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How do you celebrate Christmas or the holidays around this time?
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 * ===Student input--tell about the traditions at your house. (Sign your name using your French name and class period.)===
 * 1) One tradition that we have at my house is opening one present before we go to bed on Christmas Eve.
 * 2) My family is really big, so I end up celebrating Christmas three times; once with my parents and siblings, once with my mom's family, and once with my dad's family.
 * 3) When we finish decorating our tree, my dad hides a little toy Christmas mouse in the branches, and whoever finds it first gets to hide it next. user:CarolineL1
 * 4) On Christmas Eve, my parents let me open one gift and it is generally a pair of Christmas-themed pajamas. user:celinel1
 * 5) Instead of having a big Christmas dinner, my family has an afternoon meal with lots of appetizers, like cheese and crackers and fondue.user:celinel1
 * 6) For the whole week before Christmas my family watches Christmas movies like "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and "It's A Wonderful Life." user:celinel1
 * 7) My family eats lasagna on Christmas Day user:annick2
 * 8) My block that I live on has a party every Christmas Eve where we go outside and freeze setting up our luminaria, sometimes we even light the candles with blow torchesuser:annick2
 * 9) Last year we were too lazy to put up our tree, so we got an air freshener in the shape of a tree and then put it into a plastic bag because it smelled really bad and then we pinned it to the wall user:annick2
 * 10) My grandparents are Swedish and Norwegian and we love our sweets, so every year around Christmas time we spend one day baking cookies and other pasteries. We enjoy the treats after we are done making them. user:genevieved1
 * 11) My family always enjoys making sugar cookies together. user:Sophie14
 * 12) Each year, we decorate the Christmas tree together.user:Sophie14
 * 13) Every Christmas Eve I go to my grandma's house and eat a bunch of chicken noodle soup and a bunch of different cheeses. Then we open presents from family members.user:Jacques4
 * 14) For each Christmas, my mom and I bake cookies together and have a cookie exchange with all of our friends.user:Karine1
 * 15) In my family we usually open the presents on Christmas Eve, even though every year we all intend to wait until Christmas Day. user:Julien11
 * 16) My mom usually has to work on Christmas Eve, so when she gets home we have a Mexican fiesta. It's fun because we're not even from Mexico or Mexican. user:ZakiaK1
 * 17) On Christmas Eve, we get to open one gift, which is either a Christmas book or new pajamas. user:ZakiaK1
 * 18) Every year we go to church later in the evening and then come home to each crackers and cheese instead of a christmas dinner. That comes the next day early in the afternoon when the rest of the family comes in from around the state. user:chantals1
 * ===Websites===
 * ===Pictures (no pictures of students or other people- just decorations, foods, etc.)===
 * 1) [[image:http://interiordec.about.com/library/graphics/cmas/27cmas04.jpg width="140" height="192"]]This is a typical Christmas Tree user:Sophie14
 * 2) [[image:http://www.abcteach.com/free/c/candycanergb.jpg width="130" height="203"]]This is a candy cane. user:Sophie14
 * Songs
 * Songs
 * ===Foods===
 * ===Recipes===
 * 1) [|Eggnog]
 * 2) [|Nutcracker Sweet Ginger Walnut Loaf]
 * 3) [|Christmas Rock Candy]
 * 4) [|Lefse Recipe]
 * 5) [[file:Cranberry Upside Down Cake.doc]]
 * 1) [|Lefse Recipe]
 * 2) [[file:Cranberry Upside Down Cake.doc]]


 * ===Typical Vocabulary===
 * 1) Candy Cane - a long red and white stripped hard candy that is in the shape of a shepherd staff.
 * 2) Poinsettia - A plant with bright red leaves that is usually displayed during the christmas season.
 * 3) gingerbread - a soft, molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
 * 4) sleigh - a light vehicle on runners used for transporting persons over snow.
 * 5) luminary - paper bags filled with sand and a lit candle around the sidewalk of a street
 * 6) L.E.D. lights - energy efficient Christmas lights that are very popular! And ecologically friendly!
 * 7) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer- A traditional Christmas character with a glowing red nose who guides Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve
 * 8) Wreath - A circular band of flowers, foliage, or any other ornamental work, used for decorative purposes
 * 9) Christmas tree- a pine tree decorated with lights and ornaments, gifts are placed under the tree to be unwrapped on Christmas morning
 * 10) Christmas lights-used to decorate houses at Christmas time
 * 11) Reindeer - a large deer with big antlers that is native to the Arctic; during Christmas, these animals pull Santa's sleigh.
 * 12) Christmas Carols - songs that are sung during the holidays that represent people's beliefs and joy the holidays
 * 13) Christmas Tree Hunting - when familes go to private ranches where they can look for their own trees to cut down and use for for their Christmas tree.
 * 14) Elves - Santa's mythological creatures that help him make toys. They's protrayed as little friendly creatures that look a lot like humans.
 * ===Other===
 * 1) [[image:cell+phone-140.jpg width="177" height="236" caption="The Hanukkar/The Car of David"]] My friend Mike decided to decorate his car for Hanukkah--you can't see it very well, but there is a Star of David on the hood. user:Julien11