Creativity is Contagious

The Grade R girls are learning all about our colourful rainbow nation South Africa. This wonderful theme allows us to encompass so many of the different learning skills whilst learning about our beautiful country. The girls have loved listening to different South African stories which cover many perceptual skills. This particular story, Handa’s surprise, covers the important perceptual skills of listening, sequencing the story, ordinal numbers, matching objects as well as biggest to smallest.

Handa's Surprise is a book written by Eileen Browne. The book is about a Kenyan girl Handa who carries a basket of seven different fruits to surprise for her friend Akeyo. Along the way to Akeyo's village, Handa contemplates which fruit Akeyo will like the best. However, each time Handa thinks about a certain fruit, a hungry animal pops along and takes that fruit from her basket. It’s Handa who gets the surprise when she reaches the village.

The girls loved using a pencil to plan and draw Handa’s face and a basket filled with the different fruit on her head. They then used pastels to shade and colour in their beautiful masterpiece. As Albert Einstein says, “Creativity is contagious, pass it on!” That’s what we do in Grade R!