DRAFT

Religious Education
Archdiocese of Perth

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Bible
Year 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION ONE
Overview ......................................................................................1
Steps of the Process ....................................................................2
Teacher Reflection........................................................................4
Parent Letter ................................................................................5

SECTION TWO
Teacher Background Material ......................................................9

SECTION THREE
Symbols........................................................................................17
Learning Area Outcomes..............................................................18
Key Understandings
Learning Points ............................................................................19
Program of Work ..........................................................................20

SECTION FOUR
Activity Sheets..............................................................................47

SECTION FIVE
Resource Sheets..........................................................................53

SECTION SIX
Support Material ..........................................................................61
Childrens Literature ............................................................61
Songs and Music ................................................................62
Teacher Resources ............................................................62
Videos ................................................................................63
Acknowledgements ......................................................................64

Section One

Overview
Steps of the Process
Teacher Reflection
Parent Letter

OVERVIEW
As we grow, we discover ourselves learning more and more.
We discover special gifts we have to help us learn. There are also
people who help us learn. Thinking about the ability to learn
can lead people to wonder at God who gave people this ability
(A1, A2).
As people think about how good it is to learn and to have other
people to help them learn, many come to realise that among the
different things they can discover about God who created and
gave us this ability, one is that God loves us (A3).
Jesus, like every human being, developed learning gifts.
He learned many things and came to teach people how to live as
God wants (B1, B2).
People can learn about God from the Bible (C1). Jesus wants his
followers to use what they have learned to help others (C2).
When followers of Jesus continue to try to use what they have
learned to show love they are living as God wants (C3).

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STEPS OF THE PROCESS

A
WONDERING AT
THE CREATOR
A1
A2
A3

Wondering at experiences of being human

Wondering at the religious meaning of these
experiences
Understanding what these experiences reveal
about God [Attribute]

C
CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
C1
C2
C3

Introductory experiences of Catholic life

The person Christ calls the believer to
become
Continuing to wonder at Christian
possibilities

B
THE PROMISE
OF CHRISTIAN
SALVATION
B1
B2

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Christ models the Christian Promise

Christ empowers to live like him

STEPS OF THE PROCESS

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YEAR 1

A
WONDERING AT THE CREATOR
OF THE ABILITY TO LEARN
A1
A2
A3

Wondering at the ability to learn

Wondering at God who gave people the
ability to learn
Attribute: God loves us

C
CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
C1
C2
C3

People can learn about God from the

Bible
Jesus wants his followers to use what they
have learned to help others
Continuing to wonder at how followers
of Jesus use what they have learned to
show love

B
THE PROMISE
OF CHRISTIAN
SALVATION
B1
B2

Jesus learned many things

Jesus came to teach people how to live as
God wants

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TEACHER REFLECTION
Teaching and Learning: A Relationships of Trust
Part of the learning process requires of us, as teachers, that we offer the gift of trust to our
students: to some extent their learning journey is in our hands. This unit explores the topic
of learning. You may like to find a quiet place where you can reflect on your understanding of
the word trust. The gift that you offer the students during this time is both a gift to yourself
and to them.
Similarly, as our students are called to trust us, we are called to trust God, as did the sick man
at the pool of Bethesda.
Play reflective music, such as The Memory of Trees from The Memory of Trees by Enya or
another appropriate piece of music. Take a few minutes to read the following Gospel passage.
Read each sentence slowly and purposefully. Try to imagine the scene with its contrasting
imagery.
As you read the passage, allow a particular word or phrase to touch you.
Sit with that word or phrase for a moment. Why do you feel it has attracted your
attention at this stage of your faith journey?

The cure of a sick man at the Pool of Bethesda [John 5:1-9]

After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in
Jerusalem next to the Sheep Pool there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has
five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people, blind, lame, paralysed. One
man there had an illness that had lasted thirty-eight years, and when Jesus saw him
lying there and knew he had been in that condition for a long time, he said, Do you
want to be well again? Sir, replied the sick man, I have no one to put me into the
pool when the water is disturbed; and while I am still on the way, someone else gets
down there before me. Jesus said, Get up, pick up your sleeping-mat and walk
around. The man was cured at once, and he picked up his mat and started to walk
around.

You may wish to conclude with the following prayer:

Lord, help me to trust, increase my faith.

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PARENT LETTER
(insert school letterhead)

Dear
RE: NEXT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION UNIT TO BE EXPLORED IN YEAR ONE
The learning journey is one that is life-long: neither commenced nor concluded with formal
education. As people grow, they discover themselves learning more and more. People
discover they have special gifts to help them learn. There are also people who help them and
others learn.
Over the following weeks in Religious Education, the children will be exploring the ability to
learn. Thinking about this ability can lead people to wonder at God who gave them the
ability to learn. As people think about how good it is to learn and to have other people to
help them learn, many come to realise that among the different things that they can discover
about God who created and gave us this ability, one is that God loves us.
The unit then explores that Jesus, like every human being, developed learning gifts.
He learned many things and came to teach (help people learn) how to live as God wants.
People can learn about God from the Bible. Jesus wants his followers to use what they have
learned to help others.
Finally, this unit explores ways in which followers of Jesus continue to try to use what they
have learned to show love, as Jesus taught.
You could help your child during this unit by, for example:

sharing with them what you enjoyed learning as a child and what you like to learn as an
adult

discussing with your child why God might have created people with the ability to learn

sharing with them stories that show Jesus learned, for example, to be a carpenter
[Mark 6:3]

building a learning journey board or fridge display showing the learning that each family
member is enjoying in and out of a school or formal learning context

during family prayer times thanking God for the ability to learn

Yours sincerely

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Section Two

Teacher Background Material

TEACHER BACKGROUND MATERIAL

A

WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF THE ABILITY TO LEARN

Teacher Note
The purpose of this step is to assist the development of childrens religious awareness. It
aims to help them understand the religious meaning of significant experiences an essential
step for both Evangelisation and New Evangelisation (see Australian Religious Education
Facing the Challenges).
The children should be provided with opportunities to wonder in A1 and A2. They need to
celebrate (rather than merely understand) the related attribute of God in A3.
The basic questions of the human heart to which the following experiences relate are taken
up further in the Year 812 Religious Education units.

A1

Wondering at the ability to learn

A1

(The human person participates in the light and power of the divine Spirit. By their reason, they
are capable of understanding . Man tends by nature towards the truth.
Catechism 1704, 2467)
As we grow older, we discover ourselves learning more and more. We realise that this is true
for others also. We discover that we have special gifts to help us learn. These gifts are
memory, understanding, curiosity and imagination.
Our memory helps us to recall and remember. If we could not remember, we would always
need others to help us. We could not learn.
As we come to understand many things, we can also grasp what others tell us. We learn.
Because we have curiosity, we want to explore, to see how things work, to discover, to find
out things for ourselves. Also, we can ask questions, especially Why?. As we do so, our
curiosity helps us to learn more about the world around us.
Because we have imagination, we can picture things in our minds, recall what we have seen,
think about what might be, and have new ideas about how to do things.
Also, there are many people who teach us to:

understand, to remember, to imagine and to develop our curiosity

discover what is good and beautiful in the world

be good

avoid what is harmful or dangerous.

These people may include our parents, teachers, grandparents, other adult friends and family
members.
These people help us learn, for we can learn more quickly when we have others to help us.
We can learn also from each other. This happens as we share with each other new
discoveries, ideas and ways of doing things.

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A2

Wondering at God who gave people the ability to learn

A2

(God speaks to [humankind] through the visible creation . . . ways of approaching God from
creation have a twofold point of departure: the physical world and the human person.
Catechism 1147, 31)

Teacher Note
The aim here is to encourage children to wonder. This is an important skill for discovering
God through creation [Catechism 32-33].
What is most important at this stage of each unit is that children be given a wondering
activity.
To lead the children into the wondering activity, they may need to be reminded that wonder
is a gift God created in people so that they could discover God through everything God
has created.
Wonder causes us to stop, to look, to feel, to smell, to listen or to taste so that we might
better enjoy and understand. Wonder leads us to be curious, which can lead us to explore
and to experiment.

When people have new ideas, create, discover new things or see someone else using the gift
of imagination, they can wonder at God who created them with the gift of imagination.

Religious meaning
God created the gifts that help people to learn: their memory, understanding, imagination
and curiosity. It is God who planned how these gifts should work when people explore, ask
questions, remember and imagine.
Many who have realised this ask: I wonder what God, who created these gifts, is like?

Teacher Note
The children will offer a variety of answers to this question. The answers of each should be
valued. Teachers should allow the children time to reflect upon and respond to the Wonder
Question, in their own ways, before attempting to address the Attribute in A3. The reflection
on the Wonder Question: What must God be like? (A2) and the introduction of the Attribute
(A3) should not take place on the same day.
What follows in A3 is one Attribute of God, which is the focus for this unit. Units across other
year levels will focus upon other Attributes of God.

A3

Attribute: God loves us

A3

(Gods very being is love. Catechism 221)

Learning makes a great difference to peoples lives. Because they can learn people can find
out new things, share thoughts, understand each other, etc.
As people realise the importance of learning, they may realise that among the many possible
answers to the question: What must God, who created people with the ability to learn, be
like?, one answer that many discover is that God loves us. God gave people the ability to
learn so that they could come to know about God, the world and how to care for themselves
and others.

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This is one reason that God has created people so that they will discover and become close
friends with God.
How as a class can we celebrate God who loves us?

THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION

Teacher Note
From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus proclaimed the arrival, in his own person, of the
Kingdom of God a new and definitive intervention of the saving power of Gods love on
behalf of his creatures.
In the power of this love, expressed throughout the course of his life, death and resurrection,
Jesus accomplished our salvation. He:

freed people from sin and the influence of the evil one

brought people to share in Gods own divine life

revealed Gods love and closeness

modelled how to live in a truly human way in response to that love.

Returning to the Father, Jesus sent his Spirit to help people enter fully into the Kingdom of
God so as to live as he lived. For he had promised to send the gift of the Holy Spirit to his
followers, You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes to you. [cf. Acts 1:8].
Christians experience this power within the Kingdom of God to the extent that they draw
upon the grace of the Risen Lord through the Eucharist, the other sacraments, prayer and
the other ways Jesus taught.
One element of the modelling of Jesus was that he learned (B1). Jesus also came to teach
people how to live as God wants (B2).
The purpose of Step B is to show Jesus as the model of truly human behaviour, and then to
focus upon how the world of the childrens experience would be different if all accepted his
promise of the power of his Spirit.

B1

Jesus learned many things

(Christ being true God and true man has a human intellect . Catechism 482)
B1

Jesus had the gifts of curiosity, memory, understanding and imagination. To develop these
gifts, Jesus, as a child and young man, had to learn things like we do. He learned to walk and
to talk. He also learned how to be a carpenter like Joseph [Mark 6:3(a)].

Teacher Note
At this level it is appropriate to tell Bible stories. The emphasis will relate to the childrens life
experiences and the Teacher Background Material provided in this unit. This will avoid
developmentally inappropriate theological insights being presented.

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B2

Jesus came to teach people how to live as God wants

(The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness . Jesus makes charity the new
commandment. Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his
own sake, and our neighbour as ourselves for the love of God. Catechism 459, 1823, 1822)

B2

Jesus came to teach people how to live as God wants. People do this when they act like Jesus.
If everyone lived like Jesus and used their learning gifts to show love, there would be more:

praising others for their learning

appreciation for the different ways in which people learn

appreciation for the different rates at which people learn

people learning how to use their learning gifts to show love.

CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
Teacher Note
To experience the Promise of Christian Salvation requires personal Christian conversion
[General Directory for Catechesis 53].
In the words of Jesus, this means people must [Mark 1:15]:
Repent, and believe the gospel.
Religious Education contributes to their New Evangelisation by helping the children to
understand what is involved in repenting and believing. Religious Education needs to help
children discover what exactly faith in Jesus Christ is [General Directory for Catechesis 75].
The following content introduces Year One children to:

C1
C1

people can learn about God from the Bible (C1)

Jesus wants his followers to use what they have learned to help others (C2).

People can learn about God from the Bible

(The inspired books teach the truth Catechism 107)
God gives people the Bible to help them learn about God.
People can learn much about God through creation. However, they learn more about God,
especially how much God loves them, in the Bible.
The Bible is not one book, but many books. It teaches much about Gods love. It tells, too, of
Jesus leading people to understand how much God loves them. Because the Bible is a special
collection of books that contain lessons from God, followers of Jesus treat the Bible in a
special way. After listening to a reading, they say special words together to show they are glad
God has taught them so much.
The special words are:
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.

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C2

C2

Jesus wants his followers to use what they have learned to

help others
People use their learning gifts as God wants when they use them to help other people.
People can use their memory to help others, by remembering, for example, how to tie
shoelaces and helping someone who did not know how to tie their laces.
People can use their imagination to help someone who may need ideas about what to write
or draw.
People can use their curiosity to excite others curiosity and interest in new things.
People can use their understanding to help others with questions they may have.
When followers of Jesus help others in these ways, they are using their gifts as Jesus taught.

C3

C3

Continuing to wonder at how followers of Jesus use what they

have learned to show love
As we grow, we discover ourselves learning more and more. We discover special gifts to
help us learn. There are also people who help us learn. Thinking about the ability to learn
can lead people to wonder at God who gave people this ability (A1, A2).
As people think about how good it is to learn and to have other people to help them learn,
many come to realise that among the different things they can discover about God who
created and gave them this ability, one is that God loves us (A3).
Jesus, like every human being, developed learning gifts. He learned many things and came to
teach people how to live as God wants (B1, B2).
People can learn about God from the Bible (C1). Jesus wants his followers to use what they
have learned to help others (C2).
When followers of Jesus continue to try to use what they have learned to show love they are
living as God wants.

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Section Three

Symbols
Learning Area Outcomes
Key Understandings
Learning Points
Program of Work

SYMBOLS

Activity Sheet

Book

Cassette Tape

Compact Disc

Music Bag

Prayer

Resource Sheet

Song

Video

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Wonderful World

LEARNING AREA OUTCOMES

1.

Students understand that people come to discover God who calls them
through their human experiences of the universe, including the world
around them, and their human heart questionings and yearnings which can
only ever be satisfied by their Creator.

2.

Students understand and give expression to their most basic human heart
experiences in light of the Gospel, through study of their interests,
questions, hopes, anxieties, reflections and judgements.

3.

Students understand the content of the Christian message, by relating it to

examples drawn from their experiences.

4.

Students understand that God offers salvation through Christ who models
how to live in a truly human way.

5.

Students understand that Catholics are empowered to live like Jesus as they
draw on the power of the Spirit and of the Kingdom through Church,
Sacraments, Scripture, prayer and other ways Jesus taught.

6.

Students recognise that every good value, attitude or way of doing things is
a sign of Gods presence and influence within culture.

7.

Students know and appreciate the values of Christ and those of his Gospel
as the basis for living out the Christian mission in the world.

8.

Students demonstrate the skills necessary in order to read and apply

Scripture and to participate in Catholic ritual and prayer.

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KEY UNDERSTANDINGS
LEARNING POINTS
A WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF THE ABILITY TO LEARN
A

A1

Wondering at the ability to learn

A1.1
A1.2

Explores learning gifts and experiences.

Explores ways other people help us learn.

A2

Wondering at God who gave people the ability to learn

A2.1

Expresses wonder at God who gave people the ability to learn.

A3

Attribute: God loves us

A3.1

Celebrates that God loves us.

B THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION

B1

Jesus learned many things

B1.1

Identifies ways Jesus used his learning gifts.

B2

Jesus came to teach people how to live as God wants

B2.1

Represents ways people can use their learning gifts to help others.

C CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

C1

People can learn about God from the Bible

C1.1

Identifies the special book from which people learn about God.

C2

Jesus wants his followers to use what they have learned to help others

C2.1

Identifies ways people can use what they have learned to help others.

C3

Continuing to wonder at how followers of Jesus use what they have

learned to show love

C3.1

Reviews and expresses what they have learned throughout the unit.

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Key Understandings
A

Learning Points

WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF

THE ABILITY TO LEARN

Teacher Note
The purpose of this step is to assist the development of
childrens religious awareness. It aims to help them
understand the religious meaning of significant
experiences an essential step for both Evangelisation
and New Evangelisation (see Australian Religious
Education Facing the Challenges).
The children should be provided with opportunities to
wonder in A1 and A2. They need to celebrate (rather
than merely understand) the related attribute of God
in A3.
The basic questions of the human heart to which the
following experiences relate are taken up further in the
Year 8-12 Religious Education units.

A1

Wondering at the ability to learn

(continued )

As we grow older, we discover ourselves learning more

and more. We realise that this is true for others also.
We discover that we have special gifts to help us learn.
These gifts are memory, understanding, curiosity and
imagination.
Our memory helps us to recall and remember. If we
could not remember, we would always need others to
help us. We could not learn.
As we come to understand many things, we can also
grasp what others tell us. We learn.
Because we have curiosity, we want to explore, to see
how things work, to discover, to find out things for
ourselves. Also, we can ask questions, especially Why?.
As we do so, our curiosity helps us to learn more about
the world around us.
Because we have imagination, we can picture things in
our minds, recall what we have seen, think about what
might be, and have new ideas about how to do things.
Also, there are many people who teach us to:

understand, to remember, to imagine and to

develop our curiosity

discover what is good and beautiful in the world

be good

avoid what is harmful or dangerous.

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A1.1

Explores learning gifts and

experiences.
(continued )

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

Teacher Note

Take Out Your

Crayons
J Howard

The following Wonder Questions could be used

with the strategies in A1.1.

Class Prayer
I Am Marvellous

Wonder Questions
- I wonder what is the best thing I have ever
learnt?
- I wonder how many things I can remember?
In each of the strategies in A1 lead the children
to reflect upon the part played by memory,
imagination, curiosity and understanding in the
learning process.

a)Provide opportunities for the children to draw

or paint a picture of themselves learning to do
certain tasks, for example, tying shoe laces,
riding a bike, writing a letter, kicking a ball,
skipping, etc.
Combine the drawings or paintings to create a
class display with a title: We Can Learn to Do
Many Things, or similar.
OR
b)The children practise tying shoelaces using
Learning to Tie Laces.
Make a display of completed work with a title
such as: I Can Learn to Tie My Shoe Laces.
Discuss with the children that people learn at
different rates.
OR

c)Provide opportunities for the children to learn

something new. Take the children to a hospital,
fire station, mine site, wharf, museum, Scitech
or something of interest in your area. After the
event the children construct a graffiti wall to
record something they learned.
Share ideas from the wall with another class or
make a newspaper of articles or drawings about
the excursion.
OR

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God Has Given

God has given
Given to me
A special gift
Called curiosity.
God has given
Given another thing
Its a gift
Called imagination.
God has given
Given to me
A special gift
Called memory.
God has given
Given another gift
Called understanding.
Thank you, God
For giving to me;
Curiosity,
Imagination,
Understanding and
Memory.

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Key Understandings

Learning Points

(continued )
A1
Wondering at the ability to learn
These people may include our parents, teachers,
grandparents, other adult friends and family members.
These people help us learn, for we can learn more
quickly when we have others to help us. We can learn
also from each other. This happens as we share with
each other new discoveries, ideas and ways of doing
things.

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( continued)
A1.1 Explores learning gifts and
experiences.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

d)Teach the children a song from another

language. Invite people in the school
community to help with this strategy. Talk with
the children about how they learned to speak
their own language and how they are able to
learn other languages.
Learn how to say, Thank you, God, I can learn
in another language, for example, Merci, mon
Dieu, Je me peux apprendre (French).
Wonder Questions
- I wonder how many languages there are in the
world?
- I wonder how many new words I could
remember?
OR
e)Invite a grandparent/parent to talk with the
children about the things they learned at school
and the things they learned out of school as a
child. The children then name things they have
learned both in and out of school.

Class Prayer
Memorise a Prayer
The children
memorise a simple
blessing that they
could pray for each
other at the end of
the school day, for
example:
May God bless you.
May God keep you
happy.
May God smile on
you and be with you.
Amen.
(Based on Numbers
6:24-26)
Simple actions could
be composed to
accompany this
prayer.

A Prayer from Long

Ago
Invite parents or
grandparents to
teach to the children
a prayer they learned
when they were
young.

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Key Understandings

Learning Points

(continued )
A1
Wondering at the ability to learn

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Explores ways other people

help us learn.
(continued )

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

a)Brainstorm and record some of the people who

help the children to learn. The children choose
two of these and decorate body outlines to
represent these people. The children then write
or dictate sentences to describe how these
people help them to learn, for example, My
Grandma helps me learn how to plant
vegetables.

Kids Praise 5
E & D Rettino

Class Prayer
Do My Best

The body outlines could be displayed, with the

brainstormed words on flashcards, under a title
such as: People Can Help Us Learn (or
similar).
OR
b)With their family the children complete
People Help Me Learn.

2
The information could then be collated to make
a large class explosion chart of People Who
Help Us Learn, for example:

Dad

Mum

Brothers
Teachers

Aunts/
Uncles

People
who help us
learn

Friends

Sisters
Cousins
Grandparents

OR

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Key Understandings

Learning Points

( continued)
A1
Wondering at the ability to learn

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( continued)
A1.2 Explores ways other people
help us learn.

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Support Material

c)Invite parents or other members of the

community to participate in a Learn Something
New Day. Each adult could teach small groups
something new, for example, a song, a simple
sewing technique, a dance, a poem, a craft or
art technique, a recipe, etc.

Faith and Fun with

Songs
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Class Prayer
Dance in Prayer
Invite the children
to pray Wake Up
Round with
movement to thank
God for others who
help them learn.

OR
d)Talk about how every person can help us learn
in some way. Create a list of people in the
school community, for example, office staff,
library staff, gardener, parents, teachers, other
children, canteen staff, principal, etc. who help
the children learn in some way.

Prayers of Thanks
Invite the children
to write a prayer of
thanks for others
who help them
learn.
The prayers could be
framed inside a
symbol for that
person, for example,
gardener flower,
school office
administration staff
computer, etc. Invite
the children to pray
these prayers during
class prayer times.

Write the names of these people onto flashcards

and place them in a lucky dip box.
In triads, the children select a card and list ways
this person helps them to learn. The children
then report back to the class. Any additional
ideas of how these people help the children
learn could be added to the existing list and
displayed with the persons job, for example,
Gardener.
OR
Petunia

e)View the video Petunia or another suitable

video about learning.
Talk about:
- What did Petunia learn in the story?
- Why was this a good thing to learn?
- What do you think Petunia will do now that
she has learnt this?
The children may like to draw what might
happen next.
The children name others who help them learn
and the ways they help them learn.

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Key Understandings
A2

Learning Points

Wondering at God who gave people the

ability to learn

A2.1

Teacher Note
The aim here is to encourage students to wonder. This
is an important skill for discovering God through
creation [Catechism 32-33].
What is most important at this stage of each unit is that
students be given a wondering activity.
To lead the children into the wondering activity, they
may need to be reminded that wonder is a gift God
created in people so that they could discover God
through everything God has created.
Wonder causes us to stop, to look, to feel, to smell, to
listen or to taste so that we might better enjoy and
understand. Wonder leads us to be curious, which can
lead us to explore and to experiment.

When people have new ideas, create, discover new

things or see someone else using the gift of imagination,
they can wonder at God who created them with the gift
of imagination.
Religious meaning
God created the gifts that help people to learn: their
memory, understanding, imagination and curiosity. It is
God who planned how these gifts should work when
people explore, ask questions, remember and imagine.
Many who have realised this ask: I wonder what God,
who created these gifts, is like?

Teacher Note
The children will offer a variety of answers to this
question. The answers of each should be valued.
Teachers should allow the children time to reflect upon
and respond to the Wonder Question, in their own
ways, before attempting to address the Attribute in A3.
The reflection on the Wonder Question: What must
God be like? (A2) and the introduction of the Attribute
(A3) should not take place on the same day.
What follows in A3 is one Attribute of God, which is the
focus for this unit. Units across other year levels will
focus upon other Attributes of God.

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Expresses wonder at God who

gave people the ability to learn.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

a)Recall any of the activities completed in A1.

Provide opportunities for the children to ponder
and wonder at God who created their learning
abilities.
Encourage the children to write or dictate their
own wonder questions about God, for example:
- I wonder if God is curious?
- I wonder if God has trouble remembering?
OR
b)Construct A Wonder Cube.

1a-1b

OR
c)Share the poem Sometimes I Wonder.

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OR

Class Prayer
A Wondering Time
Invite the children
to become quiet and
still. Light a candle
and play reflective
music.
Select from the
Wonder Questions
and invite the
children to talk to
God about this
question. Children
individually could
say aloud their
wonder question
about God.
Complete the
reflection with the
words: Thank you,
God, for helping us
to wonder and learn.

d)Before recess, lunch and dismissal, challenge the

children in pairs to name ten things they have
learned during that session. Record the
childrens answers.
Wonder Questions
- How long might the list be if all the things we
learned every day at school, at home or
elsewhere were added?
- Learning is happening all the time. God gave
us the ability to learn. What must God be
like?
Encourage the children to write or dictate their
wonder questions about God.

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A3

Learning Points
A3.1

Attribute: God loves us

Learning makes a great difference to peoples lives.

Because they can learn people can find out new things,
share thoughts, understand each other, etc.
As people realise the importance of learning, they may
realise that among the many possible answers to the
question: What must God, who created people with
the ability to learn, be like?, one answer that many
discover is that God loves us. God gave people the
ability to learn so that they could come to know about
God, the world and how to care for themselves and
others.
This is one reason that God has created people so that
they will discover and become close friends with God.
How as a class can we celebrate God who loves us?

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Celebrates that God loves us.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

Teacher Note

Time to Thank God

Provide time for the
children to reflect on
or talk about work
completed in the
unit thus far.
Provide time for the
children to thank
the God who loves
them and has created
them able to learn.

Discuss with the children that learning occurs

everywhere, not only in school.

a)Each child is given three coloured paper links

upon which they write or draw three things they
have enjoyed learning. The links are then
joined to form a learning chain. A lock
template could be attached to one end of the
chain with the words, Things We Love to
Learn. A heart shape labelled with the words
God loves us could be attached to the other
end of the chain.

Class Prayer

Jibes n Vibes
J Flack

God Is So Clever

OR
b)The children dictate onto audio tape, The best
thing I ever learned was .
The children could illustrate their answer
through a drawing, sculpture, painting, etc.
Dictated sentences could be attached to the
completed work. In small groups the children
talk about:

the best thing they ever learned and why they

think this was the best thing

who helped them learn

something else they would like to learn to do.

A Thank You for

Learning
Light a candle and
play some of the
childrens dictated
sentences about
learning from the
audio tape.
After each
contribution, the
children could say or
sing: God gave us
our learning gifts.
Hurray for God!

Lead the children to the understanding that

God gave people the ability to learn because
God loves them.
Using the childrens work create a class display
with the title God Who Loves Us (or similar).
OR
c)Inside the words God Loves Us! the
children draw pictures of things they have
learned to do this year. Lead the children to the
understanding that God gave people the ability
to learn because God loves them.

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God Gives Songs

for Kids Book 1
Joint Board of
Christian Education

Thank you Father

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Key Understandings
B

Learning Points

THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN

SALVATION

B1.1

Teacher Note
From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus proclaimed
the arrival, in his own person, of the Kingdom of God
a new and definitive intervention of the saving power of
Gods love on behalf of his creatures.
In the power of his love, expressed throughout the
course of his life, death and resurrection, Jesus
accomplished our salvation. He:

freed people from sin and the influence of the evil

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brought people to share in Gods own divine life

revealed Gods love and closeness

modelled how to live in a truly human way in

response to that love.

Returning to the Father, Jesus sent his Spirit to help

people enter fully into the Kingdom of God so as to live
as he lived. For he had promised to send the gift of
the Holy Spirit to his followers, You will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes to you. [cf. Acts 1:8].
Christians experience this power within the Kingdom
of God to the extent that they draw upon the grace of
the Risen Lord through the Eucharist, the other
sacraments, prayer and the other ways Jesus taught.
One element of the modelling of Jesus was that he
learned (B1). Jesus also came to teach people how to
live as God wants (B2).
The purpose of Step B is to show Jesus as the model
of truly human behaviour, and then to focus upon how
the world of the students experience would be different
if all accepted his promise of the power of his Spirit.

B1

Jesus learned many things

Jesus had the gifts of curiosity, memory, understanding

and imagination. To develop these gifts, Jesus, as a
child and young man, had to learn things like we do.
He learned to walk and to talk. He also learned how to
be a carpenter like Joseph [Mark 6:3(a)].

Teacher Note
At this level it is appropriate to tell Bible stories. The
emphasis will relate to the childrens life experiences
and the Teacher Background Material provided in this
unit. This will avoid developmentally inappropriate
theological insights being presented.

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Identifies ways Jesus used his

learning gifts.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

Class Prayer
Learn Like Jesus
Invite the children
to think about the
kinds of things Jesus
may have learned
and the things they
learn.
Remind the children
that when they try
their best to learn,
they are being like
Jesus.
Each child writes
their name on a
hand or foot
template attached to
a chart displaying
the words We can
learn and follow
Jesus (or similar). As
each child attaches
their shape, the class
pray:
Thank you, God,
that we can learn.
Help us learn like
Jesus.

a)The children complete Jesus Learned. Talk

about:
- What might Jesus have learned?
- Who might have helped Jesus learn?
- Do you think Jesus would have used his
learning gifts to help others?

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OR
b)The children complete Learning Like Jesus.

4
OR
c)Create a banner using the words: Jesus learned
to be a carpenter [cf. Mark 6:3].
Focus Questions
- How would Jesus have learned to become a
carpenter?
- What sorts of things might Jesus have made?
Brainstorm some of the things that may have
been made of wood in Jesus time. The children
illustrate one item, which is labelled and
attached to the banner. A suitable title for each
illustration could be, Jesus learned to make
....

God Gives Songs

for Kids Book 1
Joint Board of
Christian Education

Jesus Jesus Jesus

Songs of God and Me

for Primaries
Lillenas Publishing

The Bible Tells Us

Jesus Grew

OR
d)Talk with the children about Jesus having to
learn things just as they do.
Focus Questions
- What might have been some of the first words
Jesus learned from his mother, Mary?
- What is something Jesus might have had to
remember as a young boy?
- What do you think made Jesus curious when
he was a boy?
- Who were some of the people in Jesus life
who may have helped him to learn?

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Key Understandings
B2

Learning Points

Jesus came to teach people how to live as

God wants

Jesus came to teach people how to live as God wants.

People do this when they act like Jesus.
If everyone lived like Jesus and used their learning gifts
to show love, there would be more:

praising others for their learning

appreciation for the different ways in which people

learn

appreciation for the different rates at which people

learn

people learning how to use their learning gifts to

show love.

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B2.1

Represents ways people can use

their learning gifts to help
others.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

a)The children trace around their hands and

write, draw or dictate one way that people can
show love as they use their learning gifts to help
others.

Hello God, I Just

Wanted to Say
p8
W Threlfo

Class Prayer
Today

Create a class display of the hands using an

appropriate title, for example, Helping Hands
Like Jesus.
OR
b)In small groups, the children draw or collect
magazine pictures that show how people show
love as they use their learning gifts to help
others.

Prayers for Little

Hearts
p16
J C Galvin

The children could create a display entitled,

Showing Love Like Jesus (or similar).
OR
c)The children view Winnie the Pooh Learning:
Volume 3. Helping Others or another suitable
video about helping people.

Winnie the Pooh

Learning: Volume 3.
Helping Others

Focus Questions
- What are some of the loving actions shown by
the characters in the video?
- Which of these actions do we see people do
around us?
- What happens as a result of these loving
actions?
- In what other ways might people use their
learning gifts to help others?

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Key Understandings
C

Learning Points
C1.1

CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

Teacher Note
To experience the Promise of Christian Salvation
requires personal Christian conversion [General
Directory for Catechesis 53].
In the words of Jesus, this means people must
[Mark 1:15]:
Repent, and believe the gospel.
Religious Education contributes to their New
Evangelisation by helping the children to understand
what is involved in repenting and believing. Religious
Education needs to help children discover what exactly
faith in Jesus Christ is [General Directory for
Catechesis 75].
The following content introduces Year One children to:
people can learn about God from the Bible (C1)
Jesus wants his followers to use what they have

learned to help others (C2).

C1

People can learn about God from the Bible

God gives people the Bible to help them learn about

God.
People can learn much about God through creation.
However, they learn more about God, especially how
much God loves them, in the Bible.
The Bible is not one book, but many books. It teaches
much about Gods love. It tells, too, of Jesus leading
people to understand how much God loves them.
Because the Bible is a special collection of books that
contain lessons from God, followers of Jesus treat the
Bible in a special way. After listening to a reading, they
say special words together to show they are glad God
has taught them so much.
The special words are:
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.

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Identifies the special book from

which people learn about God.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

Class Prayer

a)The children draw pictures that show something

they know about God, for example, God loves
me, God wants us to look after our pets, God
made us, etc. The children could print (or
helper scribe) what their picture is about.

Songs of God and Me

for Primaries
Lillenas Publishing

The B-I-B-L-E

Mugwumps and
Important Things
J Flack

The Light Song

Display the pictures around a Bible. A suggested

title for the display is The Bible Teaches People
about God or We Can Learn about God from
the Bible (or similar). Talk about the Bible
being a collection of books that teaches about
Gods love. Show the children a Bible and
point out some of the different books.
The children could be introduced to the
response during a Liturgy of the Word:
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.
OR
b)The children share with each other books they
have enjoyed reading or listening to. Collect
the books and hold them together as one book.
Talk about the Bible being a collection of books
that teaches about Gods love. Show the
children a Bible and point out some of the
different books.
The children could be introduced to the
response during a Liturgy of the Word:
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.
OR
c)After an excursion, the children could create
individual books recounting their visit. These
could then be collated into one book. Talk
about the Bible being a collection of books that
teaches about Gods love. Show the children a
Bible and point out some of the different books.
The children could be introduced to the
response during a Liturgy of the Word:
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.

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Key Understandings
C2

Learning Points

Jesus wants his followers to use what they

have learned to help others

People use their learning gifts as God wants when they

use them to help other people. People can use their
memory to help others, by remembering, for example,
how to tie shoelaces and helping someone who did not
know how to tie their laces.
People can use their imagination to help someone who
may need ideas about what to write or draw.
People can use their curiosity to excite others curiosity
and interest in new things.
People can use their understanding to help others
questions they may have.
When followers of Jesus help others in these ways, they
are using their gifts as Jesus taught.

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C2.1

Identifies ways people can use

what they have learned to help
others.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

a)Each child is given a small square of cardboard.

On one side they draw or write one way in
which they can help others. On the other side
of the cardboard, they print what learning gifts
they needed to be able to help others in this
way.
For example:
one side

other side

I can help
someone tie
their shoelaces.

Learning Gifts
Needed
Memory
Understanding so
that I can explain
to someone else

These cards could be kept in a Learning to

Help Others suggestion box.

Class Prayer
Let Our Light
Shine!
As reflective music is
played the children
draw or write on the
outline of a light
bulb, one way in
which they have
learned to help
others.
The children then
sit in a circle and are
invited to say the
way in which they
might help others.
As each child shares
their ideas with the
class, the class
responds: N is
loving like Jesus.

OR
b)The children interview people at home or in
the school community to find answers to the
following:
- How do you help people?
- What learning gifts (memory, imagination,
curiosity, understanding) did you need to be
able to help others in this way?
The answers could be collated to compile class
displays.
Each day the class could choose one action from
the display they would like to try. These could
be highlighted on the display as they are
chosen.

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A Time to Help
The children select
a helping card from
C2.1(a).
Invite the children
to reflect on the
action depicted on
the card and to think
how they could
perform this action.
Encourage the
children to try to
carry out this action
sometime during
that day.
At the end of the
day, pray a class
prayer of thanks for
all the learning gifts
that helped class
members to help
others.

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C3

Learning Points

Continuing to wonder at how followers of

Jesus use what they have learned to show
love
(continued )

As we grow, we discover ourselves learning more and

more. We discover special gifts to help us learn. There
are also people who help us learn. Thinking about the
ability to learn can lead people to wonder at God who
gave people the ability to learn (A1, A2).
As people think about how good it is to learn and to
have other people to help them learn, many come to
realise that among the different things that they can
discover about God who created and gave them this
ability, one is that God loves us (A3).
Jesus, like every human being, developed learning gifts.
He learned many things and came to teach people how
to live as God wants (B1, B2).
People can learn about God from the Bible (C1).
Jesus wants his followers to use what they have learned
to help others (C2).
When followers of Jesus continue to try to use what
they have learned, to show love, they are living as
God wants.
People can learn about God from the Bible (C1).
Jesus wants his followers to use what they have learned
to help others (C2).
When people continue to wonder at the ability to learn
they are living as God wants.

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C3.1

Reviews and expresses what

they have learned throughout
the unit.
(continued )

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

Teacher Note
Prior to the strategies in C3.1, provide
opportunities for the children to look at work
completed and talk about the understandings
covered in the unit, using the following:
Focus Questions
- What was your favourite piece of work?
- Why did you choose this piece of work?
- What was this piece of work about?

a)Create or add to the class Loving Board ways

in which people can continue to use their
learning gifts, and what they have learned, to
show love for others.
OR

b)The children could review and express

experiences of their learning through
contributing to the creation of a class:

mural

frieze

billboard

collage

poster

banner

picture book

story book

learning journey book

photograph album (virtual, for example, web

page or traditional photograph album)

mobile

songs, etc.
OR

Class Prayer
A Psalm of Praise
Use any of the
following suggestions
to help the children
pray A Psalm of
Praise.
Compose simple
actions to
accompany the
Psalm.
The whole class
could say the words
Praise God at the
end of each verse.
Appropriate
musical
instruments could
accompany the
Psalm.
Non tuned
instruments could
be used to create a
rhythm to
accompany the
Psalm.
The Psalm could
be prayed as an
echo prayer.
The words could
be accompanied by
a simple tune.
The children add
other verses to the
Psalm, perhaps
adding other
instruments that
could be used to
praise God.
Each phrase of the
Psalm could be
written
decoratively,
illustrated, brushed
with glitter and
compiled to create
a class prayer book.

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Key Understandings

Learning Points

( continued)
C3
Continuing to wonder at how followers of
Jesus use what they have learned to show
love

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( continued)
C3.1 Reviews and expresses what
they have learned throughout
the unit.

Suggested Strategies

Support Material

c)Chart the things that the children have

particularly enjoyed throughout this unit. Each
child selects and draws one thing they have
enjoyed then shares this with others.

God Gives Songs

for Kids Book 1
Joint Board of
Christian Education

Class Prayer
Praise and
Thanksgiving

Praising God
(Prayer Service)

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Section Four

Activity Sheets

Activity Sheet 1

Learning to Tie Laces

Instructions:
1.

Photocopy the shoe onto

card.

2.

Fold the shoe in half

lengthways (down the
middle).

3.

Use a hole punch to

punch holes in the shoe
to thread a shoe lace.

4.

The children thread the

laces to tie up the shoe.

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Activity Sheet 2

People Help Me
Learn
Dear Parents
Currently in Religious Education we are talking
about people who help the children to learn. We would appreciate
your assistance by completing the following with your child.

Someone in my family home, who helps me learn is

__________ .

This person helps me learn ________________________________

__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

Someone in my wider family who helps me learn is __________ .

This person helps me learn ________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

Someone else who helps me learn is

________________________ .

This person helps me learn ________________________________

__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________

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Program of Work Reference A1.2(b)

Activity Sheet 3

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Program of Work Reference B1.1(a)

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play

talk

walk

play

talk

Me
I have learned to

walk

Draw pictures to match the words below. Use your own words and pictures in
the last box.

Jesus
Jesus learned to

Instructions:

Activity Sheet 4

Learning Like Jesus

Program of Work Reference B1.1(b)

Section Five

Resource Sheets

Resource Sheet 1a

A Wonder Cube
Instructions:
1.

Construct the Wonder Cube

(see Resource Sheet 1b)

2.

Six children sit in a circle and number off

1 to 6.

3.

One child rolls the Wonder Cube. The child

whose number corresponds with the number
uppermost on the cube states, to the group, one
thing they wonder about God. When this child
completes their statement they roll the Wonder
Cube and the game continues.

4.

The teacher, parent or helper could record the

statements for a We Wonder About God
display.

Program of Work Reference A2.1(b)

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Resource Sheet 1b

A Wonder Cube
1
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Program of Work Reference A2.1(b)

Resource Sheet 2

Sometimes
I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder
Wonder I do,
I wonder about God
Do you wonder, too?

Sometimes I wonder
Wonder I do,
I wonder about God
Do you wonder, too?

I wonder if God
Remembers today,
That Im feeling special
Because its my birthday.

I wonder if God
Understands what its like,
To skin both your knees
when you fall from a bike.

Sometimes I wonder
Wonder I do,
I wonder about God
Do you wonder, too?

I wonder about God

But I wonder could it be,
As I wonder about God
Is God wondering about me?

I wonder if God
Is ever curious to know,
That as each year goes by
I just continue to grow.

Suggestions:
1. Enjoy the poem with the children
2. The children could compose their
own verses based on their
wonderings about God.

Sometimes I wonder
Wonder I do,
I wonder about God
Do you wonder, too?

3. The poem could be put to music

and sung.
4. Simple movements could be put
to each of the verses and
performed as an assembly item.

I wonder if God
Can imagine what Ill be,
When I am grown up
And aged twenty three.

Program of Work Reference A2.1(c)

5. Each day different verses could be

used for morning or afternoon
prayer.

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Resource Sheet 3

A Psalm of Praise
(based on Psalm 150)

Praise God!
Praise God, for God is great!
Praise God with trumpets,
Praise God with harps,
Praise God with drums.
Praise God for God is great!
Praise God with dancing,
Praise God with violins,
Praise God with cymbals.
Praise God, for God is great!
Praise God!

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Program of Work Reference C3.1

Resource Sheet 4

Loving Board
Love others

Show
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Care for self, others and

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Resource Sheet 5

Praising God
(A Prayer Service)

The children gather in a circle with work completed during the unit. Also invited to the
prayer service are those who have helped the children learn.
OPENING SONG:

Wake Up Round from Faith and Fun with Songs by

J Macpherson or another appropriate song.

OPENING PRAYER:

God Has Given (A1.1)

INTRODUCTION:

We have learned many things during this unit. Let us take some
time now to share what we have learned with others. (The children
share completed work with adults or with other children.)

READING:

We can learn about God through listening to the Bible.

We learned that Jesus learned how to be a carpenter.
Three children bring forward symbols representing carpentry.
As each symbol is placed centrally, a child reads:
Jesus learned to be a carpenter [cf. Mark 6:3].
After the final symbol has been presented the child finishes
with:
This is the Word of the Lord.
Response: Thanks be to God.

RESPONSE:

The children pray A Psalm of Praise (Resource Sheet 3).

REFLECTION:

Invite those present to spend time in silence, talking to God, in

their minds, about their gift of learning. The following focus
questions could be used at the commencement of the reflection
time:
- What is something very special you have learned for which you
would like to thank God?
- Who is someone special to you for whom you would like to thank
God? Talk to God about what is special about this person.
- What would you like to learn about? Talk to God about what you
would like to learn.

CLOSING SONG:

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Lillenas Publishing or another appropriate song.

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Program of Work Reference C3.1

Section Six

Support Material
Childrens Literature
Songs and Music
Teacher Resources
Videos
Acknowledgements

SUPPORT MATERIAL
Childrens Literature
Allen, P. (1988). Who Sank the Boat?, Picture Puffin, Ringwood, Victoria.
Allen, P. (1982). Mr Archimedes Bath, Collins, Sydney, New South Wales.
Anholt, C. & L. (1997). Billy and the Big New School, Orchard Books, Lane Cove,
New South Wales.
Bartlett, N. (1996). Mr Friend Old Ted, Oz Fotografics, Moorabbin, Victoria.
Bernard, P. & Netherwood , C. (1997). Duffy Everyones Dog, Random House Australia,
Milsons Point, New South Wales.
Bodsworth, N. (1990). Hello Kangaroo!, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria.
Bourgeois, P. & Clark, B. (1995). Franklin Goes to School, Scholastic Australia, Sydney,
New South Wales.
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Demi. (1990). The Empty Pot, Henry Holt & Co., New York.
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Tonkin, R. (1996). Grandpas Stories, Roland Harvey Books, Port Melbourne, Victoria.
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Songs and Music

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Just Life (Australia), Alphington, Victoria.
Flack, J. (1987). God Is So Clever, Mighty God, Jibes n Vibes, Just Life (Australia), Alphington,
Victoria.
Flack, J. (1982). The Light Song, Mugwumps and Important Things, Just Life (Australia),
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Howard, J. (1989). I Am Marvellous, Take Out Your Crayons, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville,
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Teacher Resources
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Galvin, J.C. (1990). Prayers for Little Hearts, Openbook Publishers, Adelaide, South Australia.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Permission to use materials for non-commercial, educational purposes is gratefully acknowledged to:
Quotations from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for Australia 1994
St Pauls, Strathfield, Australia/Libreria Editrice Vaticana, used with permission.
Quotations from the New Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1985 by Darton, Longman and
Todd Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc, and used by permission of the publishers.
Quotations from the Good News Bible, published and copyright 1988 by The Bible Society in
Australia Limited.
Excerpts from the English translation of the Rite of Confirmation, Rite of Blessing of Oils, Rite of
Consecrating the Chrism 1972, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. (ICEL);
excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal 1973, ICEL; excerpts from the English
translation of Rite of Penance 1974, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of Eucharistic Prayer
for Masses with Children 1975, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of A Book of Prayers
1982, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of Book of Blessings 1988, ICEL.
All rights reserved.

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