Here comes autumn! It is the third season of the year. In China, autumn arrives around September. It is still a little warm, but it gets colder and colder. The days also get shorter and shorter. The leaves on the trees begin to turn yellow and red. The air is fresh. It's a great season for kids to play outside. What do children do in autumn in different countries?

In China, students often have an autumn picnic. Usually, they go to an amusement park（游乐场）or out into nature. For example, kids in Shenzhen like to climb mountains in Nanshan. Most children also like to play games with their classmates, like soccer.

Japanese students often go hiking with their parents or classmates when the leaves are red and yellow. It is a perfect way to get exercise. Mountain climbing in nice weather is also a good choice.

For most children in the US, biking is a good autumn activity. Take a mountain bike ride and you can find new roads. Playing in leaf piles(堆) is popular, too. Kids jump onto a leaf pile. They are happy to see the colorful leaves fly all around. They also make leaf rain. It's all a lot of fun.

In the UK, school kids love to camp outside with their parents. They make food over the fire and tell ghost stories.

Friends can make us happy, so everyone in the world needs friends. Do you know how to make friends with your classmates? Here are some ways.

Introduce yourself

When you meet your classmate, don't be shy. Introduce yourself to them. You can tell the your name and your hobbies. This can make your classmates feel that you want to make friends with them.

Spend more time with your classmates

Don't always sit on your chair. If you want to make friends, you need to make yourself be around people. So try to be with your classmates.

Talk to your classmates

Talking to your classmates is very important If you don't talk to them, you can't know a lot about them or they can't know a lot about you.

Join a club

If two people have the same hobby, they can easily make friends. If you like dancing, you can join the Dance Club. There you can find other classmates. They all like dancing. It is easy for you and them to become friends.

Be friendly and smile often

Everyone wants to make friends with a kind person. So be friendly to your classmates. It can help you get a lot of friends. A friendly smile can make you very popular.

One day there was an argument（争论） between the wind and the Sun. "I'm much1than you," said the wind. "No, I don't agree with you!" said the Sun.

While they were arguing, they saw a man walking along the road. He was wearing a heavy2. The Sun said to the wind, "Now, let's see who can make the man take3his coat. Then we will know who is stronger."

First the4tried. It began to5very hard. It blew so hard that the man pulled his coat around him. The wind was6with the man. Then it said to the Sun, "Now, it's your7." The Sun started to8on the man. Soon it got very9! The man took off his coat.

The argument was over. We know the10was stronger now.

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Dear Jessica,

I'm very glad to receive your letter. I'm also very excited to have you as my pen pal. Now it's my turn to introduce myself.

Yours,

Alice

Hello, everyone! Today, I'd like to introduce my friend Anna to you.

Ann is 11-year-old girl from Germany. There (be) five people in her family. She lives with them in a house close some mountains. She loves (she) school. She (go) to school by school bus. She enjoys (study) Maths, Art and Science, she is good at these subjects. After school, she (usual) plays basketball with her friends. Her dream is (be) an engineer.

Do you want to make (friend) with her? If you do, email her, please!

A.       I don't have much homework after school. So I usually spend time doing some reading. I love reading stories. And I'm working on my first story.

B.        My work usually starts after 10 am. And I'm really busy at mealtimes, because I have to send the food to people as quickly as I can.

C.        I get to school at 7:50. I usually have two classes each day. Afternoon classes end at four. But I can't go home. I have to help students with their study in the study room.

D.       My school day ends at 5 pm. After school, I have a dance class from six to seven. I love it, so I always stay for some more time after the class.

E.        I usually meet other members in the band at six. Sometimes we practise for all night, and sometimes, we have a show in a club. It's exciting.

F.        I get up early in the morning and do exercise. After breakfast, I study and clean the fire trucks with my fellows (同伴). We may get a call at any time, so we must always be ready.

Winning kids' hearts

Have you ever read the fairy-tale（童话故事）book, Dopey and Grumpy (《没头脑和不高兴》)? One often misses this and that, and the other has a bad temper (脾气). They make many silly mistakes (愚蠢的错误) and finally learn a lesson.

Because he wanted to win children's hearts. At first, Ren translated (翻译) foreign children's books. However, he still wanted to write his own stories. "Sometimes, when I translated, I was not very satisfied (满足) with the works. I thought if I write, I would write it in another way to win children's hearts," Ren wrote in an article.

With this idea, he began to write down things that happened in life. 28. "I myself was a classic (典型的) 'Dopey', often feeling muddle-headed (糊里糊涂的), while my kid is 'Grumpy' when I ask him to do something," said Ren. Then he thought, why not let them keep their shortcomings (缺点) and show them as they are? "They might learn a hard lesson in doing so," Ren said.

With his good idea, the writing was quick. Though Ren was, in his words, dopey, he was not grumpy in life. He was happy! Ren said he loved to work on children's literature (文学).

Zhou Xue is a mother of a 9-year-old boy in Jiangsu province(省). She is worried because seven of the 46 children in her son's class are wearing glasses. "The eye health of students is a very big problem these days," she tells China Daily. More and more students are getting myopia (近视). What can we do to stop the problem?

Wantang Primary School in Yunnan province has good news for us– no one of its 536 students has myopia, says China Daily.

The following are the ways to help keep the eye health in Wantang Primary School. Maybe we can learn something from them.

First of all, every student must go outside during class breaks. They play outdoors for over three hours a day. Yang Qingyi, a teacher at the school says, "Even for quiet kids, we ask them to take a walk outside. "

Other ways also help a lot. For example, students don't take mobile phones or other electronic devices (电子设备) to school. They get at least 10.5 hours of sleep every day. The school tries to give students a balanced diet (均衡饮食). And there are green trees all around the school. Sun Fubiao, the school's principal (校长) tells China Daily.

These days, our country and schools are doing more to stop myopia. The double-reduction policy (双减政策) came out in July 2021. It says that primary schools should not give homework to students in the first and second grades so that they won't use their eyes too much. Schools should also examine (检查) students' eyesight (视力) at least twice every year.

My name is August. I will not tell you what I look like. I know I am not an ordinary(普通的) 10year- old kid. I mean, sure, I do ordinary things. I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I play ball. I play computer games. I have a 14-year-old sister. Things like that make me ordinary. I guess. And I feel ordinary. But I know ordinary kids don't make the other ordinary kids run away screaming(尖叫) in the playgrounds. I know people don't look at ordinary kids for a long time whenever they go.

I want to get a magic lamp and have one wish. I want to have a normal face and no one notices me at all. I want to walk down the street without people seeing me and then looking away. Here's what I think: Why am I not ordinary? Because no one else sees me that way.

How many watermelons have you eaten this summer? Chinese people eat 16 billion (十亿) watermelons every year! That means 50 kilograms of watermelon for each person!

However, people in other countries are not so interested in this fruit. One reason (理由) is that it's too expensive. In Sweden, you need to spend 35 yuan to buy just 1/8 of the fruit. In Japan, one watermelon costs around 150 yuan and the taste may not be good either.

Chinese people need to thank Wu Mingzhu for their cheap and tasty watermelons. She is a melon expert (专家) at the Chinese Academy of Engineering（中国工程院）. This 92-year-old developed (研发) "8424", a high-quality (高质量的) watermelon in the 1980s. It's very sweet and juicy. Today many farmers grow this type and they can make a lot of money!