Adventures In Space
In English this week in Year 1. we have been working on our creative writing skills as we dramatised stories of our adventures in Space. Turning our desks upside down in class, we pretended they were our ‘spaceships.’ The students worked in groups and had a lot of fun acting and narrating out their space adventure stories. We then used the ipads to video their stories before writing about them. The class has a lot of fun working together and creating their own space adventures!
Clara Chassungo wrote: “I am going to space, I’m taking my brother, Geraldo and am also taking my mum and dad. We are going to look at all the different planets and we are landing on the moon! We will land at 3 o’ clock in the morning and we see aliens and footprints. We will jump in the sky…”
Buhle Sibiya writes: “ I am going to space so I can see the 8 planets in the galaxy and I am taking Ozzie, she is my friend. We landed on the moon and we saw aliens and we are going to land…”
Charlotte Cronje
Year 1 Teacher
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FS: Reading Into World Book Day
All the students dressed up on Friday, 26 April in celebration of World Book & Copyright Day that was on the 23rd of April.
In 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations – UNESCO – named April 23rd ‘World Book Day’. Each year to honor the date of the deaths of writers William Shakespeare, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Miguel de Cervantes, literary lovers around the world celebrate the gift of books. World Book Day gives students a chance to dress as their heroes. From Harry Potter to Matilda, children across the world go to school dressed as their favourite fictional characters.
Our students expressed their enthusiasm for reading and the importance reading holds for themselves. World Book Day is celebrated with an effort to encourage the public to read more. The importance of reading cannot be emphasized enough in young children and we as parents & teachers need to make every day reading a high priority.
Some benefits & Advantages of reading for young children:
- Reading to young children sets them up to succeed.
- Reading develops language skills.
- Exposure to reading exercises a child’s brain.
- Reading enhances a child’s concentration.
- Reading together encourages a thirst for knowledge.
- Books teach children about different topics.
- Reading develops a child’s imagination & creativity.
- Reading books with children helps develop empathy.
- Books are a form of entertainment.
- Reading together helps create a bond.
With so many benefits that highlight the importance of reading, we need to prioritise reading in a child’s early years to help them succeed later in life.
Cindy Nunan
Pre-Reception Teacher