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Enjoying Words

Autumn Term Part 2

Week 7 - Writing news about their half-term holiday or writing a modern parable,
e.g. The Lost Jigsaw Piece

It would be beneficial to have read the story of ‘The Lost Sheep’ before the lesson in a version such as
Butterworth and Inkpen’s which illustrates the storyteller’s art of repetition.

Father and family: God’s heart is to rescue the stray to bring him back into the fold of the family.

Refer to the Parable of the Lost Sheep and to how Jesus used the picture of a shepherd looking after his
sheep to communicate truth about God’s heart. If Jesus were on earth today he might use a different picture
to communicate the same truth, as people are not so familiar with shepherds and sheep today. Help the
children see that the sheep essentially belonged together in the one ‘family’. They were all similar things too.
Can the children think of similar things which belong together, one of which might get lost? E.g. pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle, buttons on a jacket, puppies or kittens in a litter, etc.

The beginning of the story probably needs to be the ‘Jesus figure’, expressing his delight in his puzzle, or new
jacket, etc.

The middle will be how one day he discovers one is missing, and how he goes searching for it. Tell me where he
looks. He looks under the bed. It isn’t there. He looks in the cupboard. It isn’t there. etc. (Refer to the story
of ‘The Lost Sheep’ here.) Remind the children that just like Jesus, he doesn’t give up.

The ending tells how he finds the lost thing, how he feels as he brings it back into the ‘whole’. Essentially it’s a
very happy ending. Suggest that the children close with a sentence such as this, which could be written up on
the board for them. In the same way Jesus rejoices over everyone who turns back to Him.

Week 8 - Writing a description of an animal from a picture

Creator and creation: God reveals his character through what he has made.

Use about three close-up photographs of different creatures, for example from wild-life calendars, eg a seal
pup, an eagle and a pig – something cute, something powerful and something funny!

Pin up the first picture only on the board, and wait for the children’s response. What sort of words could be
used to describe this animal? Write up describing words suggested by the children on a large sheet of paper
(or in some format that may be kept until the writing lesson).

Sometimes it may be necessary to ‘shape’ a word suggested by a child. Sometimes you will need to turn a
sentence – ‘it’s got black eyes’ – into a describing word – ‘black-eyed’.

Remind the children that God created this animal and that God’s creation shows us something about God.
What does this animal show us about God?

Repeat with the other pictures.

This may be sufficient for one lesson. These pictures and associated describing words can then be used in a
further lesson, in which the children are asked to write a paragraph about one of these animals. (Let them

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