Homecoming is an American festival for students in the new term. There is a school party for them. Their family and friends can come to the party, too.

The seven-day festival Homecoming begins on September 28th in our school. We have some interesting things for you this time.

HOME COMING

The first day is School Day. Your parents can come with you to see our school. Then there is a big dinner on September 30th. You can eat vegetables, salad, fruit, hamburgers and ice-cream. The next day, there’s a big sale. You can sell and buy old books and school things such as pencil boxes and schoolbags. Then on the evening of October 3rd, we have a school party.

Girls in long white dresses and boys in black suits（套装）come to the party. It can be great! The next day, there’s a big game—the American football game. It can be really interesting to watch. Come and have a good time with us.

On Christmas Eve—the night before Christmas Day—children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.

Father Christmas is very kind and hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.

Of course, Father Christmas isn’t real. In Jim and Kate’s house, “Father Christmas” is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesn’t climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn’t do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who "Father Christmas" really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds.