SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Prepare Salvation topic: Advent/Christmas Human person Topic: People
prepare for special times
Year Level: Year 1 Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
C2 following of Jesus show love for God and others
Students can name ways people their age can show
during advent and Christmas
love for others at Christmas
Students can identify ways the church family waits to
celebrate the birthday of Jesus
Learning Point(s):
C2.1 illustrates ways followers of Jesus can show love for
God and others.

Spiritual and Religious Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance Faith Hope Charity
eg Right choices eg Right eg Inner strength eg Moderation eg Prayer eg Reconciliation eg Service
relationships
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Sustainability
histories and cultures Asia
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Students identify different ways they can do good, kind, helpful things in celebration of Jesus birthday

 Students are able to create a prayer thanking God for the gifts of Jesus

 Students identify ways followers of Jesus can show love for God and others

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

(include Teacher Witness) Choose One from:
• Gifted
Teacher can draw on their own experiences and share • Sensory impaired
• Learning difficulty
some ideas of ways the teacher performs acts of kindness
and gestures to others in celebration of the birth of Jesus. Sensory impaired: A student with sensory processing
Examples would include helping people in need, hugging disorder the teacher sits the student away from the
people in times of hardship and cleaning up around the doors and windows, minimize the amount of visual
house. information on a page and provide the student with a
quite space so they don’t become overwhelmed by
the noise of others.
 Whiteboard markers
 White board Choose One from:
 Gift box • ADHD
• Intellectual disability
 Prayer sheets
  Non-perishable items for sacred space • Physical disability
Intellectual disability:
Students will not be singled out but, children who
need extra attention will be paired together and the
EA will be working with them and paying more
attention to the students that require it.

LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant

Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
 Children are sitting cross legged on the mat, waiting for the where they will be introduced
teacher to address the class to proceed the lesson

5 min  Teacher will proceed to discuss with the class the importance
and the celebration of Jesus birth, that his followers make an
extra effort to live as God wants. What this means is they try
harder to be kind and loving.

5 min  Students will be asked to quietly walk back to their desks and
brain storm in groups

 Followers of Jesus show their love for God and others as they
help others as they prepare to celebrate the birthday of Jesus.
They show love at home or at school by:

- Helping to clean up
- Helping with Christmas decorations
- Creating gifts to give the people they love or people in need
- Creating Christmas cards to remind others of this special
times

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

 Once students have had time, they come back to the mat to
discuss their ideas

5 min  Teacher brainstorms children’s ideas of ways they can do good,

White board markers
kind, helpful, or surprising things for others as way of preparing
White board
to celebrate Jesus’s birthday.

 Teacher will make a class advent list of good actions that the Class advent list
10 students can give as gifts, for example could be
min - Leave a special treat on someone’s desks
- Hug
- Share their belongings
- Help to clean up
- Write a special note commenting about something good another
person has done

5 min  Teacher will have all the students name written and cut up on a Students name written up
piece of paper and put into a gift box
 Gift box
 Teacher will proceed to tell the students that they are becoming
secret ‘advent angels’ for someone whose name will be drawn
out of the gift box. Each student thinks of some good things they
could do for this secret friend.

 Teacher calls one child at a time to draw a name from the gift
5 min
box.

 The children choose, from the advent list, ways to show love for
their chosen person.

10  To proceed the lesson students will conduct a prayer Class prayer

min
 In the classroom the teacher has provided a sacred space where
children are invited to donate to their local St Vincent de Paul, Non-perishable items
good Sammy ect non-perishable items being tinned fruit, toys,
etc for families in need at Christmas time. The gifts are placed in
the sacred space and the class prays.
Prayer:
Dear Lord, thank you for the gift of Jesus, the gift of love. Help us give
loving gifts of kindness, this Christmas and always, Amen.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

 To conduct the lesson children come quietly back to the mat and
5 min
sit with their ‘advent angel’ partner and sit crossed legged
 The teacher will select a few advent angels and their partners to
stand up at the front of the class and discuss what findings they
found as followers of Jesus.
 Teacher will finish the lesson by expressing some personal acts
of kindness and gestures that as the teacher exemplifies to
celebrate Jesus birthday.

2 min
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
 The teacher will ask all the children to move quietly and
respectfully back to their desks.
.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will they be

assessed?)
Were the students able to identify different ways to do good, kind, helpful
things in celebration of Jesus birthday, objective can be met through
checklists and anecdotal notes.
Students able to create
Example

Prayer:

Dear Lord,
Thank you for the gift of
Jesus, the gift of love. Help
us give loving gifts of
kindness, this Christmas
and always

Amen