First Day Of school for the Penguin class (grade 1)

Story for the first day of school of grade 1

Once upon a time there was a little penguin. A prince! He lived in a huge castle made of ice – with towers made of snow, slides and windows Damasked with ice flowers.
When he was bored, the little penguin would slide on the ice slide into the cold sea water or play with a snowball. but he preferred to sit in the palace’s large library and read books. He had learned to read at an early age from his penguin grandmother.
When he read, the little penguin dreamed of distant lands with green palm trees and very colorful birds, of turquoise lizards, huge rice fields, of the hot sun and so much rain that the streets sometimes turned into raging rivers – like ours did last night. In the books he read about children who go to school, who sing, study, swim and play together …
One day the little penguin said: “I want to go to school too!”
So he packed his school bag with his favorite books, a small telescope, swimming trunks and a sun hat. Hmmmm, but how should he get to school? The little penguin slid down the ice slide on the side of the castle and waddled to the sea to talk to his best friend, a whale.
“Hey big whale, I want to go to where the green palm trees are, where there are rice fields and lots of sun, where the old dog Baloo runs around and the little cat peeps out from behind the bushes.”
The big whale said: “Little penguin: The warm countries are very far away and besides you are dressed too thickly. You’ll sweat and you don’t have friends there either …”
“I don’t care,” said the little penguin. “I want to see the world and I finally want to go to school!”
So the little penguin waddled on the large body of the whale and both swam and swam and swam … many days and nights, days and nights, days and nights …
Suddenly, they saw something on the horizon. It was moving, one ship, one big ship.
The whale stopped and said: “You have to continue swimming from here, my little friend.”
The little penguin thanked him politely, gave the whale a kiss and swam towards the big ship. On the ship were students studying the plants and animals of the sea.
The penguin splashed wildly in the water and called to the students: “Hey, good morning, snap, snap .. where are you from?”
“We actually come from many different countries. But we are all from the IGS in Vietnam.  Good morning, Xin Chau!” the students shouted politely to him.
Suddenly the little penguin was happy: “Yippee, Vietnam! There are rice fields and lizards and colorful birds. Take me with you … Take me with you! I want to go to your school. Take me with you!”
The students thought for a moment and took the little black and white penguin with them to Saigon. He was looking forward to going to school for the first time.
When the little penguin started the first class and told his stories, the class quickly became known at the school. The little penguin taught the students how to read, do arithmetic, and paint. They learned why the moon never touches the sun, why there are stars in the sky at night and why the Mekong river keeps changing its direction.
All the children at the school spoke of this class with the little penguin and from then on, the clever students in this class were lovingly called the penguins.

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Dear class 1 students,
I heard that the smart little penguin will join you in class this year.
Like the children in the story, you too will have many adventures with the little penguin this year. You will hear stories from him, enter the world of books and he will teach you to read, write and do arithmetic.
Of course, the penguin class also has two very cool captains, whom I would like to introduce to you now: I wish you and your class teacher Florian Tietz and your class teacher Jessie van der Riet a wonderful first year of school with exciting adventures and I hand over the helm to the two captains of the Penguin Class .