Nativity Scenes
This religious education scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to read and respond to the main events of the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects to make cards and decorations celebrating Christmas. The class can identify and sequence the main events in the nativity story.
Read and respond to the main events of the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects
Lesson One : Special Visitors
Identify, describe and role-play some of the different ways of preparing for a special visitor and suggest how to get ready for a celebration
Lesson Two : Advent Calendars
Identify and describe some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate the festive season
Lesson Three : Angel Gabriel
Identify and sequence a part of the nativity story about what happened when Mary was visited by the angel Gabriel
Lesson Four : Bethlehem
Use role-play and drama to understand and sequence the part of the nativity story about Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem
Lesson Five : The Shepherds
Select and record a selection of special gift ideas to give to Jesus in response to one scene from the nativity story
Lesson Six : Three Kings
Shape and combine a range of different materials to design and make Christmas star decorations to celebrate the birth of Jesus
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Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
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Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
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Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale