Bonfire Night in Reception!

 This term our learning is around the theme 'Let's Celebrate'. Each week we will be expliring new celebrations and thinking about their meanings. 

Our first one has been Bonfire Night. The children have enjoyed looking into the past to learn the History of this Celebration and why Bonfire Night is celebrated. They have also enjoyed creating fire safety posters, sparklers and creating firework pictures. 

As today was the 5th of November we decided to enjoy a Bonfire in our wildlife area. We lit the fire highlighting the safety tips for being around fire and enjoyed watching it for a few moments. We used our senses to explore the fire in more depth. 

“I can hear cracking” Thea

“It smells like smoke” Olive

We then enjoyed performing the poem we had learned for Bonfire night! 

To top our afternoon off, we enjoyed toasting marshmallows around the fire and tasting them. 

The children all followed the safety rules and behaved really well taking it in turns to use the toasting sticks - this was an excellent display of our school value of fairness! Well done Reception!