TEACHER: “How many fingers have you, Appiah?” APPIAH: “Ten.” TEACHER: “Well, if four of them were missing, what would you have then?” APPIAHY: “No flute lessons.” By KWABENA BOAKYE Class Six
There were three boys in my neighbourhood. They were friends. They went to school together. They played together. They did everything together. But they were stubborn. They didn’t listen to their parents. They didn’t take any advice. There was a busy road near their house. The three friends liked to run across the road. They […]
Kofi Tutu lives near my house. He is about five years old. He dreamt of going to school but his parents would not allow him. He begged his older brother to take him with him to a school near their house. The big brother took him there. He took the entrance examination and passed. For […]
My little sister is in KG One. She is four years old. But she thinks like someone six years old. She came home last week and told my mother that her teacher was mad. “How’s that, Sedinam?” my mother asked her. “Yesterday, she told us that 2+2=4. But today she said it’s 3+1” she reasoned. […]
Once there lived a boy named Kojo. He was a very lazy boy and his mother and he were not good friends. His mother was a widow. She lost her husband before Kojo was born. When Kojo grew up, he learned that his father travelled to far away land to look for wealth but never […]
I never did know that amphibians were special creatures. I used to think of them as animals that lived part of their life in water and part of it on land. Thus, crocodiles, alligators, hippos as well as beavers were amphibians. I believed this until my teacher told me I was wrong. He said that […]