Fire - Session 5

Learning Intention:
· To work as part of a group, contributing and sharing ideas.
· To participate in drama activities, continue to create and sustain roles (within our frame)
· To make simple labels to accompany pictures for the brochure.

Steps within session:
· Memo from CFO enquiring how the work on the brochure is going and to inform them that the building work on the new education centre will start in a couple of days.
· Evaluate how the brochure is going and decide next steps.

Links with other curriculum work:
· The children have really enjoyed using the role-play area and having the opportunity to explore their own narratives, independently.
· The children have generated and written questions about what they want to find out about ‘fire-fighters’.

Review of session:
· All the children had designed a fireworks poster –“How can we decide which 1 to include in the brochure?”. A suggested a vote and the others agreed but found this difficult as they wanted to vote for their own and their friends! With support and suggestion that maybe because it was for a children’s brochure they might like one that is brightly coloured or has interesting illustrations, they narrowed it down to 3 and then voted again.
· We went on to create labelled pictures (for Literacy) of our fire-engine and uniform.
· We also added the training room and a dormitory to our plan of the fire station, since these had been suggested.

Although this provided a context for labelling (which has to be covered as a literacy objective) and was better than just labelling a picture ‘because the teacher has told me too’, I still felt this was a bland activity. The labelling on the fire station plan that we had done previously, was far more relevant and purposeful to the children in our imaginative community.

Additional curriculum coverage:
· Using phonic knowledge in writing

The children continue to use the fire-fighter topic books whenever they get a chance (particularly the boys)! Loads of discussion is generated from these! They understand the difference between a non-fiction/information book and stories.

Ideas for next moves:
· Recount an imaginary incident they have attended.