The Holiday Season

The Holiday Season

Halloween

Christmas Eve

Christmas: How We Decorate

Christmas

• We leave out cookies and beer for Santa Claus

• Before bed, we read The Night Before Christmas

• The Christmas celebrations start the day after Thanksgiving
• "Black Friday": Stores have big sales. Many people go shopping for Christmas presents because gifts are very cheap
• In the weeks before Christmas day, people decorate their homes with Christmas lights and a Christmas tree.
• People send their friends and families Christmas cards
• Most people get off from work or school a few days before Christmas and don't go back until after New Years
• People make and decorate Christmas cookies to give to friends
• On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, people have big feasts with their families and sometimes go to church
• There are many classic movies that we watch every Christmas

• People decorate their houses with scary decorations
• They hollow out pumpkins and carve faces and put candles inside them. These are called jack-o-lanterns.
• Children dress up in costumes and go trick-or-treating: They visit their neighbors and ask for candy
• Adults dress up and go to parties. Usually there is a costume contest. The person with the best, funniest, or scariest costume wins a prize.
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January

November

December

October

Christmas: How We Celebrate in my Family

Christmas Eve

Thanksgiving

• My family and my uncle's family go out to eat at a Japanese restaurant

• The day after Thanksgiving, we decorate the house with lights and a tree
• My dad and I read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• My mom and I bake Christmas cookies

• Thanksgiving comes from when the Pilgrims came to America in the 1600s.
• They didn't know how to care for the animals or grow their food, so the Native Americans taught them how
• The next year, to thank the Native Americans, they had a big feast
• Today, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the 4th Thursday of November
• We eat a big turkey and have a big feast with our families
• It is a holiday to remember to be thankful for what we have: So we spend time with family and eat lots of food

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Christmas Movies

• A Muppet Christmas Carol

• Nightmare Before Christmas

• A Christmas Story