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Handa's surprise - Coggle Diagram
Handa's surprise
areas
communication and language
Evoke the landscape of the story in a large activity tray for children to create narratives together. Add sand, pebbles, leaves and bark along with small world characters.
Provide these Handa's Surprise Sequencing Cards and invite children to peg them in the right order on a washing line and then retell the story to each other.
Hide the animals from the story in the outside area. Each time children find one, encourage them to describe it using a wide variety of adjectives.
understand the world
science
water cycle
native animals
food, health, vitamins
geography
map features
Design maps to show Handa’s route to Akeyo’s village and show the spots where the animals were hiding.
desert, mountains, water, forest
countries in africa
Egypt, South Africa, Kenya,
climate
History
evolution
development of africa
social development
Talk about surprises. Why was Handa surprised in this story? Why did she want to give Akeyo a surprise? Have the children ever received surprise gifts?
Encourage children to help prepare healthy fruit snacks for the group. They could wash fruit and help slice bananas or avocados. They might create faces made from fruit too.
Pass a pebble around the circle. Each child has a turn to name a food to go in Handa’s basket.
sharing wit friends
Physical Development
Offer orange-scented playdough to make fruits for Handa’s basket by rolling, squeezing and pressing. Provide pictures of different fruits and some small baskets.
Encourage children to explore balancing baskets or quoits on their heads and walking along chalked routes or planks. Add different surfaces or slopes for a challenge.
Make cardboard heads of the animals from the story with cut-out mouths. Invite children to feed them with conkers or pom-poms using spoons or tweezers.
Invite children to move in different ways like the animals. They could flap like parrots, swing like monkeys or stamp like elephants.
walk in a straight line balancing a book on their head
weave a basket
dance ZUMBA
LITERACY
CHINESE
ENGLISH
Write CVC words on cut-out fruit images and hide them for children to find, read and collect in a basket.
Invite children to write letters from the animals to Handa using their phonic knowledge. They might say which fruit they took and why. Children might also try Handa's Surprise Caption Writing Activity
Provide baskets, fruits and animal masks. Create a path outdoors and invite children to re-enact the story using language from the book.
Make alliterative animal names, such as ‘zoomy zebra’ or ‘giddy goat’, encouraging the children to join in.
Invite children to create “I like…” books for Handa, Akeyo and some of the animals which feature objects that start with the initial sound of their names.
Mathematics
Explore subitising using real or pretend fruit from Handa’s basket. Hide and reveal fruits or arrange them in dice patterns
Invite children to create a pictogram of their favourite fruit or animal using sticky notes. Compare numbers for each option.
Hide ten tangerines (either real or cut-outs) and invite children to find and add them to a large ten-frame. Talk about how many there are and how many there still are to find.
Compare different fruits using balancing scales or by measuring lengths using interlocking cubes.
Explore the concept of one less as the animals take the fruits away. Invite children to find ways of recording this.
measure running (akeyo walks)
Art
Create tapping rhythms to accompany Handa and the animals. Children might use claves or wooden spoons and pots.
Invite children to build Handa and Akeyo’s houses using resources, such as wooden bricks and plant materials.
Provide natural materials for children to create paths for a Handa figure to follow from village to village.
Invite children to create clothing for Handa and Akeyo by decorating plain fabric. They might use fabric crayons or attach cut out shapes.
Offer a selection of traditional music from Kenya and neighbouring countries for children to respond to by dancing or playing instruments.
introduce african music/patterns
digtal awareness
qr code scan
take picture of their work
VOCABULARY
ENGLISH
vocabulary
fruit: avocado, mango, passion fruit, tangerine
taste: sweet, tangy, sour, salty, spicy, cold, hot yummy, disgusting
animals: zebra, ostrich, monkey, giraffe, goat, parrot
hippo etc
favourite
adjectives: delicious, sweet-smelling, soft, yellow, round, juicy, ride, red, spiky, creamy, green, tangy, purple,
he/she
Phrases
will she like?
I wonder....
CHINESE
books
fictiorn
the last leaf
Handa's noisy night
amara's farm
fruit bowl
broken crayo s still colour
platanos gp with everything
berry song
red hen
the whale who ate plastic
Handa's hen
non-fiction
a ticket around the world
let's explore african safari
Ancient egypt
human body
water well
evolution