Bonfire Night Provision Enhancements
Bonfire Night Provision Enhancements
This Bonfire Night provision enhancement resource includes a variety of activities for enhancing provision in the classroom. The activities can be used to support independent or adult-led play across 6 different areas of provision. Children will enjoy exploring and learning all about Bonfire Night. Each card includes helpful advice as well as questions that could be asked to prompt discussion.
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Development Matters and Early Learning Goal Links:
3 and 4 year olds
Communication and Language
Develop their communication, but may continue to have problems with irregular tenses and plurals, such as ‘runned’ for ‘ran’, ‘swimmed’ for ‘swam’.
Use longer sentences of four to six words.
PSED
Increasingly follow rules, understanding why they are important.
Physical Development
Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.
Show a preference for a dominant hand.
Mathematics
Talk about and explore 2D and 3D shapes (for example, circles, rectangles, triangles and cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: ‘sides’, ‘corners’; ‘straight’, ‘flat’, ‘round’.
Select shapes appropriately: flat surfaces for building, a triangular prism for a roof etc.
Expressive Arts and Design
Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses etc.
Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park.
Explore different materials freely, to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.
Children in Reception
Communication and Language
Ask questions to find out more and to check they understand what has been said to them.
Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
Physical Development
Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently. Suggested tools: pencils for drawing and writing, paintbrushes, scissors, knives, forks and spoons.
Mathematics
Select, rotate and manipulate shapes in order to develop spatial reasoning skills.
Expressive Arts and Design
Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.
Develop storylines in their pretend play.
Early Learning
Communication and Language
Listen attentively and respond to what they hear with relevant questions, comments and actions when being read to and during whole class discussions and small group interactions.
Make comments about what they have heard and ask questions to clarify their understanding.
Express their ideas and feelings about their experiences using full sentences, including use of past, present and future tenses and making use of conjunctions, with modelling and support from their teacher.
PSED
Explain the reasons for rules, know right from wrong and try to behave accordingly.
Physical Development
Negotiate space and obstacles safely, with consideration for themselves and others.
Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery.
Mathematics
There is no Early Learning Goal for shape, space and measures, but it is important that the curriculum includes rich opportunities for children to develop their spatial reasoning skills across all areas of mathematics.
Expressive Arts and Design
Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.
Perform songs, rhymes, poems and stories with others, and, when appropriate, try to move in time with music.
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