History of New Year's Day
Attend New Year's Day Parade in London( Key facts and figures)

Print January 2009 calendar with possible activities for your students

New year resolutions

Have your students write a poem about New Year's resolutions, using the examples on PoetryTeachers.com
More work on New Year's resolutions here.
How to keep your New Year's resolutions
You can download this image and print it for your students to write on.
Have your students create their own worksheet

On the third Monday of January: Martin Luther King Jr's Day this year, January 18th
Read Making the Calendar, Seattle Times article that appeared in 1985 a year before the first celebration of the holiday in King's honor The History of Martin Luther King Day : who originated the idea of a national holiday in honor of MLK? A simple biography of MLK A biography of MLK A lesson plan about MLK A quiz for children about MLK's life Biographies of other great African Americans Martin Luther King's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Martin Luther King, Jr., Quotations Go tot he ActiveHistory site and have your students interview MLK Jr Some of these urls and others at Michelle Henry's great site		A timeline of the American Civil Rights movement Martin Luther King's timeline Look at Life Magazine covers of MLK Jr Listen to MLK's speech 'I have a dream' A teeny tiny little book about MLK, that you can print for younger students. A wordsearch to download and print A scavenger hunt about MLK. A few songs about MLK. And print this KWL worksheet for your students (what they know, what they want to learn, what they have learnt.) Martin Luther King Jr at Enchantedlearning for younger students A site with simple webquests, quiz and links to historical sites Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Activities. Ideas for intermediate level students MLK day on Wikipedia
Pages on the Paris English website A special page about Martin Luther King A treasure Hunt about Martin Luther King A page about the Civil rights movement in the US Three songs about Martin Luther King Jr on well-known tunes
A Song About Martin Luther King (sung to Yankee Doodle) Dr. King was a man Who came from Atlanta Georgia. Had a dream that he preached For all men to be equal. Dr King was so brave Martin was a hero. Won the fight for everyone To end discrimination.	Freedom Let it Ring (sung to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) Freedom, Freedom let it ring "Let it ring", said Dr King Let us live in harmony Peace and love for you and me Freedom freedom let it ring "Let it ring", said Dr King. Listen to the music here	Dr King Had a Dream (tune: Old MacDonald) Dr. King had a dream for p-e-a-c-e. He wanted people to be friends and live in harmony. He had lots of love to share. He spread kindness everywhere! Dr. King had a dream for p-e-a-c-e!
January 25th: Robert Burns Day
Robert Burns (1759-96), also known as Rabbie Burns the author of Auld Lang Syne A biography of Robert Burns A Burns Read Burns' poems online Listen to famous poems Read stories about Robert Burns Look at a facsimile of Auld Lang Syne Print a picture of Robert Burns A lesson about Burns on Developing Teacher.com		Celebrations Find all about Burns night on the BBC site 'The Burns Supper is an institution of Scottish life, a night to celebrate the life and genius of the national Bard'(quoted from the BBC site) A Haggis recipe Read and listen to the celebrated Ode to a Haggis More recipes for Burns night Send a card on Burns Day
January 26th: Australia Day
A Chronology of Australia History of Australia Day Here's an Aussie Crossword for your students And images for colouring for younger students		Learn atout Australia's symbols All about Australia's flags. Advance Australia fair, Australia's national anthem with music.

Activity on this site

To be an aborigine today (pour classe de seconde professionnelle)

Sites gathered by our colleague Christine Reymond from Rouen academy in Infonews

On the official site you can find

The new printed resource, Being Australian:
Australia Day Resources for Upper Primary Students, has been developed for upper primary students. The resources provide teachers with materials to develop students': understanding and appreciation of the importance and meaning of Australia Day to the Australian community awareness and understanding of ideas and themes that contribute to Australian identity reflection and understanding of the land, the people, diversity, Indigenous perspectives, values, rights and responsibilities of Australian society.

a page of trivia and quizzes, plus other resources like coloring pages and a crossword

a page of links : Australia online, with the sites of the government, museums, maps, sports, music, etc.

statistics and facts

Sites for young children and beginners

Jean-Pierre Palasse has designed this superb site, with lots of photos and useful information, plus questions for the students as they read and watch
an excellent easy webquest by Nathalie Vezon
a selection of sites for beginners and lower intermediates from Michèle Henry
a selection of easy documents from Zoom and Enchanted Learning
word find, crosswords, coloring pages
coloring, map collage and boomerang crafts
Australian clean-up day

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