New Year's Vocab

The personification of time, typically as an old man with a scythe and hourglass.

• Auld Lang Syne

• Resolution

• Father Time

• Eve

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Twelve o'clock at night.

• midnight

• invitation

• hourglass

• countdown

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.W.2.3

CCSS.W.3.3C

The day or period of time immediately before an event or occasion.

• countdown

• Eve

• invitation

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

1. The Act of inviting. 2. An often formal request to be present or participate.

• Father Time

• Countdown

• Midnight

• Invitation

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A popular song traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Means "times long past".

• Father Time

• Auld Lang Syne

• Invitation

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A device for measuring time in which sand takes an hour to run from the upper into the lower part of a glass container.

• Countdown

• Hourglass

• Invitation

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

An act of counting numbers in reverse order to zero. Usually done to count the last seconds of the old year on New Year's Eve.

• Resolution

• Father Time

• Countdown

• Hourglass

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A promise to do something differently in the new year.

• Countdown

• Eve

• Hourglass

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A