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RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary
LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Prepare Salvation topic: Advent/Christmas Human person Topic: People
prepare for special times
Year Level: Year 1 Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
C2 following of Jesus show love for God and others
Students can name ways people their age can show
during advent and Christmas
love for others at Christmas
Students can identify ways the church family waits to
celebrate the birthday of Jesus
Learning Point(s):
C2.1 illustrates ways followers of Jesus can show love for
God and others.
Spiritual and Religious Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance Faith Hope Charity
eg Right choices eg Right eg Inner strength eg Moderation eg Prayer eg Reconciliation eg Service
relationships
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence
Students are able to create a prayer thanking God for the gifts of Jesus
Students identify ways followers of Jesus can show love for God and others
5 min Teacher will proceed to discuss with the class the importance
and the celebration of Jesus birth, that his followers make an
extra effort to live as God wants. What this means is they try
harder to be kind and loving.
5 min Students will be asked to quietly walk back to their desks and
brain storm in groups
Followers of Jesus show their love for God and others as they
help others as they prepare to celebrate the birthday of Jesus.
They show love at home or at school by:
- Helping to clean up
- Helping with Christmas decorations
- Creating gifts to give the people they love or people in need
- Creating Christmas cards to remind others of this special
times
Once students have had time, they come back to the mat to
discuss their ideas
Teacher will make a class advent list of good actions that the Class advent list
10 students can give as gifts, for example could be
min - Leave a special treat on someone’s desks
- Hug
- Share their belongings
- Help to clean up
- Write a special note commenting about something good another
person has done
5 min Teacher will have all the students name written and cut up on a Students name written up
piece of paper and put into a gift box
Gift box
Teacher will proceed to tell the students that they are becoming
secret ‘advent angels’ for someone whose name will be drawn
out of the gift box. Each student thinks of some good things they
could do for this secret friend.
Teacher calls one child at a time to draw a name from the gift
5 min
box.
The children choose, from the advent list, ways to show love for
their chosen person.
To conduct the lesson children come quietly back to the mat and
5 min
sit with their ‘advent angel’ partner and sit crossed legged
The teacher will select a few advent angels and their partners to
stand up at the front of the class and discuss what findings they
found as followers of Jesus.
Teacher will finish the lesson by expressing some personal acts
of kindness and gestures that as the teacher exemplifies to
celebrate Jesus birthday.
2 min
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
The teacher will ask all the children to move quietly and
respectfully back to their desks.
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Prayer:
Dear Lord,
Thank you for the gift of
Jesus, the gift of love. Help
us give loving gifts of
kindness, this Christmas
and always
Amen