Christmas Traditions

Since it is the last week before Christmas break I decided to write about CHRISTMAS! All around the world countries celebrate Christmas differently. For example Austria(like what other country would I mention!). Austrians have Kristkind(Christ Child) instead of Santa. I also have Kristkind but not only Kristkind I also get presents from Santa Lucia(LOO-CHEE-a.) Santa Lucia is from Italy. She doesn't come to my house but we go to a friend of my grandpa’s House.

Okay, so that is who I get presents from Christmas time. Now lets talk about other countries...Well in China only some people are Christian so they do what we do put up a Christmas tree but in Chinese Santa Claus is ‘Shen dan lao ren’. In Mexico Christmas is Celebrated from Dec.12-Jan.6(Two days before my B-day!)  Swiss like to wear crowns on their heads and everyone has Advent calendars. In the UK(or great britain) they put up a Christmas tree(or even 2!) and instead of Santa Claus they have Father Christmas. Oh and I almost forgot Jewish families celebrate Chanukkah(Hanukkah.)

Now there are some different ways to celebrate Christmas.

What do you do for Christmas?

Do you do anything special for Christmas time if yes, What?

Do you know of any other traditions if yes which ones?

And since the first and second question are the similar…

Why do you think Christmas is so special?

-bunbunny

Christmas Specials

During Christmas time there are a lot of Christmas specials on TV.  Some of them are classics like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Garfield, Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman and Elf. There are a lot of other movies that I can not remember off the top of my head. Those movies are more commonly seen/watched around Christmas.

This will be off topic but 79% of the kids are focused on the gifts not the family time and movies. They all just stare at the gifts shake them listen to them if they’re allowed.  Some kids are so bad that they sleep beside the tree until Christmas and wake up Christmas morning. Some kids don't even get presents but still people don't care.

Now back to the topic, If I were to make a Christmas special it would be about a doughnut named Arnold Candy cane who has to rescue Bob Bell his best bro while the towns people try to bombard him with Christmas decorations.

What is your favorite Christmas special and why?

If you could make a Christmas special what would it be about and who would be the main character be?

Why do you think Christmas specials are so popular?

Waxierwharf360

Hobby

My favourite hobby is dance. Dance is a beautiful art. I think I will dance for the rest of my life.

Mostly because I think I’m good at it, and because when I dance I start to smile. I dance four times a week. On Mondays I dance ballet and jazz. Later in the day on Thursday I dance ballet choreo, ballet tech, and lyrical. On Fridays I dance musical theater. And on Saturdays I dance jazz and acro. My favourite type of dance is jazz, because I think I have a lot of personality. I’m pretty sure I get all of my personality from my sister. 

Dance is the only hobby I do, because I quit soccer and I quit gymnastics. It was hard to quit gymnastics. But quitting soccer was like a piece of cake. I don’t care though now because I think that’s how I got better at dance. My goal with dancing is to always get better and better. Because if I work even harder and harder every time. Usually in dance class we have one big prize and a ton of small prizes.This year she is trying to give out a rainbow sock monkey. Another one of my goals is to do a side aerial and a rollover pretzel. If I succeed them I will move on to another goal.

-What is your hobby?

-What’s your favourite part about it?

-What is your goal with it?

-bluebell08-

Hope

What is Hope you may ask? Hope is a feeling that what is wanted or is likely to happen. To want something to happen or be true and think it could happen.

Hope is important in life. Hope is a way of showing that you care for others.Hope is a way of showing to never give up.You should show hope to people and elders of your family and others.If you don’t show hope that means you haven’t lived that much.Always show hope to people you love and like.

I show hope to people I like and love!do you show hope to people you like and love? I even show hope to people I don’t even know . Everybody should show hope to at least some people.I think you should show hope to everybody that you like and love.

Does the feeling of Hope come easily for you?
What does 'hope' mean to you?
Why do you think Hope is important?

from snowball29 (modified by Mr.V)

Sports

I think sports are very important to your life. Sports help keep you healthy, they are fun to play and keep you fit.

My favorite sport is hockey. I like to play hockey because it is fun, fast moving and you can play with lots of people. Hockey I can play almost any time. I also can play it competitively, in a league. I play for North Seara and I am in the age level Atom. Atom is for ages 9-10.

It is also good to have someone who teaches you and someone you can look to for help in that sport. It can be a coach or a family member. My Dad helps me with hockey. He is the assistant coach for my team this year. He also gives me tips for hockey  and helps me get better at it. Lots of times I also play with my brother, even though he is way better than me, he helps me get better to.

Sports may sometimes be hard, but they can also be very fun.

What is your favourite sport?

Why do you like it?

Who helps you get better at it?

-Mr.Patty

R.E.S.P.E.C.T

Respect is really important for everyone. You should respect everyone and especially your dad & mom.  
You should not only respect them, you should respect everyone in this world who is older than you. If you respect someone in your life, life would be a lot nicer and you will be so much happier.  If you respect everyone the kids will learn something from you and then they will respect you so please respect everyone.  You parents will be so happy with you and be proud of you. And if you see someone older than you  and you see them trying to cross a road then help them out of respect. I really respect my granparents and parents because they really care for me and by showing love and kindness.  

• Do you respect your parents and grandparents ? why?
• Have you ever helped someone ? 
• What did you help them with? Raven queen

Stress

Stress is something that many people get, when something odd happens and it affects things in your body. Some of the feelings that you feel can cause stress in many ways.

You can get stress from your job your friends can even make you feel some stress and can even help you face the stress. Stress causes anger,crying,depression,hungry,thirsty and many more serious feelings that you may feel. Stress can even make you not hungry or not thirsty.Stress is a powerful thing it can make and do many things to you and your body.

Sometimes Stress can really really hurt someone.

You can help yourself handle Stress in many ways like eating,drinking,being active and much more.you can do so much to help you and your friends to take care of Stress.When I was about 1 ½ my mom and dad had been divorced and it was a hard time for me and since then I have felt a lot of stress and I know how to take care and to handle it, for it is easy for me to handle it but for some people it is very hard and I am not putting out any names but some people in the class are feeling some stress and I believe that we can help them handle stress.

1. Do you feel or deal with stress and how do you take care of it ?
2. How can you help people deal with stress ?
3. Do you have things you do to take care of stress and explain it ?