Go Wild in Africa!

For the last couple of weeks and for the rest of this term our topic in Year 1 is Africa. Last week we focused our learning on the book 'We're going on a lion hunt.' We noticed that the patterned language and repeated phrases made it really easy for us to learn the story and we even put actions to it to help us retell it. We then had a go at writing our own versions of the story.

We have also been doing lots of Geography learning and have found out where Africa is and can locate it on a map. We know that Africa is a continent and is made up of lots of different countries. We have been learning about the cultures and traditions in different African countries. We looked carefully at what some people in Africa wear and were particularly interested in the jewelery so we had a go at making our own African necklaces. We painted pasta and then made our necklaces by creating a repeating pattern.