You can see Gloria and Bi Yu's PowerPoints on the web. [Gloria's PowerPoint had to be revised to fit the web)

Here are links to Christmas-related activities:

A4 ESL Christmas holiday page (this is an old page so some links no longer work, but most do)

Christmas Around the World

Christmas Around the World- (Kaboose)

Christmas Ideas for Moms

Christmas Traditions- A UK site featuring all things Christmas

Colonial Christmas- How Christmas was celebrated in Colonial Williamsburg

www.northpole.com - A Santa-focused  site

Visions of Christmas - a history of Christmas site (advanced)

Boggle's World- printable worksheets

Thanksgiving ESL Webquests

Thanksgiving Meal Quiz

ELCivics Thanksgiving reading

Thanksgiving reading quiz

Thanksgiving vocabulary- Manythings.org

USA Holidays Quiz (A4ESL)

Holiday Traditions Video- Youtube (blocked at school)

Thanksgiving Celebration Competitors

Holiday Traditions- ESL-lab discussion

Holiday Quiz- ELLO.org

Canadian Thanksgiving

VOA Special English Thanksgiving Interviews

A Difficult Life for American Settlers- VOA Special English

ESL.About.com Story and Quiz

French ESL site Thanksgiving links

Here are the Christmas PowerPoints.

CHRISTMAS STORY

Once upon a time there was a little boy, named Jason, this little boy used to lived with her father, his mom died a year ago on Christmas time; this was a terrible time for Jason and for the father too.

When this time of the year comming Jason feels sad, he don't want to remember the time when his mother dies.

One day he was watching a little bird on his bedroom window and the little bird won't flue  away, he was surprised because this bird has a lot of white and blue feathers.  Jason never saw a bird like this, he feels that this bird was special in someway,  but he don't know why.

His father was a farmer named Tom,  he allways woke up at 5:30 in the morning,  he start  the day given food to the chickens, the pigs, the cows and the sheeps too. He used to work all day long, he allways finished his day too tired and all he wants to do is to get rest on the end of the day.  His son help him with the house cores.  They lived alone in a farm with all the animals and his memories.

CHRISTMAS STORY

Once upon a time there was a little boy, named Jason, this little boy used to lived with her father, his mom died a year ago on Christmas time; this was a terrible time for Jason and for the father too.

When this time of the year comming Jason feels sad, he don't want to remember the time when his mother dies.

One day he was watching a little bird on his bedroom window and the little bird won't flue  away, he was surprised because this bird has a lot of white and blue feathers.  Jason never saw a bird like this, he feels that this bird was special in someway,  but he don't know why.

His father was a farmer named Tom,  he allways woke up at 5:30 in the morning,  he start  the day given food to the chickens, the pigs, the cows and the sheeps too. He used to work all day long, he allways finished his day too tired and all he wants to do is to get rest on the end of the day.  His son help him with the house cores.  They lived alone in a farm with all the animals and his memories.