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Bonfire Night and Remembrance
Personal, social and emotional Development
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Emotion and feelings exploration: Using the Colour Monster, feelings cards, or emotive stories for children to identify and express happiness, sadness, or frustration.
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Turn-taking and sharing: Interactive group games, role-play in home or shop corners, and cooperative art projects to develop collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
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Sensory exploration: Bonfire night themed sensory play using glitter and stars. engagement
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Physical Development
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Playdough-Make playdough in bright colours, use this to make a bonfire and exploding fireworks.
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Who can zoom like a rocket?
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Look at the effect of excersise on our bodies.
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How many ways can we move- crawling, running, jumping, rolling.
Communication and Language.
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Provide bonfire and remembrance themed role play to encourage chatter and extend vocabulary.
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Learn rhymes about fireworks and poppies.
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New vocabulary- bonfire, pop, wizz, bang, fizz. Remembering, poppies
Literacy
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Stories- The owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson.
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Provide lots of opportunities for mark making.
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Encourage emergent writing.
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Make a books about bonfire night and remembrance day.
Mathematical Development
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Children count fireworks and place the matching numeral, supporting one‑to‑one correspondence and number formation, this activity can also be done using poppies
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Use beads, sequins or buttons to create repeating patterns on bonfire-themed mats.
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Practice subitising with small groups of poppies or peg-counting activities.
Understanding the World
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Look at how the season is changing.
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Bonfire sensory bins using tissue paper “flames” and foam logs
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Glow‑stick sensory bottles to explore light and movement
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Listening to firework sounds and describing “bang,” “whizz,” “pop”.
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Go on a sensory walk- look for different sights, smells and textures?
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Talk about poppies being "Remembering Flowers."
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Visit the senataph.
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Watch CBEEBIES Poppies.
Expressive Arts and Design
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Use a variety of media and loose parts to make bonfire pictures.
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Provide black paper, salt, glitter and glue to make exploding fireworks.
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Dance to our favourite music.
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Provide circles to make into poppies