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LITTLE ISSUE SUCCESS STORIES GREETINGS READERS! It’s heartwarming to receive frequent requests from schools for little issue because of the quality of its content. These endorsements are the success stories that show the value of little issue and how it adds to learning and classroom material: Nicola Szylobryt, Facilitator, Mosaic – NPO for orphans, vulnerable children in Gquebehra (Port Elizabeth) We look after 85 children between six and 12 years. By chance, we came across your magazine and presented it to a few of our children. They love it! Sandra McWatts, Literacy Programme Co-ordinator I was given a copy of little issue at a recent refresher training course at the Shine Literacy Head Office in Zonnebloem. I work at a local primary school for learners struggling with English literacy. We…

What do they look like? • They can be spotted or striped, and brown. • They have strong jaws for crushing bones. • Their front legs are longer than their back legs. • Females are larger than males. What’s their favourite meal? • Meat. • A meat-eater is known as a CARNIVORE. Good hunters! • Hyenas have excellent hearing and smell to find prey. • They are awake at night. • They communicate using signals and sounds. • Hyenas often wait for lions to finish feeding before helping themselves. • Sometimes hyenas kill their own prey. Where do they live? South Africa, Africa and Asia. Hyenas can sound like they’re laughing! Sometimes they are known as laughing hyenas.…

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Every day when eight-year-old Sisanda gets home from school, she changes out of her uniform, eats her lunch and plays a game of umlabalaba with her grandfather. They have so much fun flying their “cows” around the board that she doesn’t want to stop. But then he reminds her that she wants to become a bank manager one day when she grows up. “How will you do that if you don’t go to high school?” jokes her grandfather. Sisanda just laughs. “I will go to high school and university too. That’s why I work so hard at school!” Sisanda is quite tall for her age − she takes after her father. Her round face and beautiful smile are her mother’s. Both her parents get up early each morning to go…

My klein boetie slaap laat. Ek word vroeg wakker, want ek is fluks! My little brother sleeps late. I wake up early because I am quick. Ek is die een wat die son laat inkom. I am the one that lets the sun in. "Jy is my môrester," sê Mamma. “You are my morning star”, says Mom. Ek was myself elke dag. Niemand hoef my te help nie. I wash myself every day. Nobody needs to help me. Ek gee nie om vir die koue water of vir die blou seep waarmee Mamma klere was nie. I don’t care about the cold water or the blue soap my Mom uses to wash clothes. "Moenie vergeet om jou tande te borsel nie," herinner Mamma my. Ek antwoord: "Nooit, nie ek nie!"…

Thakgalo means happiness. Thakgalo is a person who uses a wheelchair. Her family and friends love her so much. Thakgalo loves music. Her friends love dancing and playing music for her. Her friends installed a musical speaker on Thakgalo’s wheelchair. When she touched a button on one side of the wheelchair, music would play. Thakgalo would stretch herself and dance to the musical wheelchair. She practised dancing on her own, and then began to dance with her friends. One day her friends saw a dance competition advertised in the newspaper. They asked Thakgalo’s mom if they could enter the competition for her. Thakgalo’s mom agreed. Thakgalo’s friends borrowed her mom’s cellphone to make a video for the dance competition. They videoed Thakgalo dancing to her favourite song, then they sent…

Sipho and Max went hiking on Saturday. Max left his walking shoes at home. The group leader said, “You can’t hike without walking shoes. Your feet will get hurt.” Max didn’t care. He hiked in sandals. He made it to the end of the hike. “You did it!” said Sipho. Then Max tripped over a rock. He cut his foot. “Ouch! I’m hurt! How will I walk home?” he said. “Don’t worry. I’ll ask my dad to drive you,” said Sipho. Max got into the car. They drove home. “Mom, I’ve cut my foot!” said Max. “You’re hurt. You should’ve worn the right shoes. Next time you’re wearing walking shoes,” said his mom. WHAT IS A CONTRACTION? A contraction is when we join two words. We use an aspostrophe like…