Holidays

Valentines Day:

• Valentine's Day Activities - Activities for the classroom.
• Valentine's Day Theme Units - from ABC Teach (K-8)
• Valentine's Day Links - Lesson plans, ideas and links K-12
• Valentine's Day Kids' Activities - Freeware software downloads for Mac and PC along with crafts, recipes, wordgames, and more.
• Valentine's Day Lesson Plans - List of lots of fun things to do with your students.
• Valentine's Day Theme Units at EdHelper - Plays, stories, coloring activities, puzzles, mazes and much more.

• Christmas Traditions Around the World - Learn how others celebrate Christmas. The information placed on this site may not be the way all people celebrate traditions today many are over 100 years old. Many people change to suit their families.
• Billy Bear says Merry Christmas - Links to games, stories, clip art, cards, crafts, and more for younger children.

Hanukkah:

• Bennings Hanukkah Home - The history of Hanukkah.

Thanksgiving:

• Billy Bear's Happy Thanksgiving - This site is full of Thanksgiving fun including party games, party food, and crafts. (*There is some commercial advertising on the page)

Veteran's Day:

• Veteran's Day - Information, lesson plans, links.

Halloween:

• Everything Halloween - One stop resource for Halloween links, games, activities, and more.

Cinco de Mayo:

• Cinco de Mayo Webquest - A grade 2-3 Webquest
• Cinco de Mayo History - History of the holiday written for young readers. (grades 2-3)
• Cinco de Mayo

St. Patrick's Day:

• Ireland:surfnetkids.com - If you want to stop for some St. Patrick's Day fun and history, here's some links for you.
• St. Patrick's Day Activities - On-line games, clip art, crafts, ecards, pictures to color, and more.
• Billy Bear says Happy St. Patrick's Day - A pot o'gold! This site links to pages to color, tic tac toe with a leprechaun, word searches, clip art, online games, money game, and much more.