A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Celebrations, exploring different types of festivals, special foods, customs, and clothing, along with letter Zz phonics, a comprehensive numeracy recap, and making party hats.
What children learn
- Explain what celebrations are and why people hold them.
- Compare kinds of celebrations and associated foods and clothing.
- Recognise selected celebrations in India and the customs connected with them.
- Recognise and write Zz and revisit colours, shapes, numbers, correspondence, and comparative concepts.
Key activities
- Making and decorating a celebration display from cardboard
- Comparing images and videos of different celebrations
- Modelling celebratory foods with clay or dough
- Designing special-occasion clothing with paint and crayons
- Making a Warli-style celebration painting while discussing festivals in India
You’ll need
celebration and festival images or videos, cardboard and string, decorative materials and paint, clay or dough, coloured paper and crayons, special-clothing pictures, animal and paper-plate cut-outs, letter Zz cards, shape and colour cards, number cards and counting objects
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy