Winter Lights and Christmas

Get creative with descriptive words while learning about Diwali and Firework Night inspired by the texts Rama and Sita and Let's celebrate 5 days of Diwali. Have fun sharing Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present to inspire children to talk about their Christmas and Winter Traditions, as well as to write their own thank you letters to Santa.

UNIT PLANS

Winter Lights (suggested as 5 days)

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Active Learning

Group Learning

Group Learning

Exploring and Playing

Firework pictures
Build a dark space
Shadow experiments
Making Divas!

Activity Cards

You Will Need

Essential texts
Firework Night: The Story of November 5th (provided in resources)

Group Readers
Rama and Sita by Ruth Merttens

Group Readers

Rama and Sita

This colourful retelling of the traditional tale of Rama and Sita will enchant beginning readers. Perfect for using when teaching about Diwali and looking at festivals of light.

Group Reader

Phonics: Code-Breakers

Code-Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion.

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SPaG Presentations

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Alternatively, these presentations can be used as stand-alone whiteboard sessions. Try your year group below.

Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Group Readers

Group Readers are charmingly illustrated short books written to facilitate reading and comprehension progression from Reception right through to Year 6.

R Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6

English Reception/Year 1 Autumn Description, Letters and Greetings