Lesson video

Hi everyone, I'm Miss Harris and welcome to today's Religious Education lesson.

Today, we're going to be answering this question.

Why is the manger so important? So let's take a look at what this lesson is going to be full of so much information.

We're going to be looking at, where was Jesus born? What is the Bible? We're going to have a reading from the Bible, and we're going to look at, what is the manger? Because we know the word manger, but we might not know what that is.

And then we've got our end of lesson quiz.

Now you will need an exercise book, a pencil, a coloured pencil and of course your brain.

If you've forgotten any of these things or you don't have them with you, you can pause the video and go and get them now.

Great.

Now we're going to practise our star words.

These are the important words that we are going to be using in this lesson.

So you're going to need to speak to your screen, so you're going to say the words out loud to me, okay? So I'm saying them out loud and so are you.

So my turn, then your turn.

Manger.

Did you say it? I didn't hear you.

Say it louder.

Manger, Joseph, stable, important, Jesus, baby, Mary.

Great.

Now how do we know about Christianity? So how do we know everything that we know about Christianity and the Christmas story? Well, you know this from a very special book called the Bible.

For many Christians, the Bible is a source of wisdom and authority.

It was written by men who many Christians believe were inspired by God or who heard God's voice.

It has lots of stories about God, Jesus, how to live, histories, wisdom and poetry.

Lots of wonderful things in the Bible.

So the Bible is a book for Christians and it's a source of wisdom and authority.

What's the book called? The? So your first question, how can we find out about Jesus? Christians can read the? Write that sentence down and fill in the gap.

Pause the video.

How about that now? So the answer is, Christians can read the Bible.

Great.

Now can you read the Bible, even if you're not a Christian? Of course you can, you can read it, so that you can learn everything that you would like to know find out everything you'd like to know about Christianity.

Now let's watch a short video, all about the Holy Bible.

The Bible is a collection of books made up of 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament.

The full Bible has been translated into more than 500 languages and with more than 5 billion copies sold.

It's the best selling non-fiction book of all time.

We believe the Bible is God's word.

It's full of stories that give guidance to us on how to live our lives.

It's very important to learn the wisdom from the Bible.

As Christian people, we say that we believe that the Bible contains everything that we need to learn for our salvation.

But the Bible doesn't give us those things on a plate.

It's not always straightforward.

We need to pick up some of the principles and some of the themes that are in the Bible stories and take them forward and see how they fit and how we would apply them in our own lives and in our own world.

There's a Bible to suits everyone.

I've just started using a clown of Bible, but it takes a bit of getting used to.

Looking through the Bible is very complicated.

Psalms 86.

19, I just don't get it.

Kest is 12, she uses the Bible on her phone.

As a book, the Bible is quite complicated to use, but the phone is a lot easier.

In any test I use the Paperback Bible because it's less of a distraction.

Worship the Lord in the splendour of His holiness And her sister uses a special children's version.

How does God take care of you? God takes care of us by letting us to read all books in the whole world.

Laura, who is 13 has two Bibles, one in English and one in Arabic The English Bible, I read from the front to the back, but with the Arabic Bible, I read from the back to the front because in Arabic we write from right left and not from left to right.

My favourite story is God saves Daniel.

Daniel was thrown into the lion's den but he prayed to God who protected him.

It told me that God hears our prayers.

Stories are an incredibly a powerful way of understanding ourselves and understanding the world.

Stories can really help us to see things in a new light and they can often show us something that we can never understand from just facts and figures.

I find the Bible lies because it teaches you lessons that you will keep for the rest of your life, like Philippians 4:13 says, "I can do all things "through Christ who strengthens me." And for me, that teaches if you're in times of trouble or you just feel that you need more strength, he'll give you that.

Did you enjoy learning about the Bible? Me too.

Well, let's think about where was Jesus born? Can you remember what it's called where Jesus was born? So Jesus was born in a stable in Bethlehem and he was laid to rest in the manger and he was wrapped in cloth by Mary.

Do you remember? Good.

So we're going to read an extract from the Bible.

That means a part of the Bible, which tells us about the manger.

So let's follow with our finger, reading the words.

Are you ready? So put your first finger on the word foxes.

The first word that begins with /f/.

Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has no where to lay his head.

Shall I read that again? This time I want you to close your eyes and listen carefully to the words I'm saying.

Are you ready? So listen carefully.

Are your eyes closed? Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

Okay, open your eyes, that's everything.

What if foxes have, What does this part of the Bible tell us? Foxes have holes, good.

What do birds have? So birds of the air have nests, well done.

So foxes have holes, birds have nests, this tells us that foxes have holes to rest in and birds have nests to rest in, but does the son of man have anywhere? No, it tells us that the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

So the son of man is Jesus and he has nowhere to lay his head.

But we know from the story that the kind innkeeper let Mary and Joseph rest in the stable in Bethlehem and Mary lay Jesus in a manger.

So Jesus was born in the stable and born in a manger.

Let's think back to the Christmas story.

There was no room at the end, the kind innkeeper let Mary and Joseph stay in the stable.

Where was Jesus born? Let's fill in the gap.

You're going to write this sentence down in your book.

And you're going to fill in the gap.

Jesus was born in a? Pause the video, write that sentence down, fill in the gap.

Wonderful.

Now pick up your coloured pen, with our pencil, we're going to tick or fix.

So we're going to check that we've got the right answer.

And if we have, we're going to tick it and if you didn't get it right, don't worry.

We can use our coloured pencil to make it right.

So Jesus was born in a manger.

Great job.

Give yourself a tick if you wrote manger, or put a nice neat line through it and write the word manger above.

Pause the video and check your answers.

Go now.

Lovely.

Now some Christians believe that Jesus was the King of all Kings.

Where do you expect a King to be born? How do they? Where do you think a king might be born? Where are babies born now? In hospitals.

So where might we think that the King might be born? In a palace, surrounded by lots of stuff, it's nice and clean, lots of people to take care of them, but we know that Jesus was born in a manger.

Now a manger is also known as a trough, which is where animals feed from.

And we wouldn't expect a King to be born where animals eat from.

This is what a manger looks like.

Christians believe that Jesus survived the awful conditions in the stable and the animals find their food in the manger.

But now Jesus lays within it.

Jesus switched the role of being the richest.

He changed the role to being poor.

The manger represents the table of God that we are all invited to receive the bread of God.

So the manger is important because it shows us that Christians believe that Jesus survived these awful conditions and that he's the saviour of the world.

You have worked super hard today.

Well done.

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and I will see you next time.

Bye.