Advent Lesson Religious Education Year 5

A great lesson for the season of advent.

sample planning :

Begin the lesson by sharing the learning objective with the children. Give each table two different coloured post it notes and ask the children to write what they already know about advent, on one coloured post it, and anything that they would like to know about advent on the other. Children to share ideas and keep post its. If the question is not answered in the lesson they should put it in their RE book to inform the next RE lesson’s teaching.

CT and children to discuss the liturgical seasons of the year. What are they? How many are there? What is the first season of the liturgical year? Do we use colour with the liturgical seasons?

Ask the children to work on netbooks to research the meaning of the word Advent. Can they find out which language the word originates from? What does it mean?
http://projectbritain.com/Advent.html

Bring the children back together and ask them to feedback their findings to create a class mindmap. Children to then draw and complete a mind map in their books illustrating what they already know about the liturgical season of Advent.
Explore the duel meaning of the season: to prepare for the birthday of Jesus and to prepare for Jesus to come again.

Set up prayer partners for the period of advent