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DAYTON-School is out for winter break as the holiday season sets in. Students bid farewell to school for winter break on Friday, with a day full of fun Christmas activities for every hour. For the entire half-day before being released for winter break, the Associated Student Body (ASB) officers had organized a Christmas spirit day to boost holiday spirit, and bring students together.

The high schoolers started the day with team gingerbread house making, which was voted on and winners awarded at a later time. The next class period, students let their creativity out on wooden tree ornaments, which they decorated according to their own taste, and personalized it with their school photos. The next event was decorating the Christmas tree which was displayed in the high school commons area. Each student placed their personalize ornament on the tree, shared hot cocoa and cookies with the whole school and was visited by Santa Claus.

The most exciting part of the day was the Christmas lip sync, and pep rally. Each class was assigned a Christmas song by the ASB, to create a lip sync for the rest of the school. Each class was given time to practice before their stage performance in front of middle and high school students.

Following the successful and comedic lip sync, was the pep rally, which included competitive games such as the eggnog chug, reindeer ring toss, the chubby bunny challenge, and jingle bells, the hit of the rally where students rushed to shake all the jingle bells out of tissue boxes taped to their backs before the contestants from another class could beat them.

The day closed with the pep assembly, and began the much-needed winter break. The day left the students and staff ready for Christmas, full of Christmas spirit.