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Holidays and customs177 schoolTeacher Elaryan Gayane8 gradeJust imagine a year without holidays. How boring!!! In Britain, in Armenia and in all other countries there are a number of special days duling byne year. There is no school on some of these days and often something exciting happens. You can find some British holidays on the calendar. The British have got lots of their own customs, too. Some of them are like those in Armenia, others are different. You are my ValentineRoses are redViolets are blueSugar is sweet-And so ate you!From?

February 14th is Valentines Day. On this day people send cards to somebody they love. They do not always write their names on the cards, so the person must guess who sent them. Sometimes the cards have funny rhymes.

April 1st is april fools day. Newspapers and sometimes televisiom have an april fools joke on thet day. But in britain you must not play tricks on people after 12 o clock.

At Easter children in Britain get chocolate Easter eggs as presents from presents and relatives. They also paint boiled eggs.

EasterOctober 31st is Halloween, a day when many strange things might happen. Witches might fly through the night and dead people come back from their graves- or so people say. In the evening young people often have Halloween parties. The girls put on witches clothes and the boys dress as ghosts or monsters.

HalloweenOn November 5th people all over Britain build hige bonfires and burn a figure on Guy Fawkes. This is Guy Fawkes Night. The custom goes back to a historical event . In 1605 a man called Guy Fawkes tries to blow up the King of England in the Houses of Parliament. Children make the guy from old clothes and newspapers. Then they carry the guy through the town and ask the people for a penny for the guy. They collect the money for fireworks. Firworks are an important part of Guy Fawkes Night.

The Romans dedicated this day to Janus, the god of gates, doors, and beginnings. After Julius Caesar reformed the calendar in 46 BC and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC [1] in honor of his life and his institution of the new rationalized calendar.[2] The month originally owes its name to the deity Janus, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. This suggests that New Year's celebrations are founded on pagan traditions. Some have suggested this occurred in 153 BC, when it was stipulated that the two annual consuls (after whose names the years were identified) entered into office on that day, though no consensus exists on the matter.[3] Dates in March, coinciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December.