Christmas+Customs+from+France

=**The purpose of this page is to identify various Christmas customs from France. (Cisco)**= ==**In France, children leave their shoes by the fireplace on the Christmas Eve so that Pere Noel can fill them with gifts and in the Christmas morning, they usually find sweets, fruits, nuts and small toys for them hung on the tree. (Pate and Lexie)**==

**I'm very excited to learn jingle bells in french.**
==**Tintez Cloches, Tintez Cloches (Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells) Tintez dans la nuit (Ring in the night) Pere Noel et ses grand daims (Santa Claus and his big reindeer) Arrivent toute de suite..ite (Are coming soon) (Aidan)**==

**In 1962, a law was passed decreeing that all letters written to Santa would be responded to with a postcard. When a class writes a letter, each student gets a response(Gracie)**
==**French children put their shoes in front of the fireplace, in the hopes that Père Noël (aka Papa Noël) will fill them with gifts. Candy, fruit, nuts, and small toys will also be hung on the tree overnight. In some regions there's also Père Fouettard who gives out spankings to bad children (sort of the equivalent of Santa Claus giving coal to the naughty).( Brooklyn and Lexie)**==