Stories
Personal, Social and Emotional development
It was a cold, dark
Circle-time – Taking turns to talk about weekend; discussions about how festivals are celebrated
– food, clothes, presents.
Talking about our own experiences of festivals and celebrations – Christmas, Eid, weddings,
birthdays, etc.
Compliment sheet to be introduced – chn to say what the key worker is good at, Key Worker to
talk about what they are good at.
Role-play: re-enacting Rama & Sita, weddings, birthday/Christmas parties.
Team activities during golden time.
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Old Bear
Rama and Sita
Lettice – The
Bridesmaid.
Kipper’s Birthday
Aliens love
Pantaclaus
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Communication and Language
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Home corner to become a cake shop, Winter Wonderland and
then a Christmas Grotto.
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Talk about own experiences of festivals and celebrations.
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Why and how do people celebrate Christmas, Eid,Diwali?
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Why do we celebrate bonfire night? How can we keep safe on
bonfire night?
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Using imaginative talk in role-play.
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Listen to each other’s experiences of celebrations.
EYFS: Autumn 2 2015.
Special Times
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Expressive arts and design
Create firework scene with crayons and
paint.
Making leaf hedgehogs
Making Diya lamps with clay.
Design wrapping paper for
birthday/Christmas presents.
Design a wedding outfit.
Make masks of Rama and Sita to reenact the story.
Decorate a Christmas candle.
Create a class advent calendar.
Design mendhi patterns.
Design Christmas cards.
Making Christmas decorations.
Design poster for cake shop.
Stamp design for Christmas Cards
Sing festival-related songs, e.g. ‘this
little light of mine’, ‘happy birthday’
‘here comes the bride’ ‘jingle bells’.
Singing Christmas songs for Christmas
production.
Using instruments to recreate the
sound of fireworks.
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Physical development
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Outdoor activities – can you throw
and catch the ball 4 times? Can you
try to score 6 goals? etc.
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Dance – festival and cultural.
Fine motor skills practice – threading,
sorting beads with tweezers, cutting
activities.
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Pictures of food at a birthday party –
which items of food are healthy and
which are unhealthy? Talk about
importance of a balanced diet.
Letter formation – chalks, foam, sand, paint.
Fine motor skills work
Phase 2 phonics – focusing upon letter formation;
hearing sounds and writing cvc words and short
captions.
Sequence the story of Rama and Sita, and the story of
Christmas.
Writing menu’s, ingredients, food orders for cake shop.
Writing birthday, Diwali and Christmas cards.
Writing a shared poem about fireworks.
Write a letter to Santa
Write invitation to birthday/wedding party.
Writing list of things needed for class Christmas party.
Make up own verses for 12 days of Christmas.
Alternative story endings.
Talk for writing – nursery rhyme actions
Mathematics
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Literacy
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Painting fireworks made from a repeating pattern.
Pictogram of Hedgehog’s food.
Pictogram of Children’s birthdays – which month has the
most birthdays?
Using 2d shapes to make firework rockets, rangoli
patterns, Christmas tree, snowman, crackers.
Number hunt in and around the school
Singing the ’12 days of Christmas’ – practice counting on
and back.
Creating a class advent calendar – what is the date
today? How many sleeps until Christmas?
Making cakes – how many ingredients? How many do we
need to make? What if one more child wants a cake?
What is one less child wants a cake?
Continue and create a mosaic pattern, as seen in a
Mosque.
Understanding the World
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Finding out about how and why festivals are celebrated.
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What similarities are there between festivals and celebrations? E.g. fireworks on
Bonfire Night and for Diwali, presents for birthday, weddings, Christmas and Eid.
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Talk about own experiences of celebrations – what kind of things do you do on the day?
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Talk about why we must care for animals, e.g. hedgehogs.
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Go on a winter walk – what can you see? What do the trees look life? How is this
different to when we went on an autumn walk?
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ICT – design prayer mats, rangoli patterns, Christmas cards.
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Food to be made for celebrations, e.g. cakes.