Collected Resources

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.

1. Firework safety
2. Describing fireworks
3. Fireworks feelings
4. Describing light and dark

1. Fireworks safety poster
2. Describing fireworks
3. Rama and Sita
4. Describing the dark

1. Making Divas!
2. Make a timer
3. Shadow experiments
4. Firework pictures

1. Share the story Rama and Sita on the IWB. Remind children that these names were in ‘Let’s Celebrate….’ That we read last week.
2. Share Firework Night: The Story of November 5th (see resources). Discuss how we have fireworks all over England on 5th November. Do some children go to a bonfire party? Or share sparklers.
3. Look again at Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali and look at Day 3. The little clay pots to hold the candles are called divas. Talk about how we use candles in our homes/lives.
4. Look again at Rama and Sita on the IWB. Remind children of the ending. People lit divas in their homes to celebrate the return of Rama & Sita. Now they light divas to remember.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Penny for the Guy and Remember, remember
Use Remember, remember and say this together. Continue to learn the rhyme from last week, Penny for the Guy.

Group Reader: Rama and Sita
This colourful retelling of the traditional tale of Rama and Sita will enchant beginning readers.

1. Christmas cards
2. The Jolly Christmas Postman
3. Sending cards
4. Family traditions