HALLOWEEN IS COMING ON OCTOBER 31st!!!

Halloween is celebrated on October 31st every year. The holiday began as a Celtic festival from Ireland called Samhain.  Halloween is traditionally a holiday that is meant to ward off evil spirits. During the time of the Celtic traditions, people would carve out scary faces and figures in giant turnips, place a candle inside, and set in their windows to scare away evil ghosts and enemies on Halloween. 

Click here if you want to learn more about the origin and meaning of the different activities related to Halloween!
And here you’ll find ideas for customes, crafts, recipes and games!

How do they celebrate it in the different countries? Ask your class mates born in other countries.

What about in the United States? Ask Jennifer, our language assistant.

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CHRISTMAS CRACKERS!!

Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).

Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. In another each person will have their own cracker and will keep its contents regardless of whose end they were in. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy, small plasticmodel or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper.
Learn more....

AND NOW LET'S CRACK !

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