Kids world
View(s):My mother
My mother is Sumudu. She is very nice. She is a banker.
She likes to eat cuttlefish. We are best friends. She is very kind. She likes to watch Jurassic World. She cooks me tasty food. She is the best mother. I love her very much.
Shevan Fernando (Grade 3)
S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia
My brother
I have a cute brother aged nine. His name is Aaqil Thaha. He is very tall and has a fair face. He is the best companion I can ever have. He is a real joker and amuses everyone with various tricks. He has a lot of friends and his best friends are Kajan and Imadh. His drawings are very lively drawn and his favourite topic is ‘Animals’.
Although we fight, we are never angry for long. He is always a friend to me and an ever ready helper.
My brother is pure-hearted, generous and kind. He is also a genius in Maths and Computer Technology. As his favour goes to Mathematics, his aim is to be an engineer. As a brother and a son he performs his responsibilities towards his family very actively and even does more than we expect.
I love him so much and he loves me too. I expect he shall be a great leader and a good friend in the future and that he shall achieve his goal.
Afla Thaha (11 years)
City High School
Myself
My name is Chethana. I am nine years old.
I live in Moratuwa. My birthday is on January 7.
I study at St. Sebastian’s College. I am in Grade Five. I live in Moratuwa. I am a Buddhist.
My mother’s name is Manisha. She is a secretary. My father’s name is Dinesh. He is a Computer operator. My best friend is Rahul.
He studies with me in the same school.
My hobby is collecting stamps. My favourite subject is English. My ambition is to be an engineer. I like to eat a lot of ice-cream. I like to drink apple juice. I am fond of apples and mangoes too. I am a Primary Section prefect.
I have one small sister.
Chethana Gunasekera (Grade 5)
St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa
Value of trees
Trees are very useful. Both man and animals cannot live without them. Trees provide us with food, medicine, timber and shelter. Trees save us from the scorching rays of the sun and we get the most needed rain because of trees.
Trees make the environment beautiful. The earth has become a cool, bright, beautiful place because of trees. Trees also stop soil erosion.
Most people have not realized the value of trees. They cut down trees for their needs in a careless manner. If a tree is cut down, we must grow another tree in its place. If we destroy trees, the earth would become a desert. Let us protect the trees.
Darshini Rajarathnam (12 years)
St. Clare’s College, Wellawatte
The Night
In the dark blue starry sky
The birds all gone to sleep
But only the owl is waiting
In the deep starry dark night
In the dark blue starry sky
I wonder why owls don’t
sleep
but only in the day
In the deep dark starry sky
The sun goes down
The moon comes out
smiling at the stars
The deep blue starry sky
I wonder and wonder why
Thehara Galagedara
(6 years)
Musaeus College
What children can learn from their grandparents
Grandparents play a major role in a child’s life. When children do not have the emotional support they need from their parents, they turn to their grandparents.
A child’s relationship with their grandparents is an important thing in their lives. Grandparents provide stability and support for the smallest issues such as homework struggles and learning to read, to serious traumas.
Grandparents are our cultural heritage. They are part of our personal history. They provide a unique, loving relationship that can see us through childhood to adulthood. Learning about the past is a valuable thing that grandparents and grandchildren can do together. I know from my own experience how much I enjoy listening to grandma’s stories about what it was like living through the war. Grandparents can also pass on important life skills that help children become more independent, like cooking and money management or those ‘soft skills’ such as being a good listener and showing empathy.
When they were growing up, many senior citizens learned skills such as sewing, gardening, baking, farming and woodwork. These are great things to pass on to grandchildren as they are still very useful talents to possess.
Grandparents are blessings in our lives. We don’t feel their value when they are with us but their absence will definitely make us feel empty. We learn ethics and values from them. They always use the softest words to control us. That may be the reason why we listen and respond to our grandparents more than our parents.
We are indeed blessed to have our grandparents with us as it is as though we are in the presence of wisdom.
Yoosuf Fazly (Grade 
Hejaaz Int. School, Mt. Lavinia