It seemed appropriate to talk about friends on a day when the best of friends – children’s books – were being celebrated. We talked about friends, read about friends and thought about what friends could mean – whether they were other children, adults or books. Specifically we looked at the problems Trevor encountered when he […]
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The Snow Goose – what I felt Children in Clanwilliam listened to music – both live, played by Anele Mhlahlo on his violin and recorded on an iPad. The story we used as a starting point was Paul Gallico’s book: The Snow Bird. Here are some sentences participants wrote. By Deoni I listened to the
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On the last day of the school autumn break, CBN held a workshop at Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project. We were focusing on the art of listening – both to words and to music. Anele Mhlahlo brought his violin to explain the finer points. We worked with recorded music first of all pointing out that not
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CBN Reporting on a successful year The Annual Report for 2013 is now available under the resources tab – here’s the link https://www.childrensbook.co.za/resources
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Today, 2 April, is World children’s Book Day and to celebrate, here is some news of a highly successful library outreach project . Every weekday afternoon from 3.00 to 4.30 children are invited to come to the library where special events are occasionally arranged and help offered in choosing books and stories. Clanwilliam Library works
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On the 4th April (Friday) there will be the International Children’s Book Day at Clanwilliams where Lesley Beake will be doing group reading Here is the link to ICBD website http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=269
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The Cederberg Stories Project will be holding a workshop on Friday 4th April on Music and Stories – Stories and Music. Anele Mhlahlo will play his violin for the grade 6 children who have been invited to attend (11 years old) and Lesley Beake will read and tell stories about music. Professor john Parkington will
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The children shared their stories about their family. They listened to family stories, drew pictures of their families, and wrote down some thoughts. Comronita Titus The best day my family ever had was when we were on christmas day, we all went to the dam, me and my sister helped our mother with the food.
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This book, written by Katherine Appelgate and published in America by Feiwel and Friends in 2007 goes to every workshop with me – and never fails to make an impression, whether to elders in a writing workshop or juniors in a reading one. It is the extremely moving story, told in free verse, of Kek,
A list of the many individuals and organizations who have helped us during the first, precarious two years of CBN. Without their help we would be nowhere. The Swedish Arts Council Swedish supporters of CBN applied for, and received, funding from The Swedish Arts Council and SIDA. This funding was used for joint workshops both
What is exactly happening with reading in the digital age? And how can we keep up? Every generation believes that theirs has seen the most change, the most progress (real or imagined) the most difference. It would be hard to imagine one that has seen more change than has happened in the last twenty years.
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CBN and the participating young people from Red Hill took the Swedish students for a tour around their Red Hill homes. The purpose was for us to show them where the children come from and how they live. It was a good tour because it gave them opportunity to chat with the kids and adults
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Some of the children attending the Swedish / Red Hill workshop tell us how the workshop went and how they enjoyed being part of the workshop. Simphiwe Today I have learned to read a book in a iPad, I saw how easy it is and to understand because it is easy and much faster. It
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During our first two years, we continued to explore the theme of Home – and this will never be all that far from our workshop ideas. But we have expanded into other trains of thought with the Cederberg Stories Project, which began in 2013 and will continue throughout 2014. We found the perfect book to
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CBN is about books. Yup. But we approach books in different ways. Making reading cool is what we do – and using electronic media in that crusade works for us, and works for the young people we reach through our workshops. Using iPads has been a long-standing dream, but it didn’t seem really possible until
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On 3rd March CBN held a workshop with Swedish student in Simon’s Town, the workshop was very exciting we were like brothers and sisters, we communicated very well with each other. We had a session learning about iPad, how to use iBook and Book Creator which is our main focus as CBN. During our workshop
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On Friday 21 February and Saturday 22 February, CBN held a two-day workshop on family histories, facilitated by Professor John Parkington. The workshop was held in the CBN classroom at the Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project and twelve invited participants from Grade Seven attended on both days. We began with family stories, particularly form a book
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On 1st March our latest Swedish visitors touched down at Cape Town Airport, ready for action at Red Hill and other Rotary projects in the Cape Peninsula. There will be an informal two-day workshop with iPads lent to us by Digicape in Cape Town as part of their seeding programme for educational use of iPads.
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The full report for 2013 is now available as a PDF for anyone who needs all the ins and outs (and the ups and downs!) To read it, please click on: https://www.childrensbook.co.za/sites/default/files/resource-documents/children%C2%B9s-book-network-2013-rsb-version3_0.pdf Any further information required is available from: info@childrensbook.co.za
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This article, by Jay Heale, was broadcast on Fine Music Radio, Cape Town, on 13th January 2014. What were you doing on Tuesday 10 December, while thousands walked through the drenching rain to be at the Commemorative Service for Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium? I’ll tell you what I was doing, because you’ll never
