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Resources: Easter

History and Symbols :

• A game: Egg Rolling - explained with illustrations (ospitiweb.indire.it)

• Easter (refuel.org.uk)
  

• The Traditions of Easter (Wilstar)
  
  

• Whyeaster?com (whyeaster.com)
  Easter Customs - Easter Cultures - Easter Story - Easter Fun (word searches, etc)
  
  

• Easter in England (Woodlands Junior School)
  
  

• Easter Lessons - facts, hunts, activities, symbols, songs, poems... (The Educator's Network)

• Easter Celebrations (learnenglish.de)

• Easter Around the World (easterbunnys.net)

• Worldwide Easter Celebrations (How Stuff Works)

• Commercial Easter Celebrations (How Stuff Works)

• Famous Bunnies (alphabet-soup.net) :
  Peter Rabbit / Peter Cottontail / Bugs Bunny / Brer Rabbit / The Easter Bunny
  
  
  

Superstitions :

• Common superstitions (csicop) :
  • "For good luck, wear new clothes on Easter."

Vocabulary :

• Easter Words - with pictures and definitions (esclub.gr)
• Easter vocabulary - Review - with AUDIO (marks-english-school.com)
  

• GAMES to come

• Easter Vocabulary - with definitions (johnsesl)

Listening :

• Easter Words - with pictures and definitions (esclub.gr)

  
  

• Easter vocabulary - Review - with AUDIO (marks-english-school.com)
  - with a GAME

Tongue twisters :

• Easter tongue twisters (Bethany Roberts)
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INTERACTIVE activities :

• A Song and some Easter jokes for you!
  "Look at the video and read the lyrics of the song : "Peter Cottontail", then play the game. Happy Easter!"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

• Quiz: Easter - interactive (CBBC Newsround
  
  
• EASTER
  

Matching - Flashcards (Java / non-Java) - Concentration - Word Search
Activities created by: Renée Maufroid

EASTER 10 QUESTION QUIZ - easy (sunniebunniezz.com)

• HOLY WEEK: Vocabulary - Matching exercise (Isabel Perez)
  
  

• Easter Quiz (a4esl)

• Sweet Facts About Easter 10 Questions (Teacher Vision)

• Easter - "Read the ... story and answer the questions that follow." (a4esl)

• Easter Quiz - Rabbits, religion, and the White House Egg Roll (Infoplease)
  
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Easter Invitation Cards - to print (magicalkingdom.co.uk)

• Easter Day Riddler with visuals or without visuals (alfy.com)
  
  
• Create Your Own Easter Story (teach-nology.com)
  

• The Easter Egg Roll in Washington D.C.
  (extrait du manuel "Step In" 5ème, page 94, Unit 3, 'Reading')
  - un travail de compréhension proposé par Martine ALBRECH, Collège d'Ars-sur-Moselle, Ac. Nancy-Metz
  
  

• Vocabulary matching (Edhelper)
  
  

• Multiple Choice Vocabulary (Edhelper)
  
  

• A story with questions : "The Rabbit Grows a Crop of Money" - A Central African Tale (volweb.utk.edu)
  
  

• Easter Lessons - facts, hunts, activities, symbols, songs, poems... (The Educator's Network)

• Easter Resource Page - Lessons and Units - Worksheets - Clipart & Images (Teacher Planet)

• Nombreuses activités sur Pâques, poèmes, chansons (Teach-nology)

• Kid's Domain : History, activities, games, stories, poems... (kidsdomain.com)
  
  

Webquests :

• Happy Easter! - for beginners (Michelle Henry - Editions Didier)
  

• No More Easter - (schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us)
  Language arts webquest created for grades 1-4 ...
  "will tell you about where the Easter bunny came from, the kinds of bunnies, the meaning of Easter, and why he uses eggs ...
  You will find puzzles, music, songs, and fun Easter recipes."
  

• Easter Scavenger Hunt - (lessonplans.btskinner)
  "Visit the links ... to find out about the history of the Easter holiday."

• A story with questions : "The Rabbit Grows a Crop of Money" - A Central African Tale (volweb.utk.edu)
  
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Easter Games (esclub.gr)

• Easter Worksheets (bogglesworldesl.com) :
  Easter Crossword - Easter Rhymes - Easter Egg Hunt - Easter Word Search -
  Easter Egg Hunt Activity Pack for Fish, Memory, and Bingo - Easter Bunny Connect the Dots -
  Easter Big Letters Coloring Sheets - Easter Egg Find

• Easter. Hangman - Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  

• Easter vocabulary - Review - with AUDIO (marks-english-school.com)
  - with a GAME

• Easter Games (gamequarium.com)

Games TO PRINT :

• Easter word hunt for very beginners - 12 Words Across and Down (kidsdomain)

• Easy Easter Word Search (kate.net)

• Word Hunt for Beginners - 21 Words Across and Down (kidsdomain)

• A Trickier Word Hunt - 30 Words Across, Down, Forwards, Backwards (kidsdomain)

• The Ultimate Hunt - 30 Words in every direction, including slanty (kidsdomain)

• Beginner Crossword - Fit 7 words into the puzzle (kidsdomain)

• Harder Crossword - Fit 10 words into the puzzle (kidsdomain)

• Easter crossword (Definitions) - (Edhelper)

• Idem (Definitions and List of words) - (Edhelper)

Jokes :

• Jokes (Happy Easter)
  
  
  
  

Cartoons :

Homeland security
- Happy Easter!
(cagle.com)

EASTER CARTOONS
(off the mark)


Happy Easter!
(polarnet.ca)

The snake and the eggs
(offthemark.com)

Who bit the heads...
(offthemark.com)

Stories :

• A STORY: THE EASTER BUNNY IS ILL (ospitiweb.indire.it)

  
  

Poems :

• Easter word poem - to create (transcoder.usablenet.com)

Cards :

• Easter / Springtime Cards - interactive (Jacquie Lawson)

• Easter Invitation Cards - to print (magicalkingdom.co.uk)

• Happy Easter! - a card (icq.com)
  
  

• Happy Easter : Card 1 + Card 2 (Jacquie Lawson's cards)

Songs :

• A Song and some Easter jokes for you!
  "Look at the video and read the lyrics of the song : "Peter Cottontail", then play the game. Happy Easter!"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

• Peter Cottontail - a song (grandparentsmagazine.net)
  "Here comes Peter Cottontail,
  Hoppin' down the bunny trail,
  Hippity, hoppity,
  Easter's on its way."
  - with the VIDEO (YouTube) or KARAOKE

• Easter Bunny Animation
  - une parodie d'une chanson des Sugarhill Gang : "Rapper's delight"
  (i.flowgo.com)

  
  

• Easter Folk Song List (nwfolk.com)

Animations :

• The Adventurous Bunny and Easter Island (learningbox.com)
  Illustrated online story of a long-eared bunny on a voyage to Easter Island ... what happens to him?
  
  

• Easter Bunny Animation
  

• - une parodie d'une chanson des Sugarhill Gang : "Rapper's delight"
  (i.flowgo.com)

Resources: St. Patrick's Day

ThanX Christine!

St Patrick in Chicago

See the video (too long, edit it to use it in class)
http://www.greenchicagoriver.com/pics.html
Read about the tradition
http://www.chicagostpatsparade.com/river-dye.html
Here is the full story
http://www.greenchicagoriver.com/story.html
See the parade and the whole tradition in Chicago
http://www.chicagostpatsparade.com/parade.html

Video and an interactive book

A mini-site from History Channel (with a video for advanced students, rather religious but usable)
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=1082
An interactive book of fact
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/patricks/book.shtml

Traditions and parades

- see pictures of the parades in Dublin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/patricks/parade_gallery.shtml
- U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features: Irish-American Heritage Month and St. Patrick's Day
[LII New This Week recommended this site of facts and statistics related to St. Patrick's Day, including topics such as population distribution of Americans with Irish ancestry, immigration, places in the U.S. called Dublin and Shamrock, trade with Ireland, beer consumption, and "[the] number of U.S. residents who speak Irish Gaelic at home." From the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/009465.html

St Patrick's story and legends, and several Irish legends

http://www.youthonline.ca/stpatricksday/history.shtml
http://blackdog4kids.com/holiday/pat/history.html
http://www.stpatricksday.com/history/stpatricksday/ (history of the day in Ireland and all over the world)
http://www.marvelicious.com/stpatrick.html
http://www.sparta.k12.il.us/SID/legends.htm
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/civilisation/patrick.html (history and links, ready to use in the computer lab)
http://members.tripod.com/~bgilley/INDEX.HTM ( short texts about the legends and traditions like "wearing green or getting pinched" and the Blarney Stone)

The Leprechaun's Pot of Gold

A short story about a leprechaun
http://www.beavers.westlancashirescouts.org.uk/Programme%20Ideas/The%20Lazy%20Leprechaun.doc
*** Leprechauns' story starters (to make students write stories, excellent for all levels)
http://www.teachersdesk.org/topics/leprechaun.html
Several activities and handicrafts around the theme
- for the youngest : make a rainbow bookmark
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/printcraft.cfm?CraftID=823
- for beginners : color a picture, and write a poem, a few sentence or just some words underneath
http://www.abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/March/colorwrite.htm
- for kindergarten and primary school : the leprechaun's dance and other songs based on famous tunes
http://www.hummingbirded.com/st-pattys.html
- several activities around the theme, from games to math, including pictures to color
http://www.abcschoolhouse.com/seasonal_pdfs/march_ideas.pdf
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/St__Patrick_s_Day/
http://www.theideabox.com/ib.php?web=special&id=saint
- another page of activities : Color a pot of gold, a shamrock, read the story of St Patrick, answer trivias, etc.
http://www.youthonline.ca/stpatricksday/

Handicrafts and coloring pages

- coloring pages, cut out jigsaw puzzles
http://www.billybear4kids.com/holidays/stpatty/fun.htm
- rainbow mobiles
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/stpatrick/Rainbow.shtml
- Lucky stones
http://www.makingfriends.com/stones_magic.htm
- Rainbow and shamrocks
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hol/stpart.html
- Paint a shamrock
http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/shamrockfun.shtml
- Shamrock template
http://www.first-school.ws/t/pattern/clover.htm
- Hairy shamrocks (with growing seeds)
http://www.theideabox.com/Hairy_Shamrocks.html
- Coloring page
http://www.coloring.ws/patrick.htm

Ireland map coloring Printout

A map of Ireland to color, for geography and English classes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/europe/ireland/activity.shtml

Treasure hunts/webquests/quizzes

http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/stpat/quiz.htm (easy, for lower intermediates)
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/patwqki.doc
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/patrickwq.htm

Ready to use lessons in .pdf

A quiz, a short history of Ireland, a text and a crossword
http://www.reward-english.com/warehouse/March/RW025C-stpatrickI.pdf
a warming up the text and the crossword
http://www.reward-english.com/warehouse/March/RW025C-stpatrickU.pdf
crossword, text and vocabulary
http://www.reward-english.com/warehouse/March/RW025C-stpatrickE.pdf

Recipes

Fun St Patrick's meal and desserts
http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/holiday_pat_ideas.htm
Irish recipes (with cookies!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/recipes/index.shtml

Other sites about Ireland and St Patrick's Day

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/stpatrick/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/spring/patricks/index.shtml
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/unitssubjhol/qt/mar17a7.htm
http://www.sdmf.k12.wi.us/bf/resources/stpatrick.htm
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/patrick.htm
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/fetes03.php