This week we have a new topic             'People Who Help Us'. 

Can we think of anyone that helps us? Let's look at our special book for this topic:

Emergency by Margaret Mayo

This week we are looking at Fire Fighters! We know a song all about Fire Fighters, lets sing it together:

 Hurry, Hurry Drive the Firetruck

We can also sing this Fire Fighter song too, you may recognise the tune of another song we love to sing at school:

Time to Fight a Fire (online)

Time to Fight a Fire (video)

Today we are going to practice our number recognition using our fine motor skills. 

There are lots of Numicon numbers hiding in the colourful rice. 

Can you use the tweezers to pull out the numbers? 

Can you tell me the number name?  

Now lets clap that number out.

Who were we learning about that can help us? That’s right - Firefighters

Could you all hear the siren of the Fire Engine?

Fire Engines

What happens if there is a fire in school? We would hear our school alarm and evacuate.

Let's listen on my computer to what our alarm sounds like, this is just a practice so that we can hear what it sounds like.

Join in with this “Community Helpers” song.

Oh, no! Our windows are on fire!

Firefighters, someone has painted some 'fire' onto our windows!

Let's put out the fire with our 'extinguishers' and spray bottles! 

Can we wash it all off? 

Who are we learning about this week? Firefighters!

Let’s find out how to use Makaton with our favourite Firefighter song.

Singing Hands - Makaton

Let’s try together...

Five Little Firemen

Shaving Cream Fire Art

Let's mix shaving cream with red and yellow paint and create fire-like art! 

I have someone hiding behind these rainbow colours, let’s uncover each one to find out who it is.

Reveal Game

Firefighters! How many firefighters could we see in our picture…3! Let’s play this game to find out what firefighters need to wear to keep them safe.

What Should Fran Wear?

If we take a close look at our firefighter picture, what colours can you see?

Red, yellow and orange. 

Let’s find our fire colour dancing scarves and move along to this piece of music. When the music is quiet shake your scarf low to the ground, when the music is loud then shake your scarf high up into the air.

The Ritual Fire Dance

Happy Diwali

Diwali is a celebration of lights and is celebrated for 5 days, with the main day being on Friday 1st November.

Let's learn a little more about this celebration by reading this story:

Diwali

During Diwali children watch fireworks, let's watch some fireworks together:

Firework show

Activity 1: During Diwali it is traditional to create pictures out of sand so we will put sand on our light table and create some art of our own!

Activity 2: Let's make some beautiful firework painting using toilet roll tubes.

Let’s check out our Makaton Signs for the week: Eat, Showe & Brush Teeth.

Makaton Signs of the Week

Let’s take a look at this week's preparation for writing programme - Wiggle me into Squiggle. This week's action is:

Down (1)

Wriggle me into a Squiggle Song Sheet

Our 'Sound Song' this week is for the letter 'S'

This week we will be looking at how the children manipulate different tools in the classroom and which hand they feel most comfortable using.