WEYBURN - Enjoy Christmas memories and traditions, submitted by Grade 4 students at Assiniboia Park Elementary School.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Can you guess what happens at the Weyburn pool and mostly has children running around? It’s the police Christmas party. It brings us together as a police family. There are kids running around and adults talking. It includes presents, swimming and food. It is also the best party I have ever been to. This is why the police Christmas party is my favourite holiday tradition.
Linden, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Can you guess what milk, cookies and a board all have in common? These are all part of my favourite holiday tradition. It’s a Santa board. You put Santa’s cookies, milk and reindeer food for the reindeer. It is made of wood and there are some painted-on splaches of black paint. All the parts are milk, cookies, reindeer food and the board. You can find one at most all purpose stores, like Walmart or Pharmasave.
Nola, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Do you know what Christmas eve and a gift have in common? These two things are a part of my favourite holiday tradition. You can take off the shiny, glossy wrapping paper. It usually comes in a cardboard box. My brother, sister and I get to open one gift on Christmas eve. Some things that come with this gift are slippers, pjs and a movie. We open our presents in the living room before bed. If there is a movie in it, we get to watch before bed. I only get this special gift on Christmas eve.
Mea, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Do you know what December 1st, lights and vehicles all have in common? It’s a common holiday event. The Parade of Lights moves down the street. It’s huge and bright – very bright. It has cars, people, music, decorations, blow-ups, lights, Santa, Grinch, a puppy, floats and Red Wings. You can find it downtown in the streets of Weyburn. Now you know what December 1st, lights and vehicles have in common.
Paislee, Age 8/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Can you guess what a farm and my favourite holiday all have to do with snowmobiling? For Christmas, my family and I go to my farm and my cousins and I go snowmobiling in the yard. My snowmobile can turn sharp around corners and that helps in races. It is a black and green snowmobile. My cousin’s is blue. My snowmobile is made of metal and plastic. My snowmobile has handlebars, tracks, skiis and a headlight. I got it at a snowmobile store, too. I love snowmobiling with my family at Christmas.
Declan, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
I put out for Santa and in the morning when I see the cookies are gone, I knew Santa has come, hopefully not with coal.
Nola, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
This is all about my annual holiday tradition of my family’s gift exchange. We draw names a few weeks before Christmas. We buy a present for the person we picked a few weeks before. On Christmas or Boxing Day we all go to my grandma’s house for the exchange. The gifts are different shapes, sizes and colours. From the outside, they look the same shape but they’re probably in a box. My tradition is made from love, sharing and caring. For our tradition, you need the family members and the gifts. We do it at my Mom’s house. It is very special to my family and cousins.
Olivia, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Something that I do at Christmas is hang up a stocking. We hang our stockings and Santa fills them up and moves them to the couch. My stocking is bright blue. It’s a regular-sized stocking, made of fabric. It has a loop to hang and a hole to stuff things in. You find it hanging in our entrance and that’s my holiday tradition.
Liam, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Can you guess what a full moon, a moon dog and September 29th have in common? They’re all part of my favourite moon festival tradition. A moon festival is a holiday, Chinese tradition. At the moon festival, we set out a little brown table outside and set out fire in a bucket and pour water into red and gold cups. The dish is silver and we put out apples and oranges on moon pie in the dish. The food is an offering for the moon. The parts of my tradition are cup, teapot, table dish, moon pie and a bucket of fire are all included in my holiday tradition. We celebrate it on February 1st. We give food to the moon because the moon gets more powerful than the moon dog.
Kassidy, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My favourite holiday tradition is a Thanksgiving meal. In my Thanksgiving meal, we have turkey and a lot of other stuff. My family brings some of the food but my Mom makes most of it and the punch. We share a meal with family. Cousins and adults come over. The parts of the meal are turkey, corn, pudding cranberries and punch. You can eat it on Thanksgiving.
Brady, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My favourite holiday tradition is decorating the tree. My tree is decorated with ornaments and a star. It is green, tall and shaped like a triangle, and artificial. Most of the decorations were made by me and my sister. We made them at daycare. My tree has a star, ornaments, lights, stand and a skirt. It is for Christmas and Santa puts presents underneath it. When we decorate, my Mom likes to give us ornaments because she thinks it’s fun. Every year my sister and I take turns putting the star up and my Dad helps us. He puts us on his back to reach the star. We got our tree from a store.
Molly, Age 8/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My favourite holiday tradition is the pickle on the tree ornament. My parents hide a small, green pickle ornament on the tree. My sister and I try and find it. The first one to find it gets to open the first gift. We got the pickle online. Now my favourite holiday tradition is the pickle on the tree.
Tuck, Age 9.5/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Can you guess what gumdrops, little jawbreakers and icing all have in common? It’s a gingerbread house. A gingerbread house is a house that you can eat. It looks like a pentagon. They can be all different kinds of sizes and they are brown. They are made of gingerbread icing and candy. It has walls, a door and a roof. You can find one at Co-op. Every year I make a gingerbread house with my grandmas, cousins, sister, Mom, uncle and auntie. We do it at my grandma’s house. We sit around the table listening to Christmas music. I love Christmas but I love gingerbread houses more.
Noah, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
Do you know what December 25th and a little house have in common? They are all parts of my holiday tradition. My whole family goes to my grandma’s house to decorate a gingerbread house. The ingredients we use are a gingerbread house, icing and candies. Every year my grandma makes a different one. One year she made a football field. My grandma usually tells us what it is going to be a week before Christmas. I wonder what it is going to be this year.
Rhett, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My holiday tradition involves my family, skates and a hockey rink. It is our holiday tradition – hockey by running on the ice. My hockey stick is red, black and white. All of the things you need are a rink, ice, puck, stick and skates. I play hockey by 7-11. When you score a goal, you get excited.
Jaks, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My favourite holiday tradition involves spending time with my Mom and my Dad baking and eating yummy cookies. We buy ingredients from the store to make them in my kitchen. My Mom and I work together to make the cookies. Dad watches. We put them in the oven and they smell good. When we bring them out, Dad and I taste test them when they are still hot.
Justin, Age 8/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
My Favourite Holiday Tradition
My favourite holiday tradition is baking huge cookies with my family. To bake the cookies, first put on oven mittens. Then put baking mix in a tray. Next put it in the oven. Cookies are round, small and brown. Cookies are made of dough and chocolate chips. The ingredients are chocolate, sugar, dough and oil. The cookies only take 15 minutes to make. My Mom put all the ingredients in and we wait at the table for the cookies. After we put them in a tray and save them till Christmas. I stay home when we do this tradition. When it’s Christmas Eve, we chow down.
Teller, Age 9/Grade 4 A.P.E.S.
