Learning objective
- To investigate why many Christians celebrate Christmas by exploring the story of Jesus’ birth.
EYFS outcomes
Development matters
Understanding the world
Children in reception will be learning to:
- Talk about members of their immediate family and community.
- Name and describe people who are familiar to them.
- Recognise that people have different beliefs and celebrate special times in different ways.
See Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance) – contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Understanding the world
ELG: People culture and communities
Children at the expected level of development will:
- Know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
See Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, 2021.
Support and challenge
Adults can use the opportunity to:
- Provide the children with a selection of books about the Christmas story as a visual prompt for when they make the puppets.
- Hand out the Activity: The Christmas story as a prompt for role-playing the Christmas story.
- Challenge the children to make more than one puppet.
- Encourage children to suggest what some of the characters would say or think during the role-play.
- Challenge the children to talk about which character they chose to make and why.
Key vocabulary
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Christmas
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Christian
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God
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Jesus
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Nativity
