Palesa Bookclub

My experiences in the bookclub

Palesa Lerothodi

My personal experiences in the book club were great. I say this because in my book club I was working with people I have never worked with before in any group work. I discovered that we all wanted the same thing which was to start a blog and interact with each other via the blog. We all encountered the same problem when we started the blog, we did not know how to create a blog, how to post and comment, but together we explored and taught each other about the blog and we never gave up. We were each others support systems.

Palesa Service Leaning at Maponya mall

Palesa Lerothodi

At Maponya mall I read book called A spook in my cupboard. The book is about a boy who discovers that there is a spook in his cupboard; the spook steals his books, shoes, toys and other things from the boy’s bedroom. This continues until one day the boy has had enough of the spook and decides to confront the spook. The spook then comes out of the cupboard and tries to scare the boy but the boy is not scared of the spook and they eventually talk about the spook stealing the boys things and they become friends and the spook stops stealing from the boy I really think the book was fun to read and I also think the children loved the book. I say this because as I was reading the book I paused to ask them questions and they were so eager to answer, they even wanted the opportunity to predict or tell others what they thought was going to happen next in the story. After the story the children had so much to tell me, they were telling about a spook they once saw at home, at the shops and other places. Others told me they have once spoken to a spook somewhere and they just could not stop talking, they were also asking me questions about the spook, if I had seen one before and it was such a wonderful feeling to me. I could see that the children were happy. 





SERVICE LEARNING AND BOOKCLUB:

MAKGOTSO: I read two Sotho story books to two different groups.

The first book was titled “Mangolo a mabedi” the story is about the boy who wrote letters to his brother and friend. He visited his grandmother in the rural place. He was informing them about the fun he is having and all the activities that is happening. He was very happy to be there as he went there with his mother and everybody was friendly and good to them. The even promised them that he will bring the photos of the friends he met and some of the creative things he did with his grandmother, such the beads work and needle work.

I chose this book because it teaches about the other means of communication. By writing letters it also develops writing and reading skills.

The second book is about the two boys and one girl who work together to create a toy and be able to play with it. They created an airplane with some recycling things.

I chose this book because it teaches children that they can build something out of nothing, you need to be creative.

Harry potter : movie clips

SERVICE LEARNING AND BOOK CLUB

Name of the book: Whoop!



The book is all about the boy  who wear his school uniform for the first time. And he is very excited because it was he first day at school. While he was running to school he fell on the groud and he's school uniform was full on mud.

He went back home and his mother give him new track suit to wear to school. Then he run again with his might speed and fell on the groud and his mother said whoops! whoops! Please be careful and watch were you are going because there are lots of stones and holes in the street that can hurt you.

He was dirty and crying that his new school uniform and new track suits are dirty. And asking his mother, what should I wear now?

by: Zanele Masilo

service learing and book clubs

Service learning and book clubs

Name of book: WHO LIKES GETTING WET 

This book is about farm animals and the farmer at the farm. They don’t like getting wet but there is only one animal that like getting wet and that is the frog. When it starts raining they start making different sounds and they run to their different houses.

I think this book was a good book for learning because the book has different animals that make different sounds. The main reason why we chose this book is because they teach different sounds of animals

By Lerato Ndabezitha

THEMES: Harry Potter and the Philoperstone

Home

Home is where the Hogwarts is. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, school's not just where you study and learn cools spells; it's a real home. Harry may start out living in a house with the Dursleys, but it doesn't feel like home to him. To abuse the immortal words of Burt Bacharach, that "house is not a home." At Hogwarts, and in Gryffindor in particular, Harry finally feels a sense of belonging and comfort. Responsible adults care about and look after him, and he has good experiences, good meals, and good friends. It's not sugarcoated – there are still small and large-scale enemies – but for the first time Harry finds pleasure and safety in his living space.

Loyalty

Loyalty may be a Hufflepuff virtue, but everyone in Gryffindor is pretty good at it too. Face it, in this book nearly everyone's loyal – even the bad guys are loyal to their own side. Loyalty provides much of the motivation for plot points throughout Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: characters stand up for the ideas they believe in and each other. However, sometimes people – or creatures – have to behave in what seems like a disloyal manner for the greater good.

Courage

 Courage is one of the hallmarks of Gryffindor house, and it's also a defining characteristic for our main characters. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and even Neville all reveal themselves as possessing outstanding bravery, and it's their courage that helps them get through the climactic ordeals at the book's end. As Dumbledore praises them at the year-end banquet, he honors their explicit and implicit courage. This shows that the Hogwarts faculty values virtues like courage and loyalty as much as they do more wacky branches of magical education. Being able to make feathers float is all very well and good, but when push comes to shove, what really matters is how you face your fears.

The Supernatural

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone provides a doorway into a magical world. In addition to garden-variety witches and wizards, there are magic trains, magic candies, and several areas dedicated to magical commerce. There's a castle populated with ghosts, poltergeists, strange creatures, and things that go bump in the night, as well as a forest full of centaurs, unicorns, and creepy crawlies. A boarding school, often thought of as an ordinary thing, becomes tinged through and through with the extraordinary – with magic. Getting mail delivered by owl, learning to Transfigure matches into needles, or finding an invisibility cloak at the bottom of your bed? It's all part of a typical day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Good vs. Evil

Good and evil come in all shapes and sizes and aren't necessarily restricted to magic or Muggle worlds, either. At first, we wonder who could be more evil than the cruel, unloving Dursleys and their bullying, slobby son. True, they get some competition from wizarding bullies, who like to intersperse insults with, you know, spells. But actually, there is someone: the half-alive, half-defeated, unicorn-killing, blood-drinking evilest wizard that ever evilled – Voldemort. Luckily, there are examples of goodness flooding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, ranging from Harry's parents, whose love extends beyond the grave, to sweet awkward Neville, who sides with his friends no matter what.