This week we read the story Handa’s Surprise. In the story Handa fills her basket with 7 different fruits to take to her friend Akeyo. On the way lots of different animals take the fruit from the basket until it is empty but just before Handa gets to Akeyo’s, an antelope runs into a tree and knocks lots of tangerines in the the basket instead and they just happen to be Akeyo’s favourite!

After reading the story we chopped and tasted some of the fruits that Handa had in her basket including banana, pineapple, orange, mango and passion fruit. The children learnt to make a bridge shape with their fingers and thumb then cut in between to chop as safely as possible and keep the knife away from their fingers. After tasting everyone thought of some adjectives to describe the fruits such as soft, juicy and sweet.

This week we have also continued with our DT project to make our own animal print using paper, felt and sewing them together with a needle and thread. Having designed their animal print last week, the children used a pencil/chalk to mark onto the felt and cut using some sharp scissors. They placed the pieces onto an A5 piece of paper ready for sewing.

This week the children have also been using the colourful semantics to make some sentences. They begin who (orange) then move onto the verb, what they are doing (yellow) then finish with the what/object (green.) We came up with lots of silly sentences like ‘The unicorn is drinking clothes.’