Africa!

We have had a fantastic cultural week this week. Stephan's family come from Kenya and he brought in some Kenyan beaded jewellery to show the class. We all made our own necklaces.
We had a focus on pattern for maths and made patterns on our necklaces and the clay tiles that we made. Mrs. O worked with some children to copy the patterns off African textiles. We all had a go at writing books about Africa.
We had an African Dance workshop. We learned how to dance to African music. Look at our website for a picture. We learned some Swahili. 'Jambo' in Swahili is 'Hello'.
We read the story of Handa's Surprise and then all the children made fruit skewers using the African fruits from the story.
It is half term next week so our home learning is to do the Autumn challenge to make money for the school, which has been sent home in the book bags.