Spanish Holidays

Hispanic Heritage month (September 15-October 15):

http://www.richlandonline.com/news/2007/FortJacksonCelebration.asp  (from 2007 year,but you get the idea)

http://www.crayola.com/calendar/detail.cfm?event_id=161&year=2008&extended=true 

http://www.justreadfamilies.org/Reading/HHM.asp

http://tuvida.aol.com/especiales/hispanic-heritage-month 

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/hispanic_resources.html

http://www.racebridgesforschools.com/olga_tracks/nepantla.html (Olga Loya tells of her experience growing up Mexican American in Los Angeles)

Dia de los Muertos: 

http://www.inside-mexico.com/dayofthedeadarticles.htm 

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/teachers/ 

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=dia+de+los+muertos&rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.dayofthedead.com/ 

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html 

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/ 

http://www.kidchef.com/cda/article_detail.cfm?articleId=31

http://www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm

http://www.diadelosmuertos.us/

http://muertos.palomar.edu/ 

http://www.mexonline.com/daydead.htm 

http://www3.niu.edu/newsplace/nndia.html

http://www.acabtu.com.mx/diademuertos/index.html

http://www.mythinglinks.org/DayOfDead.html

http://yumfood.net/articles/diadelosmuertos.html

 Día de los Muertos Web Quest(inside-Mexico) Webquest_Day_of_Dead.html

Dia de los Muertos (link to presentation below)

Virtual Face painting: Students will use www.seenly.com to capture their image from Chromebooks.  (save by pressing 2 fingers onto the pad and save image as....) .  Open another window to go to www.picmonkey.com (choose pumpkin image and theme Dia de los meurtos), do the artwork.  Save it and input to teacher public document by inserting image and upload.  press CTRL + M (to find the local drive and the picture just taken).    

 http://pinterest.com/picmonkeyapp/day-of-the-dead/  sample made by teacher: http://www.picmonkey.com/p/2DbvtjKnz7p

picture taken by Lumos Studios.  Enhanced www.picmonkey.com

Students create their own Dia de los Muertos art:  Samples from slide 18 above and its link (www.tinyurl.com/dodart).  

10 points for skeleton, 5 bright colors, 5 points similarity to authentic art used as demonstration.

Dates of Mexican Holidays

http://www.mexweb.com/holidays.htm

Quinceañera

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=quinceanera&rys=0&itag=crv 

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpquince.html 

http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/youth/cinco_quince.html

http://party1049.netmio.com/quinceanera/0,2025,CI7-LGen-ID182,00.html

http://www.chaffey.org/students/tigerrag/1998-09/quince.html

http://www.elcharro1.com/QUINCEANERA.html (outfits of quinceañeras mexican charro style)

http://www.geocities.com/ltrevino_2000/mundo_de_cristal/quinceaniera.html (lyric of the song "quinceañera")

http://pressroom.hallmark.com/quinceanera.html 

http://www.clearfork.k12.oh.us/sites/webquest/bevierj/index2.html (organize a quinceañera as a class project)

Quinceañera presentation above (link) 

Spring Break/ Semana Santa

 Cinco de Mayo

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=cinco+de+mayo&rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm

http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm

http://www.nacnet.org/assunta/spa5may.htm

http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/youth/cinco_index.html (class project on cinco de mayo celebration)

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/cinco/ (games/history & more)

http://www.cincodemayo.net/ 

Día de la amistad / Día de san valentín

http://sanvalentin.webcindario.com/tarjetas_san_valentin.html 

http://hometown.aol.com/orichacubano/page2.html 

http://www.diadesanvalentin.com/ 

Valentine Presentation

presentation also available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7B6Cd6E2ELQYTVEaWdiZ2lHeDg/edit?usp=sharing

Día de la Raza

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=dia+de+las+razas&rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.stmary.pvt.k12.de.us/mid_ElDia.html

http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/weekly/aa100601a.htm 

http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/glossary/defdiadelaraza.htm 

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/about/html/holidays/race_kids.html 

http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/schools/nihs/cjsmith31/projects/Columbus.html

Navidad

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=navidad&rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/christmas.html 

http://www.navidaddigital.com/

http://www.navidadlatina.com/

http://www.californiamall.com/holidaytraditions/traditions-spain.htm 

http://www.terra.es/navidad2000/cocina/listado.htm 

http://www.geocities.com/aries1123/villancico4.html

http://garfield-es.metropoliglobal.com/galeria/thumbnails.php?album=15&page=2

Tres Reyes Magos

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=img&cs=utf8&q=dia+de+los+tres+reyes+magos&rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libThreeKings.php

http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/vol4n01/ThreeKings-en.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/5718/fin.htm 

Cascarones activity: 

Mexican tradition as a party activity.

How to make them picture from http://ifunny.mobi/i/4AsWIvH41 

OTHER school HOLIDAYS of USA

US CONSTITUTION DAY SEPT 17

Constitution Preamble w/ sing-along text 3mins song (reminds kids to elementary days)

  A Day Without The Constitution 1min song (mind blowing for our teens) 

Followed by a quick conversation.

VETERANS DAY & Hispanic community. 

PBS LEARNING MEDIA | Veteran's Day | PBS KIDS 1min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PqQkskHW3g 

Why Do We Celebrate Veterans Day | Veterans Day Facts for Kids 6min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ZjoJCQvXA 

Black History Month-Feb