Our RE topic for the next four weeks is based around the theme of Waiting.
We will be considering the big questions:
How do you feel when you are waiting for something you like?
What do you find difficult about waiting?
What can you do to make waiting easier?
How can we best prepare for Christmas?
Advent is a time when we appreciate the love in our lives and prepare to celebrate love becoming a reality in the person of Jesus. Christians at Christmas celebrate the gift of Jesus, given by God as a sign and expression of God’s love. Giving and receiving reflects the truth that all life is given by God and life is given meaning through the gift of Jesus.
Word of God
“This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven. Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.” (1 John 4: 10-12)
Prayer and reflection:
Today a Saviour is born!
In the stillness of the night God enters human history
through the birth of his only Son.
He is our peace and hope.
In him we praise God for his
goodness to us in giving us so great a gift. Amen.
We shall be focuses on the following scriptures:
| Luke 1: 26-31, 38 – God’s Story 2 page 55 Luke 1: 39-45 – God’s Story 2 page 56 Luke 2: 1-7 – God’s Story 2 page 58 Luke 2: 8-20 – God’s Story 2 page 59 |
Key words for the topic are:
| waiting, preparing, messenger, visit, celebrate, Advent, Jesus, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, shepherds, angels, Christmas, Bethlehem, manger, worship, wreath |
RE home learning:
Play ‘hide and seek’ inside or out – discuss how it feels to be the person who is waiting. You could write these feelings down, accompanied by a picture.