Lesson Four – Harvest Hymn
This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and describe some of the different ways of celebrating the autumn harvest in Christianity by holding special festivals in churches.
The class can identify and record how lines from a hymn reflect and illustrate some of the ideas and themes of the autumn harvest in the vocabulary words and phrases.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and describe some of the different ways of celebrating the autumn harvest in Christianity by holding special festivals in churches
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special ways that churches can be decorated to celebrate the harvest, a shared reading text to suggest how lines from a hymn can reflect some of the ideas and themes of the autumn harvest and a template to select and record the meaning of song lyrics in a line from a hymn about the autumn harvest.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of the different ways of celebrating the autumn harvest in Christianity.
This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how the autumn harvest is celebrated and marked in different communities around the world. 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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