Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday. It is the start of the holiday shopping season，and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors quite early in the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts. Some items(商品)like TVs and clothes are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store. Black Friday is a great time to go shopping. However，there are problems. The biggest one is that there are not enough low—priced items. Each store may only have a few. So people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens.

    Miss Tailor is a primary school teacher．All the students like her very much．Today is November 1st．In the evening．Miss Tailor gets two letters． One is a birthday card．It's from her student．Jack,It is a big surprise，because her birthday is in next month．The second letter is also from Jack．It says："Dear Miss Tailor．I'm sorry for the birthday card．It is a mistake．Please read the birthday card next month．"

    Today is Sunday. It is a sunny day. Mike and Paul are going to have a picnic in the park. There are many green trees. Near the gate，there is a lake. Some ducks are swimming on the lake.

    Mike and Paul are going to have lunch at half past eleven. Then they are going to read some books under a big tree.

    My name is Mike. I'm ten years old. I have a big family. Look, my father is watching TV. My mother is reading a book. My grandma is sitting on the sofa. My brother is doing his homework. I have two sisters. They are playing with toys. I love them.

    On Christmas Eve—the night before Christmas Day—children are very happy. They put their stockings at the end of their beds before they go to bed. They want Father Christmas to give them some presents.

    Mr. Green tells his children that Father Christmas is a very kind man, He comes on Christmas Eve. He lands on the roof of each house and comes down the chimney into the fireplace and brings them a lot of presents.

    On Christmas Day the children wake up very early. They can't wait to open the presents in their stockings. Then they wake up their parents and say, “Merry Christmas!”

    Do you know what Christmas means? Christmas Day is the birthday of Jesus Christ. When Christ was born, many people gave him presents. So today, people still do the same thing to each other.

    Once upon a time(从前), there was a dear little girl. She lived(居住) in a village with her mother. She was always called Little Red Cap.

    One day her mother said to her, "Little Red-Cap, here is some cake and a bottle of juice, take them to your grandmother. And when you are going, walk nicely and quietly, and do not run off the path. When you go into grandma's room, please be polite and say good morning."

    OK. mum! Goodbye!" said Little Red-Cap to her mother.