Our story of Handa’s Surprise has introduced the children to some new vocabulary and they have been so quick to learn all about the different fruits and animals in the story. They created their own shopping lists of the fruit from the story by carefully cutting around each fruit and adding it to their list. The children were amazing at recalling which animal took which fruit and what part of their body they used to pick it up with, such as the elephant's trunk and the parrot's beak. We were all amazed at how Handa was able to carry all that fruit in a basket on her head! We also chatted about the continent of Africa and how it is hot and sunny and we noticed how different the houses were to ours in the story. More super scissor work was used to cut around the pictures of the animals from Handa’s Surprise and stuck onto animal print to make a fabulous African animal collage.

The children were really excited to explore all the different fruits in the basket and they were amazing at