The Liturgical Year
Transfiguration PREP Lesson Plan
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Grade: 6
Chapter 6: The Liturgical Year
Objectives:
1.
Students will be able to explain that the liturgical year celebrates the important events in Jesus’ life.
2.
Students will be able to list and explain the 6 seasons of the liturgical year: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Triduum, Easter and Ordinary
Time.
Word of Week: Show video clip if available, or teach with resources provided.
Gathering/Opening Prayer:
1.
Laptop open to http://faithfirst.com/html/kidsOnly/games/itkLitYearColors.html and
http://faithfirst.com/html/kidsOnly/games/itkSeasonsChurchYear.html Children can work together while waiting for class to arrive.
2.
Gather students around prayer table. Pray together: Lord, you create all things to give you glory! (ppt.slide) We thank you
for…respond with prayer after each prayer of thanksgiving. Pray grade level prayer; projected on wall
Opening/Experience:
1.
Show Seasons/Liturgical Year video
2.
Ask students what is their favorite season or day of the year. Do a quick poll. How they show others that these days/seasons have
special meaning?
Development/Presenting:
1.
In the Church we have special days and times of the year that are important too.
2.
We remember and celebrate these times in the Liturgy (ppt slide) Discuss definition.
3.
Also includes Liturgy of the Hours (ppt slide) (A prayer, parts of which the Church prays at various times during the day and night
– show Liturgy of Hours book… also online, ebreviary.com)
4.
In the liturgy we remember and rejoice in Jesus’ life – so we call the Church year… the liturgical year. (ppt slide) We remember
Jesus’ birth, younger years, public ministry, his suffering, death and resurrection and ascension into heaven. We also honor Mary, the Mother
of God and all the Saints.
5.
Show and discuss liturgical year http://www.cccbpublications.ca/site/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/YG1-0LL.jpg
Have students name and tell about each season, when it is, how long, why it is important, colors. Use
http://www.webelieveweb.com/liturgical_year.cfm as visual.
6.
The entire liturgical year is constructed around Easter. Easter Sunday always follows the full moon after the spring equinox (equinox
is the day the sun crosses the equator!) Connect to Resurrection of Christ, whose rising brings light to the world! Easter Sunday is always
between march 27 and April 25. Using the calendar, when will Easter be in 2011? (April 24) When will Lent be in 2011? (March 7 – count
back 6 weeks!)
Discovery Activity:
1.
Have students work in groups to create a podcast about the Liturgical Year. Divide into 7 groups, 2 students to work on intro and
closing and 6 groups to explain the importance of the 6 seasons.)
Summary/Response:
1.
Play Jeopardy on computer to reinforce key concepts learned.
Closing Prayer/Announcements:
. 1. Close with prayer on page 84; projected on wall. Have symbols on prayer table: crèche, Advent wreath, bowl of ashes, a cross, white
candle, image of Jesus teaching.
2. Have students tear out Sharing Faith with my Family page, complete with their family and return to class next week. 5 returns = prize!
3. Remind students to have their families listen for their podcast!
Resources/Supplies Needed: internet, laptop, tv or lcd connections, power point, Seasons video, Jeopardy game, Sharing Faith with my
Family page
http://faithfirst.com/html/kidsOnly/ga
mes/itkSeasonsChurchYear.html
Lord, you create all things to give you
glory!
Memorare
Remember, most loving Virgin Mary,
never was it heard that anyone who turned
to you for help was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, though
burdened by my sins,
I run to your protection for you are my
mother.
Mother of the Word of God,
do not despise my words of pleading,
but be merciful and hear my prayer. Amen.
Liturgy
 Official Public Prayer of the
Church
Liturgy of the Hours
 Prayer, parts of which the Church
prays at various times during the
day and night
 www.ebreviary.com
Liturgical Year
http://www.webelieveweb.com/liturgical
_year.cfm
 Advent
 Christmas
 Lent
 Triduum
 Easter
 Ordinary Time
How do we
know when
Easter is
celebrated
each year?
Create a pod cast about the Liturgical Year
Divide into 7 groups, 2 students to work on intro and closing
and 6 groups to explain the importance of the 6 seasons.
Jeopardy
We Respond in Prayer
Adapted from Sadlier, We Believe, Grade 6, page 83
Leader: Give praise to God, who is rich in mercy and
who has favored us in wonderful ways. Blessed be
God for ever.
All: Blessed be God for ever.
Reader 1: St. Paul urges us to give thanks to God
always through Christ, for in him, God has given
us everything.
Reader 2: From the Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians
(4:4-6)
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again:
rejoice! Your kindness should be known to all.
The Lord is near. have no anxiety at all, but in
everything, by prayer and petition, with
thanks-
giving, make your requests known to God.”
The Word of the Lord.
All:
Thanks be to God.
Leader:
Please offer each other a sign of God’s peace!
And we close our prayer, In the Name of the
Remember:
•Invite your parents to listen to the pod cast!
•Take home and DO Sharing Faith with My Family page, bring it back next
week!
Today we learned about the Liturgical
Year. If you’d like to know about the
Liturgical Year, please listen to our
pod cast:
Today we learned about the Liturgical
Year. If you’d like to know about the
Liturgical Year, please listen to our
pod cast:
Check out this website too:
Check out this website too:
http://www.webelieveweb.com/liturgical_
year.cfm
http://www.webelieveweb.com/liturgical_
year.cfm