1 - Know students and how they learn

1.5
Differentiate
teaching
to meet
the specific
needs
Standard
1:Know
students
& how
they learn
of students across the full range of abilities

Lesson Plan Format

Class:

Date:

Time:

Kindergarten

22nd June

After Lunch Before home time (2:10-2-50pm)

Key Learning Area:

Lesson Topic:

Religion

Belonging to Gods People

We gather for mass

Recent Prior Experience

Previous attending to the church -may be familiar with certain key objects in it

1.2 Understand how students learn

Previous RE lesson - allowed me to know and understand how
students learn. I was able to pick up on students queues and plan
differentiated tasks, strategies and resources to meet individual
students needs.

Syllabus Outcome(s):

Indicators of Learning for this lesson:

Assessment:

Religious Education

By the end of this lesson, the students will:

ES1.7: demonstrates knowledge that

the church is a community of believers
that gathers to pray & celebrate

Observe Ss understanding
throughout class discussion

Ask students relevant questions

based on their work open ended
questions which require a
challenging response

ES1.7: Demonstrates growing

familiarity with key signs, symbols, and
rituals of the Catholic tradition

Any safety issues to be considered:

Identify Sunday as the day catholics gather for

worships & prayer
Talk about ways Catholics pray & worship
Describe one or two ritual actions in the mass eg.
We genuflect in the church the priest holds his
hands over the bread & wine we listen to the bible
we bless ourselves
Participate appropriately in ritual action
Know how to make the sign of the cross
With some prompting, know when to bow or
genuflect in the church
Bow or genuflect appropriately in the church
Resources:

Pictures of church & key objects

Religion book (to know worship & love)
Activity sheets
Craft materials
Ipads

LESSON SEQUENCE
Lesson Content / Indicators of Learning
(What is Taught):

Timing

Teaching Strategies / Learning Experiences:

(mins)

(How it is taught)

Resources and
Organisation:

INTRODUCTION
Gather Ss on the floor
10 mins
Introduction to the topic

Arrange students to be sitting on the floor as a whole Seated

class in front of T (in special spots)
area
T will: Introduce the text

Linking to prior knowledge

Ss actively listening & watching

S will:
-

Ss communicating with peers and teachers

in the activity demonstrating emerging
skills in group interaction
Ss may need to help each other to solve
questions
Explore & identify the church is a special
building for the parish community to
celebrate, give thanks & praise to god
Become familiar with gestures used in the
church: genuflecting, bowing, sign of the
cross

S will serve to activate their prior knowledge about

the topic
Actively listen to and respond to T the text &
respond to any questions being asked
Join in the discussion and activity
Put hand up to ask or answer questions about the
topic

T to read text to class

T to discuss with Ss some importance rituals to do as
catholics entering the church, bowing, genuflecting,
sign of cross etc

floor/mat

Book:
to
know
worship & love book

DEVELOPMENT
Listening skills

Activities for students to complete after class discussion:

10 mins

T to explain each activity & what is expected of them:

S paying attention to T
Picture Smart
Ss to understand & build knowledge of
relationships show in the text & how they
may compare to their family

i. Ss to create a picture of their choice out of play dough Craft materials

depicting a part of a story that is read from the bible
Play dough
during mass

This is a planned lesson with an awareness of different learning

and teaching styles. It identifies the variety of activities with
differentiated tasks, strategies and resources used to meet
individuals students needs therefore reflecting the standard.

ii. Ss to illustrate using coloured paper a part of the

mass that they remember.

This demonstrates how I have differentiated this lesson to cater to

students individal needs and learning styles.

Choose questions/statements from I wonder box &

respond with a friend/group with T

All students of all ability levels and learning styles (Gardners

intelligences) are engaged in the same lesson.
Each task for each group are designed to cater for a nrage of
specific but common learning needs - of that smart intelligence.
During the lesson, teacher supports students, asks questions
about what they are working on and their knowledge of the
lesson and also provide explicit teaching at point of need.
Animating RE:
Standard 2- Focus 2.6 Implement teaching strategies for using
ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.
Students are encouraged to demonstrate their knowledge of how
we ggather for mass (at church) by developing animations on the
ipad app: sock puppet.

Thinking smart: I Wonder Box

I wonder box
Questions

Word Smart
i. Children discuss feeling that we might have during
mass. Ss to write when I go to mass I feel.
Because

Activity sheets

ii. Children complete find-a-word using words about the

mass that we have learned about.
Ipads
Body Smart
Use ipad app (sock puppet)
Ss are given the chance to choose which activity they
would like to complete - Ss will also be given the chance to
T
rotate to another activity.

CLOSURE
Reflecting on learning
! T reinforcing & reminding Ss what
they have learned - describing the work they
have completed in the lesson & reflecting on
others work/learning

10 mins

T to ask Ss to reflect on what they have learnt today

during this lesson, Ss share work 1 or 2 students from
each activity.

Students are able to proudly share their work and give an other students a
reflection of how they perceived the content.