Sunday (November 30th) is the beginning of the Advent season. The Advent season will end on Christmas Eve at midnight. During the season of Advent, Christians across the world prepare for the celebration of the arrival of the baby Jesus into the world. Advent is a time to celebrate light in the middle of darkness. It is also a time to look forward to when Jesus will come a second time.
What does your family do to get ready for Christmas? For example, do you bake special cookies, cut down a tree, go caroling, etc.? Please share your family traditions with the class by writing it here on the blog.
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We wake up and pray and some of our family come over. We say merry Christmas to each other and open our Christmas presents. Then in the afternoon we go to our cousins house.
By, Phanuel
To get ready for Christmas, we clean and decorate our house. We start decorating in the middle of November. We put up Christmas decorations like the "parol". A "parol" is a star shape or a flower shape hanging decoration made up of paper or painted tin. Some of them have blinking lights and others have still lights. Those made of paper have no lights. The "parol" hanging in our house has blinking lights and is shaped like a star and it's made out of tin. We also put up a Christmas tree and Holiday window clings. To celebrate Christmas, we send Christmas cards and presents to our relatives who live in the Philippines, Virginia and New Mexico. We also call them and greet them "Merry Christmas". The day before Christmas, we cook Filipino food like "pansit" (noodles)and "lumpia" (egg roll). Then we invite our relatives and friends in our house so we can have a simple party. We also give our presents to them. It is also very important in our family to go to church on Christmas Day!
By Abigail#1
My family makes cookies and we get milk for Santaclaus.We also give him about 5 cookies.We also put up decerations.We have a deer that we put up evry Christmas.We also have Christmas lites.We put up a manger to show that we care about Jesus.We usually open one present before Christmas,but it has to be from our parents.We also put up a angel to show we love Jesus and we want him to forgive us for what we have done wrong.
from ciera
We do a lot of things to prepare for Christmas. First, we see a play about the meaning of Christmas. Last, Saturday we saw "A Christmas Carol", a famous play written by Charles Dickens. It was wonderful.
We put wreaths on our front doors and small white lights on our Boxwoods and Pear trees. We decorate all our mantels, put up our Christmas stockings and, of course, buy a Christmas tree (we did that today) and decorate it. My Mom and Dad give Zach and me a special ornament that has something to do with a particular thing that we did or learned that year. We open them on Christmas Eve.
We bake cookies, pudding and cake that we share with friends and family. Almost every year we have a Christmas party to celebrate the joy of the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth (if we're not away). We go to Mass on Christmas Eve and look at the beautiful Nativity scenes on display at church and in Unity Place.
Right before we go to bed, we get the cookies and carrots ready for Santa Claus and the reindeers. We also write Santa a letter. This is what I do preparing for Christmas.
By Madison
My family and I decorate the Christmas tree with ornaments from Hawaii. And we make mangers and sometimes we make ginger bread houses with a Christmas scene. We make a Japanese snack called jello mochi. It is so good. Sometimes we travel to go see relatives from Arizona or Hawaii. That is what we do on Christmas. By Julia.
We star by seting up the Advent calendar.Then we put up our Advent candle wreath.Then we set up the Nativity scene and every day the wise men get closer. And finally we set up decorations slowly, not all at once, slowly.
by Simon
We get our house decorated for Christmas. We put up Christmas ligts and decorate the tree. We put out our nativity set. We listen to Christmas music. We make sure to do something special with our friends and family too.BY MatthewC.
I wake up and I wake up my family and then I open my PERSENTS. Then me my mom and my sister bake CHRISTMAS cookies. Then we go to my cousins house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE,
#4(PRAY/BETSELOT)
The first thing my family does to get ready for Christmas is to get a tree. Next we decorate it and hang stockings. We go to the Santa Breakfast at a hotel in Seattle and go to church on Sundays and Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve, we look at the Santa Tracker on the internet and bake cookies for Santa and leave carrots for the reindeer. Before we go to bed, we say our prayers. On Christmas morning, we open our stockings and wait for everyone to get up so we can open our presents. All my cousins come over to Mick Kelly's and we have dinner and play Wii Guitar Hero on the TVs.
By Gabby
Merry Christmas!
My family puts up a Christmas tree. My relatives come into town. We put up the Christmas lights.
by Zachary N.
Before Chistmas we get ready by Baking nice cookies and decorating them. We also have a thing called cookies,crafts, and cosins. It's about us making cookies with our cosins and doing all sorts of Chistmas crafts. That is what I do to get ready for Christmas. Cailin
Our tradition is to put up the Christmas tree before Thanksgiving. We decorate the Christmas tree together while we listen to christmas songs. And we sometimes sleep in front of the Christmas tree. We make cookies on Christmas Eve.
by Cassidy
To get ready for Christmas we go caroling and my mom makes peppermint bark.We get our Christmas tree about a week away from Christmas. Every weekend we watch Christmas movies on Family channel. On Christmas Eve we break the bread [also known as Oplatek]to celebrate friendship and hospitality. It is a Polish tradition. Also on Christmas Eve we each open one present. On Christmas Day we usually have a special breakfast or brunch.
By Celia
Every year we get up and go to the
living room then we open our Chistmas presents then we all go to sleep accept me. I play on the computer until it's very late and then I too go to sleep.
by,Valencia#26
On Chiristmas eve we decorate the Christmas tree and bake cockies for Santa and we are thankful that Jesus came to save us.We go to bed early so nobody in are family is awake when Santa come.Tia and me wake up at about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning and beg if we can open 1 gift.Everyone is usually up at 6:00 in the morning and thats when we open our gifts.We also pray and thank God for our health and our blessings we have. And we pray for world peace and the less fortunate.
Love,
Tori
10:00 mass before we open presents
Jack 13
To get ready for Christmas my family cuts down a Christmas tree and then gets the ornaments out and ready to put on the tree. We also gather at someone home and celebrate Christmas Eve together. by Colten
To get ready for Christmas, we decorate our tree, put lights on our home and hang our stockings. We make cookies for Santa. We get together with our family and friends. This year I want to go caroling with my friends from my neighborhood.
By:Andrew
My family doesn't cut down trees becuase we want to save the enviroment.We have stocking hangers that look like snowmen and Christmas trees.Then we go to bed and wait for Santa.
By Hayden
We get some cookies and a lot of different stuff. P.S Is someone here? Phanuel
For Christmas I have a tree under my stairs. We have in my livingroom we have a manger where Jesus was born in Bethlehem. We give Santa cookies to him. I give the reindeers five carrots. We get at my gandmothers house for Christmas. She has cool ornaments and her tree spins around its cool. I want to say goodbye classmates.
by,max bergseth
My brother and I wake up early and ask my mom and dad if we can open presents yet. But they say first I need get the cammera. So we wait. Then we open the presents. After we open presents I go to my gandma's house. Then we make gingerbread houses. I always put a Seahawk sticker on my gingerbread house. The we open more presents.I go home and play with my toys.
By Matthew M.
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