A snippet from Themba Tshabalala, one of our parent workshop facilitators

"On my way home on the train, I shared a seat with one of the Mothers from the parent workshop, and she had her daughters with her. They were doing paired reading together. That was sweet" X Themba

Themba and Linda, enjoying 'Lizo's Song.'

Parent Workshop, Claremont Primary, May 2012

Linda Rutter and her team ran a workshop at Claremont on Saturday. Linda sent me the following feedback from a mom who spoke to her on her way out...

“I nearly didn’t come today.  It was so cold and wet and I didn’t want to come out, but I’m very glad I did.  I now have simple tools to help my child with reading.  I didn’t realise it was so easy to help her, I’m very excited to be going home with this knowledge.” Magical things are happening.

Book bags for Claremont

Linda receiving a thank you from the children

Linda, one of our Thursday volunteers, and Alice, who sews beautifully, offered to make us our magic reading bags. 

Beautiful designs

 Thank you so much to Linda and Alice for their thoughtfulness and care. What a beautiful array of fabrics: I know the children will love them. 

Alice, master seamstress

Happy children, ready to fill their bags with a book to take home! 

Out of the mouths of babes....

Cynthia from Claremont sent us this wonderful tit-bit last week. When asking her little lad what a  'l-o-g' was he responded: 'What you do when you go into the computer.' A truly 21st century child!! We need to keep up with these growing minds!