russia

=News from Russia by Ms. Tarasevich's Classroom= December News December, 10 th. It’s a cold and frosty evening in our Siberian town. The windows of our school are lighted brightly. There are many guests in it. They are the students from school №4 and №3, their parents and the teachers. They are dressed up and their costumes are not usual. The girls wear beautiful and long dresses and many of them have fans and masks. The students are not the students any more, they are ladies and gentlemen. They don’t push one another, they don’t speak school slang. It’s a ball. The main character of the ball is the empress of Russia Catherine II (our teacher). The empress wants her son Paul (the 11 th grade students) to get married. She organized a ball to find an appropriate bride for him. Our choreography room is decorated nicely. There are many candles, mirrors, plants and fluffy toys. The music begins and pairs start to dance polonaise, tango, waltz and quadrille. It’s very hot in the room and pages bring the cool drinks for all the guests. Some ladies sing the romances, recite poems. Everyone can take part in different funny games. What a beautiful party! Hurry up! The ball takes place every year at our school. You can arrive on time. Aban, school №3 Filimonova Diana.  .

October/November News Everybody knows the holiday Halloween. We celebrated it every year in a common way: sang song, played, told stories. But this year we have decided to do it otherwise: spent the night at school. When everybody gathered, girls had organized interesting and recreational games. Our history teacher had prepared the interesting stories, and after games we were listening to our teacher attentively at candles. It was interesting. Then we made the disco to relax a little. Then we made our beds on the floor in athletic gym-room and sang guitar songs. The program finished at 2.00 a.m. but we didn't want to sleep, and we told each other stories. We didn't sleep for the whole night. In the morning we had the last three lessons of the first term. - Masha Putintseva Aban, Russia
 * __Everybody Know Halloween__**

__**Our Autumn Festival**__ We have Autumn Festival Week. It is the week for different activities: outdoor sport, athletics competitions, picnic, autumn parties, and exhibition of students’ works from vegetables, flowers and leaves. We like to make things out of objects and food. Our sculptures are very cool and creative, aren’t they? Strange animals look really funny. Pupils like to take part in this festival very much. But best of all we enjoy autumn parties. You can meet ‘tasty’ fruit and different ‘vegetables’ at our party. They sing nicely and dance wonderfully, play games. Our dresses are beautifully made. It is a real fancy- dress ball. This is a week when we have a lot of fun, we play jokes. Welcome to our parties!

Abanskaya School 3, Grade 7

//September's News: It's Teacher Day//
October,5 is a day in our country when teachers are given honor to. Students and parents give flowers, cards and handmade souvenirs to teachers. This year our students were extraordinary. They invited all the teachers in one of the classroom on the third floor and asked to look through the window. So when the teachers looked through the window they saw a big heart which consisted of the students. They were waving to teachers and crying “We love you!” After the third lesson teachers became students and students (of 10-11 grades) became teachers. Teachers had badges with their first names on them as Tanya (not Tatyana Ivanovna) Larisa, Natasha and so on. They attended lessons as students. After the lessons teachers became teachers again and students became students. It was really exciting. Upside down day! Do you have such holidays in your country, school? - Students of the 11th grade.