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Reception Celebrations
Celebrating Me

Meet `Maisy Mouse´, listen to a story and think about what makes you special. Investigate birth months, the days of the week and make simple pictograms. How do you celebrate your birthdays? Do you have a party? Plan a surprise party for someone special in school.

block outcomes

Session 1 Magical Me!

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Be confident to say why some activities are liked more than others.
  • Be confident to speak in a familiar group and will talk about ideas.
  • Understand other children do not always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
  • Know about similarities and differences between others, and among families, communities and traditions.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Children are introduced to Maisy Mouse; Maisy tells children a story about being special. Afterwards children will think about what makes them and members of their family special.

Children will:

  • Identify and understand that children have different talents/qualities that make them special.
  • Express personal opinions, acknowledge those of others and respond respectfully to them.
  • Use play experiences to share knowledge of themselves.
  • Visit 'Pobble' website.

Provided Resources

  • I am special song lyrics
  • How to make a Magical Me shield
  • I am special badges

You Will Need

  • Mouse puppet
  • Tambourine
  • Magnifying glasses
  • Ink
  • Chalk
  • Old birthday cards and invitations
  • Templates

Session 2 Happy Birthday!

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Know that other children do not always enjoy the same things, and are sensitive to this.
  • Know about similarities and differences between others, and among families, communities and traditions.
  • Represent own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.
  • Try new activities, and say why some activities are liked more than others.

Lesson Planning

Children find a mystery present and think about what the occasion could be. They consider why birthdays are celebrated; look through a keyhole into another child´s life to see how they celebrate.

Children will:

  • Develop tolerance, understanding and respect for others; know people celebrate birthdays in different ways.
  • Use play experiences to show their knowledge of birthdays.
  • Increase self-knowledge of their own family and their birthday traditions.

Provided Resources

  • Happy Birthday songs from around the world
  • Blank birthday invitations
  • Making play dough birthday cakes

You Will Need

  • Prepare a mystery present with a question mark image: inside place a balloon, card, invitation and a candle
  • Bag of balloons, party hats, plastic cups, plates, cutlery
  • Plastic play food and plastic cake, candles.
  • Play dough resource
  • World and UK maps
  • Games, jigsaws and puzzles
  • Tracing paper and pencils
  • Small world houses, buildings and people

Session 3 Special Birthdays

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Talk about past and present events in own lives and in the lives of family members.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.
  • Use everyday language to solve problems and recognise, create and describe patterns.
  • Count reliably with numbers from one to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number.
  • Develop narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.

Lesson Planning

All aboard the birthday train! Children will go on an adventure to `Birthday Land´. What will they discover on the way? Back to class for a birthday themed Maths session!

Children will:

  • Celebrate the uniqueness of their birthday celebrations and those of their classmates.
  • Know the months of the year and days of the week.
  • Use play experiences to build upon mathematical knowledge.
  • Describe `Birthday Land'.

You Will Need

  • Selection of objects, e.g. football, teddy, car or a bag
  • Different sized pieces of wrapping paper measured to fit an object
  • Sellotape
  • Driver´s cap
  • Pieces of scrap paper to use as tickets

Session 4 Planning a celebration

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events, and respond to what is heard with relevant comments, questions or actions.
  • Say why some activities are liked more than others.
  • Speak confidently in a familiar group, and talk about ideas.
  • Work as part of a group or class.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Surprise! Children will read about Alfie´s birthday surprise, and then prepare for a secret surprise for someone special in school.

Children will:

  • Identify personal talents and different roles and responsibilities.
  • Be part of the party planning process and identify the contribution made by different peoples at special times.
  • Make a` You are Special´ book.
  • Recognise the importance of celebrations and taking time to celebrate together.
  • Visit 'Pobble' website.

Provided Resources

  • Ideas for decorations
  • Letter to parents/carers

You Will Need

  • Whiteboard and pens
  • Cake ingredients, materials and access to an oven

Session 5 Let's celebrate!

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Try new activities confidently, and say why some activities are liked more than others.
  • Speak confidently in a familiar group and talk about ideas
  • Choose the resources needed for chosen activities.
  • Express self effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.

Lesson Planning

Children will make the final party preparations, wait for the special guest to arrive and share their achievements.

Children will:

  • Present a part of their learning.
  • Host and make final preparations for a special celebration.
  • Celebrate their achievements describing what they enjoyed the most.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • The decorations and cake
  • You are special books from session 4
  • All work from this block readily available
  • A small box for children to stand on

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