4th Junior High School of Petroupoli, Greece

We have used the link of the page and we will read a part from "The Legend of the Christmas Tree” by Lucy Wheelock. This is our paragraph:
Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter's night. All at once they heard a timid knock at the door, and one ran to open it.
There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a child with no shoes upon his feet and clad in thin, ragged garments. He was shivering with cold, and he asked to come in and warm himself.
"Yes, come," cried both the children; "you shall have our place by the fire. Come in!"
They drew the little stranger to their warm seat and shared their supper with him, and gave him their bed, while they slept on a hard bench.
In the night they were awakened by strains of sweet music and, looking out, they saw ….

J.Raiņa Daugavpils 6.vidusskola

“The Boy With the Box” By Mary Griggs Van Voorhis.
It was an ideal Christmas day. The sun shone brightly but the air was crisp and cold, and snow and
ice lay sparkling everywhere. A light wind, the night before, had swept the blue, icebound river clean
of scattering snow; and, by two o'clock in the afternoon, the broad bend near Creighton's mill was
fairly alive with skaters. The girls in gay caps and scarfs, the boys in sweaters and mackinaws of every
conceivable hue, with here and there a plump, matronly figure in a plush coat or a tiny fellow in scarlet,
made a picture of life and brilliancy worthy of an artist's finest skill.

OŠ Ivana Mažuranića Vinkovci, Croatia

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens
The Ghost of Christmas Future leads Scrooge through a sequence of mysterious scenes relating to an unnamed man's recent death. Scrooge sees businessmen discussing the dead man's riches, some vagabonds trading his personal effects for cash, and a poor couple expressing relief at the death of their unforgiving creditor. Scrooge, anxious to learn the lesson of his latest visitor, begs to know the name of the dead man. After pleading with the ghost, Scrooge finds himself in a churchyard, the spirit pointing to a grave. Scrooge looks at the headstone and is shocked to read his own name. He desperately implores the spirit to alter his fate, promising to renounce his insensitive, avaricious ways and to honor Christmas with all his heart. Whoosh! He suddenly finds himself safely tucked in his bed

Christmas tradition in Croatia- By Sneszana

(St. Lucia's Day)-
13th December


Traditionally ...

St. Lucia was the one who brought gifts in southern and north-eastern Croatia,
while children in central and northern Croatia used to receive gifts on St. Nicholas' Day.
no gifts were given or received on Christmas day
Nowadays, December has become a kind of a paradise for children in Croatia, who now usually get presents on St. Nicholas' Day, St. Lucia's Day AND on Christmas Day!

The night before Christmas: a visit from Saint Nicholas

https://english-online.hr/materials/1632#page1

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Greetings from Primary school Zlatar Bistrica, Croatia

THREE KINGS (by H.Wadsworth Longfellow) (Kust Specialized school 3, Ukraine)

Three Kings came riding from far away, Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar. Three Wise Men out of the East were they, and they travelled for their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star.
The star was so beautiful, large and clear, that all the other stars of the sky became a white mist in the atmosphere, And by this they knew that the coming was near of the Prince foretold in the prophecy.
Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows, three caskets of gold with golden keys; their robes were of crimson silk with rows of bells and pomegranates and furbelows, their turbans like blossoming
almond-trees.

A beautiful story as suggestion for Christmas readings by Snježana Kovačević