Many thanks to grade four students at the Oak Ridge, Bournedale, Mullen Hall and Teaticket Schools for sharing with us some of their favorite things about the December holidays.
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is winter break because you get time to relax and have time to go places with your family – Casey
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Santa and his reindeer foot steps on the roof. And Rudolph – Emma
My favorite thing about December is Christmas! I love waking up on Christmas morning and staring at all of the presents. – Brady
My favorite part of the December holidays is watching ABCs Christmas movies in my mom’s room. – Chase
My favorite thing is putting ornaments on the Christmas tree. After that we have a dance party to Christmas music. – Corynn
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is going to New York to see my family. – Dolan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is sleeping in igloos.
– Emmett
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas because when I’m on Christmas vacation I get to visit all my family and have great times with all my cousins. – Cullen
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is going to Gardens Aglow at Heritage Gardens. – Emily
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas. My favorite thing about it is going to church and singing from the lectionary. – Hanna
My favorite thing is seeing my sisters because I love them and I don’t get to see them a lot. One is in Sweden right now and the other is working on a farm. – Maureen
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is waking up to open presents and to be with my family and robot. – Brayden
My favorite part about December is when we wake up, we wait for my mom at the stairs. When she wakes up we make delicious monkey bread. – Samuel
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is to jump off the roof and land in the snow and then make snow angels. – Tobin
I love going sledding with my cousins. They have a steep hill. My favorite part of all is sitting by the fire surrounded by family. – Mackenzie
My favorite thing is decorating. My favorite decorations is my elf on the shelf named Hank. His full name is Hank Honica Valley – Cami
Sledding is My favorite part of December and Christmas Eve. – Ronan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is being with my family on Christmas morning. – Owen
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is going skating on the cranberry bogs. – Avery
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is opening presents with my family – Hunter
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is driving around and looking for Christmas lights. – Zach
My favorite thing is that on Christmas night my mom lets me open two of her presents. –Ella
My favorite time in the December holiday season is when some of my family gets together to play trivia and whoever wins a question gets to get a wrapped present from a bowl while turning all the lights off so that the fire light can glow. – Arianna
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is early Christmas morning waiting for my six other siblings to wake up so I can open presents and have fun with my family. – Eleanor
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is opening my stocking on Christmas Day. My family members always come over. We celebrate every Christmas. I love my family. – Siena
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is that on Christmas my dad always gets me the new Hess truck I am going to have a lot of Hess trucks. It’s a classic and my favorite tradition. – Stephen
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas because I get to see family and I have a hockey tournament. – Shane
I love December because Christmas is in December and I love Christmas because I get to see all my aunts and uncles. – Cassidy
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas vacation when I visit my uncle at Disney World! – Matthew
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is … Christmas! Because 1) free toys!! 2) you spend a lot of time with your family, and 3) of course Jesus’s birthday!! – Morgan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is sledding down my driveway and hill in my front yard with my little brother. – Cecelia
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is decorating the Christmas tree because my whole family is together. – Kody
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is hanging out with my family and opening my presents. – Alanna
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas because when I get presents my whole family is watching.
– Calyon
I like everything about the December holiday season. I like the decorations and the food and the joy. It makes me want to jump with excitement! – Keana
I like to hang out with my family and I like to get toys. – Michael
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas because I love to see my whole family and open presents. – Luke
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is that me and my family have a big brunch and decorating the inside and outside of my house. – Delaney
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is eating Christmas dinner with my family. – Rowan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Thanksgiving because you get to do stuff like the turkey bowl and the turkey trot. Last you get to spend time with family and food. – Ty
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is getting together with my family and opening the presents under the tree. – Matthew
My favorite thing to do is wake my parents up, take pictures and then run over and open our stockings. – Leah
My favorite thing to do in December is to have fun in the snow with my dog and with my family. – Bodie
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is going out in the hot tub with my cousins on Christmas Eve and a few days later to go skating. – Ryan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is when after we open presents me and my mom always bake cookies. – Erin
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas. On Christmas I love having cinnamon rolls and waking up really early to see how much presents we got. – Sophia
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmastime. I like to open presents on Christmas Day and have a snow ball fight. – Alex
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is getting presents on Christmas – Ryan
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas and the snow. – Caleb
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is playing in the snow and helping my dad shovel snow. – Ella
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is getting toys and the birth of Jesus. – Matthew
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is all the Christmas lights and decorations. – Sophia
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is spending time with my family and my uncle’s house on Christmas Eve, especially in the living room playing Yakee Swap. – Lexi
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is opening presents and spending time with my family. – Andrew
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is wrapping presents for my cousins and to go to the store to whop for my cousins for the wrapping. – Michael
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is sitting by the fire with my family. – Kristin
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is going to Boston and seeing the gigantic Christmas treat lit up. Not just in Boston but everywhere everyone is filled with joy. – Wynter
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is playing with snowballs and playing with my friends all playing with snowballs. That’s what I like about December. – Cole
My favorite thing is picking trees out at a farm. – Ben
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas. I like Christmas because I like going through my stocking and opening my presents and having doughnuts for breakfast. – Tyler
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is to have a snowball fight, to make snowmen, and to have sleepovers. – Isaiah
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is being with my family. I love making cookies for Santa and sometimes I eat a few. – May
My favorite thing about the December holiday season is Christmas when me and my brother open presents and my dad video tapes us and then we watch them and laugh together. Also I get all fancy and go to my Mimi’s and Papa’s house and hang out, open presents and then tell stories and have family members come over. – Ella