Year 2 Choices: Do we need rules to live by? worksheet

“Why we have rules” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 religious education unit “Choices: Do we need rules to live by?”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 24 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 19 to 24 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Why we have rules

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Religious education · about 24 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say why rules help us and what they are for.

A Look back3 min

A church, a mosque and a mandir side by side on a quiet street, with no people

1.
Match each place to the people who worship there.
ChurchMosqueMandir
MuslimsHindusChristians
2.
Which book is the holy book of Muslims? Circle it.
Qur’anBibleTorah
3.
Which festival is a Hindu festival? Circle it.
DiwaliEidChristmas

B Watch me, then you4 min

Zara’s class has a rule: walk in the corridor. Follow the chain to see what the rule is for.

Watch me

The rule is: walk in the corridor.

When we walk, nobody gets bumped over.

So walking is a safe and kind choice.

Now you

1.
Sam’s rule is: wash your hands before you eat. Why is this rule there? Circle one.
So germs do not spreadTo make your hands wetSo you can be late

C Your turn8 min

Read each rule. Find the reason it is there.

A school playground with a slide, a bench and building blocks on the grass

1.
Wait for your turn on the slide. Why is this rule there? Circle one.
To keep everyone safeTo make the slide longerTo stop the children having fun
2.
Share the building blocks. Why is this rule there? Circle one.
To help everyone have a turnTo make the blocks run outTo stop anyone building
3.
Write each card in the column where it belongs.
Help a friend who fallsHold the rail on the stairsLet others have a turn
Keeps us safe Keeps us fair Keeps us kind
4.
Following a rule is a choice. What kind of choice is it? Circle the answer.
A choice to be kind, fair or safeA choice to be unkindA choice that never matters

Say it out loud: Pick one rule from this page. Who does it help, and how?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A zebra crossing with a bicycle waiting at the kerb

Ali says: “Rules are only there to stop us having fun.”

1.
Write one reason Ali is wrong.

E Think deeper4 min

A library reading corner with bookshelves and a rug

1.
Philosophers ask big questions. Write one about rules.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Why we have rules · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Church → Christians; Mosque → Muslims; Mandir → Hindus If the mandir is matched to Christians, say a mandir is a Hindu place of worship. Ask who worships in a church.

2. Qur’an If your child circles the Bible, say the Bible is the holy book for Christians. Ask which book Muslims read.

3. Diwali If your child circles Eid, say Eid is a Muslim festival. Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights.

B

1. So germs do not spread If your child circles ‘to make your hands wet’, ask: does that keep anyone safe? Then ask which reason keeps us healthy.

C

1. To keep everyone safe If your child circles ‘to stop the children having fun’, ask: what could happen if everyone pushed on the slide at once?

2. To help everyone have a turn If your child circles ‘to make the blocks run out’, say a rule about sharing helps everyone get a turn.

3. Keeps us fair: Let others have a turn · Keeps us kind: Help a friend who falls · Keeps us safe: Hold the rail on the stairs Some cards fit two columns. Helping a friend who falls also keeps them safe. If your child gives a good reason, mark it right.

4. A choice to be kind, fair or safe If your child circles ‘never matters’, say every rule we keep is a choice that matters to someone else.

D

1. Look for: says rules look after people, keeping them safe, fair or kind, not only stopping them If your child only writes ‘rules are good’, ask which rule keeps someone safe on the road, like the crossing.

E

1. Look for: a question about rules that asks why, whether, or how rules are fair, safe or kind

Words to use

Say“Which person or place is this rule for? Why do they need it?”

Instead of“Rules are there to stop you, so just be good.”

After the sheet

Walk round the house and name one rule in each room. Ask together: why is that rule there?

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Rules from God(with a plan)
Jesus and good choices(with a plan)
Ganesha's Race and Dharma(with a plan)
Humanists and kind choices(with a plan)
Rules, choices and you(with a plan)

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