The Sermon on the Mount
Year 3: Term 2
Range: Instructions, Parables
Books: The Gospel of Matthew, Happiness for children, A House on the Rock
Word level work: 19, 20, 24. 25-27
Sentence level work: 2, 3, 8
Text level work: 2, 11, 12-14
| Day | Shared Work | Word / Sentence Work | Guided Work |
Independent Work | Plenary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MON | Inform children that this week they are going to be studying a very famous section from the New Testament called the Sermon on the Mount. This is a collection of Jesus' sayings and teachings. It begins with eight statements about happiness. These are called the Beatitudes. Read the Beatitudes with the children. | Vocabulary extension using dictionaries. | Compare text with different translation / version. | Handwriting practice. | How written texts are organized |
| TUE | Read Happiness for Children published by Lion. | Explore opposites beginning with happy/sad, poor/rich. | Read Luke 18:9-14 as an illustration of the first Beatitude. | Use worksheet to reflect or comment upon one of the Beatitudes. | Share work with class |
| WED | With the children's help, write eight rules for Happiness | Uses of capitalization. | Further develop written work produced yesterday | Write own Happiness rules. | Capitalization. |
| THU | Inform the children that the Sermon on the Mount opens with the Beatitudes. It runs for three chapters and is full of Jesus' teachings. Give a short example. It then closes with a parable. | Further work on opposites. | Read further examples of intervening teaching, e.g. Matthew 5:13-16 | Write a Dos and Donts of Building a House, based on the parable. | Same as Monday |
| FRI | Read The House on the Rock by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen. | Adjectives. | Plan extended version of the parable for performance. | Plan character study of two builders. | Performance of extended parable. |
