Loud applause at OBS De Bloeiende Perelaar in Zuidoostbeemster. School children read from their own work during the presentation of their own collection of poems. The first copies were handed over to the alderman and the school management, but of course the children also got a book to take home.
Nora, almost nine, has written a poem about her favorite spot by a lake where she likes to do cartwheels. She actually didn’t know that she could write poetry, but now she wants to do it more often. 9-year-old Kaatje is very proud of her own poem. It is therefore her favorite poem in the collection. In her poem she describes a beautiful day at the bottom of the dike while she dances in the grass.
Gi-ga-green
The theme of the Children’s Book Week this year is: Gi-ga-green. After some lessons from a school poet, the students from the lower years also wrote a group poem. Children from the other groups wrote their own poem on the theme of the Children’s Book Week. The poems can now be read in a collection of poems published by the school.
Rozanne Mak is a reading coordinator at the Blooming Perelaar and hopes the children will read more through the collection of poems. “I hope it inspires them that reading can also be done in a different way for them.”
Children’s Book Week is closed at school today and in the rest of the country on Sunday. All children receive a bundle to take home.