{2015} Columbus Day for Kids, Activities, Games, Cartoons

Columbus is credited with the discovery of America in 1492. In the United States, we celebrate his discovery with a special holiday called Columbus Day. Columbus Day always falls on the 2nd Monday in October.Can you imagine what it would be like to live on a crowded school bus for eight long months? Columbus and his men had a little more room than that, but not much. It was an amazing adventure!

Nearly everyone knows that "Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred ninety two (1492)."The question is - Was Columbus smart about safety?He founded America and it became a lesson to all small kids as like history to them in there books.

It is a matter of record that Columbus carefully planned the construction of his three ships - the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. He even ordered "crooked pines" from the Pyrenees to be dragged down to the sea to be used to make the frames, beams, and decks, for extra sturdiness. He had no idea what dangers he would face, but he was sure that one of them might be storms at sea.This is again a matter of study to small kids that Christopher Columbus made three ships and which again made a record in the history as well.These all small and big things about Christopher Columbus are been studied by the children as it increase their knowledge about the Columbus day.

Columbus Day for kids,Activities,Games and Cartoons is best day for all the kids people and old people for performing different and great types of activities like adventure sports or doing circus plays by dancing singing and many more hilarious and amazing activities.There are also many different types of games like cycling race playing volleyball basketball and many other etc.Kids also play many games which are like of there age.Many cartoons made dresses weared by people also make the audience laugh on many times.So on Columbus day all kids and small children really enjoy a lot making themselves happy and making columbus day a memorable day in their life as well.

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Columbus Day activities for first grade, lesson plans, massachusetts

In 1970 Columbus Day became an official United Sates federal holiday . The holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October since 1971, the same day is also be known and celebrated as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada. On cloumbus day it is generally observed by banks, the bond market, the U.S. Postal Service and other federal agencies, most state government offices, and some school districts; however, most businesses and stock exchanges remain open.” Some Italian-Americans celebrate their heritage on this day with parades or other festivities.

Some Lessons Plans:-

.With the poem “In 1492”, you can teach Columbus Day and poetry too! (LA K-1)
.This lesson is called “Sink or Float?” and uses the book “Christopher Columbus” 
.In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives .
.Students write a postcard from the perspective of a Spanish sailor in this lesson about Columbus’ first encounter with the Taino Indians.
.Here students write a letter about their “immigrant experience” after virtually exploring the Ellis Island immigration station 
.These ideas explore the complex relationships between Native Americans and European settlers .
.Students debate the benefits vs. effects of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in this well-developed lesson .

Massachusetts - officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,it is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Massachusetts is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east , New York to the west, Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, and Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south. By land area Massachusetts is the 7th smallest state, but of the 50 states it is the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated . It has the nation's sixth highest GDP per capita and is the most populous of the six New England States. The state features two separate metropolitan areas: the Springfield metropolitan area in the west and the Greater Boston area in the east. Approximately two-thirds of Massachusetts' population currently lives in Greater Boston.


Columbus Day – Second Monday in October* (Restrictions until 12 noon) (2)

Oct. 12, Mon. (2) - 2015

Oct. 10, Mon. (2) - 2016

Oct. 9, Mon. (2) - 2017

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