Subject: Catholic Life Formation 2 Date:
Topic: Jesus’ Calls Me Back to Him Grade/Section/Time:
Encounter No.: 1(80 mins.)
Transfer Goal:
The learners will be able to gain an understanding that God is love and forgiveness and concretely felt through the person of Jesus and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This will
enable them to see the value of humility to forgive and ask forgiveness so that in the long run, they will learn to admit their faults to Jesus and say sorry to those whom they hurt.
Enduring Understanding Flow of the Lesson/Activities Skills/Values Materials/References
God continues to love us even if we I. Preparation - Videos/ Songs: I Love You Jesus;
commit mistakes. A. Prayer: I Love You Jesus (a prayer song with actions) - recognizing Jesus’ love Every Move I Make; God’s Mercy
B. Warm-up up/ Energizer: Every Move I Make for us; and Forgiveness
God is like a parent who forgives His C. Mood Setting - Spring Toy
children no matter how naughty they D. Recapitulation (The teacher will call on someone to give a - Puppets
- MS Powerpoint
may be. short recapitulation of the lesson/ activity discussed in the - remembering the lessons
discussed in the previous - Illustration with missing letters
previous encounter) - Pictures (Ways to do to go back to
encounter;
God)
II. Presentation of the Lesson - Writing materials (cut-out words,
A. Motivation: manila paper, pentel pen, cartolina,
- The teacher will show to the class a spring toy. A pupil- - critical thinking; and glue)
volunteer will be called to play it for a while to see how - CLF Book: Calderon M.L.,
it works and ask the rest of the class to take closer Valeza, J.P., et. al (2017). We
observations. Celebrate God’s Love: Belonging
to God’s Family of Love . Vibal,
Inc.
Remarks:
Subject Coordinator’s Signature: Teacher’s Name/Signature:
Date:
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Essential Question/s Flow of the Lesson/Activities Skills/Values
- Why does Jesus always call us back Linkage Questions/ Processing Questions:
to Him? - What did you see? - describing and recognizing
- How does the spring toy work? the given object;
- Why are people lost sometimes? - Can you give me other things that go back to their original position/state even if you did - giving connections to the
something to it unless it is broken? What are they? function of the spring puppet
- Why do they go back even how hard you tried to pull them? to our personal lives;
- Can this act be applied in our personal lives? - recognizing Jesus as the
- Do you know some people who have gone away but after some time went back to their person who always calls us
places/ families? back to Him;
- Do you know the reason why?
- Do you know a person who is never tired of always pulling us back even how many
times we have gone astray?
- Why does Jesus always call us back to Him?
- recognizing the idea that
B. Lesson Proper when we do unloving
- The teacher will present these statements: “Jesus calls us back to the Father and brings actions, we are moving away
us back our loving relationship with Him because He loves us. It does not mean, from God;
however, that we will simply wait for Jesus to call us back we have to do our part. We - appreciating God’s love that
have to say “yes” to Jesus. But how? What should we do?” when we are lost, Jesus leads
us back to the Father;
- The teacher will present an illustration with missing letters and paste it on the board. The
pupils will be asked to observe and guess the words:
__ A C __ __ __ __ N T O __ __ E C __ __ __ I __ I A __ I O N
- After they have guessed the words, some pupil – volunteers will be asked to share
something about the words just presented.
- To continue and to present some ways we need to do so that Jesus will lead us back to
our Father, the class will be asked to freeze and after a little while, will look for a thing page 2
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found under their chairs.
Essential Question/s Flow of the Lesson/Activities Skills/Values
- Why does Jesus always call us back - Those pupils who will be able to get something under their chairs will be asked to post
to Him? them on the board. The pupils will describe the scenario depicted in each picture and the
teacher will further discuss after:
- Why are people lost sometimes? We need to confess our sins to Jesus through the priest;
We need to say with all our hearts that we are sorry for hurting Jesus with our sins;
- Is it important to be back in God’s and
loving embrace? Do we really need We need to ask for Jesus’ forgiveness and promise Him that we will be good always.
to go back to God’s loving - The teacher will present these statements to the class: “Jesus happily leads us back to
embrace? our Father when we say sorry for our sins, ask for His forgiveness, and promise that we
will be good always.
C. Values Integration
- living out the value of
- The teacher will ask the following questions to the class using flashcards:
reconciliation;
1. How does it feel that we are God’s children and when we are lost, he always does
- relationship building
something in order for us to go back to Him?
2. Is it important to be back in God’s loving embrace? Do we really need to go back to
God’s loving embrace?
3. Do we really need to say sorry for our sins and ask for God’s forgiveness in order to
be back to our Father? Why or why not?
4. What loving actions will you do to make Jesus happy?
D. Application
- The teacher will share to the class The Parable of the Lost Sheep through a puppet
storytelling and some pupils to be part of the story. The story of the Gospel of Saint Luke
is about a shepherd who looks for one sheep who is lost. Jesus uses this story to tell
people about God’s love for His children.
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Essential Question/s Flow of the Lesson/Activities Skills/Values
- Why does Jesus always call us back - The teacher will then ask the following questions to the class, using flashcards:
to Him? 1. What was the story all about?
2. Why do you think the man in the story left the ninety – nine sheep and looked after
- Why are people lost sometimes? for the one that was lost? - identifying ways we need to
3. Why do you think the sheep was lost? do so that Jesus will lead us
- Is it important to be back in God’s 4. How do you describe the man in the parable? back to our Father;
loving embrace? Do we really need 5. Do you remember someone who does the same thing as what the man in the parable
to go back to God’s loving did?
embrace? 6. Who is that person? Why did he do what he did?
- Do we really need to say sorry for E. Synthesis - summarizing the ideas about
our sins and ask for God’s - The teacher will ask the pupils to complete the graphic organizer by filling in words that Jesus’ calls us back;
forgiveness in order to be back to best describe the lesson for today.
our Father?
III. Closure - reflecting on one’s personal
- The teacher will post jumbled words on the board and the class will be asked to arrange understanding of
the given sets of words in order to tell the message of the lesson and they will read the reconciliation;
message they have come up with.
IV. Assignment
- The pupils will do the activity found on page 170 of their CLF Book. - offering a prayer to God for
His never-ending blessings
most especially the gifts of
Prayer acceptance, mercy, and
The teacher will ask the pupils to get their CLF Book and they will together forgiveness.
pray the prayer found on page 167.
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