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!  🙂