HAPPY HALLOWE'EN !
On 31st October, the night before All Saints'
Day, Americans, Scots and Irish people celebrate Hallowe'en :
they dress up as witches
and ghosts, have parties, tell ghost stories
and play games. Hallowe'en is the second biggest celebration in America
after Christmas. Every year Americans spend
more than $2.5 billion on sweets, cards,
costumes and decorations. More than 66 per cent of houses are decorated.
Hallowe'en was originally a Celtic festival called Samhain celebrating
the New Year. Celts believed that the dead could
come back to the world on that day. So people wore
costumes like witches and ghosts. Today, Irish and Scottish kids dress
up for Hallowe'en, and they visit houses and sing a song
or tell a joke. If they don't get sweets, they play
a trick.
Irish and Scottish immigrants took Hallowe'en to America. American
kids started celebrating Halloween in the 1950s.
GREAT! 
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