A small Dancing Pencils team is taking a film course to enable it to put videos on youtube.
Their first script starts in an informal settlement with a discontented and dirty orphan ... Continue Reading →
A great tribute to Dancing Pencils is the SABC’s offer of a room (or hall) in their Head Office for weekly use by Dancing Pencils, be it for book launches, courses, book reading ... Continue Reading →
Nkosinathi Mthethwa won first prize in an iSimangaliso Schools competition that asked for a foundation phase reader that helped children to understand the importance of certain animals ... Continue Reading →
The Quarterly Board Meeting of the Dancing Pencils Literacy Development Project held on Monday evening 22nd October, enjoyed making plans for the future.
Plans include awards for Mentors ... Continue Reading →
There are 6 official languages in use in the Free State. Grade 3 learners in 5 districts in the Free State had an enjoyable opportunity to write books in 5 of these languages. They ... Continue Reading →
Trauma
When something happens to us that hurts our feelings, we experience pain in our heart, and usually also anger and fear of it happening again. But what do we do with these feelings? ... Continue Reading →
The story highlights changes in a child's life from having the opportunity to learn to write stories and to read. The child starts out as an orphan in a squatter camp, and finishes up as a bright little girl with her own book launch and published story. It aims at getting funding in our NPO to enable the NPO to help with literacy by training children to write stories, publishing them and then giving books to disadvantaged children and so encouraging reading of child written books. This helps with literacy as children will read what children write.. The little orphan is the daughter of Bonga Zondo, who was the cameraman and editor. The teacher is Bonga's wife. The script was written by Felicity Keats who is also a right brain trainer and a niche publisher. the voice is Detlev Diegel, also a colleague.
Scenes at some of the Dancing Pencil book launches
Grade 3 Learners in five districts in the Free State, South Africa write books in five different home languages.