Appleseeds articles from March 2000

Appleseeds archives from March 2000

Fiesta Means Fun.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Fiesta (fee-YES-tah) is a Spanish word. It can be translated into English in a simple way. Fiesta means party. Fiesta means fun. The word fiesta also can be translated as "celebration." In this way, fiesta has a larger meaning and leads us to...

BOATS, FLOWERS, AND LIGHTS!(Fiesta parades)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... A Magical Tour of the Fiesta Parades Have you ever watched a parade where the floats actually "float" on the water? Or one with thousands of lights? How about a parade that celebrates the heroes of the Alamo? Join us as we take an...

Lily Learns About Cascarones.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... It's Lily's first day at a new school. As she walks into the room, Miss Flores tells her, "Welcome to San Antonio, Texas." Then Miss Flores says, "Children, get into your groups. Later, I will tell you a surprise!" Everybody is excited. ...

Make Your Own Cascarones.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Cascarones are bright-colored eggshells filled with confetti. Their purpose? To break over your friends' and family's heads, speckling their hair and clothing with hundreds of tiny paper dots. Cracking cascarones is a fun thing to do at...

It's Fiesta Time!(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... What's a good reason to have a fiesta? Is it the 100th day of school? Your pet's birthday? Perhaps it's the first sunny day in a long week of rain. No matter how soggy you're feeling, a fiesta will help raise your spirits. To give your...

Young Mariachi Music Makers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... April Gonzalez and Iris Vidaurri play with a mariachi band in San Antonio, Texas. Mariachi groups originated in Mexico as strolling musicians. The lively blend of violins, guitars, and trumpets has become a popular music style in the United...

Las Posadas.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... A Mexican Christmas Celebration The celebration of Las Posadas tells the Bible story of Mary and Joseph's search for a place to give birth to their baby, Jesus. Traditionally, this drama was acted out each evening during the nine days...

A MEXICAN FOLK ARTIST.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Zenaida Julian lives in the Mexican village of Ocumicho. Like many of her neighbors, she creates colorful ceramic figures. Once a year, when visitors throng to nearby Patzcuaro to attend the Day of the Dead festivities, Ocumicho's villagers...

Cinco de Mayo.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The people of Portland, Oregon, have turned a Mexican battle into a grand party. The Fifth of May, known as Cinco de Mayo in Spanish, is a giant festival in Portland. Fifteen years ago, Cinco de Mayo started as a small event to raise money...

Longer Than a Football Field.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The dress for a fiesta dancer has 25 yards of cloth. Gathered around the bottom of the skirt, along the collar, and just below the waist are 160 yards of lace. That is 60 yards longer than a football field. It takes a dressmaker six days,...

How's Your Spanish?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Want to learn to count to 10 in Spanish? Try to roll the Rs as you say these numbers. Then find the Spanish word for the items in each picture. (It's somewhere in this issue.) If you already speak Spanish, you can help someone else learn to say...

Mailbag.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ariel Bauer 3rd Grade Medina Valley Elementary School, age 8 "Breaking Cascarones" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Regina Solis 7th Grade John B Connally Middle School, age 12 "San Antonio River Parade" ...

Branching Out.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Don't want the fiesta to end? Here are some books and Web sites to check out. Por Fin Es Carnaval, by Arthur Dorros, tells how a boy gets ready for a fiesta in the Andes Mountains of Peru. The illustrations in the book are colorful...