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Week 7: Celebrations And Festivities

It’s the penultimate (second last) week of the Student Blogging Challenge for 2019!

Some of our STUBC participants will be celebrating Thanksgiving soon. Other participants will have other special holidays coming up like Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, or New Year.

This week we’d like to find out about the celebrations and festivities that are important to you. You might learn a few things about different cultures as well. Week 7 of the Student Blogging Challenge looks at festivities and celebrations around the world

Week Six Recap

Trophy image -- great workYou can find all the posts submitted about emojis here (or click on the pink week six box on the sidebar).

Let’s take a look at just some of the fantastic work we spotted last week:

  • Mrs. Yollis’ 3rd grade class invites you to solve their fabulous emoji math puzzles. They drew inspiration from Solvemoji.
  • Ms Krantzberg’s grade two students designed their own emojis on paper. Check out the photos!
  • Breckan made some emoji art and included a little blurb to explain what the activity was all about which is very helpful.
  • 14 year old Jordan made a fun story out of 10 emojis.
  • Mrs. Caudill showcased some of her students’ work in a blog post.
  • Kate wrote a fabulous post and completed more than one task. Check out the way she used a Toggle using the Live Shortcodes plugin to reveal her answer. Readers have to click on a box to make the answers appear.
  • You can view more great work on our 2019 Student Blogging Challenge Flipboard.

Reminders

Here are a few more important reminders:

  • The Google Forms for weeks 1-5 are now closed. If you’re catching up, just submit your post in a Google Form that’s still open (week 6 or 7).
  • To become a better blogger, before you publish consider: have I proofread? Is my text broken up in short paragraphs (bullet points can be good too)? Do I have an image?
  • Do your posts have any writing in them? Some bloggers are just adding an image to a post without any text. This can leave readers confused. Step up your efforts by including a little bit of writing that introduces the task.
  • Some classes are currently on holidays. That’s totally fine. You can catch up when you get back or just skip the weeks you’re away.

Time to begin this week’s topic…

Celebrations And Festivities

We have a diverse group taking part in the Student Blogging Challenge with lots of different cultural backgrounds represented.

Around the world, people celebrate different holidays and festivals.

It can be fun to tell people about our own traditions while hearing about others!

Want to learn a bit more about just some of the holidays that are celebrated around the world? This video might help.

This resource from ABC Australia also has some useful videos and information.

ABC Education Australia Celebration resources

Celebrations Poll

Just for fun, let’s find out what events you and your family celebrate.

Please take our quick poll below. 

Here’s a link to the poll if you want to share it with your students.

https://forms.gle/KaDUKnWQUw7FLzZu7

We’ll share the results next week.

Week Seven Tasks

This week there are 4 tasks to choose from that explore holidays, celebrations, and festivities. 

Our graphic summarises the tasks and I will explain each task in more detail below.

Week 7 of the STUBC is about holidays and celebrations

Task 1: Family Celebrations

Think of all the holidays, festivals, or celebrations that are important to your family. Write a blog post about this.

  • You could make a list of your family’s celebrations with a short description for each one, or
  • You could choose one celebration to explain in more detail.

Don’t forget to include lots of information about your holiday so your readers can get a clear understanding of this special day/season.

You could include things like:

  • The time of year/date it’s celebrated.
  • What you do to celebrate? Are there special costumes, decorations, music, lights, food, prayers, etc?
  • Do people give each other gifts?
  • Who is involved in the celebration? Do you visit other people or host family and friends?
  • What special memories do you have?

You might even like to do some research into the origins of your holiday.

Examples:

  • Nandini from India used a Google Slides presentation to tell us about the Holi festival.
  • Mr. Matt told us about Chinese New Year in Taiwan.
  • Brady shared a bit about all the holidays he celebrates.
  • Satheprincess14 wrote about Holi.
  • Mrs. Matveyeva’s class in Kazakhstan wrote about their spring festival called Nauryz.

Task 2: Photo Spark

Often, holidays and celebrations include different decorations, food, costumes, or other objects.

Think of a celebration that’s important in your family and share a photo of something that represents that holiday.

Write a reflection to give readers an idea of the significance of this object.

Check out this example on the New York Times — Holiday Memories. 

Holiday Memories NY Times

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing this idea. 

Remember, don’t include photos of people (including yourself) without permission.

Examples:

  • Keylee shared a photo that represents Christmas.
  • Gabby wrote an excellent piece about celebrations that included multiple pictures and some fun polls.

Task 3: Holiday Craft

Some people enjoy making craft for special holidays and seasons.

This task involves creating something and then adding a photo of it to a blog post with a description. Or you could even make a video tutorial for your readers!

If you find inspiration from a website, be sure to include the link in your post.

Craft inspiration:

  • Origami Club has a list of origami (paper folding) objects you can make for a variety of holidays.
  • DLTK has lots of ideas sorted into different holidays.
  • RedTedArt has some great seasonal craft ideas.

Diwali kids craft

Examples:

  • Rhiann made a fantastic video to share a craft idea.
  • Kaylie made a candle and explained how she did it. She also including the link to the site she used.
  • Mia explained how she made some snowflakes.

Task 4: Holiday Poem

A special holiday or celebration can be a great topic to write a poem about.

This task involves writing any sort of poem about any celebration or festival that’s important to you.

Stuck for ideas?

Why not try magnetic poetry or a visual poem?

Magnetic Poetry — This is where you put words together to make a poem. It uses Google Drawings or Slides.

  • Halloween magnetic poetry by Kasey Bell
  • Thanksgiving magnetic poetry by Jamie Forshey
  • Easter magnetic poetry by Jamie Forshey
  • St. Patrick’s Day magnetic poetry by Jamie Forshey

Visual Poem

Explore the fantastic poetry generators on the Language is a Virus website. (I believe this works best on a computer rather than tablet/mobile device).

For example, their visual poetry mosaic tool displays your work as a shape. Take a screenshot of your end result and add it to a blog post as an image.

Visual Poetry Example The Edublogger.

If you don’t want to use that tool, you could display your poem creatively using a tool like Google Drawings or Canva.

Submit Your Post URL ⬇

If you’d like a commenter and others to visit your post about celebrations, fill in the form below.

This video shows you how to find your URL…

Note, this isn’t a real class blog. Just one I used for testing 😉

 

This graphic below should help you understand what a post URL looks like if you’re using Edublogs/CampusPress/WordPress

Examples of post URLS for STUBCThe Google Form

Edit: The week 7 Google Form is now closed. Feel free to enter the URL of your work in the week 8 Google Form (closes Sunday December 8, 2019).


Next week’s topic: Celebrate And Reflect!

Remember, next week is the final week of the Student Blogging Challenge.

What's on this page?

  • Week Six Recap
  • Reminders
  • Celebrations And Festivities
  • Celebrations Poll
  • Week Seven Tasks
    • Task 1: Family Celebrations
      • Examples:
    • Task 2: Photo Spark
      • Examples:
    • Task 3: Holiday Craft
      • Examples:
    • Task 4: Holiday Poem
      • Stuck for ideas?
  • Submit Your Post URL ⬇
    • The Google Form

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14 thoughts on “Week 7: Celebrations And Festivities”

  1. michaelamouse says:
    December 4, 2019 at 01:39

    I LOVE THE BLOGGING CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  2. samanthas4k says:
    November 23, 2019 at 21:57

    Hi kathleen!
    If that may not work please try this one
    http://samanthas4k.edublogs.org/2019/11/23/celerbrations-and-festivals🎇🎆🎈/

    Reply
    1. Kathleen Morris says:
      November 24, 2019 at 09:03

      You’ve been busy, Samantha! I’ll add this to our group Flipboard so others can take a look!

      Best wishes,
      Kathleen

      Reply
      1. samanthas4k says:
        November 25, 2019 at 17:16

        Thanku!!!

        Reply
  3. samanthas4k says:
    November 23, 2019 at 21:48

    Hi kathleen!
    Samantha here
    I have completed the challenge!!
    Here’s the permalink!
    http://samanthas4k.edublogs.org/2019/11/23/celerbrations-an…s-festivities🎇🎆🎈/

    Reply
  4. chase803 says:
    November 22, 2019 at 09:55

    Dear Kathleen I want you to see my post here is my URL https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ye1N-Kl5RhqjK-AoTYvQKNNjAy6r0VEz6hDg8yUxSEs/edit#slide=id.p

    Reply
    1. Kathleen Morris says:
      November 24, 2019 at 09:02

      Hi Chase,
      Access is denied on this work. Maybe you need to change the privacy settings?
      Thanks!
      Kathleen

      Reply
  5. ruby803 says:
    November 22, 2019 at 09:04

    Hi Kathleen,
    I finished my presentation on holidays and celebrations, it was really fun to work on. Please check it out if you have a chance and let me know what you think! http://ruby803.edublogs.org/2019/11/20/week-7-celebrations-and-traditions/ Thank you and have a great day! From Ruby

    Reply
    1. Kathleen Morris says:
      November 24, 2019 at 09:02

      Great work, Ruby! I just left you a comment 🙂

      Kathleen

      Reply
  6. I like trains! says:
    November 22, 2019 at 01:30

    I love celebrations and festivities!!

    Reply
  7. justinjswca says:
    November 22, 2019 at 00:09

    Hey Kathleen, i redid the entry form and wanted help getting english III

    Reply
  8. Kylee says:
    November 21, 2019 at 03:41

    Amazing Challenge!!

    Reply
  9. riddhi4k says:
    November 17, 2019 at 21:30

    Hey Kathleen!
    I have completed the challenge of writing about celebrations and festivities. Make sure to read it on riddhi4k.edublogs.org/2019/11/17/celebrations/

    Reply
    1. riddhi4k says:
      November 17, 2019 at 21:35

      Sorry, the permalink is incorrect. It is actually riddhi4k.edublogs.org/2019/11/17/celebrations!!

      Reply

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What’s on this page?

  • Week Six Recap
  • Reminders
  • Celebrations And Festivities
  • Celebrations Poll
  • Week Seven Tasks
    • Task 1: Family Celebrations
      • Examples:
    • Task 2: Photo Spark
      • Examples:
    • Task 3: Holiday Craft
      • Examples:
    • Task 4: Holiday Poem
      • Stuck for ideas?
  • Submit Your Post URL ⬇
    • The Google Form
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