Season’s greetings to all our dear readers!

Each year, we ask area first graders (or other grades who want to participate) to write letters to Santa or holiday wishes. This year, some kids chose to write winter bucket lists with some pretty fun ideas.

Some kids write the letters with the help of parents or teachers; some choose to try it on their own. We print the letters exactly as they are written (or as close as we can decipher). This is one of our favorite editions of the year. How can your heart not melt after reading these sweet letters? A laugh or two is tucked into a few too.

Thank you to all the wonderful teachers who help us do this each year. Once the letters have been typed for the paper, we make sure to send them off to the North Pole.

Happy Holidays from your friends at the Pierce County Journal!

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Rocky Branch Elementary School

River Falls

Rocky Branch Elementary students had the choice of writing a letter to Santa or completing a personal winter bucket list.

Ms. Bosshart’s first grade class

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, Snow fort, Snow day, Snow ball fite, football game, Basckitball, Play with by Best friends, Barn fire, Wach a show.

Owen

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, drink hot cocoa, ice skating, Play hockey, Make a Snowman.

No name listed

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, make a snowbank, make a snowman, watch a movie, hot cocoa, open gift, snowball fite, fishing, snowmobilling, get a rc car, eat candy canes, ice skat, go skiing, go on a slde, make a slde, make a snow flack.

Kevin

My personal winter bucket list:

Ice skating, hot coco, ice fishing, make a snowjow, make a snowman, open presit.

Ripley

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding! Drink hot coco! Culreing! Mack cotekoolde! Read book! Snow day! Watch a movie! Play!

Nyla

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, ice skating, hot coco, woch rohof, opis presis, Be wif famly, sing krismis Krls, Have fun, Have a Crismis parde, Have a Fir, I wot to si ta, play out in the snow, play gams, woch frostey, go to skole, make snoman.

Margot

My personal winter bucket list:

Pad in the sun, Ilick.

No name listed

My personal winter bucket list:

Bilding a snow fort, go sledding, drink hot cocao, open gifts, eat treats, watch movies, make cookies, Make a crismis list, read a crismis book, sing songs, snow day, Play in my house.

Emery

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, ice skating.

Leroy

My personal winter bucket list:

Hockey, sledding, ice fichening, snombeing, wotch hockey, opening presit.

Collin

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, drink hot coco, ice skating, play hockey.

No name listed

My personal winter bucket list:

Play hockey, watch movie, capfier, watch collin, open, go caie, snowday.

Oliver

My personal winter bucket list:
sledding, ice skating, open gift, eat treats, red Book, Bid giger Bred, Pgloow, Blow Blu Blow, woout moovey, Snoday, play gams, wouf Collin, wout Liam, noo yeer pardy.

Brielle

My personal winter bucket list:

Drink hot cocoa, make a Snowman, sledding, make a snowangel, get cover in snow, has a snowball fight, roll in the snow, eat a candy cane, watch a christmas movie, open christmas gifts, make a snowfort, make paper snowflakes.

Brooklyn

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, snoba, snow, woch fon, opin presins, gop in the sno, woch capop demo, is cat, snugl with my Dad, snobals, mack fort, Bov bubls, woch wicid, woch crismis show, culr, pat, Lov Dad, mac shoagis.

Amara

My personal winter bucket list:

Ice skating, sleding, Snow Frot, Snow Boding, Dekrat trey, mak cokey, red a Bok, snobol fit, Play grbite, Do Gimnastikst, snagol with Mom, make gingr bred, make presit, make papr snoflak, make snow angel, go skeying, drik hot cocow, opin presits, play with sistr, sing soings.

Maliya

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, play hockey, make a snowman, snow bord, open gifts, snow day, eat treats, snow fort, Hot chochet, see misioda wild, ice fishing, egg nog, movie, giger bred howce, make a cake, cady cane, sing carols, eat the cake, get a hover bord, crismas snow.

Wesley

My personal winter bucket list:

Sledding, drink hot cocoa, ice skating, play hockey, make a snowman, going outside, watch movie, riding book, sliping, snobol fluto, Basgit bol, Lisin to musik, play gems, go to sgal, culring, jaj bred, riding fud, snowhtul, going swimine, Bluing Bubu.

Brynn

Ms. Severson’s first grade class

Dear Santa,

My name is Ayla and I am six years old. For Christmas this year I would  like ckot in candy makr, snow gob, hour brd, wolr bas, Pinsr fo my mom.

Love,

Ayla

Dear Santa,

My name is Aubree and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like vat tulu, min nad, Roblox, heak, dlasi.

Love,

Aubree

Dear Santa,

My name is Wesley and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like Lemmins, gutror, Roblox, vbux, medum wit brd.

Love,

Wesley

Dear Santa,

My name is Maenus and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like Lego, Lego, Lego, Lego, Lego.

Love,

Maenus

Dear Santa,

My name is Maleah and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like toys and makeup, PS5, gadiy doll house, calrshaf.

Love,

Maleah

Dear Santa,

My name is Ruby and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like a drone, noo clos, cut little dolphin stuf, snow globe, dolphin blankit.

Love,

Ruby

Dear Santa,

My name is Ariana and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like ntis make kry, mokfom rom, a oboy, a fon, a book.

Love,

Ariana

My personal winter bucket list:

Go ice fishing, Sams crismis villig, Gramas crrismis party, See my frend Carter, Billd an snow Man, Deckrat my tent, Make snow forts, Make a snow hill to sled.

That is all I wont to do.

Delta

My personal winter bucket list:

Learn more, Spend time with my famly, Got to g and g, Go sledden ,Oupin presins, I hop that I get a lego., 67 branrot stufe, X box, A punchen bag, A mocuchoir monstr Chroc, Robucx, V bucs, Gif crd, Go to togit, Go to my crismisis, Get wetever I wont, See Santu, Et candy, Spend by gif cod, Go to my Gramu.

No name listed

My personal winter bucket list:

See Santa, Learn more, Open presents, Go to Bowen hows, Go to my sistrs bday, Eat cookies, Grik hot choclt, Light show, Go sledding, Play shobolfut, Spend tim with my famiey, Sleep-in, Go to my freg hos

I am dun.

Lincoln

Dear Santa,

My name is Lincoln and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like a Drt buk, Drt buk helmit, sookr bool, sing gres, presins.

Love,

Lincoln

My personal winter bucket list:

Go sledding, My 2 Futtetr, Go to Bowen host, Light show , Open presents, Sleep-in, Building an igloo, Eat cookies, Go see Christmas.

I’m dun.

Arlo

Dear Santa,

My name is Nora and I am 6 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like Hot wel cars, traplex, irn mor, met Santa, ice skate.

Love,

Nora

My personal winter bucket list:

Playin in the snow, Ice fishing, Ice skating, See my mom, Bild a Snowman, Go siese hts, Vacaton, Hot ckocc, See BuBu, See my ote.

Ayla

Dear Santa,

My name is Harrison and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year, I would like 5PS5, nutendeno Swich 2, the best Christmas, I wot ca pop dem Hutrs 2, 10000 rbucs, and tablit.

Love,

Harrison

Dear Santa,

My name is Jamari and I am 7 years old. For Christmas this year I would like Monstr Jam, NFL Fooball, helmet kid, Big Foot costom, Nice shos.

Love,

Jamari

My personal winter bucket list:

Vacation, Go sledding, Ice skating, See Santa, Open presents, Bake cookies, Sleep-in, Wrap presents, Frosty the snowman , See Christmas lights.

Launa