Grade 1 - Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States

Sunday School Curriculum Grade 1
Week 4 – The Angel and the Shepherds
Objective:
To feel the joy of nativity which fills the heaven and earth.
Memory Verse:
“I bring you good tidings of great joy” (Luke 2:10).
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (Luke 2:14)
Reference
Luke 2:8-20
Introduction
Prepare the following visual aids:
Wings -White clothes - a bright light.
Pictures of sheep or models of sheep. The Shepherd’s staff, broken wood, a jug of
water.
A flute for singing hymns.
Make the manger from a brown paper and a box. Put the beautiful picture of Nativity
in the box.
Prepare the procession of the feast (roses, candles, white shawls).
Review the previous lesson and verse with the students.
Give an idea about the shepherds, their life and how they care for the sheep. They live in
tents, they guard the sheep, and they light the broken pieces of wood for heat - the sheep’s
love for the shepherd. They sleep in peace.
Lesson Outlines:
The shepherds go out every morning to the pastures (a place full of grass and water). They take the
sheep with them. The sheep play and eat.
The shepherd with the sweet flute sang and said: to Mary came Gabriel. After all the sheep had
slept. The shepherds said, “We cannot sleep and leave the sheep”. Somebody may come and carry
them away. Let’s divide ourselves two of us sleep and two of us guard the sheep and they did so.
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