Grade 1 - Family Life Education

Families: A Living Communion of Love

Families: Called to be in Relationship

Families: Created in Love, Wonderfully Made

Demonstrate an understanding that God, who is love, is ever-present in families. (AL 59: “The mystery of the Christian family can be fully understood only in the light of the Father's infinite love revealed in Christ.”) [FC 28, AL 315, CCC 1604, 2780 – 2782]

Express how families are a loving gift from God.

Explain how God's love is present in families.

Identify how they belong to God's family at home, at school and at Church.

Demonstrate an understanding of how families support one's God-given vocation and purpose. [AL 260, CV 253-255, CCC 2222-2230]

Identify their God-given gifts and talents.

Explore how gifts, talents and the formation of identity are nurtured in families (e.g. parents/guardians take their children to activities; families pray together, do kind things, celebrate sacraments, love one another, show mercy and forgiveness, support each other, celebrate accomplishments, share each other's interests, etc.).

Illustrate ways people in families share their gifts and talents as an act of love and service.

Understand the family as domestic church or 'home' or 'little' church. [LG 11, FC 21, AL 67, DC 226-227, CCC 1666, 2204-2206]

Explore how family can be a domestic church (e.g. symbols, signs, and actions the domestic church uses to prepare for celebrations, posting sacred images, attending Mass, visiting the sick, community outreach, giving of time and money to those in need, etc.).

Communicate ways people in the domestic church contribute to sharing the faith (e.g. praying for one another, caring for one another when they are sick, reading scripture together, etc.).

Explain how the Catholic faith is celebrated in the domestic church (“little church”) (e.g. daily meals, prayers before bed, prayer in the car, celebrating notable feast days, celebrating a new pet, celebrating first day or last day at school, etc.).

Demonstrate an understanding that family relationships are a gift from God. [FC 15, CCC 2201 – 2206]

Illustrate who are the special people in their family (e.g. parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.).

Investigate who are the special people in their school family (e.g. friends, teacher, principal, support staff, etc.).

Identify the special people in their parish and community (e.g. pastor, ministers of the word, eucharistic ministers, community helpers, coaches, etc.).

Demonstrate an understanding that the Holy Family accompanies the Christian family as it forms and develops relationships. [AL 65, CCC 1655-1657]

Identify that Jesus is born into the Holy Family and is loved and nurtured by his parents, Mary and Joseph.

Communicate the promises and commitments of the Holy Family.

Consider the joy and celebration of God's love in the relationship of marriage.

Demonstrate an understanding of the duties, rights, responsibilities, and decision making within the family and community. [FC 17, CCC 2207-2213]

Practice decision-making scenarios that require positive actions such as helping, sharing, caring, and self-control. (RE ML2.2, HPE D3.3 and HPE A1.6)

List duties and responsibilities that characterize and support family relationships.

Articulate characteristics of healthy and trusted relationships in families and community. (HPE A1.4)

Demonstrate an understanding that human beings are created body, mind and spirit, in the image and likeness of God. (Gen 1:26-27) [FC 11, CCC 222-227, 299, 356-361]

Explore the beauty of God's unique and loving plan for all creation (e.g. new life, plants, animals, etc.).

Identify that humans are created male and female in God's image (e.g. male and female bodies share similarities and differences). (HPE D1.3)

Examine how each person belongs to God's family, is wonderfully made and inherently dignified (e.g. respecting similarities and differences).

Understand that God desires abundant life for us as healthy, whole persons, gifted into families. [CCC 50 – 53, 2288-2289]

Determine how through the gift of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste) they come to know the beauty of God's creation. (HPE D1.4)

Demonstrate an understanding that God desires for people to have healthy, prayerful and balanced thoughts and emotions, and to act with the attitude of charity (i.e. love). (HPE A1.1, HPE D1.2, HPE D1.5 and HPE D3.3)

Communicate ways to care for their health and well-being using healthy habits and proper hygienic procedures. (HPE D1.5 and HPE D2.5)

Demonstrate an understanding of human growth and development as graced from conception to natural death. [FC 30, AL 83, CCC 2258, 2318-2319]

Illustrate how families are called to be places where new life is nurtured. (HPE D1.2 and HPE D3.1)

List private body parts that need to be kept safe and healthy (e.g. vagina, vulva, penis, testicles). (HPE D1.3)

Explore the growth and development of a baby in utero.