It’s winter. It’s raining. It’s difficult. But progress continues on the new Red Hill Library project. When the waterproofing is complete, the floor can go in – and then the fun will start. It has been a long process, complicated by beaurocratic problems, delays and frustrations that would have stopped a lesser woman than Liz […]
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One year on … A year ago, nobody would have believed how much would happen. But we dreamed and the dreams came true. Here is a short outline of what has been achieved. From June 2012 to June 2013. WORKSHOPS Red Hill informal settlement When CBN was looking for a place to hold a pilot
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Review by Nolwazi Khumalo of Finding Dad, a Rainbow Reader Author: Lesley Beake. Illustrator: Sally Maclarty Main characters: Grandmother, Mom, Dad and the boy. Setting: At home, at the airport and at Dad’s house. The boy grew up without his father, living with his mother. One day someone phoned his mother and told her that
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Planning begins for Cederberg Stories The first part of planning workshops should be speaking to the communities involved. CBN has begun the process. There are ten reading flash points involved in the Cederberg Stories project and the process kicked off with a visit to Lambert’s Bay and Graafwater libraries – both outstanding examples of what
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Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” New York City’s greatest underground secret by Maureen C. Bruschi In Jack Canfield, Victor Hansen, et al.Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness Florida, Health Communications, Inc., 2011
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Rotary Cape of Good Hope Dictionary Donation Our friends and colleagues in Rotary Cape of Good Hope have kindly donated forty copies of The Usborne Illustrated English Dictionary. This excellent and highly accessible dictionary is particularly useful to children who speak English as a second, third – or even fourth language. The Dictionary 4Life is
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ALL activities will include local talent and bring forward skills already existing in the community. WRITING Individual journals and stories Themes: Home and Landscape • Identifying with the distant past. • Heritage based interviews and discussion with elders and family • Life for children now and then – an archive of childhood • Projection into
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Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” Sylvia and Bird by Catherine Rayner London, Little Tiger Press, 2009
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Review of Knufu’s Pyramid Reviewed by Nkanyiso who is in Grade Six Khufu was a Pharoh who died and was busied in the pyramid. The Egyptians built a big pyramid many years ago when Khufu became Pharoh. I liked this book because I learned a lot – and I would recommend it to my friends!
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Review of The Match Reviewed by one of the Grade Sixes at Cox Hill Primary in Underberg, KZN – who forgot to put a name on the paper! The main characters are Gogo, Dudu, Zweli, Lonke and their neighbours and the setting is in their home. The story is about the match that would be
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Most of you will know that I have been writing and illustrating books for many years – my first picture book, The Little Girl Who lived Down the Road being published in 1978 makes it 35 years. During this time I have seen many changes in publishing – from photo separated reproduction to digital printing,
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Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” Bad Hop by Steve Smith J. Canfield, M. V. Hansen, Mark & Chrissy Donnelly, J.Tunney Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan’s Soul Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2000
Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” Thank you for not pushing by Christy Barge
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Three hours out of Cape Town the road north climbs a steep pass and emerges into a dramatic landscape of mountain, river, crag and cliff. Some of the most beautiful and evocative landscape of southern Africa is revealed. This was a place where the earliest people lived, hunted, dreamed … and told their stories. We
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Pedagogical Project“The Joy of Reading” A Lesson in Ugly by Bobbie Shafer In Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark,Wendy Diamond Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2009
Under towering clouds and a sky of Cederberg blue, members of University of Cape Town Choir and children of Clanwilliam joined hands in story. Looking back, it seems that this workshop was meant to happen. Arranged around a visit by members of UCT Choir under their conductor, John Woodland, the time and the place were
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Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” The Gardener by Sarah Stewart New York, Square Fish, 2010
Pedagogical Project “The Joy of Reading” That Book Worm by Heather Henson New York, Atheneum Books, 2008
Three hours out of Cape Town the road north climbs a steep pass and emerges into a dramatic landscape of mountain, river, crag and cliff. Some of the most beautiful and evocative landscape of southern Africa is revealed. This was a place where the earliest people lived, hunted, dreamed … and told their stories. We
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