One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
Mrs. McFadden's Class MES Fourth Grade
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Jaxon Beck, Age 10
When I think about Christmas, I think about opening my presents. Christmas is special and exciting. My Christmas wish is to make new friends and I want people to know me better.
Christmas is easy because I have no school. It makes things easy because there's nothing to do but open presents and have a good day. Christmas is about putting up the tree. Christmas is about decorating the house. Christmas is exciting. Christmas is fun. Christmas is all about the Heavenly Father’s birth. Christmas is important to me and special. Now you know how much Christmas means to me. Now I have 3 words to say, Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kolten Coil, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of the happy times that happened in the previous Christmases before. I also think of having fun with family and eating lots of food. I also think of what ornaments my mom will make. I think of what I will get for Christmas and what happy memories we will make this Christmas. For me, Christmas is special and fun for me and my family. We all love the happy times we had and the happy times we will make. I also love enjoying presents. My Christmas wish list this year is for my family to have the best time ever. I also want my family to get together and have fun. That is what Christmas means to me.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Karsten Davis, Age: 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of spending time with family. For me, Christmas is having fun and opening presents. Christmas is spending time with my family and building gingerbread houses with my family. My Christmas wish this year is having everyone in the world be happy and not sad or afraid.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Landon Fuller, Age 9
Christmas is making cookies with mom for the family, waking up in the morning at 5:00 am and getting my whole family a present for Christmas. Christmas is going to my family in Idaho to visit each and every family there. During Christmas, I like finding the elf and putting up the Christmas tree. Every Christmas Eve we are all hyped up for Christmas. What I want this Christmas is Pokemon cards and love for my family and me for Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Tomas Garrison Gray, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of presents under the tree. I also think of spending time with my family. For me, Christmas is about my family, the presents, and Jesus' birthday. My Christmas wish is for my family to be healthy so we can go skiing. I also want them to have enough money to buy a new car so my mom is safe. I also want my family to be happy forever.
What Christmas Means to Me
By BENJAMIN HOULD, Age 9
What Christmas means to me, some magical Christmas cheer, come join me in this magic, jolly holiday. Christmas means not presents. Christmas means not Saint Nick upon a sleigh. But it means to give and spend time with those you love. In this magic holiday, many miracles happen like how snow turns to ice. When I think of Christmas, I think of friends and family decorating the tree with glee. For me, Christmas is unique and special. Just like all of you.
Wow! That actually rhymed quite right. It actually looked great. Me, a PRO GAMER actually doing poetry, that actually sounds quite right. Well like I just said I am a gamer and with some Christmas cheer. I wish for some DLCs for a video game called Ark Survival Evolved and for the family I wish for happiness and a day to spend time with them.-Benjamin Out
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Mariah Hould, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of friends, family, hot cocoa, Christmas carols, sledding, playing in the snow, presents, and a Christmas tree. For me, Christmas is spending time with my family and friends, giving and making presents, waking up on Christmas morning hearing all the kids’ happiness and joy, visiting with family and friends, going sledding with family and friends, and playing with new toys.
My Christmas wish this year is of course more snow! I would also like a hamster, a ping pong table, and more. I want my family to have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I want them to be happy. I don’t just want my family to be happy, I want everyone to be happy and I want to be happy too!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kallie Labrie, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of a sled, Santa, and lots of snow. For me, Christmas is the best time of the year. The snowiest time of year. My Christmas wish is for my family to have fun and to be healthy. I hope everybody has a good Christmas. Merry Christmas!!! Have a fun Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Beau Merriman, Age 10
Christmas is celebrating Jesus's birthday, me, my sister, and family getting to open presents. Christmas is waking up and opening presents, then going to church and celebrating Jesus' birthday. I Want a 22 for my Christmas/ birthday. For my family, I want my cousins to come, make hot cocoa with grandma, open presents with family and friends, and listen to Christmas music. I am excited to celebrate my birthday and decorate the tree.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Hudson Moore, Age 10
Christmas is about Jesus’s birth. When I think of Christmas, I think of having a new toy. I would also like to have more arrows for Christmas. For me, Christmas is Jesus’s birth. Christmas is also about meeting family. Christmas is celebrating and making gingerbread houses with family. Christmas is also celebrated by making cookies. My Christmas wish this year is to stay home for Christmas. My second Christmas wish is to watch Christmas movies. My third Christmas wish is to wake up my family on Christmas. My last Christmas wish is to be able to have snowball fights on Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Nolan Moore, Age 10
What Christmas means to me is family and friends. We eat turkey and open presents. What’s not to love? I go sledding and my dog comes too. When you wake up and you know what day it is, it is the best. Presents can make me happy. Family is the most important to me. They are there when I need them. I thank them and also friends who make me happy.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Olivia Ritchey, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of friends and family. I also think of snow. For me, Christmas is like a day where you should always be happy. It’s also a day for friends and family.
Christmas is a day perfect for sledding. My Christmas wish this year is the impala sky blue roller skates with yellow laces. (size 3 or 3 and a half). I also would enjoy for my family and friends to stay healthy and for world peace. That would be amazing.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Riya Salveson, Age 10
When you think of Christmas, what do you think of? I think of Santa coming down the chimney, eating cookies we’ve laid out for him, and waking up to presents under the tree.
For me, Christmas is spending time with friends and family. Christmas isn’t all just about presents and toys, it's about celebrating Jesus's birthday, decorating cookies, giving, singing Christmas carols, and even more! My Christmas wish this year is for everyone in my family to stay healthy. Hopefully, everyone in Phillips County stays healthy. Thank you for reading,” What Christmas means to me.”
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Brooklyn Simanton, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of friends and family that are coming to celebrate.
Also, I think of the presents I give, so that they're just right for them. We all have a great
Christmas with everyone. Also, I hope my dog (Pepper) has a great Christmas too. I love to celebrate Christmas!
For me, Christmas is a time when you celebrate God’s birthday and get presents.
When I wake up on Christmas, I can't wait for me to open presents, so I can see what I got from my brothers or mom and dad. In my opinion, I think Christmas is the best holiday ever invented. To me, Christmas is better than Halloween. This Christmas I would like an iPod. I think I am mature enough to have one, but if not, there's always next year!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Braun Sims, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of Jesus, joy, presents, cookies, and families gathering around a tree. I also think of cooking food, decorating trees, and presents or gifts. All of my family gathers and has a good time with each other.
For me, Christmas is fun because of all the family you get to see that you don’t get to see very often. That we will never fight on holidays, we will just get along. If one of us gets hurt we are always there to help them.
My Christmas wish this year is that my family loves me, gophers, and each other. That we always never have a doubt about one another. My all-time favorite is that we always have FAITH.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Trace Stolem, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of watching the surprised faces of the people I gave presents to. For me, Christmas is the day of giving back to the world for everything it has done for us, for example, you having a house, being able to eat, and for us being able to get a drink of water. My Christmas wish this year is for Covid to go away because my godfather recently died from it and the thought of that happening to anyone else breaks my heart. Christmas is about giving presents and not getting them. I love to see the excited faces on everyone that was given a gift from me and everyone else. Christmas is about spending time with loved ones like decorating cookies with them, watching Christmas movies with them, and playing games with them. Christmas is about celebrating our savior’s birthday because he died for us to be free.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Matix Van Heel, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of spending time with my family, making Gingerbread houses, and sledding with my cousins. For me, Christmas is a joyful holiday to spend time with family and friends. Watching Christmas movies and listening to music makes me happy and reminds me how much Christmas means to me. My Christmas wish this year is that Covid will hopefully get better. Covid is becoming outrageous and killing a bunch of people and that is why that is my wish. :)
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Blake Tharp, Age 10
When I think of Christmas I think of waking up early and having hot apple cider after we opened presents and had fun with presents. For me, Christmas is a holiday. I can be with my family more and eat freshly cooked food. Christmas is playing in the snow, listening to Christmas music, baking cookies, sledding, getting and giving gifts, and going on Christmas break. Christmas is spending time with family and getting together. My Christmas wish this year is that I and my family get awesome gifts and I'm not tired on Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Blazer Redlich, Age 9
When I think Of Christmas, I think of eating Puppy Chow, snuggling Bandit, and Rudy. I think of presents, waking up Mom, and watching The Grinch. For me, Christmas is fun, exciting, tasty, and boring at the same time. My Christmas wish this year is to get the Super Mario 3D World and Bowser's Furry combo.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Jettynn Malmend, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of watching movies. I like watching Jurassic World with my family. For me, Christmas is happy when I open my presents. My Christmas wish is that Army men and women get to go home to celebrate Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Townes Lefdahl, Age 10
Christmas is a fun holiday and most of my family comes to my grandma's house. We eat lots of food at my grandma's house. When I think of Christmas I think of my family, friends, and dogs. I also think of JESUS and GOD. For me, Christmas is a good time of the year. My family gets together and we eat food. My Christmas wish this year is I want a new pair of boots and they have to be square-toed.
Mrs. Raymond's Class
MES Fourth Grade
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Cruz Cote, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of Santa bringing toys to people, Christmas lights, a Christmas tree, and Jesus. For me, Christmas is a time of giving and a time of getting but mostly celebrating Jesus’s birthday, watching Christmas movies, and trying to find my elf in the mornings. My Christmas wish this year is for a paintball gun and for a new president.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Emmett, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of friends and family, candy canes, and hot chocolate. For me, Christmas is a celebration. Also, it is a time of joy. Finally, my Christmas wish this year is a bb gun and a Star Wars clone wars gun.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Jenna Johnson, Age 10
Christmas is spending time with all the people in your family and gift wrapping with them. We can receive presents, give presents, and have fun watching Christmas movies. The Grinch is a funny movie.
We also watch movies with hot chocolate sometimes. It's really fun. We make Christmas cookies for my family and it has peppermint. It's sooooo good you should try some, it's really good in my opinion.
My Christmas wish is to have a car and him being able to drive and it being warm. My 2nd Christmas wish is for me to have my own VR in the future. So u can play with friends and play Beat Saber Billie Eilish. This year we are doing a gift exchange. where the grown-up gives the children gifts, I wonder what I'm gonna get and this is my first time doing this gift exchange. I'm really excited.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kori Kelsey, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of spending time with family, waking up and seeing presents under the tree, and celebrating Jesus’s birthday when he was born. For me, Christmas is a day to have fun and hang out with my family, decorating the tree with music or movies, and hitting my brother with snow when we play outside with my siblings. My Christmas wish this year is getting lots of fidget toys like pop-its, simple dimples, squishies, pop-tubes, and for my dad's favorite team to win, the Cowboys, and more books I LIKE, that are chapter books.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Skye Love, Age 10
When I think of Christmas I think of going to Arizona and having fun with my cousins and going to the game in Arizona. For me, Christmas is spending time with family and friends, having fun and eating together, and being surprised. My Christmas wish is for my birthday to come, to see me and Mark(aka Miracle), and get a skateboard and a ticket for the game in Arizona.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Silo Marino, Age 10
Christmas is everything to me, how about you? When I think of Christmas, I think of all the fun things we have done together with all my friends and family. I think of the family who lives far away. For me, Christmas is everything I love. Christmas is Jesus's birthday. Christmas is in honor of God, and everything he owns. My Christmas wish is hope, an iPhone 13, to see God and Jesus, and V bucks.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Hallee Martin, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of my dogs, oreo balls, candy canes, Jesus’s birthday, family, and my dad. For me, Christmas is waking up and opening presents. My Christmas wish this year is to get an iPod and to live in peace.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kassidy Modic, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of family, friends, and presents. For me, Christmas is very, very special to me because it is the time for family. My Christmas wish this year is for the best Christmas ever.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Ellie Norville, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of Jesus and when he was born. I also think of family, friends, and a tree full of lights and decorations. The last thing I think of is presents. For me, Christmas is a time of year to be happy, spend time with family, and play in SNOW!!! Also, Christmas is a good time of year to give things to other people that don’t have toys or food. On Christmas, it is also fun to receive presents. My Christmas wish is for my family to be healthy and happy because I got two guinea pigs on thanksgiving! I love Christmas!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Seterah Pekovitch, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of family and friends. It's about God's birthday. It's about giving from the heart. It's about sharing and having fun. For me, Christmas is a time to be with family and friends. Christmas is a time to bake cookies. Christmas is a time to watch Christmas movies and shows. Christmas is a time to be happy and grateful. My Christmas wish is to have a barrel racing horse that gets around the barrels in 12 seconds flat so that I can do something that I love and enjoy and to get money for my family and save up for college.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: William John Riggs, Age 9
Christmas is spending time with mom, dad, and Mia. Christmas is opening presents. Christmas is going to a Christmas party at school in class. Christmas is playing in the snow and having snowball fights. When I think of Christmas, I think of snow, presents, and family. For me, Christmas is a good time, food, toys, and family. My Christmas wish is to see Santa and the elves.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Codi Salveson, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of Jesus and how he saved us and I think of church, friends, and family. I think of God and Jesus. I think of Jesus's birthday and a FEAST! Christmas is about giving, not receiving. Christmas is about Jesus! Spell Joy! Jesus, others, and you! Christmas is about seeing your family and playing with them. Christmas is about making Christmas cookies! Christmas is about getting to know your family more. Christmas is about helping your family. Christmas is about when Jesus was born. NOT ABOUT YOU!!! My Christmas wish is that Covid 19 would go away and never come back!!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Tessa Simanton, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of friends and family spending time together, opening presents, and having fun with everyone at Christmas. Christmas is the best holiday. You get to see family and friends, eat cookies, watch TV, relax, and hang out. Also, we play lots of games, watch Christmas movies, and eat popcorn. I also make cookies every year for Santa to eat. I love Christmas. My Christmas wish this year is to have the best Christmas break ever and have fun with friends and family. I want the same for everyone here.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Keavin Simser
Age 10
I think Christmas is the best because you can see family and friends. I go to Saco to see my aunt. I like to donate toys to Toys for Tots at Hardware Hank. I like to ice fish at the lake and to see my friends like Townes and my cousin. His dad has a cabin out at the lake. Townes and Bentley go fishing with me. We go to Billings to see my grandma and we go to Havre. Well, that is my Christmas wish.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Cameron Spencer, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of going to Church. Also, seeing friends and family to wish them a Merry Christmas. For me, Christmas is watching the Home Alone movie with family and friends. My Christmas wish this year is a good Christmas for everyone that is feeling lonely and a happy new year. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Beckett Squires, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of family and friends. Also, sledding for a long time and getting dumped too. For me, Christmas is a fun thing to do all the time. I like spending time with family and waking up and seeing presents under the tree. My Christmas wish this year is to get a Walter Payton football card or a card of a guy from the Bears’ 1985 defense.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Yarak Sullivan, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of my family gathering together, having snowball fights, and building snow forts. For me, Christmas is the best holiday ever and going down the stairs and seeing all of the presents under the tree is the best. My Christmas wish this year is cowboy army men, also for the Griz to win every game, no homework, and that my mom would pass a test.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Braelon Tatafu, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of playing in the snow with friends and family. I also think of trying to see Santa at night. I love to donate to the less fortunate, who do not have toys. For me, Christmas is about baking cookies and decorating them, but I love getting presents. It is such a surprise to open them! My Christmas wish this year is to all get along, no fighting, and no arguing. If that happened it would be awesome.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Brazen Redlich, Age 9
When I think of Christmas, I think of having Puppy Chow on the holidays. For me, Christmas is spending time with my family. I spend time with my mom, brothers, sometimes dad, and mostly Grandma. My Christmas wish this year is for my dad to come up to Malta to spend time at Christmas. My other wish is Pokemon cards. My last wish is a Fortnite pillow.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Adam Kinville, Age 10
Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of JESUS. Christmas is also about spending time with your family and friends. When I think of Christmas, I think of the birth of JESUS and spending time with my family. For me, Christmas is a HOLY time of the year because it was where the one and only son of GOD was born. My Christmas wish this year is I just wanna hear one word from or just see a glimpse of my mom and dad.
Mrs. Carney's Class
MES Fifth Grade
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Alexander L. Bayless, Age 11
When I think of Christmas I think of Presents under the tree. I also think of Christmas movies before bed. For me, Christmas is my family with me and no school. My Christmas wish is for world peace and my wish for myself is to be allowed on the Dream SMP.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Peyton Branham, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of either waking up and staring at the Christmas tree with my sister or drinking eggnog while tearing open presents. For me, Christmas is spending time with my family and watching them light up when they open presents. My Christmas wish this year is to have a big yard for all of us. We could maybe plant a garden and there would be more room to play. When I think of Christmas I think of waking up in the morning and staring at the Christmas tree, tasting a cup of eggnog while making cookies, or watching my family members light up when they open presents, a big long break from school. It also makes me think of going shopping for presents, opening presents, and intensely waiting for my parents to wake up so that I can open presents.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Hailey Brockie, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of my family by the fireplace watching movies and having candy and hot chocolate, and just talking by the fire. I also think of having my mom and dad see what I got them and it is an amazing look and it makes me happy because their facial expressions show that they are happy!:) The last thing is getting to see Santa! I also think of how happy my sister and brother are! For me, Christmas is a fun holiday to see your family and have your family happy, and getting to finally see my cousin Becca and a whole bunch of family. My Christmas wish this year is to make sure my family is happy and healthy and are having a great time and my siblings are doing great in school or getting A’s which our teacher Mrs. Rummel told us it is above average!
What Christmas Means to Me
By Raya DeCelles, Age 11
Christmas to me is like waking up in the morning and baking gingerbread cookies and smelling the ginger in the air. To go outside and make a snowman with your cold shivering hands and drink hot chocolate with my family and friends and to just spend time with them. One thing I'm grateful to have is the little things in my family but what I love when it's Christmas is to look up at the stars at night and my Christmas wish is that people will start to care for each other.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Hadley Hammond, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of family and friends. Also, getting and giving presents. For me, Christmas is the best holiday because we get to decorate the Christmas tree and bake cookies. I like it because I get to see my grandma, grandpa, cousins, aunts, and uncles. Sometimes I get to see my cousins from Hong Kong and Seattle. My Christmas wish this year is to get more clay beads to make bracelets. My second wish is for my family to be happy.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Dayton Hilton, Age 11
It is a day to share happiness and make smiles. Every Christmas is a fun holiday to celebrate. To me, Christmas is about the bright lights all over the world that are green, red, blue, and white. My favorite thing is spending time with my friends and family. To help others is what Christmas means to me. Christmas is a special day. It makes me and everyone happy. To be a story to tell. It is supposed to be a good memory and a happy day.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Keaton Kluck, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of cookies, pie, hot chocolate, and candy. It also is opening presents and taking family pics. For me, Christmas is reading my new books. Waking up early and losing all my patience. I usually wake up my parents too. My Christmas wishes this year are to have a good meal. I hope we play fun games and that my cousins come.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kodi Knudsen, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of lots of sweets and seeing friends and family. Also going sledding with my friends and family. I love to go sledding with my cousins. For me, Christmas is very special and filled with fun memories. It is very fun because you get to see a lot of people. We have traditions like going sledding. Also, we go to my grandparents’ house and make cookies. My Christmas wish is for Christmas to be fun for everyone.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Brekken Murray, Age 10
When I think of Christmas I think of having fun with family and friends. I also think it means going skiing with my family. I also think of opening presents underneath the tree with my family. I think of board games and watching movies. I always think of cookies and warm milk and sitting by the fire. I also think of building a snowman and playing in the snow with friends and building a fort. I also think of chilly with my dog in a blanket.
For Christmas, I think of having a good time chilling with family and just trying to acknowledge your family that you do not see a lot cause you could miss a lot so just try to have a good time with your family. My Christmas wish this year is to get a new scooter or Xbox and for global warming to stop.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Chevelle, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of my family coming for Christmas games and taking a Christmas picture. For me, Christmas is a fun day because I get to see my family and open presents together and go to church and sing then come back home and play with my presents. My Christmas wish this year is I hope my cousins, family, and friends are happy with what they will get for Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Savannah Rhoads, Age 11
What Christmas means to me is seeing family and friends. During Christmas, I look forward to getting my Christmas Eve box from my aunt Jess and going sledding with my mom and my friends. I also enjoy sitting next to the tree with my Christmas blanket and drinking hot chocolate while watching a movie. But one of my favorite things to do is open my stocking and seeing all of the tiny gadgets.
When I think of Christmas I think of seeing my family from far away and opening presents with them. For Christmas this year I hope to get a squishmallow and to spend one day with my aunt Tangie and also have a day to ride her horses with my cousins. This year I'm really excited to have a movie day with my baby brother Roany Baloney and stay up late with my sister talking about what we want for Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: D’jah SaintLouis
When I think of Christmas, I think of opening presents, eating cookies, and drinking hot cocoa. For me, Christmas is all about being happy. My Christmas wish this year is to get a dog because my dog is probably going to die soon. Christmas is about having snowball fights. Christmas is about sledding outside.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Chet Salveson, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of my family, giving, and celebrating Jesus's birthday.
I also think of snow and sledding. We listen to Christmas music and watch Christmas movies. Christmas is about giving, having a big dinner, and having fun. We also start a fire. My Christmas wish this year is to have a good year.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Brayden Score, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of me and my family around our tree hanging out watching The Grinch and drinking hot cocoa. Then we would play Mario Party and yell at each other and then I would go to my room and play my game. For me, Christmas is when I go to my grandpa and grandma's house and do this ball that unravels and you can get candy if you get to one of the points where you could get it. Then we do a giant gift exchange and we would all go home at 11:00 and sleep in the next day until 9:00 and keep on watching The Grinch. My Christmas wish is that no one gets sick before we go to Hawaii, so we can go there and I hope that I have a good Christmas every year and good luck to all people.
What Christmas Means to Me
Shelby Snellman, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of running around with my cousins, sledding, and building snowmen. Building snowmen, I think, is one of the best parts of snow. Sledding is also very fun. I really like experimenting with snow to make ramps or just bumps in the snow and see what the results are.
For me, Christmas is sitting in front of the crackling fire and baking cookies while listening to Christmas music. One of my favorite cookies is the sugar cookie because they taste amazing and when they are done, you get to frost them, that’s the best part. Christmas is sledding with my friends and making ramps out of snow. To me, Christmas means sitting in front of the fire watching a Christmas movie while eating a cookie. One of my favorite things about Christmas is building a snowman with your brother between snowball fights. My favorite thing to do during Christmas is when my brother pelts me with snowballs while I try to find cover and snow. One of my family’s traditions is frosting cookies with my grandma and cousin Kris. I also love to watch Christmas movies with my family and wake up early on Christmas day.
My Christmas wish this year is to see my friend again. I haven’t seen her in a while and it would be nice too. I also want all my family to be able to make it to Malta, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Josh Tams, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of hanging out with family. I think of family and friends coming over for dinner. For me, Christmas is spending time with family and watching Christmas movies. When I wake up I smell gingerbread men. My Christmas wish is to get a new house.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Jace Tollefson, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of the smell of cookies from the oven. I think of opening presents at four in the morning. I think of surprising people with gifts for them. I think of watching Christmas basketball. I think of making a snowman and going sledding outside. I think of staying up and watching Christmas movies late at night and waking up early to open presents. And most of all I think of spending time with family and doing whatever we want.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Sommer Waters, Age 10
What Christmas means to me is spending time with friends and family. It is about having delicious meals. I like to try and catch Santa Claus on Christmas Eve night. Christmas is about waking up to a full stocking and opening presents. Another thing it is about is Celebrating Jesus's birthday. Oh, and you can’t forget the fun snowball fight with all the neighbors and all your friends and family. But one last thing, don't forget the making of an igloo and making the cookies. When I think of Christmas I think of Santa Claus, candy canes, presents, family, Jesus Christ, The Bible, friends, and snowball fights. For me, Christmas is a fun holiday where you get to spend time with friends and family opening gifts and watching Christmas movies. And an excuse for 1 and a half weeks of school OFF. My Christmas wish this year is for my family to be happy on Christmas so that we can all have a good time on this great holiday.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Mackenzie Witmer, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of celebrating the holiday with my family and friends. I also think of having a great time decorating the tree and sledding. For me, Christmas is all about celebrating and having a fun time with my family. I love to decorate with stuff that I think would be awesome. I also love when I get to see all of my family. I even love to decorate the tree with my cousins and friends. I also love to sled with my grandpa.
My Christmas wish this year is that my family stays safe and healthy. I want something for my horse too. I also want something that would make my family happy.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Chris Horn, Age 12
What Christmas means to me is hanging out with family. We like to open presents at Christmas. It is a time to make cookies with the family. We also like to listen to Christmas music. Each year we get a Santa picture. When I think of Christmas, I think of what is under the tree and family. For me, Christmas is to shake the gifts to see what is in them. My Christmas wish this year is to smell the baked cookies in the morning.
Mrs. Rummel MES Fifth Grade
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Addison Arnold, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of baking cookies with my nana and wrapping presents with Mom. I also think of spending time with my family. Christmas is sledding down steep hills with my family. For me, Christmas is the smell of gingerbread men especially made for everybody with love. My mom always makes them with love. Christmas is setting up decorations with my family. My Christmas wish this year is being with my whole family for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Kade Bleth, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of Santa, Reindeers, elves, presents, friends, eggnog, cookies, and the best of all spending time with family. For me, Christmas is the sweet taste of eggnog. Spending time with family and friends in the snow or under the warmness of a house. Outside you can make snowmen, slide down hills, and make snow angels, but inside you can make Santa-shaped cookies or decorate the tree with super bright lights and glitter ornaments. My Christmas wish is to end world hunger and to find a way to fix covid and world peace.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Hunter Fried, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of my family. For me, Christmas is getting to spend time with my family. Christmas is all about spending time with my family because I hardly get to see my cousins that live in Texas and my cousins that live in Lewistown. Christmas is also about celebrating Jesus' birthday. My Christmas wish this year is to get a puppy.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Lily Harms, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of the ho-ho-hoing of Santa Claus, jingling of bells, and spending time with family and friends. For me, Christmas is the taste of warm hot cocoa and peanut butter pie after lunchtime, opening presents and stockings when we wake up with our dad while mom and Willow are still asleep, and setting up the tree is also important. Christmas is important to me because I get to see family that don't live close, opening presents from Santa, mom, and dad, and of course grandparents, showing your friends what you got, and setting everything in the perfect place after the day is over. My Christmas wish list this year is room decorations, Squishmallows, fluffy blankets, and Shein clothes.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Dani Jo James, Age 10
Christmas is having fun with family while eating cookies and eating Christmas dinner. After that, we could go sledding. I enjoy eating Christmas dinner with my family and decorating for the holidays with my family. When I think of Christmas, I think of spending time with my family, decorating, getting gifts for people I love, eating candy canes, Christmas trees, and dinner. For Me, Christmas is an amazing day to see lots of family. My Christmas wish this year is to get a blue heeler puppy because they are easier to take care of and training is not hard and they are so cute.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Ahriana, Age 11
What Christmas means to me is like baking cookies with my grandma or opening a present. Also family, feasts, and gifts. Sometimes it feels like eating your favorite food for a very long time too. I love seeing my family members and my favorite uncle too. We played on the ice and we fell into the water by accident. It was really fun, but I want to see my favorite cousin because I haven't seen her for 2 years. That is what Christmas means to me.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Rhylee Kelley, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of the presents under the tree. Christmas is Jesus's birthday. It’s when you and your family give to others and each other. You know it’s Christmas when you hear the sound of jingle bells. Christmas is when you hear the crunch of snow under your feet. My Christmas wishes are for world peace and a Nintendo Switch controller.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Sadie Lamoreau, Age 10
Christmas is for spending time with your family and when you celebrate. When I think of Christmas I think of spending time with my family and giving and receiving. For me, Christmas is a time where people give and receive from friends and family, and spend time with friends and family. My Christmas wish this year is for my uncle John to come home for Christmas.
What Christmas Means to Me
By:Kendle Lankford, Age 11
I think of Christmas as a season of joy and being with family and also somewhat about Santa. It's just the thought of being with family and having the thrill of waking up on Christmas morning and seeing the presents under the tree.
Walking with your friends in the snow and having all the fun in the world that's just the best thing to me and the other best thing is being with family even if you are far apart.
What I wish for Christmas is just to be with family and friends for the rest of the season and help people like some of my friends and other people and family members.
I love it because of the fear you get when you're holding a breakable ornament and are about to drop it, and the warmth you get when you smell the hot cocoa and are with your family and friends.
What I love most is the snow crunching under your feet and the thought of going sledding and skiing is just one of the best things in the whole world in my opinion.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Miracle Love, Age 11 years old
When I think of Christmas, I think of all the bright lights around town, all the wreaths on doors, the laughter of my siblings thinking of all the presents, celebrating all the fun family traditions, and licking all of the candy canes guessing the kinds.
For me, Christmas is the fun things that I do with my family. The fun cookie shapes to frost. All the Christmas movies to watch. Snow everywhere in town.
My Christmas wish this year is for my grandma to have a very fun Birthday and Christmas. Also, to go to Arizona and have a lot of fun seeing all the cool animals and going on a shopping spree!
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Dax Math, Age 11
When I think of Christmas I think of waking up and wondering what I got for Christmas or having a good time with family and drinking hot chocolate in the mornings. For me, Christmas is the crunch of snow on your boots or making gingerbread houses with friends and family. I love to decorate the tree. My Christmas wish for this year is to end Covid.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Gabe Oshio, Age 11
When I think of Christmas I think of getting gifts and playing in the snow with my family. For me, Christmas is cold and wet but most of all it's fun. My Christmas wish is to get a drone because I don't have one.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Corvin M Salveson, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of your family and friends loving you and spending time together. Christmas is drinking hot chocolate. Christmas is baking cookies. For me, Christmas is like a hot cocoa bomb in your hot chocolate. My Christmas wish is to spend time with my family.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Shaun Snellman, Age 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of setting up Christmas trees and opening presents.
For me, Christmas is a time to celebrate Christ and see family that live far away or can't get around as much. My Christmas wish this year is Google pixel A-series headphones and a trampoline hoop, new basketball, x box controller grip, and v-bucks.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Harley Stolem-Luton, Age: 10
When I think of Christmas, I think of the joy of opening Christmas presents on Christmas Eve morning, the joy between family and friends, it's full of children and happiness. For me, Christmas is like sugary sweets being sprinkled with sugar as the snow falls to the ground. It's like the happiness of a child getting a puppy for Christmas! My Christmas wish this year is hoodies and happiness for my pets, a gingerbread house, and hot chocolate.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Cylas Van Heel, Age 12
When I think of Christmas, I think of family, friends, and others because they help us and we need to help them. For me, Christmas is like family because Christmas is about thanking and seeing friends and family. Christmas is hanging with friends and family because they are important and special. Christmas is about having a feast because you don’t want to do anything on an empty stomach. Christmas is about having fun and laughing with your family because you don’t want to be bored. Christmas is about giving and thanking because you don't want to be a brat. Christmas is about thinking of those you love because that is not right. Christmas is about being thankful for what you have because you don’t want to be a rude kid or adult. Christmas is not about gifts. It’s about thinking of others, not yourself because you don’t want to be greedy. My Christmas wish this year is seeing my family and some old friends.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Nicolas Volk, Age 10
When I think of Christmas I think of family fun, games, and a lot of joy. For me, Christmas is cold, freezing, and a lot of snow fun and king of the hill. I love Christmas because you can spend time with family. Go sledding with my sisters, eating cookies and a lot of waffles. Not going to school for two weeks. Tearing open presents and playing with them, maybe with siblings. Rabbit hunting and food on the table. Last but not least, riding my four-wheeler in the snow. My Christmas wish this year is family joy and no fighting, no work for my mom or my dad, and a lot of hot chocolate.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Titus Wiederrick, Age 11
When I think of Christmas, I think of spreading joy by giving gifts to spread happiness, it will make you and them happy. For me, Christmas is waking up with a white blanket spread across the world or the happy taste of peppermint cocoa on a cold day. Christmas is the fresh smell of Christmas trees dressed with lights and ornaments from star to trunk. What is Christmas to you? My Christmas wish this year is to get some new games and a pair of shoes. Also, to spread joy across the world on Christmas by celebrating.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: MISSY WINKEL, Age 11
When I think of Christmas I think of my family, how much time I get to spend with them, and hardly ever getting to see each other. Another thing is I think of the beautiful lights, how when you go to Hillcrest and see all of the beautiful lights. Also, I like waking up to Christmas presents and seeing the beautiful wrapping and also seeing the beautiful bows but the best part about opening presents is to see what Santa and your mom and dad got you. I also LOVE the tasty candy canes. They are too good! One time my brother made an elf out of candy canes and when he got home with it I pretty much ate it all. But I did leave some candy canes for my family and friends. It seems cool when you taste all that peppermint candy and it helps relax me and I love to see how the taste of peppermint candy makes all of my family members happy.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Colby Wright, Age 11
What I think of Christmas is family receiving but mostly giving. For me, Christmas is the best because of food, movies, and more toys and fun. It smells like hot chocolate and cinnamon. I love watching football games. I want this gaming stuff and to go sledding with friends and family.
What Christmas Means to Me
By: Corby Mears, Age 11
What Christmas means to me is family, friends, and sledding. My family likes to go snowboarding and have fun snowball fights. Every year we open presents and we go snowmobiling. For me, Christmas is spending time with family and friends. My Christmas wish this year is, that’s easy, I already have it, a Great Family.
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