Today we were extremely lucky to have Mara Menzies, an African story teller, come and visit our class. Mara is half Scottish and half Kenyan. First she taught us how to say 'hello' in Kenyan...'Jambo' which you MUST say with a huuuge handshake.

Then she told us lots of African stories about animals; we listened to a story about why the chicken and the eagle aren't friends any more, one about the hummingbird who helped as much as he could and one about the sparrow who could fly higher than the eagle. They were very interesting and we had to help out in a few stories...

She also got us singing lots of songs and dressing up in traditional African Leso's; Mara showed us 3 different ways to wear the Leso.

We tried to jump as high as the Massai tribes men

 Finally she took out some other objects she had from Kenya

 A fly whisk, with the tail hair of a cow

 A thumb piano (mbira)

A calabash, made from a dried, hollowed out butternut squash.

 They have added a zip and use it as a purse!

We had a super morning with Mara!