UNIT OF WORK (TITLE):’Remember God’s Love’TERM: WEEKS:

KEY: Learning Point - Bold Starting Point - •Prayer - Curriculum Links – Teacher Note – TNAssessment -

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The children rotate around a series of memory related activities:
(a) paint and caption their favourite memory (story, holiday, party, etc.)
(b) draw a picture of themselves and place a bandaid on the place they last remember being injured
(c) share the story of The Three Bears and retelling, drawing or re-enacting the story from memory
(d) play ‘What’s Missing?’
Discuss the Focus and Wonder Questions pp. 21-23)
 Sing the ‘Colour Song’ p. 23.
*Send home R1a-1b ’I Remember You’, Parent Activity to use with A1.2 (b). / A1.1 Identifies things they remember.(cont’d)
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Discuss the Focus and Wonder Questions pp. 21-23)
 Sing ‘What’s the Surprise’ by Monica Brown and invite the children to pray ‘Prayer to Remember’ p. 21. / A1.2 Names people who have helped them learn.
(a) Share the story Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge. Talk with the children about how we learn and how we remember as well as forget some things.
Talk about the people who help us to learn and remember. (Reading)
Wonder Question p. 25.
Share, in a community circle memories the children would like to share that their parents have shared with them, from
* ‘I Remember You’ R1a-1b
 Sing ‘Memory Thanks’, p.25. Include a verse that thanks God for the people who help them to learn and to remember. / A2.1 Expresses wonder at God who created the gift of memory.
(a) Each child constructs a gift box in which they place a picture or a symbol representing a favourite memory (birthday, holiday, pet, etc.)
Talk about God being the Creator of the gift of memory.
Wonder Questions p.27.
Create a gift display around which some of the children’s responses to the Wonder Questions are also displayed.
 Pray ‘A Remembering Litany’ p. 27. / A2.2 Celebrates that God loves them.
(b) Share the story Just in Case You Ever Wonder. Review the key ideas from the story with the children. (Reading)
Share with the children that God loves them even more than the father loved his son in the story.
Each child creates two heart badges. One displays the message: ‘God Loves Me’. The other, which displays the message: ‘God loves You’ is given to someone else in the school to help them remember that God loves them.
 Sing the ‘Colour Song’ p. 23. / A1.1 Range of Strategies
(a) paint and caption their favourite memory (story, holiday, party, etc.)
(b) draw a picture of themselves and place a bandaid on the place they last remember being injured
(c) share the story of The Three Bears and retelling, drawing or re-enacting the story from memory
(d) play ‘What’s Missing?’
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Discuss TN, p. 31
(c) Read (from the Good News Bible) and then tell the children the story of Mark 10: 13-16 in which Jesus remembered to love others.
Talk about the key ideas in the story.
In small groups the children paint and caption the main parts.
The children attach a heart shape to the part of the story in which Jesus is remembering to show love.
 Pray ‘Spontaneous Prayer’ from p. 27, using the word ‘Jesus’ instead of the word ‘God’. / B1.1 States ways Jesus used his memory for good. (cont’d)
Recall TN, p. 31
(c) Read (from the Good News Bible) and then tell the children the excerpt Matthew 14:19 in which Jesus remembered to show love for God by asking for a blessing and saying thank you.
Talk about the key ideas in the excerpt.
In small groups the children paint and caption the main parts.
The children attach a heart shape to the part of the story in which Jesus is remembering to show love.
 Sing ‘Oh, How I Love Jesus’ by C. Landry and C. Kinghorn (see p.51). / B2.1 Names ways people use their memories, like Jesus, for good.
(c) Children cut from magazines, pictures of things they like to do, see, eat, play, etc. Talk about how Jesus always remembered to say thank you to God. Other people too can remember to say thank you to God for the things they have and enjoy.
Create a thank you collage of the pictures the children have collected, with a title such as: ‘Like Jesus, People Can Remember to Thank God'.
 Pray ‘Thanks God!’ p. 33. / B2.1 Names ways people use their memories, like Jesus, for good. (cont’d)
  / C1.1 Explores a story Jesus used to teach people that God will always love and remember them.
Read the story of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field [Luke 12:24, 27 &28a].
(a) Introduce the children to the movement, ‘See the Birds…’ R2.
(Reading/Text Innovation/Poetry)
Talk about how Jesus told this story to help people remember that God will always remember and love them.
 Pray ‘Praise Our God’ p. 35 & R3. / B1.1
The children attach a heart shape to the part of the story in which Jesus is remembering to show love. [Mark 10:13-16]
The children attach a heart shape to the part of the story in which Jesus is remembering to show love. [Matthew 14:19]
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Recall the story of the birds of the air and the flowers of the field [Luke 12:24, 27 &28a] and the movement, ‘See the Birds…’ R2.
The children create bird and flower pop stick figures and retell the story and its message in their own words.
(Reading/Text Innovation/Poetry)
Talk about how Jesus told this story to help people remember that God will always remember and love them.
 Pray ‘Praise Our God’ p. 35 & R3. / C2.1 Names ways people can show love.
(c) Share the story Remember Me. The children identify ways in which the girl helped her grandmother.
Create a class book, using tableaux created by the children, digitally photographed, which show ways children can show love for their family members and for God.
 Pray ‘A Friendship Circle’ p. 37 and sing ‘Rise and Shine’ from Bible Action Songs. / C2.1 Names ways people can show love. (cont’d)
(c) (cont’d) Create a class book, using tableaux created by the children, digitally photographed, which show ways children can show love for their family members and for God. Add captions describing these actions.
 Pray ‘An Asking Prayer’ p. 37 and, sing ‘Rise and Shine’ from Bible Action Songs. / C3.1 Reviews and expresses what they have learned throughout the unit.
• Review RE work completed. The children think-pair-share their answers to the Focus Questions p.45 (TN). Invite the children to share something of their RE learning journey with the class.
The children’s responses could be added to a class ‘Loving Board’ R4 along with ways learned in the previous weeks in which people can continue to wonder at the gift of memory and how people can remember to show love like Jesus.
 Sing ‘Deep and Wide’ from Bible Action Songs. / C3.1Reviews and expresses what they have learned throughout the unit.
Celebrate the prayer service: ‘Remember God’s Love’ R5, which prayerfully celebrates the learning that has taken place throughout the unit. / C1.1
The children create bird and flower pop stick figures and retell the story and its message in their own words.

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