kids not all they may get bored. Spruce up with pictures or crafts etc.
Insects Around the World
Country or History Activity – Insects Around the World
Talk about the insects you found on the Scavenger Hunt. Explain they are found here in Arizona. Show them a map of the world (Globe) and point out AZ. Proceed to tell them about other insects found around the globe while reading the info below and pointing to the corresponding location on the map. Add any you many know of.
On the land however there isn't anywhere you can go that you can't find some insects, even in the frozen extremes of Arctica and Antartica you will find some insects alive and active during the warmer months.
Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) from South America the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick
Heaviest insect in the world in the form of the True Wetas from New Zealand.
Longhorn beetles are nearly as large and may look even bigger because of their longer legs i.e. Xixuthrus heros from Fiji.
In Africa swarms of Orthoptera ( Desert Locusts Schistocerca gregaria) may contain as many as 28,000,000,000 individuals. Although each Locust only weighs about 2.5grams when they are all added up together this comes to 70,000 tons of locust.
Ants are social animals and live in colonies, sometimes these colonies may contain only 50 or so individuals, but, one supercolony of Formica yessensis on the coast of Japan is reported to have had 1,080,000 queens and 306,000,000 workers in 45,000 interconnected nests.
In 1943 Profeesor Salt found that an acre of British pastureland near Cambridge supported over 1,000,000,000 Arthropods of which nearly 400,000,000 were Insects and 666,000,000 were Mites the remaining 38,000,000 were Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes).
Talk about the insects you found on the Scavenger Hunt. Explain they are found here in Arizona. Show them a map of the world (Globe) and point out AZ. Proceed to tell them about other insects found around the globe while reading the info below and pointing to the corresponding location on the map. Add any you many know of.
On the land however there isn't anywhere you can go that you can't find some insects, even in the frozen extremes of Arctica and Antartica you will find some insects alive and active during the warmer months.
Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) from South America the males of which can be 9cms long by 5cms wide by 4cms thick
Heaviest insect in the world in the form of the True Wetas from New Zealand.
Longhorn beetles are nearly as large and may look even bigger because of their longer legs i.e. Xixuthrus heros from Fiji.
In Africa swarms of Orthoptera ( Desert Locusts Schistocerca gregaria) may contain as many as 28,000,000,000 individuals. Although each Locust only weighs about 2.5grams when they are all added up together this comes to 70,000 tons of locust.
Ants are social animals and live in colonies, sometimes these colonies may contain only 50 or so individuals, but, one supercolony of Formica yessensis on the coast of Japan is reported to have had 1,080,000 queens and 306,000,000 workers in 45,000 interconnected nests.
In 1943 Profeesor Salt found that an acre of British pastureland near Cambridge supported over 1,000,000,000 Arthropods of which nearly 400,000,000 were Insects and 666,000,000 were Mites the remaining 38,000,000 were Myriapods (Centipedes and Millipedes).
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