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Thank you, Sauk Prairie area third graders, for sharing your Christmas stories and drawings! Happy Holidays!

Ms. Nash’s 3rd Grade Class the holidays. hope you get me some awesome putting up the tree, and opening This year I would like an hid in the treat bag. Sally is a Newspaper Writing gifts!. I hope no one gets yelled presents. This year we are going Iphone 12, a car book, a Poke- funny elf, not a naughty one. Dalton B at. My grandma and grandpa to watch A Christmas Story. I mon toy, and a snake toy and Londyn Harley M Dear Santa what’s up. So can come down and have a little am excited because I have never book. I was a nice boy last and My favorite holiday tradition um… I don’t know what to Christmas party. I’m happy to watched it before. I like putting this year. Dear Santa, is going to my grandma and write. Your elf fell in my mom do the party with loved ones, up the tree because some of the Love, Korey I’ve been very good this grandpa’s and I go to my other and dad’s closet it was pretty everyone that comes will give ornaments we have hold good year. This is what I would like grandmas’ house and do white funny. He also got a bow stuck gifts. memories. For example, a glass Dear Santa, for Christmas: electric scooter, elephant. What does Christmas on him. He is crazy. From : Gemma!!! bird reminds me of the Christ- I know I met you last year, Lego friends headquarters, mean to me? It means spending mas we got it. I also like seeing but I really want to help you Lego friends panda rescue, kids time with my family and Jesus Brayton B The funniest experience I’ve a smile on people’s faces when this year too. Can I? I will give Fitbit, a new calendar, (puppy) birthday. My favorite holiday tradition ever had over the holidays someone op[ens a present they you cookies and beer...AGAIN. another boy doll, a new coat in my family is going to my By Vann A. like. This is why I like watch- You’re welcome. :) and hat, and a new water bottle. Bentley H grandpa and grandma’s house One day I was at my grand- ing TV, putting up the tree, and Maelee Hope you get a nice night! (and Dear Santa can I have a mini to sleep at theirs and wake up ma’s house for Christmas, and I opening presents. rollerskates) chicken, a elf on the shelf, and a at the middle of the night and got a drone. I went to fly it and By Luke Dear Santa, Amaya whole bag of candy, a dirt bike. look at our presents and then go my mom wanted to fly it so she I have been a good girl this I want a Fit Bit that can call to bed and then wake up in the did. She hit me in the face and I My Christmas Story year. This year I would like a My favorite holiday is Christ- people and a drone that can see morning and open our presents. almost had to get stitches. Every Christmas Eve, we go hoverboard and my birth jewel mas because you spend time people and hear people and they to my grandma’s house. First, and coloring books with mark- with your family and friends. can hear me. Karly K What the Holidays Mean we talk for a bit. Next, we open ers. Thank you Santa. You sing carols, eat food or a About 3 years ago on Christ- By Audrey J the presents. Then we eat. Last, Lilly feast, and open presents. You Cashton S mas Eve my grandma and What the holidays mean to we open more presents and the have fun and be grateful for Dear Santa I want Fragey to grandpa surprised me and my me is love, family, happiness stockings. Last year, we gave Merry Christmas what you get and don’t get mad stay at my home. That is my elf. sister and my cousin with a and JOY! But when the presents our Aunt Amanda and Uncle By Owen even if you get presents you And I want a hoverboard. trip to Disneyland. We were come out it gets loud! Brada fire pit! We don’t even At Christmas my family gets don’t like, still be grateful no confused at first but then we know if we will do it this year together. We all look for the matter whatever happens to you Jackson L read the box. We were sooooo What the Holidays Mean to because of COVID! I’m mad, I ELF! We also go to my grand- in your life. Dear Santa I want a Xbox HAPPY!! But we had to go in Me don’t like it. I hope Covid will parents house to have brunch Milo and a Ps5. Love Jackson. the summer I was sad that we By: Gracelyn K end soon! for Christmas. After that we had to go in the summer. What the holidays mean to By Sophie open presents! Dear Santa, Ethan M. me is that I get to spend time After that we go home, eat I’ve seen you on movies and Wishlist: 1. Skateboard Carly J with my family every holiday. If Family Tradition Christmas dinner, then we go to thank you for sending Buddy (signed by Tony Hawk in cur- The funniest experience one of my family members By Rosalynn bed. ZZZZZZ. over. What I want is hot wheels, sive) 2. BMX bike 3. Both I’ve ever had was when it was are a long ways away, and I My favorite holiday tradi- YAY! We shout. Presents! Legos, Nerf guns that I will Pokemon backpack playsets 4. Christmas I ran downstairs and can’t visit a sister or brother I tion in my family is when my We run to the Christmas tree not shoot my sister with. And Undertaker vs. mankind Grudge my brothers face planted when get to see them. The holidays brother, all three of my cous- and tear open the Christmas I want a twenty-two real gun. match playset 5. Energems they ran to the stockings. are special to me. ins, and me with the adults all presents. Can you tell Buddy to write take turns opening gifts! Next letters to us, and tell Buddy to Anna L Josie K Christmas Tradition after we all open gifts, we try Dear Santa, give us candy. Is Buddy going Dear Santa all I want for My favorite holiday tradition By Olivia T to guess who it’s from. We get I’ve been good, but I want a to hide in the basement? Christmas is a cat, a Nintendo in my family is when my whole For my Christmas tradition three guesses each! After we toy unicorn that is plastic, not Love, Cooper switch, and a trampoline. family is at my grandparents I go to my grandma’s house. guess, we get to find out who glass and a unicorn coloring house. We play ghost in the Then we play and eat dinner. it’s actually from!! book. Sally is so funny even Marlee S graveyard just the cousins but Then we open presents from last year she hid on the printer SEE TEXT, PAGE 10 Dear Santa I want a lego set, the adults drink grasshoppers, youngest to oldest. It is SUPER Dear Santa, and printer herself. Today she apple gift for my phone, a hov- that’s a drink. I can’t drink it fun. We play with what we got erboard and a iPod case. That though. in the basement or the living is what I want for Christmas. room. Good night and Merry Christ- Mrs. Stewart’s 3rd Grade mas. class at Grand Ave. My favorite holiday tradition in my family is Khloe W Favorite Holiday Tradition By Izabel By Parker L. On the night before Christ- Dear Santa, My favorite part of Christmas mas, I go to my nana’s house. What I want for Christmas is is when we have a big meal. I We eat ham. My cousin and a Hoverboard, Ipod or Iphone, love it! I get to open presents I do a play . And then we eat some playdough, more art stuff and see my family and make pie. It is delicious and then we and calico critters. cookies. track Santa on my aunt’s phone. Emma and I sing Christmas Leah S How much I love Santa! songs for my aunts. My favorite holiday tradi- Dear Santa, I hope you are tion in my family is going to excited for christmas! I love My dog and I run around in my grandpa’s and grandma’s you and wish I could see you the snow. She runs so fast and it house, and what we do there at my house. And remember I is so fun to watch. Her name is is, we open our presents, and won’t be in my house and I will Jordi. I like to go down the slide watch the football game, and be in Branson. with her right into the snow. I at my grandpa’s we have ex- MERRY CHRISTMAS, love had so much fun telling you change names and watch the Elizabeth about my dog and I. game. That’s all. By: Sophia Favorite Tradition Allana O By Tegan R Holiday writing from Ms. Dear Santa Merry Christ- My favorite tradition is Udulutch’s Third grade class mas. What I want for Christ- going to my grandma’s. We from Grand Avenue School mas is rainbow high doll, lol have Christmas with our fam- plain, hoverboard, and lots of ily. Every year my grandma has The Funniest Month of De- more things. My favorite holi- Thanksgiving and Christmas. I cember day tradition is my family gets really feel happy when we go to By Eli together and we celebrate on their house every year. The funniest time of Decem- Christmas Eve. ber is finding the three elves. Dear Santa, First they got trapped in the Lyra G I would really like a PS5 and trap. Next, on the cord of the The funniest experience I’ve a tv and a mini fridge in my ceiling fan, in the tree, now ever had over the holidays is my room, and I’ve been really good in the banana holder. My dad brother is going down the hill this year because I help my sis- thinks they are going to the pan- on his sled and just laying flat ters and mom. try and I agree. So I think that on his back and me and mom, From, Mack O. is funny. dad, and my sister were laugh- ing. It was so funny that is my Dear Santa, My favorite holiday tradition funniest experience I had over I hope my family gets along. I in my family is watching TV, PAGE 10 STAR NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020

Mrs. Tamara Cichanowicz’s Lydia Abraham Hatchet for cutting down What Christmas Means to also do sleep over t my cousin’s 3rd Grade Virtual Class Dear Santa, I would very ap- Santa can i get a titanic re- small trees. Me house. Now that is all my fam- preciate it if I could get a uku- mote and a cobi lego titanic RC car that changes into a By Cloudia ily traditions. Ryette lele. I wound like a friendship 1916 and a car that little kids boat and a survival RC car What Christmas means to me My favorite holiday tradition bracelet so i could can drive plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RC car skid loader with a is spending time with the peo- How I Would Catch Santa during Christmas we unwrap Give it to my two friends. I brush hog. ple I love and giving presents By: Kelsey presents with my family and the wound like a fuzzy pink diary Cameron 4 wheeler RC to make them feel good. The Step 1: I would set an alarm. smiles it brings. It is so fun. You with a lock please. I would like My favorite holiday tradition Snowmobile RC second thing of what Christ- Step 2: I would look down- never know what you’re going some pitbull and bulldog shirts is that we celebrate on Christ- The holidays are a happy mas means to me is eating a stairs. to get and it is so cool. pretty please. mas Eve and Christmas Day! I time to me. lovely dinner with the people Step 3: I would go down fur- like that we do fun things before I care about. The third thing of ther. Hana Spencer Christmas even comes. We play Parker what Christmas means to me is Step 4: I would say hi to Dear Santa, My favorite holiday tradi- games, watch movies and spend Dear Santa I know I’ve been watching people I care about Santa. I think it’s nice that you give tion is Hanukkah because I am time with family. We even get to kind of nauty this year but smile. Step 5: Start a conversation. presents. This is my Christ- part Jewish. I like Hanukkah open some presents on Christ- please can I have two things:a Step 6: Open gift mas list: pajama onesies, bath food like Latkes (potato pan- mas Eve. nerf Modulus, and Phenix . How to Catch Santa Step 7: Rewrap gift bombs, a sister or another cakes) and applesauce. I also The reason i just want two is By Easton Step 8: Go to bed puppy. I think a sister would be like to play dreidel. This year Bryce beacause i’ve been Put a cookie on a table. Put Step 9: Tell everybody you the best thing for me. I would Hanukkah begins at sundown My favorite holiday tradition Nauty lately . That’s all i a blob of fresh hot glue under saw him but you know nobody play with her all the time. Tell on December 10th. It lasts for is baking christmas cookies with want for christmas the cookie. Take bowling balls will believe you! Mrs. Claus hello for me. 8 nights. my family. My favorite cookie and put one on each side of the to make is a santa cookie. My August W. table. Tie a rope in between the How to Catch Santa Levi Kaylin favorite thing to help to make is My favorite holiday tradition two bowling balls. Tie each end By Mason Dear Santa, Hi Santa. All I Can you bring me an Ameri- the dough. is family Christmas ornaments. of the string to each bowling Step 1: Get cookies. want is good luck for Christ- can girl pet clinic. My parents and I give each ball. He’ll trip on the rope and Step 2: Put a string on the mas and more. I know your are Montserrat other a new Christmas orna- his face will get stuck in the cookies. 1,749 years old but you are still Christopher Berkley ment. I like it because it is fun glue. When you wake up you Step 3: Put the string where the best. My favorite holiday tradition What I want for Christmas: to look at the ornaments when will see Santa. Sana can step on the middle of is I like doing the pickle be- First aid kit we have our tree up around the knotted circle. Liam cause it is fun. In order to find RC nerf tank Christmas. My Favorite Holiday Tradi- Step 4: Make some bells at- My family and I have a the pickle you have to look for RC race car tion tached to the string. tradition every year around it. If you find the pickle then RC monster truck Hudson By Dany Step 5: Go to sleep. Thanksgiving. My sister and I you get a surprise. There are RC dirt bike Dear Santa, My favorite family holiday Step 6: When you hear the are excited because my dad al- two pickles. The big one is for RC 4 wheeler This year for Christmas I tradition in my family is first bells wake up. ways lets us pick out our fam- the younger kids and the big one RC trophy truck want covid 19 to go away. I wake up and eat breakfast. Step 7: Catch Santa ily Christmas tree, and then he is for the older kids. The holidays mean a time for I miss seeing my friends at Next, I play games when my chops it down. Once the tree is peace to me. school. I miss all of my family, mom is making some desserts. How to Catch Santa up in our living room, we deco- Emma my Grandpa, all of my Grand- My favorite is pretzel sticks By: Natalie rate it as a family. The holidays mean to me Matthew mas, cousins, Aunts and Uncles. with peanut butter. Then we Use a Wyze camera spending time with my family is One day when we were get- I do not want people to be sick, go to my Grandpa or my aunt’s Watch at midnight Peyton celebrating, meet new friends, ting our stuff out for christmas, sad or lonely. I also want no house. Last we go to sleep with Climb up onto the roof and Every Thanksgiving my fam- playing fun games, spreading we brought out our stockings. homework and my own ps4. excitement and joy, but I am not give the reindeer carrots ily goes to my great aunt and joy around the world, playing We were going to hang them. happy with coal. Get a rope and hang it from uncle’s. There’s tables set up games with my family, and We heard something in my Robert the reindeer’s collar all over the house. With 20/20 dancing to Christmas songs to- mom’s stocking so we looked in My holiday tradition is put- Dear Santa, When Santa jumps out he people there and a few dogs, it gether, reading christmas books, there and we found GUM from ting up the Christmas tree. But I would like a tablet so I can will get stuck can get loud with laughter. To doing art and telling Christmas last year! before we put it up we have go on it when I want to and not stay safe, this year, nobody got jokes. to move the cat tree. We don’t be bored. I would get games and How to Catch Santa together. I can’t wait to be with August S. want the cats to climb on the play them. I would also like a By Brady my family again. Ellasyn Dear Santa, Christmas tree! It is funny! charger to plug it in. Wake up in the night. My favorite holiday tradition This Christmas please give From, Get out of bed-quietly. Dalton is when my grandparents come presents, supplies and medicine Here are the submissions Nolan If your room is messy try not My family always puts up over on Christmas day. They to homeless shelters and food from Mrs. Smith’s 3rd grade. to step on anything. our Christmas tree on the day watch me and my sister open pantries. Make sure parents get I will also be sending a picture How to Catch Santa Go in your hallway or up or right after Thanksgiving. We up our presents from my mom presents, too. I hope my brother in an email. By Alex downstairs. all get together and decorate it. and dad, grandparents and Santa gets money, because he spends First set traps on the floor. Be as quiet as you can be. After we are done it looks great. Clause. My favorite part of our his. I would like something How To Catch Santa Have a giant net with motion Spy on him. Christmas tradition is opening Pokemon related, comic books I By Trey sensors. When you go to see him, be Drey my presents from Santa clause. haven’t read and cool paintings. First, stay up late. Get in a Put sensors connected to sneaky. Christmas is special to me Merry Christmas! hiding spot. Or, you can hide smoke alarms. Go quietly down the hallway. because it is Jesus’s birthday. Charlee behind a couch or hide behind Put carrots down the street so Go to your room. Every year on Christmas Eve What I want for Christmas is Lyla a door. If you have a laundry he can’t escape. Step through your room. my Opa reads us the Christmas for my mom to work less than Family means everything to basket the secret way to hide Lasers!! Lay in your bed. Story out of the bible before we she does. My mom is always me. I love my family more than yourself is make sure you get Close your eyes. open presents. I like to spend working. She is a CNA. some- anything even though some- a lot of clothes or a blanket. How to Catch Santa time with my family and eat times she has to work 16 hours. times they make me mad or sad Make a little hole so you can By Stella How to Catch Santa dumplings, and open presents! so what i want is to see my mom I love them with all I am.Also see through. When Santa comes Go to bed. By Grayson more often. how could I forget the pets. you will need to wait for a long Wake up at midnight. Set up a camera and hide Charlotte Your friend Lyla time. When he comes you will Set some traps. behind the couch. With robots My favorite holiday tradi- Linea have to pop out and don’t say Then wait for Santa. pushing a table with glue on the tion is when the whole Brennan Well holidays remind me Alexis anything. Then say what you Sit in your bed. robots push and push the table family gets together to celebrate of my family and they remind Dear Santa, want to Santa. Then Santa will Watch him go in our traps. towards Santa so he gets stuck. Christmas. We open presents me of how much I have. And Hi! 2020 has been rough - I leave but you can take a picture Sneak to watch him. and do white elephants and a they remind me of happiness hope you are well. of him if you want to show your Catch him on camera. secret santas with the cousins, and love.And kindness and the I would like a cocoa machine, parents. When you wake up Go back to bed. My Family’s Traditions Then we have a big meal with people around me. toy dragon, a notebook for jour- you will have great memories Wait until he comes back. By Truman lots of food and treats! Christ- naling, and wooden planks. It of catching Santa! Set a cookie trail. On Christmas Eve we sit by mas with family is fun! Ryker would also be nice if you could Make sure you leave a trail in the fire and play board games. My favorite holiday tradition make it snow. I hope you have Dear Santa, your room On Christmas morning my John is when my mom makes the a good day. This is why you should come Pretend to sleep so he can brother and I wake up my mom Every year, we drive to the best monkey bread. The glaze is Thank you! to my house this year. I’ve been leave presents in your room. and dad early. Then we open tree farm and choose the perfect the best part. Another tradition kind, nice, helpful, caring, in- Open your presents early. presents. Christmas tree. I get to help is when we open presents. It’s Tate cluded people when I am play- Open the presents in your liv- cut it down using a hand saw. fun to unwrap them and play. It Dear Santa, ing, cheerful, hard working, and ing room. Christmas Essays Then, we put it on our car and makes me happy to see every- Some people do not believe loving. Eat the cookie crumbs that Written by the Third Grad- take it home. Finally, we deco- one smile. These are a couple of in you. I do though!! Love, he left. ers at Saint Aloysius School rate it with lights and ornaments my favorite traditions. How was your summer? Isabelle Wake up your parents to tell Third Grade Teacher: Ms. while listening to fun Christmas Mine was great! them you made a trap to catch Andrea songs. Harper I love love LOVE your holi- How I Would Catch Santa Santa. Dear Santa, I have my christ- day! Do you think I can have a By Kate My Christmas Ronald mas tree up. I hope you come holiday? If so write back please! I would set out cookies so My Favorite Traditions By Emmanuel Alvarado Dear Santa, I know that this to my house. Also I have a new If you wonder how my elf is Santa doesn’t get mad. By Esmeralda This Christmas I am happy holiday is not about presents but little sister. Her name is Piper. doing…….well… lets just say I would hide and try not to My favorite Christmas tra- and joyful.We go to Mass and my mom got way too many & This will be her first christmas. hes EXTRA mischievous! fall asleep. dition in my family is going when Mass is finished my fam- none from you. Please get some Please leave some presents for HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! I would say “hi” to Santa and to my cousin’s house, baking ily does a special dinner. And presents like a drone or some- her.Piper has been very good. Your number one fan Tate go to bed. cookies for Santa and us, buy- when we finish dinner my fam- thing. please & thank you. Please leave some presents I would not actually fall ing hot chocolate or making hot ily sings Jingle Bells. here. Braden asleep. I would spy on Santa chocolate to give Santa and us, Christmas is all about when What I want for Christmas: and hop on his sleigh. and making some food. That is Jesus was born. Mary and Jo- First aid kit and a survival kit all my family traditions. Oh, I seph were happy when Jesus THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 STAR NEWS PAGE 11

was born. So they were happy the family come to my house. My Christmas together. Jesus was born in a And we go to Mass. After Mass, By Brynn Dischler stable. Jesus was happy when we eat dinner. And after dinner Christmas is all about Jesus he was born. we open our presents from being born. I go to mass every Then when Jesus got older them. And when they leave Christmas. Christmas is a cel- he was telling everybody about we put out cookies for Santa, ebration! God .He was God but they did carrots for the reindeer, and go Every year my family and I not believe him. When He was to bed. When we wake up, we go to get a tree.I LOVE decorat- young, He was walking and check our stockings and check ing the tree! I like to see the tree then he went into a temple. He under the Christmas tree. On decorated with its lights,tinsel, got lost. Mary and Joseph were Christmas Day we get to open and ornaments.I have this one so worried and they did not our presents from my mom ornament that says, “First stop looking. Then they found and dad. And a few days after Christmas in the new house him. Jesus’ family was happy! Christmas we take down our 2005.” Then Jesus was sorry. He told Christmas tree and our outside I LOVE making Christmas them that He was teaching them decorations and our stockings. Cookies! It’s so much fun! I about God. Then the people We check the plate for Santa’s like making ugly sweaters and understood him. Jesus was tell- cookies. And, there is nothing stockings. It really hits the spot ing them about God and that left but a crumb. The milk is when you eat them, especially they should love Him more. gone and so are the carrots! when you eat them with milk. They were starting to be Jesus’ This year, I want Santa to friends. They were happy to be What Christmas is About bring me a guitar, pajamas, and His friends. By Rhylan Muller rollerblades.I always leave out Christmas is a celebration. It cookies and milk for Santa and What I Do For Christmas celebrates when Jesus was born. carrots for the reindeer. Santa By Meg Brickl Let me tell you about it. There always brings me the things I This is what we do for Christ- was a girl named Mary and a want! mas. First, we go to Mass with boy named Joseph... my family and my grandma and First: Mary was sitting down. My Christmas grandpa. Then Santa comes to Then the angel Gabriel ap- By Davison Joudrey church and we see him and tell peared to Mary and said, “do On Christmas I think about him what we want for Christ- you want to have the Savior?” God, Mary and Joseph, and I mas. Then we go home, and and Mary said, “yes.” The angel think about keeping the Christ- grandma and grandpa from both Gabriel said, “and you will call mas tree up. And opening up sides of the family come to our him Jesus.” Mary said, “let it be presents with my family! We al- house. done as you said.” And so Mary ways let our kittie cats get their We always put out milk, was going to have the Savior. presents first.We also go outside cookies, carrots, and reindeer Next: Mary and Joseph got and make snow forts for the cats. food. We always look if all the married and soon Joseph knew Sometimes we bring our cat to food is gone. Then we wait for that Mary was going to have the fort and then she runs away. everybody to come. Then we the Savior. And that night an We also pray a lot before open up presents in the order angel appeared to Joseph when Christmas day. Because Jesus of youngest to oldest. And then he was sleeping and said, “take was born that day. And when we we eat the delicious food, but Mary to Bethlehem to have pray we make sure to pray the before we eat it, we pray. And Jesus.” “I will,” said Joseph. rosary sometimes. We also like after we pray we eat. Then: They set off to Bethle- to have our dogs with us when The next day we go to my hem. There were Three Kings we are praying. grandma and grandpa’s house, who set from afar and they got On Christmas Day, I wake up and everybody brings food. And to King Herod. The Kings told at like 6am! I like to get up early we pray and then we eat. And him that there was a new Sav- to open my presents. Everybody we talk for a little bit, and then ior. He told them to tell him comes down to open up their we open up presents. And we do when they found him. But King presents. this thing called: Secret Santa. Herod actually wanted to kill Lastly, our Elf hid in the same It’s where we pick a name out him. At night, Mary and Joseph place three times in a row.He of a bucket then we have to go found Bethlehem and then, does not hide in weird or funny shopping for them. Then, on Jesus was born. places so much. He usually hides Christmas Day we open them. I hope you liked it! And that’s around the tree somewhere. One The next day we go to my how Christmas started. And time, our cat sat on our Elf! other grandma and grandpa’s that’s what Christmas actually house.And we first start with is. Christmas in 2020 finding the pickle in the tree. The End By Matthew Heiney Then we start opening presents. Christmas is my favorite Then, we always eat. Then we Christmas holiday because everyone gets talk for a while. After we are By Evan Cunningham together. done talking we do this thing Christmas is a special holiday But in 2020 we can’t, maybe called: White Elephant. It’s where Jesus is born. I celebrate 2021 is not like 2020. Maybe where everybody buys a funny it as everyone does. Christmas 2021 gift. We roll a dice and every is my favorite holiday because is better than 2020. And number represents left or right. Jesus is born! Covid-19 is done and we can get We always end up with a funny Let’s get ready for Jesus! together. I hope that we can get gift. Then, we just talk for a 2020 has been hard but Christ- together next year. while and that’s the end of our mas will be the same. It has But I can be with my fam- Christmas. been hard because of the virus. ily at my house for Christmas But, Santa will still come to this year. But my grandma and My Christmas your house. grandpa can not come to my By Lucy Sauter Don’t be bad or you´ll get house. I can not be with them This Christmas, My family coal. Follow the Ten Command- for Christmas, at their house. and I put up our Christmas tree ments or you´ll get coal. But I This year I want to go to my and outside decorations on the like coal but I´ll still be good. grandma and grandpa’s house day after Thanksgiving. But the Decorate your house if you for Christmas. day before Christmas we go can or want to. Decorating your This is what we will do at my to my grandma’s house on my house will be beautiful. But if house for Christmas, we open mom’s side of the family. On you don´t, it’s ok. We like to presents, make snow angels, Christmas Eve my grandma and decorate our windows and our build snow forts, and play with grandpa from my dad’s side of Christmas tree. the presents.

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