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The main Chinese New Year activities include 1) putting up decorations, 2) eating reunion dinner with family on New Year's Eve, 3) Offering Sacrifices to Ancestors, 4) firecrackers and fireworks, 5) giving red envelopes and other gifts, and 6) watching lion and dragon dances.

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People in all parts of India dress colorfully and indulge in fun filled activities such as singing, playing games, dancing, and attending parties. They greet each other saying Happy New Year!

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1000 Lantern Festival, where spectators will release 1000 lanterns into the sky.

The beating of gongs,  the event consists of a gamelan, or traditional orchestra involving around 75 gongs.

Festival with musical performances by Balinese artists, a dance parade and an opera performance.

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People in the Philippines believe that round things bring good luck and often wear cloths with polka dots on New Year’s Eve. Another custom is to have all the lights on in the home on New Year’s Eve so that it will insure a good new year.

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In Russia, divers place a New Year’s tree into Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake.

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Many people in Turkey start celebrating New Year's Eve with a large family dinner. The main course is traditionally a roasted turkey. Many people also congratulate each other, toast to a New Year and exchange small gifts at midnight between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

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Tet celebrates the beginning of a new year as well the coming of spring. Exuberant festivities are held — traditional food, music and dragon dancing performed along the streets. It is believed that what they do on the first day of the new year will affect their rest. Therefore, they pay great attention to every word they say and everything they do.

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Be sure to eat leafy greens on New Year’s. Tradition says that the more leafy greens a person eats, the more prosperity he or she will experience (what an incentive for staying healthy!

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people who make new year’s resolution are ten times more likely to achieve their goals than the ones who don’t.

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Almost 30 percent of people never make new years resolutions because they know they won’t be able to keep it.

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Almost 4000 years ago it was the Babylonians who promised their Gods that they will pay their debts at the beginning of every year.

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Germans call New Year's Eve "Silvester. Some superstitious people therefore state that one should avoid fish that night, or at least eat it very carefully. Carps are considered a lucky charm. It is believed that keeping a carp scale in your wallet guarantees that it will be filled with cash all year.

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Christmas trees are made into bonfires to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands. This custom is done to symbolize getting rid of the old and welcoming the new year.

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New Year's Day and New Year’s Eve, known in Poland as Sylwester (St Silvester's Day), marks the start of the carnival period, which features celebratory events like balls and parties. A fun tradition that has been popular for centuries is the kulig (sleigh rides). Many people in Poland celebrate New Year’s Day with dances, concerts, and meals featuring traditional Polish dishes including bigos (hunter’s stew).

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Many Australians celebrate New Year's Eve on boat cruises, urban parklands or beaches. Others hold special parties or barbecues at their own homes. ... As the clock strikes midnight to mark New Year's Day, fireworks are launched to farewell the old year and to welcome the new year.

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It's summer in New Zealand: one of the first countries in the world to celebrate the New Year.

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It's summer in New Zealand: one of the first countries in the world to celebrate the New Year.

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Camping, festivals, and boating take place in New Zealand. Lots of music and fireworks. Rhythm & Vines in Gisborne, North Island, is the biggest New Year’s festival by being in the first city in the world to see the New Year!

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Many Australians celebrate New Year's Eve on boat cruises, urban parklands or beaches. Others hold special parties or barbecues at their own homes. ... As the clock strikes midnight to mark New Year's Day, fireworks are launched to farewell the old year and to welcome the new year.

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There are celebrations including concerts, fireworks displays, and street parties.

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Most of the Moroccan young people like to spend the New Year's Eve in interesting ways, so that they prefer to attend one of the huge festivals in Rabat, Meknes, Marrakesh, or Casablanca where music concerts are held gathering the most national and international music and song figures.

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A large population of South Africa parties all night. People indulge in extravagant dinners and dances. There fireworks and countdown when midnight strikes. The church bell chimes to officially declare the New Year.

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In Swaziland the harvest festival is called Newala or "first fruits" ceremony and takes place at the end of the year. The ceremony consists of many events, which last for up to a month, these include the gathering of foam from the tops of waves, the collection of water from the major rivers by a group of Bemanti or Swazi water officials. The end of Newala occurs when warriors, chanting sacred songs, dance around the nhlambelo, the king's sacred enclosure, persuading him to rejoin his people. A bonfire is held at the end of Newala which is suppose to represent the burning of the previous year.

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Children and adults alike love to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with plenty of fireworks and sparklers.

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Guatemalans celebrate with lively music, colorful costumes and fireworks. Locals wear new clothes which is hoped to bring good luck for the coming year and then gather in the center of each town before the street parties begin.

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On New Year's Eve, they are stuffed with fireworks and are burned at midnight. The dolls represent everything you would like to forget or leave behind from the past year. Burning them is a sign of starting the new year with a clean slate.

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New Year in Argentina involves a late midnight dinner with close friends and family either at home or at one of the many restaurants offering a holidays special menu.

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As midnight strikes on New Year's Eve, magnificent fireworks light up the length and breadth of Copacabana beach and people dance until daylight in the streets, as the first samba of the New Year strikes up.

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Streets are decorated with lights and flowers. Carnivals, street processions, live shows, cultural shows, concerts, and parties. The most popular way is to take a cruise or go out on your own boat in the middle of the ocean or a lake to see the arrival of the new year.

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At midnight, fireworks and smoke fill the sky as thousands of people take to the street and light off their own fireworks. Everyone hugs and wishes each other a happy New Year, and after that, they begin to feast. First, Peruvians eat 12 grapes; each grape represents one month and one wish that you make.

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Write an informational essay.
Include information about how we celebrate the new year and information from two other countries.

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Every year, New Year's Day is celebrated with a big tango party at around 8 p.m., in the Líber Seregni square in the neighborhood of Cordón. The party is organized by “Milonga Callejera,” famous tango dancers participate and everyone is invited to join in the traditional dance or watch the show.They also have a Cider War. Hundreds of people gathered in the place, willing to celebrate the end of the year by getting soaked in cider. Eventually, fireworks were displayed to motivate people and end up the celebration.

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For New Year's celebrations, some Canadians head out of the cities to go on ice-fishing trips with friends and family or catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights in one of the many destinations the country has to offer.

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Moving the Pole. South Pole Station rings in the New Year with a solemn and meticulous ceremony to adjust the South Pole. The Pole is atop an ice sheet that moves slightly every year, so the marker for the South Pole drifts somewhat—about 30 feet every year.

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The South Pole is one of two points on the planet where the Earth's rotational axis intersects the surface. (The other point is the North Pole.) It is the southernmost point on the globe where the lines of longitude converge.

Every January 1 since 1959, scientists at The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have speared a ceremonial pole through this spot (90 degrees South). The occasion marks the newly-surveyed location of the geographic South Pole.

The station was built on a moving ice sheet about 2,700 metres thick. The ice sheet-and the station affixed to it-drifts about 10 metres each year because of ice flow.

"It's a South Pole tradition once a year (to unveil) the marker that was designed the previous year," says astrophysicist Denis Barkats in a YouTube video created by Sixty Symbols at the University of Nottingham. "Every year we have to mark the new location of the axis of rotation."

According to Bill Spindler, who The Antarctic Sun has called the South Pole's "unofficial historian," 1,491 hardy individuals have "wintered over" at the South Pole since 1957.

Each ceremonial pole is designed by "winterovers." The following summer's crew drives it through the ice.

The 2016 geographical pole marker was designed and built by machinist Anton Brown and engraved by Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin. It was unveiled by the Canadian winter site manager Craig Knott.

Old markers are retired into a glass display case at the front of the station.

The Amundsen-Scott station was named in honour of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, was the first person to successfully travel to the South Pole. He arrived on December. 14, 1911 alongside his four companions and 52 dogs. Scott, a naval officer and explorer, was the second person to reach the Pole. He and his team made it to Amundsen's location on January 17, 1912.
Photos of past ceremonial poles:
The 1990 pole marker. (Photo: Pete Koson/National Science Foundation)

The 2001 pole marker. (Photo: Pete Koson/National Science Foundation)

The 2002 pole marker. (Photo: Liesl Schernthanner/National Science Foundation).

The 2004 pole marker. (Photo: Liesl Schernthanner/National Science Foundation).

This marker was designed and fabricated by David Postler in 2009. (Photo: Reinhart Piuk/National Science Foundation).

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Ceremonial pole markers: An Antarctic tradition

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The South Pole is one of two points on the planet where the Earth's rotational axis intersects the surface. (The other point is the North Pole.) It is the southernmost point on the globe where the lines of longitude converge.

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Icestock is an all-day, outdoor music festival held annually at McMurdo Station, Antarctica on or around New Year's Day. It was started in 1989 by three United States Antarctic Program employees who wanted to host a music festival i

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Finding an almond in rice pudding on New Year’s Eve means good luck in the new year. This custom is found in Sweden and Norway.

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In Switzerland, don’t be surprised if you see people drop a bit of cream onto the floor on New Year’s Eve. It is thought that this will bring good luck in the new year.

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Did you know that eating 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight is considered good luck in Spain?

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Hogmanay is a custom celebrated in Scotland at New Year’s. The word means “last day of the year”. One of the activities is “first footing”, being the first person to visit a neighbor or friend in the new year. Usually, a gift is brought, too.

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In the South American country of Venezuela, people like to write a wish on a piece of paper and then burn it so that the wish may come true in the new year.

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In Mexico, don’t be surprised if you see people carrying empty suitcases around their house or street on New Year’s Eve. The custom is done if you would like to travel in the new year.

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Did you know that April Fool’s Day involved New Year’s Day? 

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Did you know that April Fool’s Day involved New Year’s Day? 

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People used to celebrate the new year around March 25-April 1st. When the calendar changed the new year to January 1st, pranks were played on those that continued to celebrate the New year on April 1.

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In Ireland, some people bang bread on the walls and doors of their homes at midnight. This is done to scare away evil spirits and to bring good luck.

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Did you know that throwing a bucket of water outside a window at midnight on New Year’s Eve is done in Puerto Rico? It is to get rid of bad spirits.

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Purple Writing Notebook
Notetaking Sheet

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Read how countries around the world celebrate the new year.
In your purple journal, write a paragraph with details about how U.S.A. celebrarte and how you celebrate the new year.  (include who, where, how, and why)
Next,  choose 2 countries from 2 different continents.
Then, write a paragraph telling how these two countries celebrate the new year. Include as many details as possible.
Finally, write an essay  to compare how you celebrate the New Year with how countries around the world celebrate the new year.

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The Seven Continents Song | Silly School Songs

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How to Remember the Seven Continents! ...for Kids!

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The custom of having a ball drop from Times Square, in New York City, on New Year’s Eve began in 1907. Some people in the south, believe eating black eyed peas will bring prosperity in the new year. Tradition says that legumes bring prosperity because beans and peas look like coins. No wonder why so many people eat black eyed peas on Jan. 1.