Learning objective
- To explore how some Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah by learning about the story behind it.
EYFS outcomes
Development matters
Understanding the world
Children in reception will be learning to:
- Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.
See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance) – contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Understanding the world
ELG: Past and present
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society.
ELG: People culture and communities
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.
Support and challenge
Adults can use the opportunity to:
- Provide an image of a hanukiah on the whiteboard (or use slide 7 of the Presentation: Hanukkah) that children can use as a prompt when making their own.
- Pre-cut the candles using the Activity: Hanukiah candles.
- Children could make a hanukiah using modelling dough, lolly stick candles for the candles and tissue paper glued on for the flames.
- Challenge the children to cut their own candles using strips of white paper.
- Ask the children if they can make any links to Diwali.
Key vocabulary
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hanukiah
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Hanukkah
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Jewish
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temple
