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Brought to you by the Section 1 ELA Class Christmas Around The World By: Kyleigh Burt Did you know Christmas can be different around the world? Well, I’ll tell you all about it! You’ll be learning about Japan, Egypt, France, and Zimbabwe’s Christmas traditions.

Japan didn't start to In Egypt they celebrate celebrate Christmas until a few Christmas on January 7th decades ago. They do not instead of December 25th. Forty three days before classify Christmas as a major Japan holiday, and Christmas Eve is Christmas, people in Egypt go celebrated more than on a vegan diet. Orthodox Christmas day. Most of the means Christmas day in Japanese order take out on Arbiac, and “Santa Claus” is Christmas rather than a home called “Baba Noel”. Would you cooked meal. It sounds fun to ever spend Christmas in Egypt celebrate Christmas in Japan! Egypt?

France is a country located in Christmas in Zimbabwe starts Europe. Their Christmas’ are off with a Mass. Then people go different than ours. The house to house visiting family French are very interested in France and friends on their way home. nativity scenes, and almost At every house you stop at, you every French home has one get something to eat and set up. Their set may include exchange presents. This can a policeman, baker and a take all day. Santa might arrive butcher. Maybe someday you in fire engines at big stores. might want to see a French Christmas in Zimbabwe sounds nativity set. like so much fun! Zimbabwe State’s #1 Christmas Cookie

By : Mason Johnson

1. - Polish Vanilla Cookies Traditional European Christmas dessert. They are enjoyed for their great nutty flavor. Some key ingredients are ground almonds and vanilla bean. 2. Georgia- Calypso Cookies They’re made of shredded coconut, pecans, and rolled oats. Their hearty texture make these perfect for cookie exchanges.

3. California- Vegan Chocolate Chip Bacon Cookie These have chocolate covered bacon which makes for a salty and sweet cookie. This cookie is known to be so good you can’t have just one.

4. Hawaii- Chinese Almond Cookie These nutty almond cookies are easy to make at home. People are known to give dozens of these out as gifts.

5. Virginia- Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookies These cookies are a crowd pleaser. These cookies are fun to make and fun to eat. Use sprinkles and icing to create your own “ugly” design. Crafts By Emily Turner

Do you want to learn how to make a paper This craft is a little easier. You’ll need a plate Christmas tree? Awesome! For this pinecone, paint, paper, a pencil, hot glue, craft you need a paper plate, a popsicle scissors, and paint brushes. Once you stick, green and brown paint, scissors, a manage to find a pinecone, clean it and pencil, hot glue, and whatever gems or get your green paint ready. Paint the other decorations you want to put on it. pinecone as well as you can and let it dry. Take your pencil and your plate, draw two Come back when it’s dry, take your white light lines separating your paper into four paint, and dab a little bit of paint on the sections. Take your scissors and cut on tips so it looks like snow. Let this dry. those lines. Now, use your green paint to Come back and get out as many other paint the pieces you cut, and your brown paint colors as you’d like. Then take a paint to paint your popsicle stick. Then smaller paint brush, and paint little dots let these dry. For this part you’re going to of the different colors on the pinecone. need an adult to help you. Take your hot These are the ornaments. Once this dries, glue gun, line up the pieces like they are get your hot glue gun ready you might in the picture, and glue them together. want your parent to help you. While it’s Then, glue your popsicle stick to the back warming up take your paper and pencil of the bottom layer. Unless you’re really and draw a star. Cut out your star, and good at drawing stars, you might need an put some glue on the back. Next hold it adult to help you with this part too. Get a on the top of your tree until it dries. piece of paper, draw a star, and cut it out. After it dries you’re done! You can do Then glue your star to the top of your anything to it to make it the way you tree. Finally, take any gems or decorations want it to look. This craft makes for a you have and glue them on the tree. perfect holiday gift! By: Olivia Butzin

For centuries the nativity has been found in churches, houses, and other places around the world at Christmas time. The appearance of a nativity can give us a chance to remind ourselves about the true meaning of Christmas. Do you want to know where it started and why? The first nativity set was made by Saint Francis of Assisi on Christmas Eve 1223 in Greccio, Italy. He made it out of hay, and Saint Francis thought that the meaning of Christmas was being lost. He thought that if he made the nativity, it would symbolize that Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and not about the gift giving. A usual nativity shows the holy family, the angels, the three wise men, donkeys, sheep, camels, and an assortment of villagers. The oldest nativity is preserved in Bologna, Italy. It dates back to the 13th century. The people are practically life size and made of plaster. The word nativity is also said as “presepe”. The word “presepe” comes from the Latin word “praesepe”, which plainly means “crib”. This means that when we say the word “nativity”, we are really talking about Jesus’ miraculous birth! The nativity comes in lots of different sizes and versions. Nativity sets can be as big as lego, barbies, or the nativity in Bologna, which is the size of actual people. Nativity sets can be found in yards, parks, stores, homes, churches, and so many more places. Nativities are made African-American, or American. Nowadays we seem to also lose focus about what Christmas is really about. We spend all of our time thinking about giving and receiving gifts, rather than about Jesus’ birth and life. Make it your goal this year to buy a nativity in order to regain sight of the true meaning of Christmas.

The oldest nativity in Bologna, The usual household nativity. Italy. Christmas Word Search By Carson Kiefer C A N D Y C A N E A S D S H A P P Y L S F V E G F A M I L Y E W D L G I D E N G T I G W D W R N A H P T S V N N N S E G W O R S A H A A K L I E E L E S F C S F G E N R L I S F B O L G F I D B V D E K F O E A B G E R E A N A E K S G U H E E S Y T S D I L G V S R A G O N G G E K M C D E D C H R I S T M A S R E E

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GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS Christmas Crossword Puzzle

By Carson Kiefer

X Christmas Jokes and Riddles By Josh Clark

Jokes Who gives presents to baby sharks? Riddles I come with many Who says “OH OH colors, so beautiful OH”? and bright, I turn so many houses Where do snowmen into a beautiful go to dance? sight. What am I?

Where does a Santa was having snowman keep all problems with his of his money? legs and was unable to walk, so he went to the What is the best doctor to see if he Christmas present could help him. in the world? What did the doctor give him to help him walk?

Keep Reading to find the answers to the Jokes and Riddles! Best Christmas Movies to watch By: Nataleigh Blaisdell

Kevin McCallister is a 8 year old kid who has a big family. By accident, he is left home alone when his family goes on vacation for Christmas. Ralphie Parker is a boy in the 1980’s trying to While his family is gone, two robbers try to make it to Christmas. All he wants from Santa break into his house, but he protects himself and his house. He comes up with traps and is a “Red Ryder Air Rifle.” He is told by sabotages them. His family makes it home just everyone that “you will shoot your eye out in time for Christmas. kid,” this movie is very funny.

The Grinch is about a grumpy creature who Buddy the elf is actually a human who crawled lives on a mountain outside of Whoville. He hates into Santa’s bag as a baby. He is raised by elves Christmas and decides to become a fake Santa and believes he is an elf. When he finds out he Claus. He goes to all the houses in Whoville, and he takes all the decorations. Then he gets caught by a is not an elf, he heads to New York City to find little girl named Cindy Lou Who. Even without the his dad. He teaches many people the spirit of Who’s Christmas decorations and gifts they still Christmas. celebrate Christmas.

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lead his sleigh. Riddles for Answers Holiday Competitions By: Presley Chamberlain The newspaper staff has looked over the entries for the best decorated house and cookies for this year's holidays, but the winners from each competition are listed below with a picture showing their house and cookies.

Cookie Decorating WInners:

Aisha Stempky (4th Andrew Kiefer (7th Carson Kiefer (7th grade) decorated a grade) made peanut grade) made molasses candy house made out butter bon bons this cookies with his of poptarts. holiday season. grandma.

House decorating winner:

Josh Clark (7th grade) won the house decorating competition. It looks like him and his family spent lots of time setting up all of the lights! Did You Know ByBy Olivia Olivia PatrickPatrick

Did You know that Santa Claus is immune to Covid - 19 ? Santa Claus and his family are immune to Covid - 19 and other viruses. Santa was made that way so even if there is a virus around he can still deliver presents to everyone in the world! Even if your family is sick, he can’t get sick, so no canceling Christmas. With this information now you don’t have to worry about having to cancel Christmas, so Merry Christmas everyone! Did you know that Germany came up with the Christmas Tree tradition? In the 1800’s, Germany came over to the United States of America and taught people about the tradition of the Christmas Tree. The Germans probably got the idea from the Egyptians because the Egyptians used to fill their homes with evergreen when the god Ra got over his sickness every year as a sign of triumph. Some people put up Evergreen trees to prevent ghosts and spirits. Other people just like the look and smell of them. When you look at your Christmas trees remember that this tradition came from Germany.

Did You Know “Jingle Bells” was originally written for Thanksgiving not Christmas? The classic song for Christmas was not originally meant for Christmas. This song was written for Thanksgiving. You might be thinking it says “In a one horse open sleigh”, how could it not be about Christmas because Santa rides his sleigh every year? Well, people used to race seighs in the 1800’s, so any time it snowed they would use sleighs like on Thanksgiving. It was rewritten in 1859 and printed to be a Christmas Song. If you ever hear “Jingle Bells” this season think about how that could have been played at Thanksgiving. Meet the Pets By : Parson Schryer

Meet Bear, he is Meet Bailey, She Meet George, he a six month old is a six year old is a 4 month old kitten. He loves to Pomchi. She labradoodle. He snuggle, play with loves riding in loves to play with pens, and jump the baskets of other dogs and is on people's her owner’s growing really shoulders. His bike. Her owner fast. His owner is owner is Olivia is Presley Altas Crahan in Patrick in 7th Chamberlain in First grade and grade 7th grade. Carson Crahan in Fifth grade.

Meet Leo, he is a two year old domestic shorthair cat. His owner is Macy Migda in the first grade. When he falls he lands on his feet!!

Meet the reindeer! These reindeer are owned by the Garlyn , and they are also known as Caribou. There are nine of them. The oldest is 7 years old and the youngest is 7 months old named Peri. Celeb/Important Figure Tribute By Joshua Grondin

Grinch- In the original story of the grinch, he was supposed to be all black and white with bits of red and pink eyes. When the director of the movie (Chuck Jones) when they started filming they decided that the main character was going to be all green. When they started filming the grinch movie it only took them one day to record the whole movie but they said it was way harder than it sounds because the actor Jim Carrey had to keep getting in and out of his grinch costume. The cartoon movie “Grinch” almost wasn’t a thing because they couldn’t find a business to support their movie.

Rudolph- Rudolph’s name was almost Rollo or Reginald. Most of the voice actors were Canadian. The rudolph animation was made in China. In the rudolph movie his nose glows red 33 times. In the year 2014 rudolph was on TV for 50 years, it was on tv since 1964.The movie rudolph is only 44 minutes long. There is only 11 voice actors in the movie rudolph. When santa's sleigh was getting pulled in the movie there was only seven dear pulling the sleigh instead of nine like the song says there was nine Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donnor, Blitzen, and Rudolph

Santa- Santa Clause was born in 270 AD. Santa has a white beard and wears a white collar and a black belt. He also wears a red hat with white trim and wears black boots..Santa’s sleigh travels at the speed of light. That is 186,282.4 miles per second or 671 million miles per second. The first mention of Mrs. Claus was in 1849,over several years people started putting Mrs. Claus in books and saying that this was Santa’s wife until a famous publisher Katherine Bates. Bates mad a poem about Mrs. Claus and that's when people really started to believe that she was Santa's wife. Down below are pictures of the BABY PICTURE Bishop Baraga staff’ as babies! GUESSING GAME Can you guess all of the teachers and staff? The answers will be BY Abigayle Yeck-Parrott on the bottom of the sports page!

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Teacher spotlight: Mr. Eustice Mr. Eustice is one of our new teachers this year. Mr. Eustice went to college at CMU, but not for teaching. When he got out of college he decided to be a teacher so that he could make a difference. He loves to see the smiles on kids faces when they accomplish something. Mr. Eustice plays hockey and golf. He has one brother and a dog named Wyatt. His favorite Christmas movie is Elf, and his favorite Christmas song is Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer.

Parson Schryer Parson is one of our 7th graders at Bishop Baraga. Parson has a lot of animals. He has a hedgehog, lots of fish, 8 chickens, a chameleon, and a dog. He also loves to paint. Parson’s favorite part of Christmas is getting to decorate, and making cookies with his grandma. Jingle Bells is Parson’s favorite Christmas song, and The Polar Express is his favorite Christmas movie.

New Student Spotlight: Marlie Boyd

Marlie is one of our new students in 6th grade. Marlie's favorite Christmas movie is Elf. She likes to decorate for Christmas with her family. Marlie has one brother and six sisters. She also has three dogs, two birds, and a rabbit. Marley's favorite part of school is seeing all the nice people, but she feels that being the new kid is hard because at her old school she could be herself and she doesn’t think she can here.Marlie thinks it’s hard to fit in.

Kindergarten Spotlight:Violet Ecker Violet is one of our Kindergarteners. Violet loves Christmas, and her favorite part is getting to open presents. Her favorite Christmas movie is the Christmas Chronicles. Violet loves to play in the snow. She has two brothers and three dogs. Her favorite part of school is recess.Violet loves to help her dad coach soccer, and she likes to play soccer too. I Spy By Josh Clark and Carson Kiefer When you find the object, find it on the list

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Answers to Jokes to Answers Christmas Sports

By: Jack Ekdah

All Bishop Baraga students, all of you are probably aware that we aren’t in school right now. This article will show you some fun covid free activities to do over Christmas break. First, we have sledding which is a very popular activity for kids during the winter. You can also do that with your family and friends a lot over the break! Once there is more snow that’s what a lot of people will be doing over Christmas break. Next you can do lots of activities with your family which includes plenty of activities, which means you can build snowman, snowmobile, and during and after Christmas break you can go skiing/ snowboarding with friends and family. Nubs Nob just opened, so over the break you can have fun skiing and snowboarding with your family and friends. You can also go bowling. Spare time Lanes is open, and ice skating/ figure skating at the ice pavilion. Over the Holidays, many of you guys will be inside, enjoying your hot chocolate with your family, awaiting your Christmas presents. There are many sports games you can watch over the break. There are also many things to watch over the holidays. First the college football bowl games, and playoffs are right around the corner, with many teams competing for a bowl game or playoff spot. There is also the Nfl season about to end with the playoffs right around the corner also, with many game to determine whether they will make the playoffs or not. The Nba preseason just started, (December 11). The regular season starts December 22nd, with many Christmas games going on 3 days later. We will also see many new players on their new teams this season. There is also College basketball every day for men, and women. So you can watch college basketball all the way until early April. So that means every day there are plenty of sports games on television. Answers to Teacher Guessing Game 1. Ms Camper 5. Mrs. K 9. Mrs. Leightner 2. Ms. Kayte 6. Mr. Derris 10. Mr. Closs 3. Mr. Eustice 7. Mrs. Mousseau 11. Mrs. Lentell 4. Mrs. Franz 8. Mrs. LaBlance 12. Mrs. Couture ANSWER KEY

By Carson Kiefer

Answers for Baby Photos 1. Miss. Camper 11. Mrs. Lentil 2. Mrs. Schryer 12. Mrs. Couture 3. Mr. Eustice 4. Miss. Franz 5. Mrs. K 6. Mr. Derris 7. Mrs. Mousseus 8. Mrs. Lablanc 9. Mrs. Leightner 10. Mr. Closs Top Five Christmas Songs By Andrew Kiefer

#1 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer came from a father who was a writer, and remembered that his daughter loved deer. So, he made the subject of his song about a little reindeer with a shiny red nose, in 1964.

#2 Jingle Bells Jingle Bells was written by James Lord Pierpont who got inspired by sleigh races, in 1850. Jingle bells was not intended to be a Christmas song.

#3 Santa Claus is Coming to Town Santa Claus is Coming to Town was written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie. They wrote the song in 1970.

#4 Frosty the Snowman Frosty the Snowman came out in 1950. It is about a snowman that came alive when a hat got placed on his head. When it came out, more people knew the song rather than the movie.

#5 Silent Night Silent Night is a song about a calm and bright silent night, and the wonder of a tender and mild newborn child. Silent Night came out in 2006. Support Your Small Businesses This Year

By Will Bouldin

Have you finished your holiday shopping? If not this is your article!

Marcellas has clothes, jewelry, and holiday specials. The Holiday specials are Marcellas also has toys (I THINK) for kids.

Do you have your christmas tree and lights? The Rivertown Do It Center has them for you. If you don’t have your tree year this is the place to visit. They also have lights for your trees.

For men you could buy them a haircut at JB's Cuts. Adults cuts are $12.00, kids under 12 are $9.00, and buzzcuts are $9.00.

Premier Body Works and Massages located in Straits Area Chiropractic has some Holiday Specials. They are 20% off messages. Hunting Fishing

Coyote Ice Fishing

Coyotes are very good There are two ways swimmers. The biggest people ice fish. They ever killed was use rod and line or they 75 pounds and 4 ft 11 spear them. The inches from nose to tail. biggest fish ever caught Most are and released when ice around 30 pounds and fishing was a 46 inch can have from 3-12 lake trout. During ice babies per litter. They fishing season they can run up to 40 mph. catch around 14 million Some people hunt fish .The natives of coyotes with dogs and canada and the US some go sit down and invented ice fishing. It is use mouth or electric a great outdoor activity! calls .