Thanksgiving & Black Friday

Thanksgiving 2014: November 27th

A typical Thanksgiving Day menu includes:

- Roasted turkey

- Stuffing

- Cranberry sauce

- Mashed potatoes

- Green beans

- Sweet potatoes

- Sweet corn

- Brussels sprouts

- Pumpkin pie

The National Football League (NFL) on Thanksgiving Day is a traditional series of games played during the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Currently, three NFL games are played every Thanksgiving.

The morning of Thanksgiving Day all eyes turn to Manhattan and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual pageant of giant balloons, floats, cheerleaders, clowns, marching bands, Broadway shows and celebs. The parade begins at 9am and finishes three hours later at noon.

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the USA, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened very early and offered promotional  sales to kick off the holiday shopping season.

ICT activity - November

Enter the festive spirit with this activity about Christmas in London. You'll visit Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park and some other iconic places in this wonderful city.

www.hydeparkwinterwonderland.com

www.londontown.com/London/christmas

ICT activity - November

The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world in 14,970.9 m² of exhibition floor space. It was established in 1946, as the National Air Museum and opened its main building in 1976. Located in Washington D.C., United States, it is a center for research into the history and science of aviation and spaceflight as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics. Almost all space and aircraft on display are originals or backups to the originals. It operates an annex, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, at Dulles International Airport, which opened in 2003 and itself encompasses 71,000 m².

For further info visit www.airandspace.si.edu