Did you know... Thanksgiving is on 22nd November this year?

5 Fun Facts

1. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and it is a holiday in the USA.
2. The First Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The Pilgrims from England and the Native Americans (from the Wampanoag tribe) shared a meal to give thanks for the harvest that year.
3. Families come together to celebrate and eat a special dinner. They eat turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes and vegetables. For dessert they have pumpkin pie.

A typical Thanksgiving dinner

Pumpkin pie

     4. There is also an enormous parade in New York. Three million people attend and 45 million people watch on TV.

     5. People like to watch American football.

Watch this video about the arrival of the Pilgrims in the New World.

In 1620 the Mayflower ship sailed from Plymouth in the south of England to North America. You can learn about the journey in this video.

In this video you can learn about life for Pilgrim children.

Grammar Revision

Past Verbs

There are a lot of online exercises on the following website to practise the past.

was / were

Regular past verbs

Irregular past verbs

Negative verbs in the past

Questions in the past

In Year 6 we´ve been learning about...nouns, adjectives and verbs.

Nouns

Watch this video to revise what a noun is.

Here is a song about nouns.

On this website there are noun games to play.

Noun games

Adjectives

Revise what an adjective is with this video.

See if you like this song about adjectives.

Read this information about adjectives on the British Council website. There are also two games to play.

Grammar

Go to this website to play more adjective games.

Adjective games

Verbs 

Here are some facts about verbs.

Verb facts

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

Examples

The cat slept. That is John. She loves you. They are running. Go there on Monday. He said, "Hello!" Can you play the piano? The sleeping baby looks beautiful. She saw the girl who had won the competition.

A verb is a word that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb. Verbs  show present, past or future tense.

Watch this video about verbs.

Did you know...?

Today people are commemorating the centenary of 11-11-11.

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the First World War ended. At this time in 1918 Big Ben sounded to mark the end of the war.

Today in London, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and India, as well as in other countries of the world, there are ceremonies and displays to remember the people who died in the First World War.

At 11 o´clock there was a 2 minute silence and church bells rang.

People wore red poppies. This is a symbol to remember the people who died.

There are buildings with displays of poppies.

There was a procession of 10,000 people through London. ("The People´s Procession")

Animals such as horses, dogs and pigeons also participated in the war and we remember them too.

At Canterbury Cathedral there is a large sculpture of a war horse.

The popular children´s author, Michael Morpurgo, wrote a book about war horses ("War Horse") and it was made into a film. This beautiful story is in the library.

Faces of soldiers were drawn on the sand of beaches. This is Walter Tull, the first black soldier in the British army.

10,000 torches were lit in the moat of the Tower of London.

Diwali 2018

This year Diwali is celebrated on 7th November.

This is an important Indian festival. People wear new clothes, decorate their houses with rangoli and diya (lanterns), make special food and watch firework displays.

Diya lanterns

Rangoli

Rangoli

Rangoli

Typical food

Read information about Diwali and watch a video.

In Year 4 we´ve been revising... the family.

Play a game to revise the vocabulary.

Do a worksheet to practice using the vocabulary.

Bonfire Night

This is the rhyme that British children chant on Guy Fawkes Day (Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night).

Bonfire Night is a very popular festival in Britain. Families and friends celebrate by going to a party with a bonfire, fireworks and typical food such as toffee apples, hot dogs, jacket potatoes, parkin cake and toffee.

Follow this link to learn about the history behind Bonfire Night and some interesting facts about fireworks.

Find out more here.