Today is Harmony Day!
We will be learning about Harmony Day in Australia and why we celebrate it on 21st March.
HARMONY DAY FACTS FOR STUDENTS – this website explains what it is and how we celebrate it.
Today you will be doing a reading comprehension and writing down your answers. (This is like Book Club, but you have to write down your answers instead of speaking them.) 🙂
Some words you may need to understand are:
HARMONY DAY – is held on 21 March in Australia to celebrate and show respect for the different cultural backgrounds of so many Australians.
CULTURE – is the ideas, customs and social behaviours of a particular group of people in a country
DIVERSITY – is the ways in which people can be different from each other.
MULTICULTURAL – people of many different nationalities and cultures. (Australia has over people from over 120 different countries.)
www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/library/media/…/528)
FUN CRAFT ACTIVITIES: When you are finished with your reading comprehension, choose a sheet to colour in and/or make something for Harmony Day! Have fun! 🙂