Pre School Harapan Bangsa Modernhill “Book Days” Event 2023

October is the month for celebrating language and literacy month. In the 2023-2024 school year, Harapan Bangsa Modernhill Kindergarten students are again celebrating language month with the activity titled “Book Days”. This activity will take place for three consecutive days, starting on 25, 26 and 27 October 2023. The theme of Book Days event is “READ，GROW，INSPIRE”. By holding “Book Days” activities, it is a good opportunity to create programs that can increase knowledge, improve students' skills or abilities regarding Indonesian, English and Mandarin languages. Students are also encouraged that learning can be a fun activity.

First Day of “Book Days” October 25, 2023 

The first day is the opening of the “Book Days” event, Wednesday, October 25 2023, which is Indonesian language day, At the opening of the Harapan Bangsa Modernhill Pre School Students, they received a warm welcome from Mrs. Neneng Sahwana as a principal, to introduce what “Book Days” are and the importance of a reading culture to increase knowledge and literacy. The sequence of events was hosted and guided by MC: Ms. Indah. Pre School students gave dancing performances, there was also a performance of the poem “Gajah” and singing from KA. 

A warm welcome from Mrs. Neneng Sahwana (Pre School Principal)

Performance of KA Students

The singing together activity was hosted by MC Ms. Indah

The students were very enthusiastic about singing along with the movements.

At the opening of the event, students listened to a fairy tale sung by Kak Budi from Ayo Dongeng Indonesia, Kak Budi tells a story about self-reliance and friendship. When telling the fairy tale, Kak Budi is also accompanied by a cute bird-shaped doll named Riri. The students really enjoyed listening to the fairy tales from Kak Budi, coupled with Kak Budi's puppet actions which made the storyline more interesting.

Storytelling from Kak Budi

Kak Budi and his doll named Riri

In the fairy tale told by Kak Budi, there is a story line that can foster and teach children an attitude of independence and a sense of friendship from an early age. The storyline is packed with funny and interesting words. Developing an independent attitude in children from an early age is very important so that in the future children will be able to face various environmental situations without depending on other people. Children are also expected to respect each other.

In this “Book Days” event, Harapan Bangsa School was visited by mobile library services from the South Tangerang Regional Library Service. Mobile libraries are useful for introducing books to children, increase interest in reading and develop children's love of books. Children can read every book in the mobile library for free. Children also have the opportunity to visit book fairs from Millennia Bookstore and Noura Bookstore, children can buy books to attract children's interest in reading.

PG Student Visit to Mobile Library

Children's visit to the book fair

To improve children's Indonesian language skills, an activity was carried out for KC and PG classes, namely a letter collage activity, this activity attaches the letters into a prepared frame. Then for the KA and KB classes, they made the book “Tentang Aku”.

Children are making a book “Tentang Aku”

On this occasion several parents were also invited to tell stories to the class using Indonesian, This fairy tale activity can increase children's interest in reading and children's closeness to their parents.

Storytelling in Indonesian by one of the parents in KB class room

Storytelling in Indonesian by one of the parents in the KA class room

Storytelling in Indonesian by one of the parents in the PG class room

Second Day of “Book Days” October 26, 2023

The second day of the “Book Days” event, Thursday, October 26 2023, is Mandarin language day. The opening day of Mandarin was hosted by MC Laoshi Mei Mei, The opening begins with the performance of two dramas, the first is a short drama from Primary Students, the story about “Goldilocks and The Three Bears” guided by Laoshi Ian, then the second is a short drama from KB supervised by Laoshi Mei Mei, the story about “Rabbit and Fox”. There were also dancing and singing performances of Mandarin songs from KC and KB.

A short drama performance from Primary

Short drama performance of “Rabbit and Fox” by KB

Performance from KC

Performance by KB “dance and sing Mandarin song”

The children were very enthusiastic about singing Mandarin songs

On this occasion several parents were also invited to tell stories to the class in Mandarin, Having a fairy tale session from parents can foster children's love and understanding of Mandarin and foster closeness between parents and children.

To foster children's love and ability in Mandarin, activities related to Mandarin are carried out in each class, in KC class handicrafts about “making bird”, in PG class making handicrafts “family cards” then the KA and KB classes made a book about “origami animals”.

Storytelling in Mandarin by one of the parents in the KB class room

Storytelling in Mandarin by one of the parents in the KC class room

KC children are making crafts about “making birds”

Children are coloring Chinese letters

KB made a book about “origami animals”

Third day / final day of the “Book Days” event October 27, 2023

This third day is English day and the last day of the “Book Days” event, Friday, October 26, 2023. On this day, children are free to wear costumes related to fictional book characters. The opening was performed by MC Ms. Tuti and Mr. Yudha. The opening begins with a fairy tale performance from Primary school children, from Grade 2 there are: Aneshka, Cherish, Zhaffira and Milly, they brought the story about “Molly and the Big Bad Cat”. Then continued the fairy tale from Amabel Class 5 SD and Timothy Class 6 SD with the title “The crying stone”.

Next is the performance of Rhymes from Grade PG, Grade KB performance Rhymes & Short Story Telling. At the end of the activity, a class photo was taken. On this day, several parents were also invited to tell stories in class using English. Apart from that, the English language activities carried out in class are : at KC class arts & craft “a very hungry caterpillar”, at PG class arts & craft “rainbow fish”, at KA class arts & craft  “the three little pigs” and at KB class arts & craft “little red riding hood”.

One of the parents was telling a story in KA's class

One of the parents was telling a story in the KB class room

One of the parents was telling a story in a PG class room

One of the parents was telling a story in KC's class

KA class photo

KC class photo

PG class photo

KB class photo

KB class photo

Rhymes performance from PG

Storytelling by Amabel Grade 5

Storytelling by Timothy grade 6

Short story telling by KB

Rhymes performance by KB