Christmas At IHM

                                                                                                            By: Kenley B.

                                                                                                                1/9/04

 

                        Here at IHM we do a lot of things for Christmas. It is a big time of the year for us, we are preparing for the birth of Jesus.

          We celebrate Christmas on December 25. On this day we spend time with our family’s opening gifts, going to church, and having a fun time. For Christmas at IHM, we celebrate Christmas by counting down the days of advent at Church, decorating the classrooms, and making Christmas fun for us kids.

            At Christmas we get candy canes, and the candy canes reminds us of a Shepard’s staff, and here at IHM all the teacher’s give us a candy cane, it’s like one of the traditions here. Every class room has a tradition, like the 8th grade, their tradition is that they always decorate there class rooms. The 7th grade tradition is that they have a little Christmas tree in Miss Ward’s room and they put all the gifts that they give her under the tree.  This year there is a new thing that we are doing, every kid in the school try’s to get a sticker for being polite. Ask with may I, just being nice and respectful you can get a sticker, and when you get five sticker’s you get an ornament on the tree. Not only do we do it during Christmas we do it all year around.

         

 

      
                     This is the “positivity” tree                                                    The tree in Miss Wards room     

 

         

           

           One of the pictures that are in the school                                  Two angels on the third floor

                                      

                                                              Christmas art work

 

The week when we all come back from Christmas break, we are still celebrating Christmas. Like father McCann said “We are still celebrating Christmas after it is over, it’s like it just started.” So Christmas is not just one day of the year, it can be celebrated all through out the year, because you can spread holiday cheer and kindness all year around.