Handa’s Surprise

Reception class loved our focus book Handa’s Surprise! As part of our learning the children worked in groups to sequence the story, developing their team work and comprehension skills:

The children had the opportunity to taste the seven delicious fruits in the story:

Using this experience the children were then able to write sentences to describe the fruit:

We also explored how to use fruit in art through the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who created portraits by painting fruits to form a head. The children created their own pieces of art in his style:

The children even used the fruit to explore measuring and comparing weight:

Well done Reception!