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44 C P H . O R G / C U R R I C U L U M 2 3 8 Lesson Extenders C I R C L E T I M E Ask your students to bring their crayons or markers to the circle. Talk about how color helps us in worship. As you identify the seasons of the Church Year, ask your students to hold up the color you mention. The Church Year begins with Advent. During Advent, the Church wears blue or violet. During the Christmas season, the Church wears white. After Christmas and during the Epiphany season, the Church wears white and then green. Transfiguration Sunday is the last Sunday after the Epipha- ny. The Church wears white. During the Lenten season, the Church wears violet. During Holy Week, the Church wears various colors such as scarlet, violet, and black. On Easter, the Church wears white and gold. For the Sundays following Easter, the Church wears white. On Pentecost, the church wears red. To celebrate the Holy Trinity, the church wears white. During the Sundays after Pentecost, the Church wears green. Allow your students to decorate a cross with colors that remind them of the Bible story. W O R S H I P L I F E The Sunday before Lent is designated Transfiguration Sunday. The church sings alleluia to the glorified Jesus. Then, during Lent, the Church refrains from songs of alleluia. Ask your stu- dents to examine the hymn "Alleluia, Song of Gladness" (LSB 417). Invite your students to think of something for which they are thankful—for which they would like to praise God. After each expression, the students can sing or say, "Alleluia!" E X P R E S S Art P Explore the internet for images of famous paintings of the transfiguration. Ask your students to compare the paintings. How are they alike? How are they different? Who is pictured? How do the artists picture the cloud or Jesus' glory? Interested students can draw or paint their own interpretations. S E A R C H I N G F U R T H E R Using the Student Book or a Bible with pictures, challenge your students to find other Bible accounts that happened on top of a mountain. Which ones are recorded in the Old Testament? Which ones are in the New Testament? What are the names of the mountains? Locate the mountains on a map. R E L A T E Active Play P Set up an obstacle course to represent going up the mountain and down the mountain. Use balance beams, jump ropes, hula hoops, orange cones, and mats at various stations. Assign specific tasks at each location. Once your students reach the top of your mountain, ask them to recite the Memory Words and then run all the way back to the beginning! E X P R E S S Language P On a piece of chart paper, accumulate a list of words that remind your students of the words glory or glorious. Chal- lenge your students to look at advertising to find examples. Con- clude by sorting the list into those words that fit with the image of God and those that do not. C H E C K F O R U N D E R S T A N D I N G Ask your students to write the word glory on a paper plate and add a craft stick to the back with tape. When they finish, tell them to lift up their glory stick instead of raising their hands to answer the following review questions: ● Who did Jesus take with Him up the mountain? ● What happened to Jesus at the top of the mountain? ● Who appeared with Jesus? (Explain that Moses and Elijah lived long before Jesus. God had given the Law to Moses. God had chosen Elijah to be a prophet.) How long had these two men been dead? ● What did Peter want to do? ● What happened under the shadow of a large cloud? ● How did Jesus comfort Peter, James, and John? ● What instructions did Jesus give to the three disciples? Use the glory sticks as you teach the Memory Words from John 1:14. Ask your students to lift their glory sticks when they hear the word glory. Discuss who is identified as glorious. What did the Word do? Conclude by having your students repeat the Memory Words with you, lifting their glory sticks when they come to the word Son. UNIT 7 | LESSON 51 2 3 8 © 2021 Concordia Publishing House and/or the copyright information listed on the indicia. © 2021 Concordia Publishing House and/or the copyright information listed on the indicia. c p h . o r g GRADE 2 TEACHER GUIDE

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