This is our Christmas task for the project knowing me knowing you

1. Christmas in Spain
• At Christmas in Spain we decorate the streets with
light bulbs , Christmas trees and human size cribs.
Here in Valencia the streets are packed of people
because the weather is not too cold . Parents go
with children to watch the city cribs , visit the
Father Christmas and Kings who are in most of the
shopping centres.
• The Christmas Eve ,we sing Christmas Carols from
house to house and receive some food or money
for it. Later we have dinner with our families. At
midnight, the Catholics go to a mass called “misa
del gallo”.Then the children go to bed and next
morning they discover the presents under the
Christmas tree.
• On Christmas day we have lunch with our families,
and after it the grandfather gives money to all the
family members

2. Here they are some typical instruments we use to sing Christmas carols
The washing board The “zambomba” “matraca”
“pandereta”
The “anís” bottle and the iron key or the bottle opener

3. Christmas in Spain.
• We celebrate the New Year Eve with our friends
or family.
• At midnight we eat 1 grape for each clock strike
and then some people drink a glass of cava with
a gold ring inside to have luck and fortune
during the New Year.
• It is said that the weather of the first 12 days of
January forecasts the weather for the 12
months of the New Year.
• The 5th of January we go to the Three Kings
parades in which lots of candies are thrown to
the children.
• The 5th of January in the evening we have a ring
shape cake. In the cake you can find a hidden
bean, if so it means you have to pay the cake
next year, or a plastic figure, if so you are
crowned as the King of the night.

4. Christmas at the Rei En Jaume school
By the 5_ 6 year students

5. We write Christmas cards

6. We decorate the
classrooms and the
corridors in our school
The last day before Christmas holidays, in the morning, we have a Christmas
carols festival in which all the school classes sing their Christmas carol.

7. We are visited by The three Kings. We post our letters in a box
and speak to them. Finally we get some sweets from them .

8. Christmas at our homes
By the 5_ 6 year students

9. In most houses we had :
Seafood
Lamb meat
Snails
Octopus
Filled fish

10. And for desert:
“polvorones” and pies made of almonds “turrón”. The best for us is the
toasted yolk”
Sweet potato pies This is called pyjama
Nuts

11. – We wish you :