First Voice

When the children leave Hokowhitu and go to Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School, they have the opportunity to take part in First Voice. This is where students work with an adult helper to write in their first language. Mrs Drake sends us a copy each year and we really like reading what we can.

We took a page from someone who speaks our language (for some of us, this was our older sibling), and used this as a model to produce our own work. We crossed out their personal information and put ours in, put a sticker over their face and drew ourselves. Those of us who had literally defaced our siblings enjoyed taking this home to show them, knowing it would annoy them. We wrote a story in English then took it home to get help with translation. We did a good copy to share. Here are some of them.

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