We have been discussing cultural heritage and family traditions in our social studies lessons. Ask your parents to help you answer these questions.
Which countries are your family members from? You may have to go back several generations to find a country besides the United States.
Choose one or two countries that represent your cultural heritage best. If you know a city or town where your family is from, include it. (I will pin your picture up at these locations on our world map!)
What family traditions do you celebrate? For example, you may play a special game or eat a certain food during holiday celebrations. Explain your traditions with specific details.
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My family is from Puerto Rico. Barceloneta, San Juan and, San Lorenzo are the different towns my family is from.
ReplyDeleteOur family traditions begin in November for Thanksgiving. That is a time when we get together to eat pernil (roasted pork shoulder), Arroz con gandules (yellow rice with pigeon peas) and for dessert flan (custard). On Thanksgiving we also put up our Christmas tree and Christmas decorations after dinner. Christmas is almost the same as Thanksgiving food wise but we give and receive gifts. We begin celebrating on December 24th Christmas Eve into Christmas day. We open some gifts after 12 midnight and the rest Christmas morning. Our Christmas tree remains up until January 6th which is Dia De Reyes (three kings day). It is another gift exchange holiday back in Puerto Rico and in most Puerto Rican homes across the world.
that is very cool I've never herd of Dia De Reyes.
DeleteMy mom was born in Belize city in Belize.Also my dad is from Ireland but was born in the Bronx. With my moms family we eat seafood more than meat.
ReplyDeleteMy family is from Taiwan. All four of my Grandparents still live in Taipei. My Great-Grandparents were born in China and fled to Taiwan during World War 2. One tradition in my family is to write Chinese Calligraphy with Nai-Nai (Dad’s Mom) every Summer when we visit Taiwan. We get to use Nai-Nai’s special brushes,paper,and ink. I write Chinese words I am learning, like my name, water, and fire.
ReplyDeleteso cool Josh.
DeleteI am Japanese and I can write Japanese.
Chinese is a cool language
DeleteThats cool,my cousin lived in taiwan for 3 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteMy dad is from Madrid, Spain and my mom was born in New York City but grew up in Mexico City. On her side, our family comes from Poland, Russia and Norway.Every summer I go to Spain to see my family there.And I eat alot of good food that my grandma makes there its really good .I go to mexico every spring break.
ReplyDeletemy dad is from Italy and his father and that father. My moms grandfather is from Russia.Also my moms grandmother is from Russia too. they are immigrants. I never got to see them and i am sad about.
ReplyDeleteMy parents is from Japan.
ReplyDeleteMy mom lived in Ichikawa, Chiba where is next to Tokyo and my dad lived in Kodaira, Tokyo.
My best cultural heritage are Mt.Fuji and Yakushm.
We celebrate New year's just in a different way.we eat special Japanese traditional food name Osechi and Ozouni.
Osechi is in a big lunch box with many kinds of food.
Ozouni is a soup with rice cake(mochi).
there special game is kite because they do it on
new year.And hanetuki. when you lose the game you are going to have a funny paint on your face.
this game sounds fun! can you teach it to me sometime?
DeleteI love Japan writing
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ReplyDeletemy dad's family is from Poland and my mom's family is from Stakcin, Slovakia. My great grandmother and great grandfather's families are from the same town in Slovakia, but they met here in New York. My family is Jewish and we celebrate Hanukah, a holiday when you light eight candles to celebrate the eight days of the everlasting oil. On Hanukah we eat latkes fried in oil. When I turn 13, I'll become bat mitzvah, I'll read from the Torah and my friends and family will celebrate with a big party. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, we say l'shana tova, to wish each other a happy new year. On Rosh Hashanah, we eat apples dipped in honey to hope for a sweet and healthy new year.
In my mom's side, the family is from Ireland. They moved here during the potato famine. On my dad's side, the Iversons were born in Norway, my great great grandparents.
ReplyDeleteWe celebrate Thanksgiving by inviting lots of people over, more than our apartment can fit. We celebrate Christmas with a tree with an owl on top and a Christmas dinner and the leftover cookies that Santa didn't eat. On New Year's eve we go to a friend's house and watch the ball drop on TV. We celebrate Labor Day by going camping with a lot of friends - there were 30 people this year.
My dad is from France and my mom is from Cambodia. My mom came to America as a refugee. My dad came from France as a immigrant. My mom had to flee Cambodia because there was a civil war. She had to leave or she would be killed by Khmer Rouge.
ReplyDeleteOne of our traditions is to go to the temple for new year. Cambodian new year is on April 13,14, and 15. At the temple we have to sit still and listen to the monks chant. After that, we eat at the temple. After that, we watch Apsara dancers.
My whole relatives came from China. My mom is from Fujian Province, southeast part of China. My aunties are from Hong Kong, China. My great-grandparents were born first in China before my grandparents and my parents, and my aunties. My great-grandparents was the first of my relatives to come to live in Chinatown in Manhattan, New York on 1968. My parents came to live in Chinatown on 1997 but moved to Sunset Park, Brooklyn to live with my grandparents. My mommy started work on 2003.
ReplyDeleteWe celebrate Chinese New Year. We always have hot pot for dinner. There's a Chinese New Year parade. Sometimes we see the parade on 8th ave and we see the Chinese dragon. I always get lucky money. In the red packet from Chinese New Year is $100. I sometimes read about China. When I turn 46, I want to be the secretary of China.
My dad's mom and dad are from Sicily, Italy. My grandma speaks Sicilian when we are together. My grandma learned to speak English when she came to America.
ReplyDeleteI love being Italian because they have amazing food. I love my grandma's food. Italian food is really good. I also love the art work from Italy. I am proud to be Italian!
My great-great-grandparents from my grandmas side are from Ireland. They came to america sometime around the year 1850. We are proud that my family actually helped build the Brooklyn Bridge.
In Ireland we celebrate St. Patrick's Day. We eat corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and cranberry sauce. In Ireland we say we have the luck of the Irish.
My moms dad came from Canada. North Canada has a lot of ice and my grandpa loved playing ice hockey!
And thats my families cultural heritage.
Thats really cool that your family help't build the brooklyn bridge!!!!
Deletecool part of my family is from Ireland and that is very cool that your family helped build the Brooklyn bridge!!!
DeleteMy parents are from America, but my grandparents are from George Town Guyana.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Town is the capital of Guyana. A
Tradiation we have in Guyana is around
Christmas we cook a special dish called
Pepperpot.It is a dish filled with all types of beef in a sweet/spicy sauce and we
May eat this with baked bread or white rice.
thats really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteMy Father was born in America but his family is from the Dominican Republic. My grandpa lives in Santiago. My mom was born in Jamaica in a town called St. Mary. In my dads family we eat pernil, rice and beans, pastelitos and salami. In Jamaica we eat curry goat with rice and peas, curry chicken, jerk pork and oxtails. In Dominican Republic they celebrate christmas on Christmas Eve, but in Jamaica they celebrate it on Christmas Day.We celebrate Christmas,Thanksgiving, and more. In Dominican republic we listen to spanish music. In Jamaica we listen to Reggae Music. When we get together we dance and my dad loves to sing.
ReplyDeleteMy family on my moms side is from Jamaica Kingston and on my dad side they are from Italy africa.And when me and my mom celebrate a holiday we eat jerk chicken barbecue chicken fried chicken white rice and stuff.When me and my dads side celebrat we eat like pizza pasta baked beans and all the normal stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy mom's family is from Austria, the US, and Eastern Europe. My mom's grandmother was born in a town called Slonim which was sometimes in Russia and sometimes in Poland. When she was five years old, she came to the United States, through Ellis Island.
ReplyDeleteMy dad's family is also from Eastern Europe and the US on his mother's side. On my dad's dad's side, they started out in Germany. Right before World War II, when Hitler started to come to power, my grandpa's family fled to England. My grandpa grew up in London, UK. He was there during the blitz.
My family isn't very religious. But we do celebrate Jewish and Christian holidays with our cousins. We eat Challah and light candles on Shabbat with my cousins sometimes. Sometimes we go to my cousins' house for passover and we spin the dreidel and light candles for Hanukkah. During winter break, my mom's side of the family gets together for Christmas.
wow,thats really cool that your mom's grand mother went through Ellis Island. my mom's grandpa through Ellis Island to !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI am the first American person in my family culture. My mom is from Osaka and my dad is from Tokyo in Japan.
ReplyDeleteIn the Japanese new year we eat a special soup named Ozoni, and we sometimes put Japanese sticky rice cake named Mochi.
Setsubun is a celebration for a new seasons. Its a day that divide the seasons like Labor day.
On Setsubun, people throw soy beans its called "mame-maki". People say "get bad stuff out, happiness in". People eat the soy beans the same amount of their age.
my mom and dad are African American our roots date back to Africa. Most of my ancestor were brought here from Africa . From Africa they live in the south where some of them still live today .Our family holiday tradition is to have a big dinner around the table from thanksgiving. We give thanks and eat rice, chicken , turkey, sweet potatoes and mac and cheese are just a few of our favorite dishes.
ReplyDeleteMy dad’s side of the family is from Eastern Europe. My great-great-grandparents were from the towns of Borisov and Zembin in Belarus. They came to this country in the late 1800s. My mom’s side of the family is mostly from Ireland.
ReplyDeleteOn my dad’s side of the family, we celebrate some of the Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah. On Rosh Hashanah, we eat apples dipped in honey for a sweet new year. For Chanukah, we have a big family Chanukah party where lots of relatives come to our house. The tradition started in 1941 — the first one happened to be held the day that Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was bombed. During the party, we eat potato latkes and Chanukah gelt (chocolate) and play with dreidels.
On my mom’s side we celebrate Christmas and Easter. For Christmas, we go to my grandma’s house in Syracuse, NY. Our tradition is that we go around in a circle with everyone opening presents one person at a time. My brother and I usually get to open two at a time because we get the most presents!
My Mom’s side of the family is Korean. My grandmother was born in Seoul, South Kora, and my grandfather was born from somewhere in North Korea. For celebrations they eat dduk. Dduk are these special types of rice cakes that are really good in my opinion. Koreans eat this kind of spicy stuff called kimchi which is a kind of pickled cabbage. My Dad is 50% Italian. My great grandfather was born in Sicily, Italy, and my great grandmother’s family is from Naples, Italy. Italians love to eat during celebrations (and every other day too!). Italians love to eat pasta and meatballs and LOTS AND LOTS OF CHEESE!
ReplyDeleteMy mother is Armenian. She was born in LA but her mother my grandmother was born in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's grandfather was born in Turkey and his
entire family was was killed in the Armenian genocide.
My father's mother's father is a Russian Jew,and my father's father's father is a Belgiun Jew.
Two cities or countries that represent my culture or heritage are amman Jordan,and Antwerp Belgium.
on hanukah we light candles and sing and dance.
On easter we go to Armenian church.
On Christmas we put up a tree and give out presents.
I have Irish heritage.My family is from many different towns in Ireland.My ancestors immigrated to the U.S. at different times starting in 1830.But we celebrate american traditions such as: Halloween,Christmas,Valentines Day,Thanksgiving, Fourth of July,and Labor day weekend.Because my family has been in the U.S. for so long we celebrate american traditions.In June we eat strawberry rhubarb pie,In August we eat bumbelberry pie,At Thanksgiving we eat pumpkin pie. Because those fruits are ripe in those seasons.
ReplyDeleteCool Lucy part of my family is from ireland too!!!
DeleteMy dad's family is 100% Irish. The names on that side are McDonagh and Sullivan. All 4 of my great grandparents on my Dad's side came from Gallway and settled in the Bronx, NY. They are Catholic so they celebrate Christmas and Easter. My great grandfather was a bus driver in NYC when he imigrated here. My mom's family is from England mostly. My great grandfather on my Mother's side was 100% Quaker. His last name was Scull. The other last names on my Mom's side are Russell, Smith and Jackson. We don't remember exactly what town Mom's family is from but we can find out. We dont have any holiday traditions other than cooking and hanging out with family.
ReplyDeleteMy mom family is from brigdetown in barbados.my dad is from trinidad. During the holidays I normally celebrate with my dad side of the family.I love when my family get together for our family traditional thanksgiving dinner.On thanksgiving some of the foods we eat are jerk turkey, macaroni pie,calloloo soup and coconut rice.I like coconut rice the most! One of the games that i enjoy playing with my cousin's is called 3 hole.3 holes are dug 3-4 players they stand at one end and pitch the marble to the either end.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom and Dad are from the Dominican Republic. I was born in Puerto Rico. My sister and brother were born in New York. Some of the tradition from the dominican Republic are from example, each February they celebrate independent day with food festivals, and music. Festivities also take place in the week leading up to Easter Sunday. We celebrate Christmas almost same as here with the different of the snow. On january 6th there is a tradition were all kids get presents. It's a Catholic tradition.
ReplyDeleteMy family is from Asia particularly the Philippines. Two countries that represent my heritage are Spain and the Philippines.
ReplyDeleteChristmas is the most loved celebration by Filipinos. Families and relatives gather on the 24th of December to celebrate food prepared for noche buena (a spanish term which means midnight meal) to greet Christmas day.
Filipinos are very fond of music. They use various materials to create sound. They love performing dances (tinikling and carinosa) and group singing during festive celebrations. Settlers from Spain introduced them.
My family is from Panama so they know Spanish. Panama and Africa represent my heritage best. I celebrate Christmas, Halloween, 4 of July. I have a big feast on Thanksgiving. I go trick or treating on Halloween. I get lots and lots of presents for Christmas too. My mom makes a special pie on Thanksgiving for my family. I have Huge! parties on 4 of July. I guess that's it. Bye!
ReplyDeleteLove,
Elahnnie
My mother's mother is from Panama and was born and raised in the Panama Canal Zone. Her father is from Puerto Rico and was born and raised in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. My Dad's great great great parents are from Africa.
ReplyDeleteMy mothers father celebrates three kings day in January it is a Puerto Rican tradition that is similar to Christmas where the kids get gifts
Who am I as a writer?
ReplyDeleteI like to write under my bed in the dark with my reading light because it is cozy and quiet.
I write with a pencil and a computer because a computer makes my handwriting really neat, and a pencil I am faster at writing with.
I like to write about Pokemon, me and my cat.
I like to write both fiction and non-fiction.
My favorite thing ever written is Harry Potter because it has a lot of action.
My favorite piece I ever wrote was about a goblin.
J. K. Rowling is not someone who inspires me because I don't have an author who inspires me, but she is my favorite author.
My Mom and Dad help me write.
I write about many different topics; sci-fi, fiction, non-fiction. Fiction because it is fun to write made up stories. And non-fiction because it is fun to tell people new things. And sci-fi because it is very fun to write.
I like to write about my cat because he is really cute. I like to write about me because it is fun to write about what happens in my life.
Me as a writer,
ReplyDeleteI like to write on my bed. The tool I use is a pencil or a tablet. I enjoy writing about animal, my family and what I do over the summer.
I like to write fiction stories because is fun to make up things. My favorite book is Dork Diaries.
My favorite piece of writing is when I wrote about my summer vacation in the Dominican Republic.
My favorite author is Rachel Renee Russel.
What helps me with my writing is a book because it has strong writing in it and my Mom.
The book that inspires me is Amy Krouse Rosenthal because is story about believing.
The resources that I use for writing is books. I write about different topics.
Those books make me feel happy because when I read them, it feels as if im watching a real movie. I like how she talks about her problems in school, her crush on Brandon and her best friend, ect.
ReplyDeleteWhat i like most about reading is that it's just fun depending on what I read.
The most challenging thing about reading are the names of the characters ,long and new words.
Another of my favorite book is roller girl. Its my favorite because it inspires me. She wants to be Roller skater and even though she failed many times, she never gave up