New Year's Day Holiday Teacher Resources Effective Teaching Solutions

Your students can read about the history of New Year's Day. This upper elementary passage includes six multiple choice questions.

Give a copy of this page so your students can make their New Year's resolutions.

Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish song that means "the good old days." It is traditionally sung in English speaking countries around the world at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Cartoon version of Auld Lang Syne. Includes animations and words. Appropriate for elementary students

Fun Auld Lang Syne line dance. Appropriate for upper elementary and middle school students.

Share a piece of American and world history with your students. This video is a great look at the 20th Century. Auld Lang Syne is the background music. Appropriate for high school only. Please view before showing to your students.

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days of long ago

[CHORUS:]
For old long ago, my dear
For old long ago,
We will take a cup of kindness yet
For old long ago

We two have run about the hillsides
And pulled the daisies fine,
But we have wandered many a weary foot
For old long ago

We two have paddled in the stream
From noon until dinner time,
But seas between us broad have roared
Since old long ago
And there is a hand, my trusty friend,
And give us a hand of yours,
And we will take a goodwill draught
For old long ago

And surely you will pay for your pint,
And surely I will pay for mine
And we will take a cup of kindness yet
For old long ago

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