Teddy Bear and Care Bear Room

Lesson: History

Individual birthdays celebrated and uploaded onto Tapestry. Children given opportunity to talk about how old they are now and how they celebrated their birthday. We also look at our birthday display train to see whose birthday is next in our class. Children often tell us about family birthdays and are asked if they would like to make a card.

Birthday role-play area set up, making birthday cards to encourage mark-making, playing party games, encouraging children to recall past birthdays. Electronic cake with candles on supplied for the children to count the candles and sing along to the ‘Happy Birthday’ song. This is also explored further in Maths, where the children have to   count out two or three candles on a cake template. The gift of giving and receiving explored through making cards, wrapping presents.