2014年6月30日 星期一

如何培養小朋友愛上寫作 - 童心創意72變

由他們兩三歲開始,就培養他們寫日記;但他們懂寫的字不多,所以由繪畫開始再加上文字。

這個理論源於這本書--童心創意72變,鼓勵二至十五歲的孩子以輕鬆自在的態度寫作和畫畫,愉快的表達自己的感覺和想法。









這是細仔的日記 --

日記: 今又我不開心!


另一日記






這是大仔日記
今天我非常開心因為今天是暑假的第一天,沒有功課的氣味令我感到自由自在,無驅無束。

     今天我可以隨意地做我想做的事,例如看電視丶玩電腦和畫漫畫。














2014年6月29日 星期日

Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa

Wangari Maathia, a Kenyan woman whose Green Belt Movement reforested Kenya, revitalized the lives of Kenyans in the process, and earned her the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, is the subject of this, author-illustrator Jeannette Winter’s latest picture book biography. Wangari’s Trees of Peace follows acclaimed previous books, which celebrate the lives of Georgia O’Keefe (My Name is Georgia), Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguilar (Josefina), and Alia Muhammed Baker, an Iraqi librarian who in 2001 kept 30,000 books from being destroyed in U.S. military attacks (The Librarian of Basra), among others.

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Can one person make a difference in this world?

If people believe in what you do and follow your example, can/will change occur?

One need only read Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter, for an unequivocal yes.

Wangari Maathai, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is the subject of this picture book biography. Written in clear, simple text, and accompanied by vibrant acrylic illustrations, readers learn the story of the woman behind the Green Belt Movement.

Imagine living in a world filled with lush green trees, forests filled with birds, and fields ripe with food for harvest. Imagine leaving that world for the opportunities an education would bring. Imagine returning home to find a world that looks completely different. This is what happened to Wangari.

After six years of study in the United States, Wangari returned to her home in the shadow of Mount Kenya to find that the trees were gone. Where women once collected firewood from close to home, these changes in the landscape now meant they had to walk miles away to find it. 
There were no longer crops to feed the people, and the birds had disappeared.

The trees in Kenya were cut down to make room for buildings, but new trees were never planted in their place.
Wangari thinks about the barren land and she starts by planting nine seedlings.

Watching the seedlings take root gives Wangari the idea to plant more, to start a farm for baby trees, a nursery.
In an open space, she plants row after row of the tiny trees.
Wangari recruited women of the village and gave them seedlings to plant. She shared her vision for a better future, one in which the land was green.

Wangari and her women kept planting, even in the face of those who mocked them. Wangari paid them for the seedlings that lived past three months. As the green returned to Wangari's village, women in other parts of Kenya began to plant seedlings too.

Despite all these efforts, the cutting continued. When Wangari placed herself between a stand of mature trees and those who would cut it down, she was beaten and taken to prison. However, the movement to plant trees continued, and the green returned to Kenya. Not only did new trees take root, but the land became rich again with crops.

In page after page we see seedlings being planted and how the landscape begins to change. Near the end of the book, an illustration of the earth with Wangari and her trees firmly planted in Africa is accompanied by the text, "The whole world hears of Wangari's trees and of her army of women who planted them."

The book ends full of hope and beauty, as we see the view from the top of Mount Kenya, and row upon row of mature trees.

By 2004, more than 30 million trees had been planted and the movement had spread to 30 African countries and beyond.


With one simple action, one woman was able to start a movement that changed the landscape of a nation.


And Wangari became the first African woman to receive theNobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.


There's an alligator under my bed

This is a tale of a little boy who is sure that there is an alligator under his bed. His parents``never saw it,'' and then he forms a plan of attack. He leaves a trail of food from his bed through the house to the garage. He follows the alligator that eats fresh vegetables, fruit, and even ``the last piece of pie,'' making its way to the garage. When the alligator arrives there, the boy locks the door. Don´t miss the note he leaves for his father, telling him that there's an alligator in the garage and to wake him up ``if you need help.''
I think you will like this story that many parents tell their children before sleeping.