Lesson Six – Harvest Decorations
This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and describe some of the different ways that Christians celebrate the autumn harvest by holding a church festival.
The class can design and create some example harvest plaits to present in a special display area in the classroom ready for a harvest festival that can be celebrated in a special assembly.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and describe some of the different ways that Christians celebrate the autumn harvest by holding a church festival
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes and colours used to celebrate the harvest and a worksheet to follow a set of instructions to make a decoration of a plait shape that can be used to celebrate the harvest in a special festival.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of different ways that Christians celebrate the harvest in a church festival.
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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