Walht: Understand celebrations around the world.
This week is a week long celebration called Diwali. Diwali is a Hindu celebration called the festival of lights. It is the biggest celebration in the world. Countries like India and Pakistan
have it as an official holiday. There are many myths shared across the world on Diwali.
To celebrate this festival Hindus like to decorate their homes with coloured lights. To accentuate the light, they light candles and lay them inside and outside their homes.Before decorating, they clean their homes. According to a myth it says the Gods will only enter if it is clean.In the evening they like to enjoy the sight of fireworks in the air. In a video it showed a family placing pictures of the God, Lakshmi. They pray to become wealthy and to live without struggles. Most people go to the beach to light them. Both men and women go shopping to buy new clothing. Girls like to buy gold because it is part of their outfit.
To welcome visitors and so believed Gods, people create Rangoli patterns. You could either use coloured powder or broken rice. When the Rangoli pattern is completed it looks amazing with all the vibrant colours used. When making a Rangoli pattern on cardboard, glue is used to prevent the powder or rice from separating. Today room eight and I drew Rangoli patterns with chalk. There were some very bold and pretty patterns that caught my attention. I think that most of us did an outstanding job.
Overall learning about Diwali helped me learn that there are way more celebrations instead of the popular ones like Christmas e.t.c. It definitely helped expand my knowledge with outside of my culture celebrations. I believe that people should be more aware of the celebrations in the world.
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