Papa’s Jandals
by Kate Moetaua
Papa’s Jandals is a hilarious story about Junior and his Papa’s treasured jandals. Cheeky Junior is always stealing his Papa’s enormous jandals, which fit his big feet perfectly as well. However, one day he loses them and sets off around town to try to find them, knowing that he will be in lots of trouble if he has lost them for good! Just when it seems like he has looked everywhere, he finds Papa’s jandals in the most unlikely of places! This is a story about families working together and having fun, with a real Pacific Island flavour. The story is cleverly illustrated using bright, cartoon images by Bruce Potter, which perfectly support the hilarious text.
This book was nominated for the collection because of the authenticity of its story and characters – for example, Junior’s “energy”, as well as the jandal-wearing Grandad and his special relationship with his grandson.
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Activity: MY FAMILY (English) |
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| Curriculum Level | 1 & 2 (see curriculum links at the end of the activity) | |
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This story provides a humorous description of a Samoan family. Children can use the story as a starting point for talking and writing about their own families. In this activity, they will write character descriptions of their own family members, which they will put together to create a book called “My Family”.1. Read and enjoy the story together.
2. After reading, talk about the “characters” in the story: Junior, Papa, Mama, Uncle Tumu, cousin Pene, Aunty Aki, cousin Nika, Uncle and Aunty. Ask:
3. Organise the children into pairs, and spend some time talking about their own families. Clarify that “family” can mean lots of different things to different people. It might be their immediate family – parents, brothers, sisters etc…, or it might extend to grandparents, uncles, aunties and cousins. Some people also consider close family friends or neighbours as family too. 4. Once children have spent some time talking, ask them to choose 1 person in their family that they would like to write about – write down their name at the top of a piece of paper, and draw a picture of them underneath. 5. Show the children how to write a character description. The description of Junior at the beginning of the story is a great example of this:
Look carefully at this model, and establish the following “formula” for writing a character description: Firstly, write about what they look like/ physical description. Secondly, write a description of something they “always do” – an example of what their personality is like. 6. Children can begin to write character descriptions about their own chosen family member. They could go on to create a book called “My Family”, with a picture and character description on each page. |
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Links to other books in PPBC |
Papa’s Donuts by Kate Moetaua
Tane Steals the Show by Lino Nelisi Sione’s Talo by Lino Nelisi The Pipi Swing by Sarona Aiono-Iosefa Fiapule by Catherine Hannken Selafina by Catherine Hannken Sole! Goes to Rotorua by Fata and Paula Letoa Sole! White Sunday by Fata and Paula Letoa The Wooden Fish by Tim Tipene Living with Aunt Sasa’e: a family in Western Samoa by Hélène Tremblay – these stories all show different types of families working and living together |
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| Curriculum Links | English Listening, Reading and Viewing
Speaking, Writing and Presenting
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