Christmas Five Powerpoints Plus Planning Catholic Flavor

Five powerpoints plus planning.

I’ve converted the powerpoints to a pdf and you can download and have a good look.

sample planning:

Ask children to think about their literacy lessons – TTYP and name the important details that are needed in telling a story

(e.g. time, place, characters and events).

Ask children to the recall names of the four main Gospels.

Do they all tell the same story? (Essentially yes but lead children towards idea that they are different versions of the same story).

Use analogy of an incident occurring on the playground – would each child tell the same incident in the same way? No they would tell their version of the same event – some details and word choices would differ.

Talk about today’s WALT and explain that we are going to be looking at some different Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus Christ. Explain to ch that, in order to achieve their WALT, they will need to be comparing and contrasting everything which they read.

Explain briefly that three out of the four Gospels deal with the birth or Christ; there are many similarities and many differences in the way in which the Gospels record and explain the event.

For today’s lesson we are going to focus on Matthew’s Gospel and Luke’s Gospel.

Children to have Bibles on carpet. Read the story of the birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew Mt. 1: 18-2:23 and the Gospel of Luke Lk. 2: 1-14.

Using the PPT ask, show children the following table:

Details found only in Matthew’s Gospel.

Details found only in Luke’s Gospel.

Details found in both Gospel’
Discuss possible reasons for the differences in the two accounts. They are coming from two different people; points of view; written at different times but the basic story is the same.

Briefly recap last lesson. Which two Gospels did we look at? Which story were we reading? Did both Gospels tell the story in