Remembrance Day
Personal Social and Emotional
Talk to the children about how you might remember a Great Grandad, or Grandad who helped keep our country safe during the war and talk about how some Daddies and Mummies work in the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force to help keep us safe now.
Communication and Language
Explain to the group of children that they are going to play a memory game about Remembrance Sunday. Using some pictures such as an old aeroplane, a boat, a tank, a soldier, a poppy, a monument, and a church; show them these pictures and talk about them. Then place them on a tray and cover them with a cloth. Ask the children to close their eyes. Take one picture away and lift the cover; see if any of the children remember which picture is missing. Repeat with other pictures or objects, encourage children with clues as required.
Physical Development
Encourage the children to draw their own poppy pictures. Use play dough and create poppies using flower cutters. Play marching games around the garden.
Literacy
Look at factual books and pictures about Remembrance Day.
Mathematics
Play a poppy size ordering game. Ask the children to place the poppies in size order. Count the poppies and match the number to the quantity.
Understanding the World
Ask children to bring in photos of family members who keep them safe or who are heroes to them. Go for walks to the Carterton War Memorial. Encourage the children to join in with the 2-minute silence on Remembrance Day.
Expressive Art and Design
Create poppies: Paint a poppy, handprint poppy/wreath, glue and sticking activity poppy (using card, lolly sticks or straws). Make poppy biscuits. Design a Remembrance Day medal.
Focused Vocabulary
Remembrance Day, 11th November, Poppy, Cenotaph, Monument, Army, Soldier, Navy, Sailor, Royal Air Force, Airman, Medal.