For Polish people, Christmas Eve is more important than Christmas Day. Families gather in the evening for a special dinner consisting of 12 dishes, including carp, herring, salads, and pierogi, once the first star appears in the sky. After dinner, people open presents under the Christmas tree, sing carols, and many attend Midnight Mass, while the following days are spent visiting relatives and eating more meals together.

1. Christmas Eve

2. For Polish people Christmas Eve is
more important than Christmas Day. In
the evening all the family get together.

3. Dinner starts when the first star
appears in the sky.

4. Before dinner members of the family
share a holy wafer and wish each
other health and happiness.

5. THERE ARE USUALLY TWELVE DISHES
ON THE TABLE -
carp, herring, salads, „pierogi” (dumplings)
with cabbage and mushrooms, poppyseed
cake, red borsh and other things.
On Christmas Eve we don’t eat meat.

6. After dinner people open the presents
waiting for them under the Christmas
tree and they sing carols.

7. Many people go to church to
attend Midnight Mass.

8. On the 25th and 26th of December
people visit their relatives or friends
and eat a lot.

9. The presentation was prepared by
Rozalia Osmałek class 6B