This innovative collection celebrating unique holidays in 13 countries around the world will be a wonderful addition to any music or classroom teacher's library. The teacher's handbook is filled with useful teaching tools, including notes about each holiday (may be used as connecting dialog), programming ideas, reproducible student song sheets, performance and musical development notes, and suggested activities, plus tons of ideas for further interdisciplinary study. Learn about other cultures, customs and languages through the cross-cultural study of music. It includes songs for USA, Canada, Barbados, Brazil, United Kingdom, Italy, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Japan, Australia, South Africa and Ghana. Use it as a songbook or a program; reproducible student song sheets are included. Grades 2-7. 30 minutes.