Special Days

http://www.theholidayzone.com/
The Holiday Zone offers free holiday and seasonal educational resources for use in early childhood and elementary educational settings. Holiday and seasonal materials include learning games, whole language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, fingerplays, printable worksheets, printable and interactive puzzles, coloring pages, art and craft activities, educational game ideas, and children's literature recommendations. Themes include: Easter, Chusok, Hanukkah and Christmas.

http://www.foodieview.com/index.jsp
http://www.101cookbooks.com/

http://recipes.wuzzle.org/

Chinese New Year  

This site provides information on how the Chinese New Year's Day
   is determined, the Chinese solar/lunar calendar, the animals of
   the Chinese zodiac, significance of Chinese dragons, calligraphy,
   and Chinese graphics.

  http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html

Food Network.com: Holiday Archives
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   Recipes and menus for major and some minor holidays (including April Fool's Day, Mardi Gras, and Oktoberfest). Cooks will appreciate the sidebar topics that pop up with every recipe: Terms and Tips Encyclopedia, Culinary Q and As, Ingredient Substitutes, and Fat and Calorie Calculator.

  http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_holidays

Kidlink: Multicultural Calendar
 http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/
 This site contains recipes for holiday foods, historical background,
significance of the holidays and the special ways in which these days are
observed.

Mother's Day ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mother's Day: What You Need to Know
 
    Offers historical facts and figures about Mother's Day, links to    information about famous mothers, and several ideas for    celebrating the holiday.
  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020506a.htm

U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Mother's Day
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    Facts and statistics about the holiday and about mothers. Features    data on working mothers, single mothers, number of children,    flowers, and related topics. Includes photos and an audio clip.

    From the U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features _special_editions/001780.html

 RobertSabuda.com: Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make!
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   This site provides patterns and detailed instructions, illustrated
   with photographs, for making more than a dozen pop-up cards.
   Includes cards for Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, and
   Thanksgiving. From a pop-up card engineer and author.

  http://robertsabuda.com/popmakesimple.asp

ST PATRICK'S DAY 

Hi Neil
As a "tyke" and going through many St. Patrick's Days
over the years (all in primary, but what the hell).
My suggestion is:
Go green.....everywhere.
Imitation Blarney Stone (green of Course) either paper mache or whatever, people may kiss it, etc.
Green balloons
Green footprints leading to places in the Library or ?
 
Look for the pot of gold.
Leprachauns...

An old boss of mine was Irish, and we always dressed
up his office with the balloons, footprints, blarney stone etc.  Then the staff morning tea, all food coloured green...good fun...
Get with it, you'll be surprised where it will go to.

 I'm going to decorate the library with many of these things....the boys (years 5 and 6) can cut out the footprints, paint in the overhead picture of the leprechaun....I';m feeling inspired, thanks for reminding me, Neil and good luck.  I always feel, if you're convinced it's going to be good, then you'll carry it off.  But, get into the spirit yourself.  (Be a little leprechaun (how do you spell that??), have a competition, whatever.  Don't forget the shamrocks, four leaf clovers, etc.

Adele English

Try
www.teachnet.com/lesson/misc/stpats031099.html


http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6666.html

May Day

http://www.umkc.edu/imc/mayday.htm

Food Network.com: Holiday Archives
   Recipes and menus for major and some minor holidays (including April Fool's Day, Mardi Gras, and Oktoberfest).Cooks will appreciate the sidebar topics that pop up with every recipe: Terms and Tips Encyclopedia, Culinary Q and As, Ingredient Substitutes, and Fat and Calorie Calculator.
   http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/et_holidays

St David's Day

Christmas