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Celebrate good times!

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Celebrate Good Times!

 

Who doesn't like a good party?  This week we will be sharing what events we celebrate along with traditions that our family and community shares.  We thought this would be a good week to share our traditions because we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day in the United States on Thursday, November 25.  Many of the students in the United States have Thanksgiving traditions that have part of their families for many generations.  Christmas is also right around the corner - only a month away!  What Christmas traditions do you remember?  Do you celebrate Hanukka or Kwanza?  We would love to know about your celebrations and traditions.  Who knows... maybe you'll start some new traditions after everyone has shared theirs!  Be sure to share your information before November 24.

 

White Rock School Second Grade:  

While we are waiting for Thanksgiving dinner, we sit around and talk and play games.  Some watch the football game or the parade.  

Our favorite foods that day are stuffing, turkey, squash, homemade cranberry sauce, apple pie,pumpkin pie with ice cream and salad with ranch dressing.

At Christmas time, our school has a bonfire and we sing carols and go for a wagon ride.  Some kids eat ham.  We play "survive" under the table.  We go to relatives and play games with our cousins and dogs.  Some of the games we play are snow hide and seek, scrabble, and marco polo.We decorate our house and tree with lights.  We take little templates and spray holiday things on the windows.  We buy ornaments, put paint inside and swirl it around.  

We put our Christmas trees up  anytime after Thanksgiving and leave them up until New Years Day.  

 

MAIZE MIDDLE SCHOOL (Vernon)

 

FOURTH OF JULY, INDEPENCENCE DAY

 

Firecrackers going off, the grill going. None other than the Fourth of July. The Fourth of July is when our country celebrates its freedom. People get together shoot off fireworks and have a good time with family and friends. I usually stay home and shot off fireworks with my family, but sometimes we go to my cousin’s farm. I like it more because there is less lights and you see the fireworks better.

 

Halloween

 

In Wichita Kansas in the United States of America we celebrate Halloween on October 31. We dress up in costumes and we go door- to -door smiling and simply saying “trick or treat”. In return you get candy or chocolate. Another thing we do is carve pumpkins. We cut the top off and dig out the seeds to be cooked and eaten and then we cut an image or picture in the front of a pumpkin and put it outside at night with a candle inside it and the top back on. When Halloween is over my family goes to my grandparent’s farm and we shoot the pumpkins with my Grandpa’s shotgun. Whoever has the worst shot has to pick up all of the pumpkins. Halloween is one of the many Holidays we celebrate.

 

We celebrate Halloween.  We have decorations like spiders, bates, pumpkins, witches, black cats, skeletons, webs, and more.  We dress up as whatever you want.  You go to someone’s front door and say “trick or treat” and hope they give you lots of candy.  We get together and have lots of parties.  I like it because you get to dress up and get lots of candy.  They have Kit-Kats, Rollups, Suckers, 3 Musketeers, Milk Duds, Nerds, Gum, M&M, Snickers, and more.  Then at the end you have to put all of the decorations away tell next year.  After you finish putting away the decorations you have lots of candy to eat, yummy. Then you wait for next year and you get to dress up as something else. You can dress up to be a clown, hot dog, ladybug, bee, pumpkin, zombie, and more.

 

 

I love to celebrate Halloween and Christmas! I celebrate Halloween by: first, we carve pumpkins, then; we go to the store and get a lot of candy! Next, we put our costumes on, my parents hand out candy… and I go trick-or-treating with my friends!

For Christmas, we have a Christmas Eve dinner and make cookies. We eat whatever my mom makes, then, we sit around and talk for about an hour, next, we go and open one or two of our presents. After we do that we go and get the cookies we made and set them by our fire place with some milk for Santa. But, we don’t forget about the reindeer! We set carrots out for them too! On Christmas morning me and my brothers wake up at about 6 or 7, and go out into the living room, to see what Santa brought us! After we do that, we go and wake my parents up. When they eventually get up we open all the rest of our presents! Then, my mom makes a breakfast casserole for breakfast! The rest of the day we go to my grandparents and aunt & uncles!

That’s how I celebrate my holidays!

 

THANKSGIVING

At thanksgiving my family and I Invite our cousins to come over and enjoy some turkey. 

We also eat: Rice, Pico, Mashed Potatoes, Turkey, and maybe some Ham.

We would normally pray/ give thanks before eating.

 

 

CHRISTMAS

My family and I always put our Christmas tree up five days after Thanksgiving. We also decorate the tree as a family and hang Christmas lights on our house. We have our Christmas party on the day of Christmas Eve. Each of us wait until 12:00 a.m. , the day beginning of Christmas, and open our gifts. One of my family traditions during Christmas Eve is making tamales and a hot chocolate drink called, Champurrado.  All of my family members receive a gift.  Sometimes we even go ice skating.

 

One of my favorite holidays is Christmas. You get to get up eat a huge breakfast in my family and not have lunch and have the biggest dinner ever.  Then we get to open presents in the morning. Then we go around the Christmas tree and sing Christmas songs.  Then my parents make me try on my new clothes and play the new games I got. Then we start to go to my dad’s mom and dad and open more presents there. After we open then we get out my grandma’s bible and read the Christmas story. When Jesus dies and comes back to life. Christmas is my favorite holiday ever and it is so much fun.

 

A tradition that my family and I do every year is that the night before Christmas, on Christmas Eve we all open one present. That one present is a pair of pajamas to sleep in that night. Then the morning of Christmas my mom makes monkey bread. Monkey bread is homemade bread balls in a bunt pan with brown sugar and pecans. And that’s my tradition.

 

The way I celebrate Christmas is: well, on Christmas Eve my family (mom, dad, and I), we go to Church at night, then we get home and I am allowed to open one gift (the choosing of my parents). Then, on my computer, there is a website where we can track Santa. We usually can’t sleep, but when we finally do, we wake up real early around 5a.m. My mom, dad, and I; we wake up around 5 a.m. We all open our stockings over the fireplace. Then, I open all of my presents first. Next, my mom opens her gifts. Last, my dad. Around noon my whole family (grandparents, great grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins) comes over to my house, we eat, then all the younger grandkids (I am the oldest) open their presents, then everyone else opens, then we thank each other, then we all sit and chat, kids play outside. Then slowly but surely everyone leaves.

 

Epiphany Cathedral School:  Our school has many Christmas Traditions.  After Thanksgiving, there is the largest Christmas Parade in Florida and it is held in downtown Venice.  Then, Santa comes to visit our school and have breakfast with the students every December.  We also decorate angel trees for our cathedral.  Then we have a huge Christmas Concert and every student in the school gets to participate as an actor, singer or musician.  To hear about the Holiday Traditions of our Jr. Odyssey students, visit http://voicethread.com/share/1546084/

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