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Holidays & Special Events

Monthly links pages for this site:

January	April	July	October
February	May	August	November
March	June	September	December

Other helpful holiday links:

Yahoo! Kids> Around the World> Holidays

Yahoo! Kids links for holidays celebrated around the world. You can look at a listing by country or by month, or just scroll down the list and pick the holiday you want.
URL: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Holidays

Diversity Calendar

A calendar of holidays for many different cultures, arranged by month.
URL: http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/

January Featured Web Sites

Is Geography Awareness Week before Thanksgiving or after? Which month is National Poetry Month? Answer these questions and more when you visit this site from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Each event in the list is followed by links to websites that help you learn more about it. This link will take you to January's featured events, but if you look below the list of web sites, you will find arrows to scroll through to other months.
URL: http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/elementary/Featured/January.htm

Yahoo! Kids: United States Holidays

Yahoo! Kids links for American holidays, like Fourth of July, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, etc.
URL: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Countries/United-States/Holidays

The History of the Holidays

Learn about the history of the holidays, from the History Channel. Includes many different holidays, with information and additional resources for each. Some have videos, some tell about tradional holiday foods -- you're sure to find something interesting!
URL: http://www.history.com/historyoftheholidays/index.jsp

The Holiday Zone

For each season and all the major holidays, access ideas you can use in the classroom: craft projects, language arts activities, poetry, links to resources, and more.
URL: http://www.theholidayzone.com/

Holidays

A list of links to holiday resource sites for educators.
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/web_resources/holidays.html

Holiday Dates

This year's dates for more holidays than you knew existed, listed in chronological order, some with links to more information on that holiday. You can also check the dates of holidays for last year and next year.
URL: http://www.holidays.net/dates.htm

Bizarre American Holidays

If you feel the need to celebrate but today is not a well-known holiday, check out this site to see what you could be celebrating today or any other day you'd like. You can search by month or by category (like food holidays or animal holidays, for example.)
URL: http://library.thinkquest.org/2886/?tqskip=1

URL: http://www.wssu.org/nes%20library%20page/monthly.html