The students
of Form 4 attended a work shop on Thursday which was conducted by the author
Natasha Sharma. She is an award winning children’s books author and has
published twelve books for children so far including Bonkers! That won the
SCBWI Crystal Kite Award 2014 for Asia and Middle East.
Natasha Sharma
introduced her book “Squiggle Gets Stuck” and skillfully took the students
through an exciting adventure with her beloved “Squiggle”. She briefly introduced
Squiggle who is first seen in “Squiggle takes a walk- all about punctuation,
where squiggle-curious, confused and determined to tell a comma from an
apostrophe. She smoothly introduced her second book ‘Squiggle Gets Stuck” all
about a fun- filled adventure where Squiggle has fallen into a dictionary and
can’t escape. The only way out is to create a grammatically correct sentence
and use it to jump off the page. She’s even got to rescue a very mixed-up
character called Doodle Dude while helping him learn about verbs, nouns,
prepositions and more, that turns muddled sentences into one that makes
sense. An hour session no doubt
kept the
students in splits, but took them through a journey of sentence construction
(parts of speech) which had never been so much fun before bringing these
characters to life.
Her reading
and her delightful way with words while writing, while reading it out to
students with complete expression, her voice modulation got the students very
excited and they geared up collectively to cook up a funny story as she steered
their ideas through witty , open ended tips and questions.
This session
encouraged the students to construct meaningful sentences and bring their
creative pieces alive! What a fantastic learning opportunity this was for the
4th graders.
