Halloween

TAK will be celebrating Halloween on Fri 28 Oct 2011.

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/)

ASYC 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 we 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.