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30 Quotes that can Change Your Life

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Healthy Snowman

Christmas Traditions Old and New

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Learning with the News: More Than 1 Million Children are Refugees

Christmas Holiday...Why?

Christmas

Christmas is celebrated on the 25 December (7 January for Orthodox Christians).

Christmas is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus who Christians believe to be the Son of God.

Advent

Advent is the period which leads up to Christmas. It starts on the Sunday nearest to November 30th.

Many Advent customs involve counting the days until Christmas begins.

Some churches have an advent wreath with five candles, one for each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day and one for the day itself.

More Christianity events and festivals

Christianity - An Introduction

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Lent

Questions answered

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Easter

Questions answered

Classroom activities

Worksheets

Christmas

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Classroom activities

Worksheets

From BBC Schools

12 Days of Christmas and Madagascar

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

Carrots War

Christmas Story Animation

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Christmas is coming...Ho ho ho

Christmas is a time for families and friends to come together to celebate the season with gifts, food, beautiful decorations, laughter and music, to enjoy each other's company, and HOLIDAYS, yes holidays but how much do you know about this celebration? Try this quiz and find out. 

You can get information in WhyChristmas.com

Mr Bean and the Christmas Turkey

The Snowman By British Council Learning Kids

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It's winter and everywhere is covered in snow. 

Katie and Eddie make a snowman. What's going on?

Is the snowman waving at them?

The 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Daily Activities

Here We Go with the Present Girl

Do you want more information and exercises? Try Isabel Perez's web

Are you Ready for a Game?

Play the Sentence Monkey

Practice Question Words – What, where, who, why, when, which, how

Play the verb to be game

Online Advent Calendar by Woodlands Junior School

On each day in December 2013, test your knowledge on how Christmas is celebrated around the world, using our very own interactive advent calendar. Most of the facts and photos in the Woodlands Junior advent calendar have been sent to us by schools and visitors around the world.

No peeking before the correct day.