Year 1 are starting their new topic ‘Celebrations and Stories from other Cultures’. Take a look at our topic map. We’ve already jumped right into learning about Africa using the picture books Handa’s Surprise and Handa’s Hen. We are starting to investigate how different the main character’s village, clothes, home and animals, in the book, are different from what we see in Providenciales. For example, while we see potcakes, horses and cats in Providenciales. In Handa’s village in Kenya, she sees elephants and giraffes on a regular basis. Very different, indeed!
Mrs. Yorka and I have planned some fun Spanish lessons to learn about some Latin American celebrations that happen during this time of the year.
We had such a great time with our first topic, ‘Journeys’ and we will continue to build on your child’s interests,enthusiasm and excitement as we transition to our new topic.
If you have any Topic related books that you could lend our classroom, that would be wonderful.
Look out for our next Open House in the next few weeks!