This religious education teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate the festive season.

The class can practise creating a calendar to count down the number of days left until Christmas by using numbers and a design illustration.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and describe some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate the festive season

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify shapes and objects used to represent different times of the year and a template to create a Christmas countdown calendar using special shapes and pictures to signify and celebrate Christmas.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the special shapes and pictures that can be used to signify and celebrate Christmas.

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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