A Journey Into Space (sort of...)
A Journey Into Space (sort of...)
We have been volunteering with GVI for the last
four weeks in Standard 5 at Precious Vision Care Centre. Whilst trying to find an inventive way of
helping our class learn how to write compositions we stumbled across a photo of
Chinese people in space suits...
We decided to show this to our class, as we knew
that they were interested in space, and get them to write a short story. We had given them compositions to write
before but we wanted to see if they could be creative a write a story. The task was that they had to come up with a
story about what they saw in the picture.
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| Volunteers Elana and Andy used pictures instead of words |
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| Volunteer Elana with students from Standard Five |
However, some took to it more easily than others
and began writing lengthy stories about space travel with compelling
plots. Even those that struggled began
to understand, by the end, the difference between a composition and a story.
One of the best stories we had was from a boy
called Joel K. He wrote about a poor
family living in Japan (the capital of China).
The rich man told his father that if he could successfully travel to
space and return home safely he would make his family rich. After having a space adventure and meeting
aliens the man returned home safely where he became rich and famous. The family was never hungry again!
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| Volunteer Andy with students from Standard Five |
It was surprising to see how much some of our
students struggled with the assignment.
We thought that using their imaginations would come naturally to all of
them, instead of just a few. But in the
end, most of the class had caught on and wrote creative and intersting stories.
Elana and Andy, GVI
Volunteers.
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