This religious education teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to 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.

The class can produce cards to illustrate how to welcome someone new to the classroom to record some of the special ways to show how they might be supported.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to 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

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special ways that can be used to make a visitor welcome to the classroom and a template to produce cards that can be used to welcome someone new so that they feel supported.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore produce cards that can be used to welcome a special visitor to the classroom.

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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