On Bonfire Night - Fireworks Rhyme EYFS/Y1

On Bonfire Night at 5 o’clock I took my money to the firework shop. Use this ppt with animation and sounds for a maths, literacy or actions focus to enhance your children’s enjoyment of the traditional rhyme.

The firework shop is full of rockets, bangers, rip raps, whizzers and fountains and they all make a sound. Everything costs between 1p and 5p. This presentation incorporates words, sounds and animated pictures to enable you to chant and move with the children or for the children to enjoy on a computer or tablet by themselves. All the fireworks move or make a sound on a click or tap. The cost of each firework is illustrated with 1p coins to the correct amount.

In the classroom I chant this song with a strong rhythm that works well with the actions and sounds, but you will also find sung versions on the Internet.

Ideas:
Maths: Use the Powerpoint as a whole class introduction, perhaps role-playing paying with coins. You can then set up a firework shop role-play activity with construction toy fireworks to make and sell (Sticklebricks and K’nex are quite good for this). Perhaps print off some of the slides, adding prices. You could also include a clock to practice ‘5 o’clock’ or another time.
Literacy: Go through the rhyme regularly with the children to help them learn the song. Enjoy the firework sounds. Change the rhyme to include other fireworks and choose more sounds to make. Children old enough to be spelling or segmenting can spell and write the words.
If children can use a computer or tablet independently as part of continuous provision in your setting, they can move through the presentation, chanting with the pictures, using the mouse, arrow keys or swiping.
Movement: Learn the song together in group or whole class times with hand actions. When everyone is familiar with the rhyme, scale up the movement inside or outside, incorporating ribbons and streamers with whole body actions. You could even include instruments to reinforce their understanding of the sounds.

Hints:
This is an editable presentation. Once downloaded remember to create a master copy then you can create other versions to suit your focus. Don’t forget to change these to read-only as the Powerpoint is full of animations and timings.