Bobcat Pride Press
2021-2022 Volume 3 - Issue 12
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Holidays Around the World
THINGS TO CELEBRATE IN DECEMBER
Holidays Around the World Slideshow
Mateo Lindenmeyer, Eric Foelting, Tom Foelting & Mason Morad, Sid Butala, Aaron Quan
4th Grade
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ENCOURAGEMENT & KINDNESS SNOWFLAKES
Weekly Puzzles
This week’s theme is Holidays Around the World
A Joke from Grace
Why is a fish so smart?
Because they live in schools!
Miss Lumina and Miss Emerald
This week’s theme is about holidays around the world ! Let’s begin!
Q: What is Boxing Day? Boxers fight?
✧A: Boxing Day, in Great Britain and some Commonwealth (an independent country or community) countries, particularly Australia, Canada, and New Zealand celebrate boxing day on which servants, tradespeople, and the poor traditionally were greeted with gifts. By the 21st century it had become a day with shopping and sporting events. Boxing Day is celebrated on Sunday, December 26, 2021. Don’t explode! If you are wondering why this holiday is called boxing day check out this link -Miss. Emerald
Q: Why do people light menorahs on Hanukkah?
☾A: A popular question. A popular answer. But a short answer is needed...even though the Jewish people were celebrating Hanukkah every year after the original rededication, for the first 250 years, the focus was strictly on the rededication itself. Then the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, noted that Hanukkah marked a victory of light over darkness. Whether the mention of “light” was literal or metaphorical, it caught on as an idea. Jewish people began associating the re-dedication of the Temple with light, and over time, began celebrating Hanukkah by lighting their traditional menorahs. It’s hard to wrap your head around.
Q:What is Diwali and why do people celebrate it?
✧A:Diwali is when people celebrate good vs evil to be more detailed. Every year around October and November, Hindus around the world celebrate Diwali, or Deepavali—a festival of lights that stretches back more than 2,500 years. Diwali 2021 occurs on Thursday, November 4. In India, the five-day celebration traditionally marks the biggest holiday of the year. Like many Hindu festivals, there isn’t just one reason to celebrate the five-day holiday. Pankaj Jain, a professor of anthropology, philosophy, and religion at the University of North Texas, says that the ancient celebration is linked to multiple stories in religious texts, and it’s impossible to say which came first, or how long ago Diwali started. Many of these stories are about the triumph of good over evil. In northern India, a common tale associated with Diwali is about King Rama, one of the incarnations of the god Vishnu. When an evil king in Lanka (which some people associate with Sri Lanka) captures Rama’s wife Sita, he “builds up an army of monkeys” to rescue her, Jain says. The monkeys “build a bridge over from India to Sri Lanka, and they invade Sri Lanka and free Sita and kill that evil king,” he says. As Rama and Sita return to the north, “millions of lights are spread out across the city Ayodhya just to help them come back home, just to welcome them.” Lighting lamps has long been one of the ways that Hindus celebrate Diwali.
Q: What is Kwanzaa?
☾A: Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture that is held from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually held on the 6th day. - Miss Lumina
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