STORY 4 REWRITTEN

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Teacher Ard told his pupils: “This is the task you are going to do.” He told the children to get their book and go to work. After about an hour the headmaster entered and said: “This is a new boy who will join your class.”  Teacher presented Eric and said: “This is Eric. Eric, you can pick out a place in the classroom.” All the children call out: Eric, come and sit here!” Joop wants to shake Eric’s hand but instead hits him in the face. Eric has to cry very loudly. Teacher asks Eric: “What is the matter?” Eric points at Joop and tells the teacher what happened. Teacher says to Joop: “Joop, come here! Why do you do that?” “I don’t know.”, he answers. But the following day they become best friends!

Anniek, Shanna, Joris (3)  

Teasing

There was a schoolclass in India. The teacher told the children a new student would join them in class. Then the new boy enters with his father. The father says: “Here is your new student. At his old school the other children were always teasing him.

The boy’s name was Dorushi Frang. They teased him because of his name. The teacher introduces him to the class and tells him where to sit down. Then the teacher tells them he will take a picture of the whole class and they all sit together. Dorushi stands at the back and smiles.

In the afternoon a boy named Kanko Jang throws a pencil at Modali’s face. Dorushi goes to the teacher and tells him about it. The teacher asks who did it and Dorushi points him out. Then the teacher tells Kanko to come forward and asks him why he did it. Kanko answered that he felt like it. The teacher says: “I don’t like that behaviour and I don’t want it anymore!” “Okay” says Kanko and from then on he and Dorushi are friends.

Frithjof (6)

Your own opinion

Once upon a time there was a school. The school’s name was Hasitha fo Kasand. The school was divided in two parts: on the one side were situated the classrooms for grade 1 through 4 and on the other side for grades 5 and 6. The sixth grade had the nicest teacher. At least that is my opinion. His name was Aurobindo.

Aurobindo was teaching in class. He had a pair of small, round spectacles and was wearing a striped suit. He was just about to give the answer to a math problem on the blackboard when the door opened. In the opening stood a small boy of about eleven years old. The teacher introduced him to the class. When they saw the boy the children started to giggle. Sternly Aurobindo asked what was going on. Nobody dared open his mouth until suddenly a boy stood up and walked over to the boy. Boldly he said that he thought the boy had a very big nose. Imediately the new boy answered: “Well look at yourself. You have on an ugly t-shirt!” Then Aurobindo stepped in between the two boys and said that appearances don’t matter: “It’s not about how you look or what you wear.” A girl in the class who was teased a lot said: “I agree!. They tease me a lot about my clothes but I happen to find them beautiful myself!” The teacher answered that a big nose or wearing spectacles is nothing to be ashamed of. Then the boys became friends.

The next they they came to school together. They were having so much fun! Aurobindo was happy the two got along so well. And you know what happened afterwards? Everybody started to act their own way, wear their own kind of clothes. Before they had thought the others would tease them about it. But now even the most timid boy in class wore some pretty red trousers. He told Aurobindo it might look like girls pants but that in his country they were really expensive and he had bought them with his own money! Aurobindo was prowd that all the children could now be themselves.