We picked up on our previous learning about Article 24 in Assembly this morning. I couldn’t believe how many children remembered the ‘special rule’, having spoken about it four weeks ago. Very impressive!
We looked at various foods and voted if we had tried them or not; everyone had. One of the foods was rice, which focused our discussion on the importance of this food for people who might not have a lot to eat. We also spoke about how UNICEF may help with this too.
We read and acted out a real life story about a little girl form Mali called Sidi. The children were showing a great interest in this story and were able to identify that Sidi’s life was quite different to their own life. We also discussed what we do during a day in school and what Sidi might be doing. The children also found this very interesting and were recognising that again Sidi’s life is very different to theirs. See the story below –
Sidi’s Story Enough to Eat?
My name is Sidi. I am seven years old and I live in a
small village called Dianvelli, in Mali, Africa. My
family are farmers. We grow millet, peanuts, and
vegetables like tomatoes and onions.
My mother sells tomatoes, onions and peanuts at the
market. It takes her four hours to walk there. With the
money that she makes she buys the extra things that we
need.
When I get up each morning, my mother has already lit the
fire, fetched water from the well and made the breakfast. For
breakfast we eat toh, which is porridge made from millet.
We also have toh for our meal at the end of the day, this
time with a delicious sauce made from tomatoes, onions
and ground baobab leaves.
I help my mother and father harvest the millet. We
bring it back from the fields on our donkey cart and
store it in our granary – a small building raised on
stones to stop mice climbing in to eat the food. We use
the millet from the granary for the rest of the year. We
also save seeds to plant next year.
It is warm or hot here, except in December and
January, when it is cold at night. It usually rains a lot
in June, July and August – we call this the rainy
season. All the rest of the year it is very dry. We plant
our crops just before June and if the rains are good we
get a good harvest.
One year there wasn’t much rain at all and we didn’t
grow enough millet and vegetables to eat and to sell. We
had to sell two of our goats to buy more food. Also some
relations in the south gave us some food and money.
Star Class were P3D; many shared super answers, volunteered to come up and help and acted out the story too. Well done P3D.
Stars of the Week