HOLIDAYS AND CELEBRATIONS
HATS IN ASCOT
MAY 2020
FEBRUARY 2020
VALENTINE'S DAY
Valentine's
Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint
Valentine,[1]
is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Western
Christian feast
day honoring one or
two early Christian
martyrs named Saint
Valentine and is
recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial
celebration of romance and love
in many regions of the world.
Our
students at BG have sent their love and friendship messages to their
classmates, friends and family.
JANUARY 2020
MARTIN LUTHER KING ANNIVERSARY
MARTIN LUTHER KING ANNIVERSARY
In
January we celebrate Martin Luther King was born on January 15,
1929.King is best known for advancing civil
rights
through nonviolence
and civil
disobedience,
inspired by his Christian
beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma
Gandhi.
King's
birthday was finally approved as a federal holiday in 1983, and all
50 states made it a state government holiday by 2000. Officially,
King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. But the King holiday is
marked every year on the third Monday in January.
Famous
quotes by Martin Luther King, inspiration for students at BG, who
wrote their own sentences against violence and for human rights.
CHRISTMAS
THANKSGIVING
NOVEMBER 2019
In our eagerness to show students activities related to English speaking countries, every month we commemorate the most important celebrations in these countries.
In
this occasion, November people all over the world celebrate
Thanksgiving, that is a national holiday
celebrated on various dates in the United
States,
Canada,
some of the Caribbean
islands,
and Liberia.
Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second
Monday of October
in Canada and on the fourth
Thursday of November
in the United States and Brazil, and around the same part of the year in other places.
Students
at school wrote messages being thankful to all these relatives,
friends and people surrounding them.
These are the examples:
HALLOWEEN
OCTOBER 2019