Festivals and light

1. Bear prepositions
2. Feeling safe at night
3. Goldilocks' making amends list
4. Passing sentence on Goldilocks

1. Preposition walk
2. Reading prepositions
3. A journey of prepositions
4. Flickering candles

1. Act it out!
2. Rangoli patterns
3. Build a dark space
4. Diwali chefs

1. Share and enjoy Bears in the Night reading it and enjoying the suspense. Read the last pages really fast to get the bears safe back in bed! What makes it exciting? What do children think will be at the top of Spook Hill? What do they think that the creature is? An owl? A ghost? A monster?
2. Look again at Bears in the Night. Say that many people are afraid of the dark. Even grown-ups often feel more scared if walking in the dark, or going somewhere strange in the dark. That’s why we have festivals in winter (when it’s dark) to celebrate light – with candles/fireworks
3. Read Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali up to the end of Day 2. Have any of the children celebrated Diwali? Or do they know others who have.
4. Read the last half of Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali. Do children think it sounds fun? Recap the Days of Diwali (see resource) and discuss which day sounds like the most fun.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Penny for the Guy
Introduce Penny for the Guy this week. Children will work to learn the rhyme off by heart.

Essential text: Bears in the Night by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Websites
Oral story of Rama and Sita - Part 1 and Part 2 from Hamilton Trust
Rangoli patterns from jenniferslittleworld.com or rangoli patterns from activityvillage.co.uk
Coloured rice from theimaginationtree.com
Bead designs from jenniferslittleworld.com
Rangoli patterns to colour from activityvillage.co.uk
Handel's Water Music from youtube.com

Resources
Cloaks and sleeping bag for role play
Dark or black out material
Ingredients for burfi sweets
Torches