Alan Duff

The Black Book of Colours

This is the book I recommended as Duffy in the school assembly.
Author: Menena Cottin

It’s about how a blind child perceive colours. Instead of seeing, he can feel, touch and smell them. This book is entirely made of black, except for the writing. It also includes Braille letters, which is a language made by using raised dots to represent each letter of the alphabet.

You can find this book in the library under sophisticated picture books in the fiction section.

Thanks for listening.

And remember it’s cool to read!

Tongan Assembly

This week is Tongan language week. So today in assembly, except for some parts of reports from head students, every other report (even Duffy's book recommendation) was spoken in Tongan.

Bruce Potter Visit

kAHA the KEA

Yesterday Bruce Potter came to our school to visit.  Unfortunately, half of our school went to rugby.  We came to the hall early in the morning, about 10:30.  He talked to us about drawing.  He illustrated two books, Penny the prolific pooing cow and Kaha the kea.

He sang us songs about those two books.  Our time is up, we got back to class.

After morning tea, I went to the school library.  He taught me how to draw horses, and you can start shading without the outlines.  He shade a face of a man, it looks so real!  I drew a horse with huge eyes.  He gave me his E-mail and R8 children came to interview.

Duffy Theatre

Yesterday we watched the new Duffy show:Duffy Lost his Words.

Duffy dreamt a man called Professor Wordsharks, he take half the words from Duffy and Duffy now don't know how to read anymore.  Afi came in and go to school with Duffy.  It's Speech Competition today!

Professor Wordsharks send Duffy a letter and said he'll meet him in noon and have a bet.  If Duffy won, Professor Wordsharks will give all the words back.  If Professor Wordsharks won, he'll have the rest of the words.

They did a crossword and Duffy won.  Professor Wordsharks still want the rest of the words and he broke the promise and stole the rest of Duffy's words. But he only stole the English words and Duffy still knows how to speak Maori!  Afi and Duffy got all the words Professor Wordsharks had stolen and Professor Wordsharks never came back again.