Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: Christmas/my favorite holiday
Christmas: I love Christmas. It's awesome. I also love Thanksgiving because my family gets to get together.
Abby McCoskey
Grade 5, Calvary
Skateboard: I like Christmas because I can receive gifts. This year, I want a skateboard.
Leslie Guerrero
Grade 3, Cedar Ridge
Favorite holiday: Christmas is my favorite holiday because I like to spend time with my family. I also like opening presents and seeing what I got. I also like Christmas because I go and watch Christmas lights.
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Frankiemae Finck
Grade 4, Centennial
Jesus: I like Christmas because it is my favorite holiday because it is Jesus' birthday. I like getting presents from Santa.
Maxwell Myers
Grade 2, Corpus Christi
Gifts: My favorite holiday is Christmas. I like gifts on Christmas. I like holidays.
Jameson Gerard
Grade 1, Epiphany
Christmas: I love Christmas. We celebrate with my mom's side and my dad's side. My grandparents buy me lots of presents. Mom and I make puppy chow. It's so good. I like decorating the tree. We have ladders so we can reach higher parts of the tree.
Abby Dietz
Grade 3, Epiphany
V-Day: My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day. I like getting gifts from my dad and I like passing out candy on Valentine's Day. I get gifts from my brothers and my uncles. I love getting gifts from people. Even if it's a little gift or they didn't get me any, I will still say thank you because they are showing me love no matter what.
Shamiyrah Wright
Grade 4, Fairview
Halloween: My favorite holiday is Halloween because they will give candy, and we can wear scary costumes.
Bala Adithya Vijay Veerappan
Grade 2, Glenn
Holiday breakfast: My favorite holiday is Christmas. I love Christmas. I love it because I always have ham and Jell-O for breakfast. It is so yummy.
Flossie Williams
Grade 3, Grove
Why I like Christmas: My favorite holiday is Christmas. I like Christmas because I like getting gifts and I like making gifts for my family and seeing their reactions. I like our elves, too. I have two elves, and I like seeing where they will go. I love setting up the Christmas tree and putting up ornaments and putting up the lights on the tree.
Laila Abouelmagd
Grade 4, Grove
The holidays: My favorite holidays are Christmas and Thanksgiving. I like Christmas because I love all of the presents. On Thanksgiving, I like to eat all of the turkey. I love holidays.
Isaiah Budke
Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Family time: My favorite thing about Christmas is all the gifts and family being together. I like all the Christmas songs. I like Christmas shopping with my dad. I like opening presents. I also like celebrating the birth of Jesus.
Nevo Prevo
Grade 5, Northpoint
The snow: My favorite holiday is Christmas because I get to play in the snow and get hot cocoa.
Zakiyah Franklin
Grade 2, Parkside
Holiday travel: My favorite kind of cookies are sugar cookies with frosting, and this year my family is going to go to New Zealand. We are going to have a Christmas tree.
Emerson Pierce
Grade 1, Prairieland
Merry Christmas: "We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!" I love Christmas, do you? On Christmas Day my whole family celebrates Christmas. We open our presents Santa and our family gave us. We also celebrate Jesus' birth.
Isabelle Riethmaier
Grade 3, Prairieland
Giving: My favorite thing about Christmas is gift-giving. I love going shopping super early to pick out the presents. I love it when people open my gifts and have big smiles on their faces. Giving gifts is my love language, and if I could do it every day, just to see that I made someone smile.
Alexa Vogelsang
Grade 5, Prairieland
December: My favorite holiday is Christmas. I like to make gingerbread houses. I like making snowmen. I love to make snow angels. I like candy canes. I like to leave out cookies for Santa. I like presents. December is my favorite month.
Adi Arbuckle
Grade 3, Sheridan
NYE: I love New Year's Eve.
Zoie Foster
Grade 2, Stevenson
Costumes: My favorite holiday is Halloween. I like the costumes and the candy.
Madison Montague
Grade 1, Sugar Creek
Games: My favorite holiday is Christmas because you get presents and you get to spend time with your family and get to play some holiday games.
Brecklyn Ventura
Grade 2, Washington
Have fun: My favorite holiday is Christmas because you get to spend time with your family members. I think as my opinion Christmas is a time to have fun with older or younger cousins.
Lailah Bell
Grade 3, Washington
Cookies: Christmas is my favorite holiday. I love the feeling of cool air brushing my cheeks. I also love the sweet smell of cookies and gingerbread. I love seeing happy people walking around holding hands and laughing.
Addison Mead
Grade 5, Washington
Christmas tree: I like Christmas so much. My favorite holiday. My family is going to put up our Christmas tree.
Haley Janssen
Grade 5, Calvary
Family time: I like Christmas because I can spend time with my family.
Alejandro Flores Mendez
Grade 3, Cedar Ridge
The winter: I love winter because you get to play in snow. You also get to have hot chocolate and peppermint bark. I also like winter because you can attack people with snowballs. That is why I love winter.
Dean Hopson
Grade 4, Centennial
Elf on the Shelf: I like Christmas because I like when I get to see my elves. Next, I like getting presents. I like decorating. I like spending time with my family. And drinking hot chocolate and then playing with my now toys that I got.
Major Hico
Grade 2, Corpus Christi
Mass: I like going to Christmas Mass and celebrating Jesus' birthday. I like Christmas because you can decorate cookies and decorate your Christmas tree. I like Christmas and spending time with your family and opening up presents.
Felicity Bussan
Grade 1, Epiphany
Hot cocoa: I love Christmas. I like Christmas because you get a bunch of presents. On Christmas night you watch Christmas movies. I also drink hot cocoa while doing that. Then the day after that I go to my grandma's house with all of my cousins.
Theo Metz
Grade 3, Epiphany
Easter: My favorite holiday is Easter because you have to find the eggs and then I like how you get candy or toys inside the eggs. I like Easter because I get to see my cousins. I like Easter because I get to eat my uncle's homemade cheese and corn.
Eli Otero
Grade 4, Fairview
Tree topper: My favorite part of Christmas is me putting on the star.
Abel Palma
Grade 2, Glenn
Wonderful holiday: Christmas is a wonderful holiday. Santa comes down the chimney and puts out presents that you can open which have toys inside. When you wake up you might wake everyone up. With the magic of Christmas sometimes it might snow. I love Christmastime.
Saylor Smyth
Grade 3, Grove
The best: Christmas is the best. On Christmas Day, I can open presents. I can spend time with my family. I decorate my tree on Christmas.
Ainsly Agamy
Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Decorate: My favorite thing about Christmas is when I decorate and play in the snow. Also, my favorite thing about Christmas is the Christmas tree and baking cookies.
Nikki Nourian
Grade 5, Northpoint
The elves: Christmas is my holiday because I get to hang out with my family. My elf comes back, and we get presents.
Naomi Lunzer
Grade 2, Parkside
Love Christmas: I love Christmas because I get presents. I also love seeing all of my family. I love my elf and Henry and baking cookies.
Blair Weber
Grade 1, Prairieland
Thanksgiving: Yay, it was Thanksgiving. We eat pie and strawberries and stuffing, oh, and don't forget the turkey. It's all good! Then I play with my uncles. Later we go to my house and party. When we are done partying, I go to bed.
Logan Wallin
Grade 3, Prairieland
Open presents: My favorite part of Christmas is opening presents. It's fun using all the stuff you get when you're done. Opening my presents and having a blast makes me smile.
Brandon Wallin
Grade 5, Prairieland
Next topic: Open topic
It's open topic time for three weeks, so write or draw about whatever you want. You can go back to one of the topics we've done before or stretch your imagination and come up with something new. It's up to you.
Due date: Dec. 23
Publication dates: Jan. 5, 12, 19
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