Happy New Year Everybody Greetings and Games

Happy new years to you all!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All

Halloween words

Bat
Bobbing for apples (Halloween game)
Carved Pumpkin
Cemetery
Coffin
Costume
Devil
Dracula
Evil
Frightening
Ghost
Goblin
Graveyard
Haunted
Haunted house
Jack-O-Lantern
Mask
Mummies
Night
October
Potion
Pumpkin
Scary
Scream
Shadow
Shellout
Skeleton
Skull
Spider
Spirits
Spooky
Superstition
Tombstone
Trick
Trick-or-Treat
Vampire
Warlock
Wigs
Witch
Zombie

May Day Concert

Thanksgiving USA

The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing religious persecution in their native England. In 1609 a group of Pilgrims left England for the religious freedom in Holland where they lived and prospered. After a few years their children were speaking Dutch and had become attached to the dutch way of life. This worried the Pilgrims. They considered the Dutch frivolous and their ideas a threat to their children's education and morality.
So they decided to leave Holland and travel to the New World. Their trip was financed by a group of English investors, the Merchant Adventurers. It was agreed that the Pilgrims would be given passage and supplies in exchange for their working for their backers for 7 years.

Long ago, people called Pilgrims left their home in England and came across the ocean to America in a boat called the Mayflower. They built their own houses, planted seeds they had brought with them, and made friends with the Indians, who were already living in America. The Indians taught them how to plant corn and hunt and fish for animals that they could eat. In the fall, when the corn was ready, the Pilgrims picked it. It was their first harvest, and when they had finished, they had a party to celebrate and give thanks that they had enough food to last through the winter. The party, called the First Thanksgiving, was held outside, and everyone came, including the Indians. Now every year we celebrate Thanksgiving to remember the brave Pilgrims and to give thanks for all of our blessings.

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Remembrance day and Memorial day

REMEMBRANCE DAY - 11th November



Remembrance Day, also known as Poppy Day and Armistice Day is a day to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I, World War II, and other wars. It is observed on November 11 to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. The observance is specifically dedicated to members of the armed forces who were killed during war, and was created by King George V of the United Kingdom on November 7, 1919.

November is the time of the year when they wear a red poppy in momory of those who sacrificed their lives during war.

== > Learn why the poppy became the flower of remembrance == >

A writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
During the tremendous bombardments of the First World War the chalk soils became rich in lime from rubble, allowing 'popaver rhoeas' to thrive. When the war ended the lime was quickly absorbed, and the poppy began to disappear again.

After John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields was published in 1915 the poppy became a popular symbol for soldiers who died in battle.
Three years later an American, Moina Michael, was working in a New York City YMCA canteen when she started wearing a poppy in memory of the millions who died on the battlefield.
During a 1920 visit to the United States a French woman, Madame Guerin, learned of the custom. On her return to France she decided to use handmade poppies to raise money for the destitute children in war-torn areas of the country. In November, 1921, the first poppies were distributed in Canada.

http://www.dva.gov.au/commem/rememb/Rem_day.htm


MEMORIAL DAY - May

Memorial Day is much more than a three-day weekend that marks the beginning of summer. To many people, especially the nation's thousands of combat veterans, this day, which has a history stretching back all the way to the Civil War, is an important reminder of those who died in the service of their country.

http://www.usmemorialday.org/