The King has arrived!

Over the last three weeks Room 1 and 2 have been looking at how Africa celebrates its customs and traditions. The class decided on holding a festival where they would help cook the lunch, go on stage and perform a dance and more importantly celebrate the arrival of their King a.k.a Mr Richardson. The menu consisted of: Bobotie and rice, boiled pumpkin, corn, buns, Yassa, Kebabs, popcorn, peanuts and banana chips. Dessert consisted of fruit punch, fruit salad and kaimati. This was followed by dried mice!

 Children enjoyed cooking their meal and performing for their King. The food was not to everyone's taste. The mice to the children's delight were not real.

Visit from Helen Clulee

Last Wednesday we were privileged to have Helen Clulee come and speak to the class. Helen lived in Africa for two years and traveled extensively while based there. Children had the opportunity to hold onto a beautiful wooden mask, soap stones and a basket that was made from plastic bags. The children had opportunities to ask questions e.g. do they have ice cream? are there swimming pools? are there children's parks?

Monkeys from Africa?

We have combined our theme of Africa with our study of symmetry and created our own version of monkeys. We have noticed that there is symmetry all around us including nature.