A book talk by Sienna.
'The Tale of Desperaux' is a book about a tiny mouse with huge ears.He lives in a castle where a young princess lives with her mother and father.In this book, a rat,a maid,a princess and a mouse have an amazing adventure. One day I was sick and I read the whole book all in that day,(thats how good it is).This is my favorite book ever!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Giving Tree
A book talk by Emily.
'The Giving Tree' is personally one of the best books I have read by Shel SilverStein. It is a book about friendship. But not the kind of friendship you and your best friend would share, the couple is a boy and a tree. If you want to find out more then open the book and start reading!
'The Giving Tree' is personally one of the best books I have read by Shel SilverStein. It is a book about friendship. But not the kind of friendship you and your best friend would share, the couple is a boy and a tree. If you want to find out more then open the book and start reading!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
A school full of stories
The Bee is really buzzing!
The Wilkinson Telling Bee daytime event took place on Wednesday April 15th. Our Telling Bee started with 11 confident student storytellers in the gym both in the morning and after lunch. The whole school was captivated by the stories and little sound was heard until the resounding round of applause following each of the storytellers. A special congratulations goes to Sophia, Ailie, Matthew, Imaan, Zainab, Jodie, Fatima, Helen, Logan, Mughees and Ruby for their performance in front of the whole school. Following their amazing performance, about another 107 storytelling students from Kindergarten to grade 6 told their wonderful stories to audiences set up in every room on the second floor. Many students and adults in the audience were inspired to join in and tell their own stories.
Afterward, students, staff and parents were really buzzing about the Bee. Many students told me that they were going to share the stories they had heard with their families at home.Here are some of the things the students had to say afterwards;
Andrew in grade 6, "Personally I liked hearing stories of other kids who have had very exciting times in their lives and very different from many others of the kids."
Sienna also in grade 6, "I think that it was fun to hear peoples stories and to know things about their family or other friends."
Niki in grade 2 had this to say, "I liked telling the stories."
Olina in grade 6 told me (in a quite animated fashion), "I thought hearing peoples stories was awesome! Yeah!" Way to go Olina!
There were also some very thoughtful comments from some of the parents who have donated a lot of their own time to helping the students involved in the Bee. April, who's daughter is in grade 4 said afterwards, "I travelled into 3 classrooms and heard stories 3 times in a row. It didn't matter if the kids were in grade 6 or whether they were in grade 1, they changed their story each time and it actually changed the flavour of what the story was and that's exactly what happens with folk tales."
Another parent Susan, with 2 children in the school, told me, "I loved how hearing one child telling stories encouraged other children to tell stories."
This is what our Bee is all about - sharing a little bit of who we are and where we come from in order to further enrich our school community. Every time a story is shared, our Bee is a success.
The Wilkinson Telling Bee daytime event took place on Wednesday April 15th. Our Telling Bee started with 11 confident student storytellers in the gym both in the morning and after lunch. The whole school was captivated by the stories and little sound was heard until the resounding round of applause following each of the storytellers. A special congratulations goes to Sophia, Ailie, Matthew, Imaan, Zainab, Jodie, Fatima, Helen, Logan, Mughees and Ruby for their performance in front of the whole school. Following their amazing performance, about another 107 storytelling students from Kindergarten to grade 6 told their wonderful stories to audiences set up in every room on the second floor. Many students and adults in the audience were inspired to join in and tell their own stories.
Afterward, students, staff and parents were really buzzing about the Bee. Many students told me that they were going to share the stories they had heard with their families at home.Here are some of the things the students had to say afterwards;
Andrew in grade 6, "Personally I liked hearing stories of other kids who have had very exciting times in their lives and very different from many others of the kids."
Sienna also in grade 6, "I think that it was fun to hear peoples stories and to know things about their family or other friends."
Niki in grade 2 had this to say, "I liked telling the stories."
Olina in grade 6 told me (in a quite animated fashion), "I thought hearing peoples stories was awesome! Yeah!" Way to go Olina!
There were also some very thoughtful comments from some of the parents who have donated a lot of their own time to helping the students involved in the Bee. April, who's daughter is in grade 4 said afterwards, "I travelled into 3 classrooms and heard stories 3 times in a row. It didn't matter if the kids were in grade 6 or whether they were in grade 1, they changed their story each time and it actually changed the flavour of what the story was and that's exactly what happens with folk tales."
Another parent Susan, with 2 children in the school, told me, "I loved how hearing one child telling stories encouraged other children to tell stories."
This is what our Bee is all about - sharing a little bit of who we are and where we come from in order to further enrich our school community. Every time a story is shared, our Bee is a success.
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