November 29 – Kimbo read at Books and Books for Book Festival

The first annual Children’s Book Festival will take place this weekend, starting with storytelling and activities on Saturday 29th November at Books & Books in Camana Bay, followed by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust Bedtime Story Fun Day at Dart Family Park in South Sound on Sunday 30th November. Headlining the book festival are celebrated children’s authors Julia Donaldson from the UK and Kate Klimo from the US, together with a host of local writers and performers.

The schedule for the weeklong festival is as follows:

Saturday 29th November, 10:30am to 3pm at Camana Bay

10:30 am Eme Paschalides, This is Paradise Dis is Cayman (ages 3-6)

11:00 am Julia Donaldson, The Gruffalo and other stories (ages 3-6)

12 noon Gimistory performers Nasaria Suckoo-Chollette and Rita Estevanovich

1:00 pm Kate Klimo, The Dragon in the Sock Drawer (ages 7-10)

2:00 pm Annarie Boor, Bapsie in Bushveld (ages 7-10)

2:30 pm Jane Scaletta, Kimbo’s First Horse Show (ages 5-8)

Author readings will take place in the main Fiction Room at Books & Books. Throughout the day, there will also be activities, crafts and games outside on the Paseo with a complementary schedule that provides an alternative for kids older or younger than the age group at which the readings are aimed.

 

November 27 – New Horizon’s High School learns about being an author

Jane Scaletta visits New Horizon’s High School and talks to one of their classes about being an author. The class really enjoyed the presentation and interacted with many questions. Jane even read the Kimbo’s First Horse Show story to the class so they could see the illustrations and hear the story she wrote.

The class also interacted in the classroom with the Kimbo website and played the memory game. Ms. Christine Virgo had an great time playing the memory game with the students encouraging her which blocks to click.

The New Horizon’s High School staff would like Jane to visit the school again in the near future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 25 – Reading Week at John A. Cumber Primary School

John A. Cumber celebrates Reading Week with a Scholastic Book Fair and a reading by Jane Scaletta of Kimbo’s First Horse Show. The children really enjoyed the reading and took great interest in the story. They loved Kimbo and his friends and learnt the names of Kimbo’s friends – Dodger, Shadow and Angel.

The year 4 class had fun with Kimbo activities in their class. They wrote wonderful letters to the author, and letters about how much they enjoyed the Kimbo’s First Horse Show story. They did Color-Me Kimbo artwork and displayed all their work on a white board for Jane to see. It was truly wonderful to see the enthusiasm in the children’s work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you year 4 of John A. Cumber Primary School. You are awesome!!!