Intro Quiz: How is Christmas celebrated?

Video: How is Christmas celebrated?

﻿Hi everyone I'm Miss Harris and welcome to today's RE lesson. What's your name? Great and lovely to meet you. Now today we are going to have our second RE lesson. Can you remember what RE means? Mm, can you remember? It means Religious Education, that's the lesson we're going to be doing today. And we are going to be looking at how Christmas is celebrated. So let's take a look at our agenda, so we're going to be looking at when is Christmas. We did this last lesson but we are going to recap when it is on our calendar. We're going to look at where Christians place of worship is. We're going to look at what do Christians do on Christmas. We're going to look at some Christian traditions and then we've got our end of lesson quiz. You will need an exercise book or a piece of paper, a pencil, a coloured pencil so that you can tick or fix your answers and your teddy bear because we're going to watch part of a video in today's lesson. So it would be really great if you could sit with your teddy bear on your lap to watch it. Okay? Here are our star words so we are going to say them first to our screen, so my turn then your turn, are you ready? nativity carols Christian tree gifts bell Church Say that one more time, Church Great. Now who celebrates Christmas? Can you remember? Who celebrates Christmas? Mm, can you remember? Christians, well done. But do you have to be a Christian to celebrate Christmas? No. Lots of people who aren't Christians do celebrate Christmas it's a celebration of life. Can you remember when Christmas is? Have a look are my calender, when is Christmas? Can you put your finger on the date of Christmas on my calendar? So it's on the 25th of December but what day in December? Mm, Let's find out we're going to go along the corridor and ready? Up the stairs to read the calendar. What day does it say at the top of my arrow? Friday. Christmas this year is on Friday the 25th of December. What day? It's Friday the? 25th of December, well done. Now where is the Christians place of worship? Where do they go to worship God? You might know this already, they go to somewhere called a Church. Christmas is a time when Christians remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Son of God. The story of the birth of Jesus is very important to Christians and celebrating Christmas is one way that some Christians can remember Him. Some Christians go to church at Christmas but not all Christians go to Church at Christmas. And when they are at Church, they do lots of wonderful things. They read parts of the Bible and they sing hymns and carols which are sang. There are lots of special services around Christmas like the Nativity service, Christmas Carol services. We're going to learn all about the different traditions that Christians may do. But remember that some Christians celebrate Christmas even though, some people celebrate Christmas even though they are not Christians because that's okay. So they might sing carols, they might reenact the Christmas story that we heard last lesson and bells are sometimes rung Let's take a look. Bells are sometimes rung at the Church so that it's a signal to start Christmas service in church. It's to remind people, come on come to Church we are going to celebrate Christmas. Now I'd like you to take a moment to have a think, where do some Christians go to celebrate Christmas? What was the place called? A Church. Well done. Now we're going to have a look at at what some Christians do on Christmas. Now some children may have a nativity performance at their school. This is to teach us about the Christmas story, we act out the story. We're going to have a quick watch of a clip of some children performing The Nativity Scene. Let's talk a look.

Jesus was born to a woman called Mary. She was visited by an angel who told her she would give birth to God's son. Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem. Jesus' birth is known as The Nativity and during Advent the story os retold by children in nativity plays. At my school the young children have been taking part.

I'm County and I'm playing Mary. As Mary I'm very important person in the Christmas play. So it's a big opportunity for me.

I'm Danny and I'm a wiseman.

Gold and Frankincense.

Myrrh.

I'm Nieve and I'm an angel and I'm a messenger of God and ♪ let everybody celebrate this day ♪ ♪ and the night has come ♪ ♪ and a child is born ♪ ♪ Let everybody bring a song of praise ♪ ♪ A child is born today ♪

I really enjoyed watching that did you? Great. Now other things they might do is that people sometimes hung wreaths made from evergreen trees on their doors. This evergreen reminds Christians of the everlasting life of Jesus, and the wreath itself is made of evergreen which signifies continuous life because evergreen trees never lose their leaves. The circle of the wreath which has no beginning or end it's continuous all the way around, it symbolises the eternity of God, the everlasting life that we can find in Christ. So you might see these on people's doors around Christmas. Other things you might do is that you might give presents, presents are given just like in the Christmas story when gifts were given to baby Jesus. Now what I want you to do is, I would like you to pick up your pencil or your pen and we are going to fill in the gaps. We are going to write each sentence and choose a word from the bottom. So the first one we are going to fill in the gaps. Some Christians go to ? to celebrate the birth of ? So I'm not going to say the word that goes in the gap. So pic up your pencil, you're going to write this sentence down on your piece of paper and you're going to fill in the gaps. Pause the video have a go at that now. Well done. Now pick up your coloured pencil because we are going to tick or fix. Ticking means we got it right, we can give ourselves a little tick. Just a nice little one. Or we can fix, so if you didn't get the answer right, that's okay because we can use our coloured pencil to make our corrections. Are you ready? So some Christians go to Church to celebrate the birth of Jesus. If you wrote Church give yourself a tick. If you wrote Jesus give yourself a tick. If you didn't don't worry, you can pause the video now and make your corrections. Well done. Let's look at the next one. So in a Church ? are rung to signal the ? of the Christmas service. Now pick up our pencil you're going to write down that sentence and fill in the gap. Choose the words at the bottom that you think would fit best. Pause the video have a go at that now. Well done. Now pick up your coloured pencil we're going to tick or fix. So we're going to check our answers. So in a Church bells are rung to signal the start of the Christmas service. The two words there bells and start. Did you write them? Great. If you didn't don't worry you can use your coloured pencil to put a nice neat line through the word you got incorrect and write it at the top. Great job. Let's look at the next one. People hang ? made from evergreens on their doors. People hang ? made from evergreens on their doors. Pause the video have a go at that sentence now. Well done let's check our answers now. People hang wreaths made from evergreen on their doors. Great job. Did you get those right? Fantastic. If you didn't don't worry. You can put a nice neat line through it and write the word wreath above it. Pause the video have a go at that now. Okay so another tradition is that you might see lots of Christmas trees around Christmas. They were originally put up in houses outside but now we put them inside. This is to remind us of the warm spring to come. That's why we put trees inside. We also have Christmas dinner, it's my favourite time to sit down with my family and celebrate Christmas and have a delicious feast. Now what you are going to do is you are going to design your own Christmas tree. So you can use this picture here to guide your outline of your Christmas tree and you can design it any way that you want. Pause the video have a go at that now. I can't wait to see your Christmas trees. Now if you would like to share your work with us, you can ask your parent or to share a photo of your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and using the #LearnwithOak You have worked incredibly hard today and you should be really really proud of yourself. I will see you next time for when we continue our learning about the Christmas story, bye.

Exit Quiz: How is Christmas celebrated?

Completed: How is Christmas celebrated?

In this lesson we will be learning all about how Christmas is celebrated and what traditions some Christians may do each year. We will also be learning about where some Christians may go to celebrate Christmas.

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How is Christmas celebrated?

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