Santa Interviews: Mrs. Johnson's Kindergarten

KEEGAN SMOUT

Q: What's your favorite Christmas cookie?

A: Ummmm...the Christmas tree ones (makes a Christmas tree shape with his hands)

Q: How much does Santa weigh?

A: 100 pounds.

Q: Is that a lot or a little?

A: A lot! (laughs)

Q: How does Santa bring presents to your house?

A: He uses his sleigh!

Q: Does his sleigh have a fast engine?

A: No (rolls eyes) it has reindeer!

Q: Do you know their names?

A: Comet and Prancer....that's it (with certainty)

Q: How big is an elf?

A: Ummmmm...small?

Q: What do they do for Santa?

A: They make toys. I saw an elf. It had a red head and a red pointy hat and he destroyed my whole room! (very excited)

Q: What? He destroyed your room??? Was this the Elf on the Shelf?

A: Nope. (again, with certainty)

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: Hunting stuff!

Q: Ah you're a hunter! What do you hunt?

A: Anything! Everything!

Q: So, cats and dogs?

A: No! (crosses his arms) Animals that we eat.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A walkie-talkie, hunting knife and hunting clothes, and camouflage arrows.

Q: What happens if you lose the camouflage arrows since they are camo?

A: We get new ones! (rolls his eyes again)

JAYDEN HILDRETH

Q: What's Santa look like?

A: He has a white beard, (touching his face) mustache coming down, a red suit (touching his shirt), and he has a sleigh! (makes motions like he's driving a car)

Q: So the sleigh moves because of its engine, right?

A: No! From the reindeer!

Q: What's a reindeer?

A: They have ears that poke out and make them fly. They look kinda like a cat. They have bones that come out really long, but not real long, and it wraps around it.

Q: So they run really fast to make the sleigh move?

A: No! They wake up and they fly!

Q: Do you know their names?

A: Nope (grins)

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: I don't know yet... (thinks for a bit) the only thing I want is a bow and arrow, and more stuff for that.

DAX ARNOLD

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A remote control air plane! (moves his arms like wings)

Q: How high will it fly?

A: SO high!

Q: Who brings you Christmas presents?

A: Santa!

Q: What does he look like?

A: He...he is big..and...BIG (pats his belly)

Q: How much do you think Santa weighs?

A: SO much!

Q: What's Santa's favorite food?

A: Cookies! The gingerbread man ones!

Q: Who moves Santa's sleigh?

A: The reindeer!

Q: What's a reindeer look like?

A: It has horns and it runs...it runs so fast (makes motions like he's running)...so it runs fast and it runs really fast and then it flies.

HADLEY BECKER

Q: What does an elf look like?

A: It has a red hat and red clothes.

Q: How big is he?

A: This big (moves hands about three inches apart)

Q: How much does an elf weigh?

A: Uummmm...1 pound!

Q: What's so special about elves?

A: They are magic. They fly.

Q: Who do they help?

A: They help Santa.

Q: What does Santa weigh?

A: 100 pounds (giggles) he's chubby!

Q: What does he eat?

A: Gingerbread cookies!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A Barbie airplane!

Q: Let me guess...is it pink?

A: (eyeing me suspiciously) How did you know?

LETTY WILKINSON

Q: Tell me about Santa.

A. Ummm...he likes cookies!

Q: What's his favorite kind?

A: The green ones!

Q: Does he like orange juice with his cookies?

A: Yes! (giggling)

Q: Oh!! Ok! How much does he weigh?

A: Like four pounds. He doesn't weigh a lot.

Q: How does he deliver the presents to your house?

A: He goes in our chimney!

Q: Is there a fire when he goes down the chimney?

A: (looks shocked) No!

Q: What if he can't get down the chimney because his tummy is too big? Does he knock on the window and ask you to let him in?

A: He comes when I'm asleep at night time! No! (giggles)

Q: Have you ever seen Santa?

A: No.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A new Barbie doll, a Spirit horse with black and brown hair and brown skin.

Q: Who helps Santa make toys?

A: His elves!

Q: What do they look like?

A: They have pointy ears and one speaks Spanish!

ZAYDE ZITNIK

Q: Have you ever seen Santa?

A: I'm not gonna tell you!

Q: Why not?

A: Cuz I don't have to!

Q: But I've never seen Santa Claus (giving him a sad face) please tell me!

A: Nope (folds arms over chest, shaking his head). Everybody else probably already told you!

Q: But they haven't. Ok...dang it. Well, have you ever seen an elf?

A: Yeah. They're green! Green clothes. They're about this big (holds his hands a foot apart).

Q: What do they do?

A: They help Santa make toys.

Q: I thought we buy the toys in the store?

A: No the special ones come from the elves.

Q: How does Santa get presents to your house?

A: He comes in and goes really quick.

Q: So he drives them to your house in his car?

A: No! He flies with reindeer!

Q: What do reindeer look like?

A: It's a deer with horns and they fly!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A motorcycle! (very excited)

Q: What! Aren't you kinda young for a motorcyle?

A: No! I want a huge motorcycle to break my mom's window!

Q: You sound like you're a handful! Have you ever gotten coal in your stocking for Christmas?

A: (laughs) Yeah!

Q: You have?

A: No! (laughing)

(teacher walks by and hears conversation) Did you get coal in your stocking?

A: No...

Q: But he wants a motorcycle to break his moms window, so there might be coal next year!

HAILEY HOCKENBERRY

Q: What's Santa Claus look like?

A: He has smooth skin?

Q: Does he have hair on his skin?

A: (nods head)

Q: What color is his beard?

A: White!

Q: What's an elf do?

A: He's Santa Claus' helper!

Q: What's your favorite Christmas cookie?

A: The santa ones!

Q: What does your Christmas tree look like?

A: It's decorated with Christmas decorations like twinkles and a gold star on the top...like...like...right up there. And she puts on that song sometimes.

Q: Which song?

A: The Christmas tree song.

Q: Oh is it Oh, Christmas tree? (sings a little of it)

A: Sometimes it's that one. Then sometimes we get to decorate our own trees and I have a small one.

A: What do you want for Christmas this year?

Q: I don't know!

RYLEE VAN DYKE

Q: I have never seen Santa. Can you tell me what he looks like?

A: He has a beard. It's a long beard and it's white.

Q: Do you know how much Santa weighs?

A: No (thinking)

Q: Is he skinny?

A: No (still thinking)

Q: How big around is he?

A: He's great big! (excited)

Q: How does Santa get to your house?

A: With the sleigh. It flies.

Q: What's your favorite Christmas song?

A: Oh, Christmas tree!

Q: Can you sing it?

A: Oh, Christmas tree...oh, Christmas tree...what will you be this year?

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: An owl!

Q: Did you know owls are my favorite thing ever?

A: (nods yes) Yes, and I'm going to have a castle with an owl in it.

Q: Is it a real owl or a toy?

A: No, but my cat's name is Spot because it has a spot on its neck and Dot because it has dots on its back.

Q: What are you going to name the owl?

Q: The owl isn't real...it's a stuffed animal.

SHILOH DOMNITZ

Q: What does an elf look like?

A: Uum...(finger to her chin)he has a hat and he has elf shoes, elf pants, and an elf shirt!

Q: What does a reindeer look like?

A: Has big horns and a tail!

Q: How do they move Santa's sleigh? Do they run really fast?

A: With magic! (moves hands like she's sprinkling magic)

Q: What kind of magic?

A: Reindeer magic!

Q: Do you know the reindeer names?

A: Rudolph!

Q: Why does everyone know Rudolph?

A: I do not know. I only know that name. I don't know the other names.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A toy dinosaur.

Q: What type of dinosaur?

A: Well...no...it's a dragon!

Q: Ooh, so does the dragon breathe fire?

A: (nods head excitedly) Pretend fire!

Q: How does Santa get in your house to give you presents?

A: By going in the sleigh with the reindeer pushing him.

Q: What's your favorite Christmas cookie?

A: Chocolate!

Q: With frosting or without frosting?

A: Without! You don't put frosting on chocolate chip!

NOAH GRAVELEY

Q: Where does Santa live?

A: In the North Pole (shivers)

Q: What's the temperature there?

A: It's cold!

Q: Who is Santa married to?

A: (gives me a funny look) I don't know!

Q: Who helps Santa in his workshop?

A: Elves!

Q: What does an elf look like?

A: Uum uhhhhh ummmm... they have long ears and a human nose....and a long hat....and they this small (pinches fingers together) and (spreads arms far apart) this is how big Santa is!

Q: What's your favorite Christmas cookie?

A: I don't eat cookies.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A Transformer.

Q: Ooooh which Transformer?

A: Boulder

Q: What does he look like?

A: (gets down on the ground and rolls up into a ball) He looks like this and he looks like dirt and he pushes dirt.

KANE JOYCE

Q: What does Santa look like?

A: Santa Claus looks like... (deep breath) Santa Claus... has a beard and Christmas things on him!

Q: What kind of Christmas things?

A: Like when the Christmas... like when you hang Christmas lights on the trees... and then Santa comes with presents!

Q: Does he bring the presents in his car?

A: (laughs) No!

Q: How does he get them there?

A: Him fly with the reindeer!

Q: Do you know their names?

A: Uum um....well....um...there's Elf, and Teef, and Me!

Q: How much does Santa weigh?

A: (laughs loudly) Fifty hundred pounds! That's a lot!

Q: How much does a reindeer weigh?

A: Like two pounds.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A dinosaur that opens his mouth and then I throw him food and it goes down and I open his belly.

Q: Is this like a real dinosaur?

A: No, a toy dinosaur and I open its mouth and put in food and he chewed it up and then it goes in his belly and I can see.

JAMES MAGUIRE

Q: Can you tell me what a Christmas tree looks like?

A: Um it's a tree...(looks around me to the class Christmas tree) and it has...

Q: Hey! Are you looking at the tree?

A: (laughing) Yeah!

Q: Ok. Well, what do reindeer look like?

A: It has horns on it.

Q: Do they run?

A: No.

Q: How do they move Santa's sleigh?

A: (looks at me like I'm not the smartest) They have ropes tied to them.

Q: How much do you think they weigh?

A: Um...I don't know.

Q: What does Santa look like?

A: He has a white beard and his belly is a big big circle and he looks like Santa.

Q: Why is his belly so big?

A: I don't know! (laughing)

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (gets excited) A choo-choo train!

Q: A real one or a toy one?

A: A toy one with a remote!