Some information about Halloween :
- Halloween is celebrated on 31 Oct every year.
- It is a Western festival that is fast gaining popularity in the East.
- Halloween began as a festival from Ireland to ward off evil spirits.
- People carve out scary faces and figures in pumpkins, place a candle inside and set in their windows to scare away evil spirits and enemies on Halloween.
- The traditional colours used for most Halloween decorations are black and orange.
- Characters associated with Halloween : ghosts, witches, skeletons, vampires, werewolves, bats and black cats
- People celebrate Halloween by going trick-or-treating, which means children dressing up in costumes to look like traditional characters, such as witches and ghosts, and go from house to house and say "trick or treat".
- Most will give treats - candy or small toys.
- Many homes will be decorated with Halloween themes to scare away evil spirits
(Source : http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/halloween/)
THS celebrates the fun part of Halloween by giving out candies and having our children wear costumes of any kind. Nowadays, Halloween is celebrated with all kinds of costumes; it need not be scary. We celebrate Halloween as one of the many international festivals so as to increase the international awareness of our students. Last month The Alpha Schools celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival. In Nov, we will celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights - Deepavali, and in Dec, Christmas.
Over the next 2 weeks, our children will be doing activities, crafts and worksheets in preparation for Halloween.
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