- President's Day (Feb 20th)
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.