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where you live? ** ||= **What activities do you participate in during the winter?** ||= **What winter holidays do you celebrate?** ||= **Does your community have any special winter events?** ||= **Is there any other information you'd like to share? ** || Ashland, PA, USA || Yes || We like to play outside in the snow and build snowmen and go sledding. There are many places to go skiing and tubing and a few nice ponds to go ice skating on. We sometimes get a lot of snow, if there is a Noreaster, but usually we might get and inch or two a few times during the winter. We sometimes get more ice than snow, which makes it dangerous for us to go to school. || We have Holiday Parties before we have off for our Winter Break. Last year, our music teachers had us sing songs about all of the December Holidays. So we were able to learn about Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa and the special lights for each. We also celebrate Valentine's Day and Groundhog Day. Punxatawney Phil lives on the other side of our state. || Our school district has students from several towns. Some of our towns have special Holiday parades. We have many churches in our school district and they have special services for Christmas. Santa Claus spends time at our local malls and we visit him to tell him what our Christmas Dreams are. ||  || Regina, Saskatchewan Canada || Yes, lots! || Students at our school like to do many things in the winter. Building snowmen and snow forts, sledding, skating, playing in the snow, snowmobiling, downhill and cross country skiing and curling. Many of the boys love to play hockey. The snow often comes in November and can last until April! || We have students that celebrate Christmas and some that celebrate Ramadan. || We just had the Grey Cup in Canada for football and our Province was playing which was a big deal for us!! The students all wore green and white to show their support. We are preparing for our Winter Concert that will be performed to our parents, this year we are singing about bears. We have a Christmas break and many families like to travel during that time and try to go somewhere warm for a vacation. ||  || Newton, MA || Yes || In the winter we like to go sledding, ice skating, and skiing. || Most students celebrate Christmas, New Year's and Valentine's Day. || We have a holiday concert just before Christmas where all of the classrooms perform for their families. We have a Christmas tree in the foyer of the school that is filled with decorations that each child creates with self-hardening clay. ||  ||
 * = **School Name/Location ** ||= **Does it snow
 * St. Martin's School, Winnetka, CA ||= No || We do have some ice skating rinks and we can drive to the local mountains (1 1/2 - 2 hours away) for skiing. Winter in California still means lots of outdoor activities including all of our after school sports teams who play outside year-round. Sometimes it's even warm enough to go swimming during the winter. || We're a Christian school so most of our students celebrate Christmas. We have a few families that celebrate Hanukkah and we also have a few Muslim families. We also have parties at school for Valentine's Day and many of the classes do special lessons about Groundhog Day. || At school we decorate the tree in the church, put on a Christmas program for our family and friends and have Christmas parties. Our church has special family services on Christmas Eve and the first Sunday in January when we celebrate the Feast of the Lights. Valentine's Day is another day for parties at school. We're not far from Hollywood where there is an [|annual parade] every year on Thanksgiving weekend and not far from Pasadena where the [|Rose Parade] happens every year. ||  ||
 * North Schuylkill Elementary
 * Veterans Elementary School, Ellicott City, MD, USA || Yes || We like to play outside- sledding, snow angels, snowball fights. We go ice skating (indoors). Some of us go skiing and snow tubing at resorts near by. Usually we get more ice than snow. || You name it, we celebrate it! We are an extremely diverse school. All holidays mentioned on this page are recognized. Chinese New Year is one that no one has mentioned that we celebrate it. || This year we did a special project, inspired by our school name, and wrote/illustrated/made cards to military members who are injured and those not able to spend time with their families. || We love technology!! ||
 * W.S. Hawrylak Elementary School,
 * Goodnoe Elementary School, Newtown, PA || Yes || In the winter we like to make gingerbread houses, go sledding, go skiing, go tubing, go ice skating, and see light shows. || We celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day. || In our classroom each child will be baking a gingerbread man and we will have a New Year's Eve party before winter break. In our town you can see many neat things. Santa drives around on a fire truck and gives candy canes. Our town has a special parade on New Year's called First Night. There is a very neat light show at Shady Brook Farm where you can see a Grinch, 12 Days of Christmas, a dumptruck, and different animals. ||  ||
 * Jackson School,