The Grasshoppers explored the Handa Surprise story.
They read the story and used masks to re-tell the story, using the fruit as props.
Children remembered key phrases from the story to re-tell.
Each child represented an animal that stole the fruit from Handa's basket.
Jude pretended to be Handa with the basket on his head. Collecting tangerines just like the story.
Following on from this the children worked hard with fine motor skills to cut open the various exotic fruit.
Looking to see what was inside fruits such as papaya's guava's avocado and passion fruit.
The children cut the fruit into pieces and all tried various fruit.
Deciding if they liked each fruit.