Christian Religious Studies - Toddler - The story of Joseph

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

PUPIL’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher uses the 12 sons of Jacob and Joseph’s song to introduce the topic.

She explains what a coat of many colours-  A coat of many colours is a coat that has many colours like red, yellow, blue, green etc

Pupils pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She then further explains that Jacob was the son of Isaac who had given birth to 12 sons but whose favourite was his 11^th son named Joseph

Pupils pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

Using the bible story books and the pictures there in she tells the story of Joseph

-      How Jacob loved Joseph because he was born at his old age

-      How Jacob preferred Joseph to his other sons and had bought him a coat of many colours

-      How Joseph’s other brothers had become jealous of him to the point of arranging for him to be killed

-      How the brothers had decided instead to sell him as a slave to Midianites and lied to their father that a wild beast had killed Joseph

Pupils pay attention and participate