{"id":853,"date":"2007-03-08T01:16:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T01:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2011-05-29T18:22:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T18:22:53","slug":"let-me-tell-you-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/let-me-tell-you-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me tell you a story . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our highly successful Book Week continued tonight when the children returned to school at 5.00pm dressed in their nightclothes and clutching their cuddlies to hear some stories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2085.jpg\" title=\"img_2085.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2085.jpg\" title=\"img_2085.jpg\" alt=\"img_2085.jpg\" border=\"2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2085.jpg\" title=\"img_2085.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2082.JPG?resize=444%2C340\" alt=\"img_2082.JPG\" style=\"width: 444px; height: 340px\" align=\"left\" height=\"340\" width=\"444\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The evening began when Grade 4\/5 &#8211; helped, of course by Miss Shara &#8211; told us the story of &#8216;Suzie&#8217;s Turn&#8217; in song. ( I learned another bit of local history!)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2084.JPG\" title=\"img_2084.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2084.JPG?resize=241%2C338\" alt=\"img_2084.JPG\" height=\"338\" width=\"241\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2086.JPG\" title=\"img_2086.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2086.JPG?resize=310%2C239\" alt=\"img_2086.JPG\" height=\"239\" width=\"310\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Next up was Ed Williams: he replaced David Bowen (Minister of Culture) who was unable to attend. He told an Ethiopian folk tale about a lion and a hare, showing that strength isn&#8217;t everything.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2092.JPG\" title=\"img_2092.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2092.JPG?resize=250%2C341\" alt=\"img_2092.JPG\" height=\"341\" width=\"250\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2096.JPG\" title=\"img_2096.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2096.JPG?resize=255%2C341\" alt=\"img_2096.JPG\" height=\"341\" width=\"255\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/blogpix\/img_2094.JPG\" title=\"img_2094.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The last performance was given by the children of Grade 6 who sang and acted out the Bahamian folk song &#8216;The Green Leaves Grow Around&#8217; &#8211; very amusing and entertaining!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The children then returned to their classes where the teachers read and told a variety of tales and stories from around the world; milk and cookies provided by FoPPS finished the evening off deliciously!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Finally, for those who still needed more stories, the Unicorn Bookstore was on hand with a selection of some of their wonderful stock of books for children &#8211; many thanks to them for their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our highly successful Book Week continued tonight when the children returned to school at 5.00pm dressed in their nightclothes and clutching their cuddlies to hear some stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}