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Swati Rai
Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory exclaims for all of us - ‘So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.’ Sure the ‘TV’ in the quote could be replaced with any digital device in the online living, pandemic enforced life. The truth however remains that living as we are, a 24x7 boxed life in the house as also in Zoom squares- learning, teaching, studying, working-the reading habit may have taken a hit.
13 Outdoor Class Activities for Anyone, Anytime
As the dreaded cicadas emerge from underground in a once-in-every-17-years nature event here in the D.C. Metro area, we seem to have jumped straight into the tail end of springtime. During this time of year when hours of sunlight stretch ever longer, students often clamor to have class outside. Before the pandemic, we might have limited the number of times we say yes to moving our classes beyond four walls, but now that outdoors is safest, having class in the fresh air is harder to argue with. If we can manage the distractions that holding class outside can present, being in a different space is a refreshing change of pace and scenery. Here are some ideas for outdoor classroom activities, many that span multiple grades and content areas.
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Twins Bobby. the elephant, and Oscar, the lion, Hall are two-years-old and went as characters from Dear Zoo to Munns Farm Day Nursery in Letty Green, near Welwyn Garden City
- Credit: Victoria Robinson
Pupils from across Welwyn Hatfield did not let lockdown stand in the way of dressing up for World Book Day.
At Stanborough School in Welwyn Garden City, yesterday started with an online book quiz and ended with Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) a book time.
Zoe Armitage, Stanborough s deputy headteacher as Wally
- Credit: Stanborough Secondary School
Students were also encouraged to get involved in a number of other ways including dressing up as their favourite book character, carving vegetable book characters, and writing their own flash fiction’ – six-word stories and 280 characters ‘Twitterature’ novels.