F Merry Christmas Festivals worksheet

Write.

bells ​chimney ​Father Christmas ​lights ​reindeer ​snowman

1 2

4 5 6

Write.

1 The chimney is on the house.

2 The is in the garage.
3 The is in the garden.
4 The are in the hall.
5 The are in the dining room.
6 is in the living room.

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 F Merry Christmas Festivals worksheet

Match and write.

1 Father man

2 rein ts

3 ligh Christmas

4 snow lls

5 be deer

Write and circle.

1 2 3

1 The snowman is under / next to the lights .

2 is under / behind the .
3 The is next to / behind the .

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 F Christmas Cut-out

Make a Christmas bell.

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 F Easter Festivals worksheet

Circle and write.

gs Easterbunnyflo
ho reg wer
tcr
ossbunsEa ste sch
icksbasket

1 2

4 5 6

Look, read and circle.

1 Can you see a rainbow? 5 Can you see a hill?
Yes, I can. / No, I can’t. Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
2 Can you see a lake? 6 Can you see a rock?
Yes, I can. / No, I can’t. Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
3 Can you see a tree? 7 Can you see a river?
Yes, I can. / No, I can’t. Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
4 Can you see a road? 8 Can you see a farm?
Yes, I can. / No, I can’t. Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
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 F Easter Festivals worksheet

Write.

a  ​a  ​a e  ​e  ​e  ​e  ​e i o  ​o  ​o u  ​u y

A B

1
2 5
3 6

1 b sk t 4 h t cr ss b ns
2 E st r ggs 5 ch cks
3 E st r b nn 6 fl w rs

Look and write the differences.

In picture A ...
1 The Easter eggs are in the basket .
2 The flowers are in front of the .
3 The chicks are in front of the .
In picture B ...
4 The are in the basket.
5 The are behind the basket.
6 The are next to the Easter bunny.

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 F Easter Cut-out

Make an egg and a chick.

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 F New Year’s Eve Festivals worksheet

Write the months and draw. Write your friends’ birthdays.

November ​May ​January ​March ​December ​April ​
July ​October ​February ​September ​August ​June

¯ ƒ µ å

Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays:

µ ¯ ¯ å

Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays:

‡ Ø ² ∂

Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays: Birthdays:

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Look and write.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
R O I L E Y K U D A

8 4 9 0   6 4 3 3 5
 
2  3 2 6 4   5 1 7!
    !
0 1 8 8 5

Make your own card. Write.

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 F Saint Patrick’s Day Festivals worksheet

Make the Shamrock cut-out.

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Make the funny flick-book.

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 F May Day Festivals worksheet

Join the maypole to the children.

Complete the puzzle.

maypole ​friends ​music ​family ​dance ​happy

1 2 3

1
2
3
4 5 6
4 5
6

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 F Father’s Day Festivals worksheet

Read and tick ✓.

My dad can:

hop draw ride a bike

climb catch play football

Make a card. Draw and write what your dad can do.

Happy
Father’s
My dad is great!
He can .

Happy Father’s Day!

Love,

Day
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 F Swan Upping Festivals worksheet

Look and count.

river

swans

boats

ducks

trees

Write. o dywin
e etb gs
fea r df
thersbi

Swans
This is a swan. It’s a
b . It’s got a
white b . It’s got
two black f .
It’s got big w .
It’s got f .
It’s beautiful!

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 F Notting Hill Carnival Festivals worksheet

Read and colour.

She’s wearing a red dress. He’s wearing a purple T-shirt.

She’s wearing blue wings. He’s wearing pink shorts.
She’s wearing green boots. He’s wearing yellow feathers.
She’s wearing orange sunglasses. He’s wearing green shoes.

Draw yourself at carnival. What are you wearing? Write.

fl’m wearing

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 F Harvest Festival Festivals worksheet

Thank you for

the food we eat

Look and count.

olives grapes cherries

strawberries eggs sandwiches

Read and draw.

8 tomatoes 7 peaches 9 oranges
5 pears 3 apples 2 cakes

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 F Halloween Festivals worksheet

Read and colour.

5 black bats 8 orange pumpkins
3 brown rats 2 green monsters
4 purple witches 6 blue ghosts

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 F Bonfire Night Festivals worksheet

Colour the key. Colour by number.

1 red 2 blue 3 green 4 yellow

5 black 6 purple 7 pink 8 orange

Rooftops Bonfire Party

5
2
3

4
1
8

7
4

At Rooftops Primary School

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Teaching notes Festivals

Merry Christmas 1 Easter 2

Write. Write.
1 chimney 1 basket
2 snowman 2 Easter eggs
3 reindeer 3 Easter bunny
4 lights 4 hot cross buns
5 bells 5 chicks
6 Father Christmas 6 flowers
Write. Look and write the differences.
1 The chimney is on the house. 1 The Easter eggs are in the basket.
2 The reindeer is in the garage. 2 The flowers are in front of the Easter bunny.
3 The snowman is in the garden. 3 The chicks are in front of the baskets.
4 The bells are in the hall. In picture B ...
5 The lights are in the dining room. 4 The hot cross buns are in the basket.
6 Father Christmas is in the living room. 5 The chicks are behind the basket.
6 The flowers are next to the Easter bunny.
Merry Christmas 2
Match and write. New Year’s Eve
1 Father Christmas
Culture Note:
2 reindeer
In the UK people have parties on New Year’s Eve (31st
3 lights
December) to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. On
4 snowman New Year’s Day traditionally there are lots of sporting
5 bells events. Do any of your students play sports on New
Write and circle. Year’s Day? People also make New Year’s resolutions.
1 The snowman is next to the lights. These are promises that you make to yourself for the
2 Father Christmas is under the bells. year to come, like being nice to your brother or sister,
or trying to be neater. Encourage your students to
3 The reindeer is behind the chimney.
think of New Year’s resolutions.
Write the months and draw. Write your
Easter 1
friends’ birthdays.
Circle and write. • Revise the months of the year with the students.
1 hot cross buns Then ask them to fill in the words on their
2 Easter eggs calendars. There is a wordpool to help them.
3 Easter bunny • Ask them to draw a picture or stick something in
4 flowers that reminds them of that month.
5 chicks • Teach your students to ask When is your birthday?
6 basket Then either as a whole class, or in small groups, ask
your students to ask when their friends’ birthdays
Look, read and circle. are and write their names under the appropriate
1 Yes, I can. month on their calendar.
2 No, I can’t.
3 Yes, I can.
4 No, I can’t.
5 No, I can’t.
6 Yes, I can.
7 Yes, I can.
8 No, I can’t.

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Valentine’s Day
Culture Note:
Valentine’s Day is on 14th February. Traditionally,
people send each other cards to say that they like or
love them. Sometimes people like to keep their
identities secret and don’t write their names or write
them in codes or riddles.
Look and write.
• Show the students the code and explain that the
Valentine’s card message has been written in code
and they need to crack it to work out who the card
is from.
Answer:
Dear Kelly, I like you! Roddy
Make your own card. Write.
• Once the students have cracked the code, show
them the blank card below. Ask them to cut it out,
decorate it and then write a message inside before
secretly giving it to another student.
Saint Patrick’s Day
Culture Note:
Saint Patrick’s Day is an Irish Festival, celebrated on
17 March in honour of Saint Patrick, the patron saint
of Ireland. Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated with
parades in large cities with people wearing green.
The shamrock is a traditional symbol of Saint Patrick’s
day. It is a three-leaved clover native to Ireland,
considered a good-luck symbol. Ask your pupils if
they know any other good-luck symbols.
Make the Shamrock cut-out.
• Print the template and ask the children to colour it.
• Ask the children to cut out the template pieces
(this can be done beforehand).
• Once they have cut out the template, ask them to
fold the shamrocks so they are two sided. They then
cut on each of the dotted lines right up to the
centre. Finally, they slide the two shamrocks
together, top to bottom, to obtain a 3D shamrock.
• A ribbon or a thread can be glued onto the top of
the shamrock. Alternatively, the children can punch
a small hole, with your assistance, and tie a
ribbon through it.
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Culture Note:
April Fool’s Day is on the 1st April. It’s a special day
when people like to be silly, to laugh and play jokes
on one another. Ask your students if they know any
jokes. Here are a few English jokes you may like to tell
your students:
What’s a cat’s favourite colour? Purr-ple!
What is the biggest ant in the world? An eleph-ant!
How do bees go to school? On the school buzz!
Make the funny flick-book.
• Ask the children to colour in the pictures. They
should then cut out each section and staple them
together to make a little book, before cutting along
the horizontal lines to make it into a flick-book.
• Once they have finished, encourage them to turn
back different bits to change what the characters
are wearing. Ask the students if they look funny.
Encourage them to describe each character.
May Day
Culture Note:
May Day is on the 1st of May. It is a spring festival. In
many towns and villages in the UK, special
celebrations are held where there is traditional
dancing like Morris dancing and children also dance
around a maypole. A maypole is a large pole with
ribbons hanging from it. Children dance around the
maypole holding onto the ribbons and they plait
special patterns. It is a time when communities come
together to celebrate with music and dancing.
Join the maypole to the children.
• Show the students the picture of a maypole and the
children. Ask them to draw in the ribbons joining
the children to the maypole.
Complete the puzzle.
• Show the children the puzzle. Explain that they
must use the picture cues to complete the puzzle.
• Ask the students what the secret word is (May Day).
Tell the children that the words in the puzzle are all
important parts of May Day.
Answers:
1 music ​2 dance ​3 family ​
4 friends ​
5 happy ​ 6 maypole
Secret word: May Day
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Father’s Day Harvest Festival

Culture Note: Culture Note:
Father’s Day is on the 16th June. It’s a special day Harvest festival celebrates the harvest and is also a
where people celebrate their fathers. They might give time when people give thanks and think about those
them a card and a present, or go out for a special who don’t have much. In schools, churches and
meal. village halls, people bring in food to share with the
Read and tick ✓. community, and to give to those who are poor or
• Ask the students to think about all the things their elderly.
fathers are good at. Then ask them to look at the Look and count.
worksheet and tick the sentences. If a student • Ask the students to look at the table of food ready
doesn’t have a father, ask them to think about for harvest festival. Ask them to look and count the
someone else in their family they would like to food on the table.
celebrate (e.g. grandfather, uncle). Answers:
Make a card. Draw and write what your dad olives 17, grapes 11, cherries 15, strawberries 12,
can do. eggs 8, sandwiches 4
• Show the students the Father’s Day card. Ask them Read and draw.
to draw a picture of something their father is good
• Then ask the students to read the other food items
at or really likes. Help the children cut out the two
that should be at the harvest festival. Ask them to
panels and stick the picture onto dedication
draw them on the table.
a folded piece of paper and the
dedication inside. Then ask them picture
to fill in the gaps. They can use Halloween
the first activity to help them.
Culture Note:
Swan Upping Halloween is on the 31st October. People have parties
and dress up in fancy dress. They play special games
Culture Note: like bobbing for apples. This is when you put apples
in a big bowl of water and children try to get the
Swan Upping takes place in the third week of July on
apples out without using their hands.
the River Thames in England. It is a day when people
go out on the river in special boats and count all the Read and colour.
swans on the river. • Show the students the Halloween things on the
Look and count. worksheet. Remind the students that people
sometimes dress up as these things for
• Show the students the picture of the river. Tell the
Halloween parties.
students to help count the swans at the Swan
Upping festival. Then ask them to count the other • Ask them to read the sentences and colour the
things on the river. items accordingly.
Answer:
Bonfire Night
river 1, swans 20, boats 3, trees 8, ducks 6
Write. Culture Note:
• Show them the fact file about swans. Ask the Bonfire Night is on the 5th November. People have
students to circle the words in the wordsnake and parties with big bonfires and firework displays.
use them to finish the fact file.
Colour the key. Colour by number.
Answers: • Show the students the key at the top. Ask them to
bird, body, feet, wings, feathers read the colour and colour in the key.
• Then ask them to colour in the poster for the
Notting Hill Carnival Rooftops Bonfire Party following the key.

Culture Note:
Notting Hill Carnival is held over two days at the end
of August in London. It is a very large carnival in
central London. There is lots of wonderful Caribbean
food and a parade with music and fantastic costumes.
Read and colour.
• Show the students the picture of the two people at
Notting Hill Carnival. They are in the parade. Ask
them to read and colour their costumes.
Draw yourself at carnival. What are you
wearing? Write.
• Ask the students to imagine they are at Notting Hill
Carnival. Ask them to draw and colour their own
costume and describe it.
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