Lesson Four – Bethlehem
This religious education teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to use role-play and drama to understand and sequence the part of the nativity story about Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem.
The class can select and combine materials to make a model of a stable to illustrate what happened in this section of the nativity story to illustrate character actions and thoughts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to use role-play and drama to understand and sequence the part of the nativity story about Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explore and understand a key event in the nativity story about the journey to Bethlehem and a set of cards to sequence sentences recording the story of Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use role-play and drama to understand and sequence part of the nativity story about the journey to Bethlehem.
This lesson is part of a topic scheme of work to get the children to read and respond to the sequence of events in the nativity story by using drama, role-play and art and design projects. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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