FIRE GROUND PLAN

AUDIENCE:​Grade Six, Community Extension School, Coed. RuralLEVEL:Grade Six

TOPIC:​​​​​​Jesus, The Beloved SonTIME FRAME:1 session, 60minutes

CHRISTIAN MESSAGE / SOURCES AND MEANS / OBJECTIVES
Doctrine:Jesus is the Beloved Son of God revealed in His baptism.
Morals:Jesus, the Beloved Son of God teaches us to love one another as God loves us.
Worship:The grace of our baptism helps us to live a life of prayer. / SOURCES:
Sacred Scriptures:
Matthew 3: 13-17
The Baptism of Jesus
Church Teaching:
CFC 1617
“More importantly, Christ’s baptism inaugurated His whole public ministry,”
Means:
Song analysis
Story Telling
Discussion
Pass the ball: Sentence completion
Journal writing / The lesson is ordered to enable the students to:
Doctrine:understand how Christ’s baptism reveals His identity as the Beloved Son of God.
Morals:cite concrete waysof loving our neighbor as God loves us.
Worship:compose a prayer expressing their gratitude to God for the grace they received in baptism.
HUMAN EXPERIENCE (Before) / HUMAN EXPERIENCE (During) / HUMAN EXPERIENCE(After)
The students have limited understanding of Jesus’ Baptism.
They are not aware that Jesus’ baptism is the beginning of His public ministry to. Also a call to us baptized to follow Jesus in loving God and others. / Opening Prayer: Dear God, Thank you for making us your beloved children. Thank you for sending us your Son Jesus who teaches us to pray and love our brothers and sisters. Amen
MOTIVATION
CLG: Name Game!
In each group the students will say their name to the others members and will share the history and meaning of their names. (This was their assignment in the previous meeting)
MY NAME IS ______. I LOVE MY NAME BECAUSE ______.
Guide questions:
  1. In our family who usually give our name or nickname?
  2. Why do you think people give us nickname?
  3. Why are we given nickname?
  4. Why is it important to have a name?
Processing:
Say:
Name is one way to indicate that we are different from other people and through our name other people canrecognize us easily. Also, our name indicates the family we belong to. Most of the time it is our parents who give us our name, but this is not just an ordinary name because our name symbolizes the love of the people who gave it just like our parents.
You already learned in our last lesson that Jesus is sent by God as gift to us because He loves us. Now, in our lesson we will discover more God loves Jesus by calling Him in a special name.
But before that, let us know the meaning of these words:
1. Beloved – a person who is greatly loved
2. Public ministry- teachings and deeds of Jesus Christ
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LESSON
EXPOSITION:
Sacred Scripture: Mt. 3: 13-17
The teacher will call the assigned students to reenact the Baptism of Jesus Christ.
Guide questions:
1. Who baptized Jesus? (John the Baptist)
2. Where did it happen? (River Jordan)
3. Why did John try to prevent Jesus to be baptized by him? (Jesus should baptized him)
4. What happened during Jesus’ baptism?
The heavens were opened
The Spirit of God descending like a dove
A voice was heard from the heaven
5. Whose voice was heard? What was the message of that voice?
Voice of God the Father
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased
Integration
Jesus’ baptism showed us that He is indeed the beloved Son of God. The voice of God the Father was heard and the Spirit of God descended on Him.
His baptism indicates that the Spirit of the Lord is with Him and his baptism is the preparation of His public ministry. In His public ministry, Jesus shows and teaches us how to love God and others through His words and deeds.
We too are God’s beloved through our baptism because the Spirit of God was given to us and the Holy Spirit moves us to be prayerful and loving like Jesus. As God’s beloved we are also called to love.
Assessment:
Pass the Ball
The teacher will play a lively music while the students pass the ball. When the music stops, the student who’s holding the ball will complete the sentence.
I am God’s beloved because ______.
Say: Jesus’ baptism showed us that He is the beloved Son of God and that the Spirit of God is with Him. And so as baptized we too are God’s beloved because the Spirit of God is given to us and we also have a special role in the church.
Recapitulation:
Journal Writing(5 minutes)
In you journal notebook. Write a prayer of thanksgiving to God for calling you His beloved child and ask Him to help you to be loving and prayerful every day.
Say: Jesus is the beloved son of God manifested in His baptism. We too are God’s beloved, we are called to pray and to love God and others.
Closing prayer: The students will read silently the prayer that they wrote in their journal. The teacher will end the prayer with Glory be. / The students will realize that Jesus is the beloved Son of God through His baptism. They are aware that as baptized catholic, they have a mission to love others as what Jesus did and called to respond in prayer.

References:​

  • ​​Catholic Biblical Association.The New American Bible.Manila: Catholic Bible Press, 1969.
  • ​ECCE, Catechism for Filipino Catholics.Makati: Word and Life Publications, 1997.
  • Bonifacio, A. Maturing in Jesus Christ: Walking with Christ, our truth. Manila: Rex. 2007

Prepared by: (Second Summer2014-2015)

Bertillo, Alma B.

Equing, Jacky Lou L.

Mallillin, Sr. Teresa Andrea, SPC

Saboco, Pinky