Calabashes and stories – Kenya Group

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we have been learming how to write our own fictune stories about Africa and we are writing an African pome and we read a pome called the pow wow drumb. we are making our own seremonal calabash. it is like a bole on a cup http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-snh/images/calabash_pot.jpg

African Stories

The Big Argument
The Giraffe’s Neck
The Moth and the Butterfly
The Zebra, the Cheetah and the Leopard
Why Turtles are so slow
Starfish and the Jellyfish
How the Shark and the Dolphin Became Friends
Boaconstricter
A bad way to treat friends
The Moth and the Butterfly
Why Pigs Roll in Mud
Why Eagles Fly and Emus Hide
This week we have been busy bees trying to get our African stories finished.  The children having been using Word [...]

Fiction stories and African tent

The children have been working pairs to produce either fables or African “why” stories e.g. why the giraffe has a long neck.  I haven’t done a lot paired writing before and I am really surprised by the results.  The old adage “two heads are better than one” really is true in this case.  The children have really [...]

similes and metaphors – Botswana

This week we have bean learning to write a non fiction story about africa using simeles and metephors.our teacher miss green put up a tent in our class libery .we have all brot in bits and bobs for the tent.we are also going to organays somthing for world book day on africa