President’s Day is celebrated each year on the third Monday of February to honor two of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
History of the Day
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/Pd/prindex.html
http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Holidays/celebrate/presiden.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidents’_Day
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/washington1.html (with useful fact files)
Official sites
Meet the Presidents, from the official website of the White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/
Presidents’ Day resources from US education website
http://www.ed.gov/free/pd.html
Here are some activities, crafts and worksheets for beginners and lower intermediates from Enchanted Learning:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/presidentsday/
Other sites
Here are several other suggestions (including lesson plans and worksheets) from The Classroom Flyer from Riverdeep, including lists of the presidents, links to official sites, Mont Rushmore and a lot more…
http://rivapprod2.riverdeep.net/portal/page?_pageid=338,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL#3
and visit also those US educational sites offering resources
http://www.education-world.com/holidays/archives/february.shtml#president (lots of activities and info)
http://fun.familyeducation.com/presidents-day/holidays-and-celebrations/32937.html
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/presday.html
http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/presidents/presidents.htm ( game : name that president)
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hol/president.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/tf-lb-pday.html ( a quiz)
http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/presidents/pres.htm ( a webquest)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/socstu/presday2.htm
Voyez aussi cette page faite par les collègues de l’académie de Paris:
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/fetes02.php#pdt
Vous y trouverez aussi des idées pour Leap Day, le 29 février.
