Prekindergarten-Kindergarten Sunday School Year 3 Teacher’s Guides The teacher’s guides for Prekindergarten-Kindergarten Sunday School Year 3 lessons are found in three Adobe PDF files: 01TeachersPreK_KYr3Fall.pdf 02TeachersPreK_KYr3Winter.pdf 03TeachersPreK_KYr3Spring.pdf The program to read these files, Adobe Reader®, is included with almost every computer. To avoid potential printing difficulties, use the latest available version of Adobe Reader. If your computer does not have Adobe Reader or has an outdated version, you may download the latest version for free at www.adobe.com. Adobe Reader is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Printing the Teacher’s Guide In order to achieve the optimum format of the printed Teacher’s Guide, and to make sure that the page numbers print, do the following: from the print menu, click on “Page Scaling” and set to “Fit to Printable Area.” The entire teacher’s guide for each set is in one file. If you wish to print the entire file, simply open it and print. Note: No matter which page is on the screen, when you click on the print button, the default option will be to print all the pages of the PDF file. If you wish to print just certain pages, click on the Bookmarks tab usually found to the left of the open page. Note the page numbers on the bookmark for the pages you wish to print. In the print window, indicate that range of pages. You can also click on the page you wish to print, then in the print window, click on “current page.” Copyright Information All rights reserved. The Teacher’s Guides on this CD may be reproduced for use in a single classroom. Sunday schools with more than one classroom per grade level should purchase one Teacher’s Guide CD for each classroom. TEACHER’S GUIDE PREKINDERGARTEN-KINDERGARTEN YEAR 3 | FALL Sunday School I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. John 8:12 (NIV 1984) Project Coordinators: Owen Dorn, Raymond Schumacher Editorial Team: Lynn Groth, Jennifer Raasch Art Director: Karen Knutson Design Team: Paula Brouwer, Pamela Dunn, Sarah Oberhofer, Lynda Williams We extend our thanks to the many employees of Northwestern Publishing House who have contributed to this project. Catechism materials are taken from Luther’s Catechism: Revised. © 1998 by Northwestern Publishing House. Hymn and hymnal references, unless otherwise indicated, are to Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal. © 1993 by Northwestern Publishing House. Christ-Light and the Christ-Light logo are registered property of Northwestern Publishing House. Northwestern Publishing House 1250 N. 113th St., Milwaukee, WI 53226-3284 www.nph.net © 2014 by Northwestern Publishing House Published 2014 Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978-0-8100-2179-2 All rights reserved. The Teacher’s Guides on this CD may be reproduced for use in a single classroom. Sunday schools with more than one classroom per grade level should purchase one Teacher’s Guide CD for each classroom. Contents PREKINDERGARTEN-KINDERGARTEN | YEAR 3 | FALL Sunday School NOTES PAGE INTRODUCTION vii 1 God Creates Our Beautiful World ________________________________ 1 2 God Saves Adam and Eve ________________________________ 11 3 Cain’s Sin and God’s Love ________________________________ 21 4 Hannah Loves Her Son ________________________________ 31 5 God Chooses Saul to Be King ________________________________ 41 6 David and Goliath ________________________________ 51 7 David Is Kind to Saul ________________________________ 61 8 God Helps David See His Sins ________________________________ 70 9 God Makes Solomon Wise ________________________________ 81 10 Elijah and King Ahab ________________________________ 91 11 Ahab and Naboth’s Vineyard ________________________________ 101 12 God Takes Elijah to Heaven ________________________________ 111 13 A Young Girl Helps Naaman ________________________________ 122 • Learn more easily when the teacher uses Introduction visual aids and manipulatives • Learn a great deal from play The Christ-Light Sunday school curriculum • Are imaginative consists of 117 lessons for each level, arranged • Sometimes exaggerate in a three-year cycle. Each year the students • Are beginning to understand the will study lessons from both the Old and New concept of lying Testaments to ensure that they receive a clear picture of the promise and fulfillment of God’s • Love to ask questions plan of salvation. Some key Scripture lessons, • Are learning to generalize such as the creation and the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, are repeated during the Emotional development three-year cycle. • Are quick to form bonds with adults they trust Parental involvement is key to the spiritual nurture of the students! • Thrive on sincere praise • Take pride in accomplishments Student Lessons offer interesting, interactive parent-child activities. • Enjoy responsibility Teacher’s Guides offer additional ideas for • Are beginning to understand guilt encouraging parent-child interaction. • Can be quick to lie to avoid punishment • Can be moody Characteristics of four- to • Can go from one emotion to another in six-year-old children a matter of seconds • May have difficulty separating from Mental development parent(s) • Are eager to learn • May fear change in routine • Vary greatly in vocabulary development • Can have difficulty distinguishing Social development between fact and fiction • Love to play • Need help learning to put things in • Prefer gender-appropriate activities sequence • Can be quick to turn on a friend; can • Love to discover and learn by doing just as quickly become friends again • Need to use all their senses to learn • Can have difficulty sharing, but can learn to take turns • Love to learn about Jesus • Can be very possessive about what is • Can be taught to apply Bible truths to theirs situations in their own lives • Can be shy and timid • Can learn what it means to forgive and can carry this out • May interrupt • Learn more easily when taught with • Love to be helpers short, concise sentences • Sometimes have special friends PREK-K | SS | YEAR 3 | FALL | INTRODUCTION vii Physical development Those who want to design their own lessons may • Vary greatly in ability to use scissors, select activities from either the wide or the narrow crayons, and glue column, or from the Lesson Activities section. • Have usually established handedness Student Lessons • Need to move about and change Christ-Light student lessons are an essential connection activities often with the home. Encourage all parents to use them • Can have great difficulty sitting still with their children. These loose-leaf, two-page lesson sheets contain the Bible story text, a full-color • May fall out of chairs and may trip while teaching picture, a brief summary of the lesson, walking or running both a grade-appropriate and a family parent-child • Love to express themselves with music, activity, a prayer, and a memory treasure. actions, and rhythm • May need help to tie shoes and/or fasten Copy Master CD certain types of clothing A single Copy Master CD contains all the copy • Females are likely to have better small masters for the entire year. The reproducible copy muscle coordination masters are designed to teach, review, apply, reinforce, or enrich your lessons. Teacher Preparation The Copy Master CD also contains separate files with printable copies of the selections found on the Unique resources for helping teachers prepare music CDs. (See Music below.) for each lesson are found in the Teaching Helps podcasts. You can access these online: Music t www.nph.net/christlight. Each lesson includes at least one song, hymn, or For each lesson, a two-part file is provided. In the liturgical response. first part (about 12 minutes long), a pastor discusses Teaching CDs with upbeat accompaniment and the content of the Bible lesson itself. In the second accompaniment + vocal tracks are available for: part (about 6 minutes), teachers give additional teaching tips not found in the Christ-Light teachers’ 1. 38 memory treasure hymns guides. A two-page study sheet is available for those 2. 61 core memory treasure passages who may want to take notes as they listen to the 3. grade level songs Teaching Helps. The Copy Master CD contains a file with printable copies of all the selections on the Christ-Light Teaching Materials Songs CD. Teacher’s Guides Additional files contain guitar chords and melody Christ-Light Teacher’s Guides offer everything you lines for the Memory Treasures: Hymns CD as well as need to teach a lesson. Familiarize yourself with the the Memory Treasures: Passages CD. Teacher’s Guide by reading Teaching the Lesson, A music CD icon t identifies the songs that have beginning on page ix. been recorded on the CDs. Note that the Teacher’s Guide is set up with parallel Take-Along CDs of the accompaniment + vocal lesson plans—one in the wide column and one in tracks of all CDs are available at an attractive price the narrow column. for use by families. These CDs can teach on the way Those who want one straightforward, complete to school, on the way home from soccer practice, lesson can use the wide column, start to finish. and during evening family time. PREK-K | SS | YEAR 3 | FALL | INTRODUCTION viii Teaching Pictures Christ-Light provides a song, CDs of the Bible story pictures for prekindergarten action poem, or prayer to open through grade 4 are available. The pictures may be each lesson. The brevity makes it projected or reproduced for classroom use. possible to teach the “meat” of the lesson during prime learning time. Teaching the Lesson Introduce is designed to create Lesson Overview student interest in the coming The lesson summary helps the teacher understand the lesson. Introductions pro vide contents of the lesson. The Looking Back at . necessary background, actively involve students, and section helps the teacher remember the key points of lead them to anticipate an answer to the aim question.