The Holiday Zone Celebrates Fall

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div align="center"> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><a href="http://www.sitesforteachers.com/cgi-bin/in.cgi?id=hzone" target="_new"><font size="+1">Sitesforteachers.com:</font><font size="2"><br> </font><font size="2">Click here to access hundreds of other educatational web sites.</font><font size="2"><br> <br> <SCRIPT type="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="javascript" src="http://www.qksz.net/1e-dzd8"> </SCRIPT> <br> </font></a></font><BR> <img src="autumn.gif" width="424" height="301" border="0" alt="Celebrating Fall at TheHolidayZone.com"><BR> <BR> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="labor/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Labor Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Labor Day at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Labor Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">September 1, 2008</span></td> <td rowspan="20" width="160" align="top" valign="top"> <div align="center"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=59338&u=231610&m=10433&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/129.gif" border=0></a><br> <br> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> <br>  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=85908&bid=202954" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT> <noscript> <a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com">marketing</a> </noscript> <br> <br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=95998&u=231610&m=9286&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/120240_color.gif" border=0></a><br><br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=59417&u=231610&m=10450&urllink=&afftrack="><img src="http://www.shareasale.com/image/125b1.gif" border=0></a> <br> <br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=59417&u=231610&m=10450&urllink=&afftrack="> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> </a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">First celebrated in New York in 1882, Labor Day began as a parade to honor the working class. Following the success of the day's festivities, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts passed laws making Labor Day a state holiday. In 1894, the U.S. Congress followed suit, declaring the first Monday of each September a national holiday in honor of the working class. Canada also celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="grandparentsday/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating National Grandparents Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="24" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating National Grandparents Day at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Grandparents Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">September 7, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">National Grandparents Day serves as a day for Americans to honor grandparents -- not just those to whom they are related, but each and every senior citizen who has helped to make home, community, and country what it is today. It is observed the Sunday after Labor Day.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="constitution/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Constitution Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating U.S. Constitution Day at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Constitution Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">September 17, 2007</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">Constitution Day marks the anniversary of the 1787 of the U.S. Constitution. The law that created Constitution Day requires all schools in the United States which receive federal funding to observe the day by providing instruction directly related to the history of the U.S. Constitution.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="autumn/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Fall at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Autumn at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Autumn Celebrations</span></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">Visit this page to find a variety of language activities, crafts, games, songs, writing prompts, printables, and other activities to celebrate the season of autumn. This year, autumn officially begins on September 22.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="chuseok/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Chuseok at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Chuseok at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Chuseok</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">September 14, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">Sometimes referred to as the "Korean Thanksgiving," Chuseok (also transliterated as Chusok, Chu'sok, and Chu'seok) is actually a harvest celebration. Chuseok falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the day of the full moon referred to as the "harvest moon." </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="columbus/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Columbus Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Columbus Day at TheHolidayZone.com" align="top"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Columbus Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">October 13, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">Columbus Day honors the explorer Christopher Columbus, who first landed in the New World on October 12, 1492. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 Columbus Day. President Richard Nixon later declared Columbus Day a national holiday to be observed the second Monday of each October. Although it is a national holiday, Columbus Day is not without controversy. Some people choose to remember the victims of European exploration and settlement by observing the day as Indigenous Peoples Day.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="reformation/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Reformation Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Reformation Day at TheHolidayZone.com"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Reformation Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">October 31, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">Reformation Day commemorates Martin Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany on October 31st, 1517, commonly regarded as the pivotal act that launched Europe into the era known as the Protestant Reformation. Reformation Day also celebrates the religious, social, and political changes brought about by the Reformation. Reformation Day is both a religious and a civil holiday. It is widely observed as a religious holiday in Lutheran and Reformed Church circles. It is also celebrated as a civil holiday in Slovenia and in certain German states.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="halloween/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Halloween at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Halloween at TheHolidayZone.com"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Halloween</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">October 31, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><font size="-1">With a history dating back some 2,000 years, Halloween is among the oldest holidays on the western calendar. Today, most people associate Halloween with children and think of it as the season of costumes, parties, and trick-or-treating. Its origins go back to the Druid religious festival of Sanheim, however, when the Celts dressed in costumes, built huge bonfires, and offered plant and animal sacrifices in an effort to appease the spirits before winter. After the Roman Conquest in A.D. 43, Sanheim was merged with the Roman festivals of Feralia (a day honoring the dead) and Pomona (a day honoring the Roman goddess of fruit and trees). The holiday changed yet again during the seventh century when Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 as All Saints' Day or All-Hallows, a time to honor saints and martyrs. October 31 came to be known as All-Hallows Eve, then Hallowe'en, and finally Halloween.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="veterans/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Veterans Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Veterans Day at TheHolidayZone.com"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Veterans Day</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">November 11, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">One year after World War I drew to a close, President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11, 1919, as Armistice Day--a national holiday to celebrate victory in "the war to end all wars." Yet the dream of world of peace was soon shattered as first World War II, then the Korean Conflict called America's troops back to the battlefield. In 1954, Armistice Day was re-named as Veterans Day, a fitting tribute to all the men and women who have defended the cause of freedom around the world.</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"><a href="thanks/index.html" target="_top" title="Celebrating Thanksgiving Day at TheHolidayZone.com"><img src="autumnbut.gif" width="25" height="25" border="0" alt="Celebrating Thanksgiving at TheHolidayZone.com"></a></td> <td><span class="bold2">Thanksgiving</span></td> <td><span class="bold2">November 27, 2008</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="25"></td> <td colspan="2"><span class="bold3">The Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock in December of 1620 found the New World much different than they had expected. Amid the hard New England winter, 46 of the 121 persons who made the voyage perished. But the fall of 1621 brought a bountiful harvest, giving those who remained a change to survive the coming winter. The surviving Pilgrims, along with 91 Native American guests, celebrated the first Thanksgiving with wild game and vegetables. Throughout Colonial history, similar celebrations occurred whenever settlers felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude toward God. In fact, George Washington even declared a national day of Thanksgiving in 1789. But Thanksgiving did not become a regular holiday until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill proclaiming the last Thursday of each November to be Thanksgiving Day. 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