Have you ever saved money to do something special? Cindy Evans and her third-grade class are sure to answer, "Yes!"

    Cindy Evans works at Big Beaver Elementary School in Big Beaver, Pennsylvania. One day, she and her third-grade class read about the Great American Smokeout in Weekly Reader. The Smokeout is an event to help people give up smoking. The American Cancer Society runs it.

    "We read that about l million people give up smoking each year," said Ms Evans. Then her students asked her. "What does 1 million look like?" Ms Evans told her class the best way to see 1 million was to collect 1 million things.

    "I was thinking about collecting 1 million small things like erasers," said the teacher. But her students had a better idea: to collect 1 million pennies (分) and give them away to the American Cancer Society. Soon the class started their big job.

    Many people in the neighbourhood joined the students. According to Ms Evans, the bank in their neighbourhood had to keep more pennies because so many people were collecting them.

    That June, the class went to the office of the American Cancer Society with 1,177,500 pennies, or$11,775. They hoped that the money could help more people keep healthy.

    Most people always like to collect things. For example, they like collecting stamps, books, pictures.… But my friend Mr King likes collecting clocks. He has five hundred clocks now.

    There are clocks everywhere in his house. You can see shelves standing in every room. All the shelves are full of clocks. Though Mr King is glad to do this, his wife doesn't enjoy it at all. She has a lot of work to do every day. It's not easy for her to clean hundreds of clocks. She is also angry at the noise. Each clock keeps its own time, so she can hear clock strike(敲) almost any time during the day and the night. "There is something even worse. I am never able to know what time it is with so many clocks around."

    Tom is a good boy, but he cannot get up early. He often sleeps until nine or ten o'clock in the morning. His mother doesn't want him to be late for school. So she buys him an alarm clock. She says to him, "You must get up when you hear the clock ring" "Yes, Mum." Tom says. And from then on, Tom gets up when he hears the clock ring at six thirty every morning. One day his mother forgets to ring up the clock. And the next morning Tom doesn't get up at six thirty. It's time for breakfast. Mother goes to wake him up. Tom is in bed and his eyes are open. He says to his mother, "I wake up very early."

    "Then why don't you get up?" Mother asks.

"But," answers Tom, "You tell me that I must get up when I hear the clock ring. So I am now waiting for the clock ring."

My name is Linda and I live in London. I'm1 English teacher. I teach English in a middle school.

School begins （开始） at 7:30 2 the morning. I leave home （离开家） at 7:00 and take a bus to school. I 3 work （工作） at 4:00 in the afternoon. My work is 4 and I like it. 

After work, I play 5 with my students. Volleyball is my favorite 6 . My father is my volleyball 7 . He plays very well. I play with 8 every week. My son, Joe, is ten years old. He 9 volleyball. He likes basketball. He has four basketball 10 every week. He wants to be a basketball player.

This year，Children's Day was an unforgettable experience for many children in Beijing!The China National Theater for Children successfully showed 12 special plays for kids from May 31 to June 10.These plays were chosen from 146 entries for the "Blooming and Sailing"program.There were many different types of plays，including puppet（木偶） shows，and even the traditional Yueju Opera.

Families came to the theater for 10 days to see these great shows.The theater has hosted this program for three years because of the support of the Beijing Culture and Arts Fund.

Two plays were really popular with young kids. "Go to the Farm"was fun for kids aged 17 months to 4 years.It was lively and educational."Momoda"was also popular with babies aged 6 months to 18 months.It was totally fun.

After the shows，children were full of happiness.Little John said，"I loved 'Go to the Farm'!It was so much fun to learn about animals and play with the puppets."And baby Emily said

There were also eight workshops about these plays.They provided theater fans with a chance to go deeper into the world of stage arts.This year's"Blooming and Sailing"program was a big success.Kids and families had a great time and will remember it for a long time.

There are four seasons in a year in the city. 

Spring is from March to May. The weather is sunny and warm. The temperature is from 5 to 18 {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Everything begins to grow. It's a good time to go on a field trip. 

Summer is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the hottest but wettest. In the southeast, there are many showers. And sometimes, in the morning the sun shines, but in the afternoon, it might {#blank#}3{#/blank#} cloudy and rainy. There are storms sometimes. So, people often take an umbrella. But in the northwest, it's dry and hot. 

Autumn comes in September. Best of all, the weather is not too cold or too hot. It's the best time to travel.

I like winter best compared to the other seasons. I'm not {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. I like it because it's snowy. I can make a snowman,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} and ski. It's also pleasant(令人愉快的) for me to take photos of snow with my new phone.