Elzaine I love my grandmother because she tells me things in te history. I like to have a grandmother. She tells me stories from her history. My grandmother is the best person in the world. Ursula Grandmother lived in a family village. She was happy there. There was good food to eat. There was water […]
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My grandmother is a very good grandmother – and she makes very good bakes. She works at the shop in the town. She is very nice!
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Franchey My grandmother is a very good grandmother – and she makes very good bakes. She works at the shop in the town. She is very nice!
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Aneline My grandmother loves to tell stories about her past. She tells us how they lived. Sometimes it went good and sometimes it went bad. One stormy night she told us how she slept through the noise. My grandmother is a hardworking person. I’m glad to have a granny like that.
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My grandmother is a very cool grandmother and she works very hard. Granny had four sisters and one of them is my mother. M mother is very nice too! My grandmother works at Sederbery Primere in the kitchen. She always saves something nice for me! Luchane
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In Saturday stories, we worked with books and stories about grandparents and discussed (in the winter sun) how important they are in our lives. The children then wrote and painted around the theme. By Deoni My grandfather is the most kind and grateful man I have ever met. He is like my dad and I
A TWO-DAY Workshop 16th & 17th July Themes for these days will be:Time, People and working with music and the rock gongs. The children will work with musicians, clapping, humming and singing. Start 9.30 Breakfast. 10.00 Library Hall: Begin Books and Stories session 10.00 – 11.00 including performances / interaction from Croc E, Anele and
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This 4-day workshop will give us time to complete some large projects – shadow puppets with San themes, beautiful words poetry project, iBooks on the iPads and working with the rock gongs on site. DAYS 1-3 Themes for these days will be: Time People Land. Start 9.30 Breakfast. 10.00 Hall: Begin Books and Stories session
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My friend gives me special feelings – like a sister. She makes me feel happy. She plans surprises like birthday parties. She is respectful of me and my family. But one day we had a fight! We were talking and one of us said something about someone else. It sounded to me as if it
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First published in the ReadRight educational supplement of the Sunday Times. Commissioned and published in book form by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa in 2009 Children have a great deal to say and a great deal to offer. In a series of workshops that were designed to give them a voice, stories
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On Saturday 14th June children in Clanwilliam remembered the children and young people who were part of the freedom struggle in South Africa, particularly those involved in the Soweto uprising that will be commemorated on Youth Day, 16th June. We read stories from a book of children’s writing that was commissioned by the Parliament of
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A retelling of a story from southern Nigeria In the very old days, everybody lived in the same village. Everybody, that was, except Moon and Sun. They had to live in the sky so that the rest could see what was going on. But everyone else – rain, wind, rainbows; ice – they lived in
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When I had a fight with my friend, I was very sad. But we made friends again. In the classroom we are good friends and then we play together outside and are happy. We talk a lot! Writing and text by Luchane (Grade 3)
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As part of the run-up to the July music workshop at Living Landscape in Clanwilliam, children from Sederberg Primary, Elizabethfontein Primary and Augsberg Primary brush up on their clapping games. Part of the workshop will invole clapping patterns, combined with humming, singing sounds and the sound of the rock gongs.
The Saturday Stories group at Living Landscape in Clanwilliam, had a challenging time of it when they had to write about the music they love (Justin Bieber was mentioned) and what music means to them. The challenge came with writing from large to small (or the other way round) and on black with white (or
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croc E is a special part of CBN workshops. When he starts getting into his ‘Disaster Management: Poet’ overall and puts on his poet’s hat, children sit up and take notice. He speaks to them softly, and they listen. He uses words in a way that fascinates them. He presents ideas that make them think.
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On Saturday, a huge truck pulled up at Living Landscape project in Clanwilliam. It brought carefully selected ringing rocks from the Karoo – rock gongs – that will soon become part of a major CBN and University of Cape Town initiative. https://www.childrensbook.co.za/news/2014/06/04/cbn-books-and-music-project Children in Clanwilliam have already begun experimenting with the sounds of the smaller
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Clanwilliam children today struck the first notes on the small ringing rocks we brought from the Karoo a few weeks ago. They took to it like experts and were fascinated by the concept, the sounds – and the idea that this could become part of making music in other ways as well. The larger rock
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By Michael Williams, from the Cambridge University Press Rainbow Readers, published in 2009. Kenny just has to drum to the rhythm he hears inside his head all the time. He makes a UDI (Ultimate Drumming Instrument) and then decides to have a band. Review by Deoni We only just started this story, but I like
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A book of poems compiled by Ezra Benjamin and Petra-Jane Sinclair, from the Cambridge University Press Rainbow Readers, published in 2009. Review by Esther at Clanwilliam Saturday Stories I like these poems about rain and sun, summer and winter. I think people who enjoy summer OR winter will enjoy these poems. Image: Deoni reading from
