"First Former's holiday" was successfully held in the JCC in Petropavlovsk.

   Parents-volunteers decorated hall with posters and colored balloons. Members of Youth club prepared an interesting theatrical performance for future first formers. Funny Shapoklyak with her faithful friend rat Lariska was going to go to school and young first formers tried to teach her the way to put school implements into a schoolbag. How it was funny when Shapoklyak began to take out of her schoolbag the things she considered to be necessary at school. Among them there were: a slingshot, a powder, a dead mouse, a black pencil for drawing ugly faces in a textbook of a neighbor and other trifles. All the children tried to explaine Shapoklyak that one needs another things at school and promised her, they would help and teach her. In her joy, Shapoklyak gave a present to each first former.

  Holiday was finished with a traditional tea drinking, which parents organized by themselves. Holiday was a real success!

Galina Usatova