Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Discovery news: Find great topics for your final projects!

Looking for a place to find a good topic for your final projects? Well, visit the Discovery News site, where you can find daily news and  resources like nice videos and images as well as great stories.
This is a video I found there. It tells about how Halloween came to be what people around the world celebrate. Have fun watching it... and Hope yo had a Happy Halloween!!



Did you know this is the origin of halloween? What's your oinion about celebrating Halloween?

Keep On shining Love and Peace!
Doris3m

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Haloween.. is almost here... Spooky Fun


The scariest night of the year. All around the world, people celebrate spookiness.


 
On 31 October there are loads of Halloween traditions. If you go to a party, expect stuff like:
  • Scary fancy dress
  • Making pumpkin lanterns
  • Trick or treating
  • Bobbing for apples
  • Telling ghost stories
But not everyone agrees with Halloween. Some religious people believe that making a game out of evil spirits and witches is wrong.

  • The British Council site has a spooky language game.. with Halloween words....want to try it? 
  • A haunted house has lots of scary things in it - ghosts, skeletons and lots more! Can you find objects in the haunted house? Click on level 1 or level 2
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  • And A Halloween story: The Magic Spell.
  • Billy and Tom are pretending to be wizards. They are making a magic potion. Watch, read and listen to the story. Will the magic spell work?
  • Have you finished the story? Print an activity to do (164KB) 
  • Here you can read about Halloween from Around the World
  • The New York Times has a spooky slide show about Halloween with great photos!
  • How to videos about Halloween at Videojug
  • Halloween postcards
    Now, it's your turn.. these are great resources for you to write your own Halloween post. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and don't forget to let me know and your classmates you posted about Halloween.

    Keep on shining Love and Peace..even on Halloween night... giggles!
    Doris3m 

    Tuesday, October 30, 2007

    Halloween!!! What's your opinion?

    Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, Halloween festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and viewing horror films. Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is now celebrated in several parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In many Latin American countries, it is known as Noche de las Brujas (Night of the Witches).

    Some people say....
    It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels, Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms. In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat. Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! -Jack Prelutsky

    Common Halloween characters include ghosts, ghouls, witches, vampires, bats, owls, crows, vultures, haunted houses, pumpkinmen, black cats, aliens, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, and demons. Particularly in America, symbolism is inspired by classic horror films, which contain fictional figures like Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and The Mummy. More modern horror antagonists like Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and the Jigsaw Killer have also become associated with the holiday. Homes are often decorated with these symbols around Halloween.

    Black and orange are the traditional colors of Halloween.[20]

    * This was taken from wikipedia

    What about Venezuela? Slovenia? Argentina? or Abudabi? Tell us.... What do you do to celebrate?

    Send a Halloween card to your friends...... go to:
    This is mine...


    Watch this video from the New York Time about halloween