Celebrating babies!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Celebrations New Beginnings

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Objectives

Early learning goals

Talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
Know that other children do not always do the same things, and are sensitive to this.
Know about similarities and differences between others, and among families, communities and traditions.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through art and role play.

Lesson Planning

Puddles the cat teaches children about the Christian sacrament ‘Christening’ - to name and welcome new babies into Christian community.

Children will:

Learn about the Christian sacrament ‘Christening (Infant baptism); recall at least 5 facts.
Consolidate their learning with role-play.
Compose a promise for a god-parent to make to their god-child.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Selection of Christian artefacts in large treasure box and ‘surprise’ baby bottle, bib or soother
Puddles the cat toy
Puddles and the Christening Splash! by Gill Vaisey
Area for role play church
Paint, tape and paper for ‘name art’
Playdough and photos of fonts
Paper and card for Godparent promises

Weblinks

Name art from learnwithplayathome.com
Teacher information about Baptism from request.org.uk
Dorchester Abbey font from dorchester-abbey.org.uk
Church of England fonts from picturesofengland.com
Pobble, including examples based on Hamilton plans An on-line writing website where you could upload examples of your children’s writing