9 years and below
My favourite song and why I like it
My favourite song is ‘I have a dream’. It is written by Martin Luther King. It is the first song I hear in Grade Four. I like this song because it has very meaningful words. This song has the right rhyme which I like. I found this song from my school Western Music and Eastern Music books.
I think a lot of people in the world like this song. This is an attractive song.
When I heard ‘I cross the stream’ sentence I feel really like I can cross the stream. When I heard the word angels I remember that angels save and cover me. When I hear this song it makes my mind think of a fairyland and this song can relax our mind. I have a dream has a relaxing tune.
I like this song.
Elisha Nethaly (9 years)
Highlands College, Hatton
10 – 12 years
A famous woman scientist or inventor I admire
Marie Skladowska Curie is a famous scientist who did a great service to the world. She was a Polish and French physicist and also a chemist who did a lot of research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, especially twice and in two scientific fields. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. Later on, she went to Paris for her higher education. She married the French physicist Pierre Curie with whom she shared the Nobel Prize. In 1906, Pierre Curie died of an accident. In 1911, she won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of polonium and radium. In 1920 and 1930 she founded the Curie Institute in Paris and Curie Institute in Warsaw respectively. During World War II she was able to provide x-ray services to field hospitals. Though she continued her life in France, she took her daughter to Poland and taught them Polish.
Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, in France, due to aplastic anaemia from exposure to radiation. She was a woman who worked with commitment in her work and spent a successful life.
Nadithi Kulasekera (11 years)
Ladies’ College, Colombo 7
13 – 15 years
What I know about Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is known as the day for showing love, affection and care towards our loved ones. It is universally accepted as the day for expressing love. On this day, people exchange cards, gifts, flowers and other symbols for telling their feelings to their loved ones. On February 14 every year, Valentine’s Day is celebrated.
Love is an eternal feeling and Valentine’s Day is for celebrating this feeling. The spring season falls in the month of February; it brings joy to every face. The mixture of fresh spring breezes with love refills the joy of celebrating Valentine’s Day with gusto. In the contemporary world, the week before February 14 is called Valentines Week.
In the 3rd century B.C., in Rome there was a Catholic priest names Valentine. He was blamed for arranging secret marriages for Roman soldiers and he was also blamed for converting them into Christianity. One day Emperor Claudius II (King of Roman Empire) found out about his actions and incarcerated him. He sentenced Valentine to death. During his imprisonment period Valentine fell in love with the jailor’s blind daughter. Some say that he cured her blindness by his selfless love towards her.
On February 14, 270 A. D., Saint Valentine was put to death and before that he wrote a letter to the jailor’s daughter. He signed as, “Yours Valentine,” in this letter. This became prominent and because of the Saint’s love and his noble acts, universally February 14 was declared as Valentine’s Day.
Mohamed Rishard Saudha (14 years)
Benhill College, Gampola
