What Children will: Looking at reminders of special days Children can talk about a Links to Early Find out what Fill a box with a selection of cards and wrapping paper special celebration and how Learning Goals: special special are depicting different occasions e.g. birthday, wedding, celebration makes people feel. Respond to times do we celebrated and talk about how christening, Christmas, Mother’s Day. A Box’ A significant ‘Celebrations celebrate? celebrations happen. firework. experiences, ‘spent’ Pass the box round for the pupils to choose an item and showing a range of describe it. Who would you give the card and gifts to? Can feelings when they guess when we send each card or which wrapping paper appropriate. (PSED) we would use? Run a make cards’ and play post A resource like ‘lets ‘let’s ‘Say boxes’ activity. Children give cards to each other. Hello to...’ from RE Explore feelings about celebrations. Use a Box’ today is a good ‘Feelings containing pictures or simple words happy, full of starting point when ‘feelings’ – fun, joyful, glad, together, excited: when do we feel these children first emotions? Can they choose pairs of things from the encounter a celebration box and the feelings box. religion in school. Talking about some well known celebrations birthday, – Christmas, Eid Divali and others is good, but will be – developed more fully later in the unit. What experiences of celebrations do children have a birthday baking party, or – make a wedding cake and enact the ceremony. Time to choose Ask children to choose presents and cards for people celebrating different festivals and events: what would they give to someone for a wedding, birthday, baby naming, Christmas, Eid, Divali celebration?
What special times do we celebrate? Children will: Find out what special are celebrated and talk about how celebrations happen. Looking at reminders of special days Fill a box with a selection of cards and wrapping paper depicting different occasions e.g. birthday, wedding, christening, Christmas, Mother’s Day. A ‘Celebrations Box’ A ‘spent’ firework. Pass the box round for the pupils to choose an item and describe it. Who would you give the card and gifts to? Can they guess when we send each card or which wrapping paper we would use? Run a ‘lets make cards’ and ‘let’s play post boxes’ activity. Children give cards to each other. Explore feelings about celebrations. Use a ‘Feelings Box’ containing ‘feelings’ pictures or simple words – happy, full of fun, joyful, glad, together, excited: when do we feel these emotions? Can they choose pairs of things from the celebration box and the feelings box. Talking about some well known celebrations – birthday, Christmas, Eid Divali and others – is good, but will be developed more fully later in the unit. What experiences of celebrations do children – have a birthday baking party, or make a wedding cake and enact the ceremony. Time to choose Ask children to choose presents and cards for people celebrating different festivals and events: what would they give to someone for a wedding, birthday, baby naming, Christmas, Eid, Divali celebration? Children can talk about a special celebration and how celebration makes people feel. Links to Early Learning Goals: Respond to significant experiences, showing a range of feelings when appropriate. (PSED) A resource like ‘Say Hello to...’ from RE today is a good starting point when children first encounter a religion in school.
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