Launching StoryWeaver Kannada: An exciting new YouTube channel!

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ಸ್ಟೋರಿವೀವರ್, ಈ ಸಲದ ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವವನ್ನು ಕನ್ನಡ ಯೂಟ್ಯೂಬ್ ಚಾನಲ್ ಆರಂಭಿಸುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಆಚರಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ರೀಡ್ ಅಲಾಂಗ್ಸ್ ಕತೆಯ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳಿಗೆ ದೊರೆತ ಉತ್ತೇಜನದಿಂದ ಪ್ರೇರಿತರಾಗಿ ಯೂಟ್ಯೂಬ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಚೆಂದದ  ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ ಮಾಡಲು ಉತ್ಸುಕರಾಗಿದ್ದೇವೆ. ಸುಮಧುರ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆ ಸಂಗೀತ, ವೃತ್ತಿಪರ ಕಲಾವಿದರು ಓದಿರುವ, ಬಲು ಎಚ್ಚರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ಹೆಣೆದ ಉಪಶೀರ್ಷಿಕೆಗಳಿಂದ ಜೀವಂತಿಕೆ ಪಡೆದ ಈ ಕಥಾ ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳು ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನು ಆಕರ್ಷಿಸಿ ಓದುವ ಹವ್ಯಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಹಚ್ಚುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಸಂಶಯವಿಲ್ಲ.

 

ಸ್ಟೋರಿವೀವರ್‌ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಓದುವ ಖುಷಿಯನ್ನು ಸಂಭ್ರಮಿಸಿ!

 

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How Far is Far?

If you thought your friend's house on the other side of town was far away, you have clearly not read this book. Climb the Magic Math Ladder to get from where you are to the top of Mount Everest, to Kashmir, to the moon, the Sun, and ultimately, to the edge of the Universe, which is very, very, VERY far away indeed. Ready, steady, go!

ACTIVITIES

Use Your Body

Resources

• A Metre scale or strips of newspaper cut and taped together into meter long strips

What to do

• Find something long to measure. It could be a boundary wall, the length of garden pathway - anything you like!

• First ask the children to lie down head to toe, one after the other along the length of the item and find out how many ‘children’ it takes to measure the wall.

• Next, ask them to measure the same distance with their metre long strips of newspaper.

• What’s the difference in the measurement? Talk about how it’s important to have a standardised unit of measurement!

Globe Guesstimate!

Resources

• Globe

• Google

Ask the children to pick any two places on the globe and guesstimate how far apart they are. Then use Google to find the correct answer.

The closest guestimates win a prize!

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A year ago, on Children’s Day 2020, StoryWeaver and Pratham Education Foundation announced a collaboration to develop and grow a repository of free, openly licensed reading resources for young children. As the first step, 50 storybooks from Pratham Education Foundation were launched on the StoryWeaver platform.

 

Kahaniyaan hi Kahaniyaan -  A treasure trove of storybooks

To mark the first anniversary of this collaboration, we are delighted to share the progress that has been made since then, in creating, translating, and curating storybooks across many languages. This Children’s Day, over one thousand storybooks will be made available for public access across two platforms – StoryWeaver and Pratham Education Foundation’s Pratham Open School.

Storybooks in ten Indian languages and English

The Pratham-StoryWeaver collaboration now has uploaded more than 600 storybooks in Assamese, Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Telugu, and Urdu. This allows for open, and easy access to simple, interesting and fun storybooks.

Having these storybooks under the CC BY 4.0 license on StoryWeaver makes them available to a larger audience worldwide, and the books are free to read, download and use. At the same time, these books will give the StoryWeaver community new stories to translate, giving children around the world access to more books in their own languages.

In addition to the collection of new storybooks on StoryWeaver, a rich variety of additional storybooks are also available on the Pratham Open School website. You can “read”, “listen” and use “highlighted” storybooks. What makes these packs special is that they are context-specific libraries with storybooks created by unique individuals from various backgrounds focusing on the local community and capturing the flavour of the region they represent. The packs include books from Himachal, Tripura, Assam, Bihar and Bengal with stories in the regional languages.

 

Campaign for celebration

Starting November 14, for a week, Pratham Education Foundation teams in 20 states will work with local volunteers, mothers, and community members to share one storybook a day through the ‘Kahaniyaan hi Kahaniyaan’ campaign and do a variety of activities like role-playing, drawing, and storytelling among others.

This partnership is a small step towards the goal of building a vast treasure trove of thousands of storybooks that will be freely available for children in their mother tongues.

Come join us on an exciting journey for the week of ‘Kahaniyaan hi Kahaniyaan’!

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Explore all the storybooks available for free on StoryWeaver here:  https://bit.ly/3wHyGf6

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