Symbol: Advent Calendar
Carol: O Holy Night
Movie: It's a Wonderful Life - 1946
Literature & Poetry: A Reading from Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury, "The Quiet Little Woman"
Christmas Around the World: Denmark
Sophia: In Denmark, Christmas is when the mischievious elf Nisse can have his fun by playing jokes on the people. The families will leave him a bowl of rice pudding or porridge to keep his tricks within limits. When the children eat the pudding, there would be a magic almond in someone's pudding, and whoever got the almond would receive a prize. In Denmark, they have a tradition called the Christmas Plate when rich Danes give plates of fruit and biscuits as a present to their servants. Their Santa Claus figure is called Julemanden. The main Christmas celebration is on the 24th of December. The movie "It's A Wonderful Life" was a very good movie. The way everyone dressed was much more formal. The carol "O Holy Night" is a very nice carol. I've downloaded the song by Celtic Woman. We went to see "A Christmas Carol" in Providence, RI. It was a very good play, it was scary and funny. In a small town in Germany, their Town Hall has twenty-four windows. On the first of December, they put pictures in all the windows and open them one by one. The Advent Calendars I have are very nice ones. One is a Playmobil Calendar that has boxes with little pieces that go to the display on our table. The other one has little doores that you open and see a work of art in each window. I love them both.
Check out Gengenbach's Rathaus, or Town Hall, here.
Pamela
