1. Christmas Timotej Tabaček 5.B

2. Christmas  In Slovakia we celebrate Christmas in different ways. In our region we celebrate it this way:

3. Preparations for Christmas  We buy presents for our family and friends  We bake cakes and cookies(I love gingerbread)  We decorate our house with glowing Christmas lights, candles and advent wreath  Every Sunday to Christmas we light one candle on the advent wreath  One day before Christmas we decorate Christmas tree(My favorite decorations are birds of various colors)

4. Christmas tree

5. Christmas dinner  On 24th December we don´t eat anything until the evening  We start eating when it´s dark (Or when the fish is ready )  First my grandpa cuts an apple in two halves, if there is a star, our family will be healthy  My grandma puts money under the table cloth to be rich  Then we eat waffles with honey

6. Christmas dinner  Main course is fried fish with potato salad  Then we continue with cakes and fruit and nuts and fish and salad again and we wait for a bell

7. Presents TThen the bell rings and the little Jesus comes and brings lots of presents under the Christmas tree

8. Easter Easter is a festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion.

9. How do we celebrate it ?  Boys wake up early in the morning and they prepare their willow whips  Then they go from house to house and they whip the girls with willow whips and pour them with water  After that girls should be beautiful and healthy  Girls give boys decorated eggs

10. How do we celebrate it ?  Girls don´t like easter very much but boys love it