Thank you to everyone who came in and joined the sports day on Saturday. We had lots of fun and it was great to see such a turnout for a Saturday morning!

 This week we have continued our activities based on the book "Handa's Surprise" 
The class were surprised at how Handa carried her fruit basket. It looked so easy, we thought we would try it!

 We used our different senses to explore some of the fruit Handa had in her basket...

Guava and pear

pineapple 

The oranges and tangerines smelt so good!

We practised our fine motor skills and used our fingers to paint some yellow and brown pineapples.

 Library time!

Cooking dinner for the dinosaurs...

  We had some fun making elephant ears and teeth for the crocodile as we learned about African animals.

and our cheeky monkeys made some cheeky monkeys!

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Handa's Surprise

Hello! 

 This week we introduced the story Handa's surprise as part of our food and countries topic. The class were great at recognising the different African animals as they appeared to eat Handa's fruit. We looked at different kinds of fruit (kiwi, apple, orange, watermelon and bananas) and we had fun peeling and chopping them for our fruit salads. We noticed that most of the fruit had seeds and explored the different colours, textures and smells of the different fruit before mixing them together with lemon juice and a little sugar...Yum!

 (pictures to come!)

 We did some fruit shape matching activities...

The class had fun practising fine motor control using the kitchen utensils and pouring scooping and measuring  beans in the sensory tray.

Ploen was even kind enough to clean up afterwards!

 We rescued a millipede from being stomped on and rather than being scared most of the class were very curious about the little creature...

 Irene was feeling super brave and let it tickle its way across her hand!!!

 It was too cold for swimming this week but we still managed to have some water fun practising the sponge relay with Mr John. Please don't forget we have sports day this Saturday (24th Jan) from 8 am -9am for Nursery class. We look forward to a fun morning, so please bring your best cheering voices!

     Cooking with playdough is always a popular activity...

The girls are getting so good at taking responsibility for themselves and cleaning up their own messes!

  Here is a link to the story and a few of the songs we have been singing this week...

Handa's Surprise Story

Fruit salad song

 Go Go Mango Song

                                           Go Go Mango song (long version)