Grade 5 - 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.”) [LG 11, 31, FC 28, 42, AL 87-88, CCC 1604, 2207,2780 – 2782]

Articulate how family life in the domestic church is an initiation into life in society.

Describe how families show their love of God by being caring family members, and respecting themselves and others. (Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectation 6)

Explain how the Church as a family of families celebrates God's presence in their daily lives (e.g. through prayer, daily loving actions, kind words, etc.).

Demonstrate an understanding of how families support one's God-given vocation and purpose. (AL 260: "Families cannot help but be places of support, guidance and direction.") [AL 260, CV 253-255, CCC 2222-2230]

Reflect on ways the domestic church helps to form their identity and discern their purpose within their family and other communities to which they belong.

Describe ways in which they can be generous with their gifts and talents in their family.

Communicate how families celebrate God's love by using their gifts and talents in service of one another and in community.

Understand the family as domestic church or 'home' or 'little' church. [LG 11, FC 21, AL 67, DC 226-227, 239 – 241, CCC 1666,2204-2206]

Determine how the domestic church expresses various functions of Church (e.g. having many parts, being sacrificial and penitential, creating sacred spaces, sharing sacramental moments such as birth and death).

Demonstrate how members of the domestic church are called to evangelize and to be evangelized.

Express how members of the domestic church give witness to the daily life and faith journey of one another. (RE LC1.3)

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

Understand the relationship between the love of God and love for others through the Great Commandment.

Illustrate how people in their home and school families demonstrate skills required to develop and maintain friendships (e.g. communication skills, kindness and mercy, conflict resolution, etc.). (HPE D3.2)

Explain that growing in one's relationship with God happens, in part, within the family.

Demonstrate an understanding that the Holy Family accompanies the Christian family as it forms and develops relationships. [AL 65, CCC 1601-1605, 1655-1657]

Explore the value of trust in the relationships between Mary and Elizabeth, and Mary and Jesus.

Identify how God lovingly makes promises and commitments through Jesus.

Understand and articulate that the expression of love in marriage includes birth, adoption and fostering.

Demonstrate an understanding of the duties, rights, responsibilities, and decision making within the family and community. [FC 17, CCC 1776 – 1782, 1878 – 1896, 2207-2213]

Explore and practice discernment in daily life (e.g. as a class, discern where they will give alms during Lent). (HPE A1.6, RE ML2 and RE ML3)

Evaluate how families help shape them to become responsible citizens who respect and affirm the diversity and interdependence of the world's peoples and cultures. (Links to be made to Catholic Social Teaching, Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action.)

Describe how families are places where they learn to help one another and develop social-emotional learning skills and strategies to form healthy, supportive and trusted relationships. (HPE A1.3, HPE A1.4, HPE D2.2 and HPE D2.6)

Demonstrate an understanding that human beings are created body, mind and spirit, in the image and likeness of God. (Gen 1:26-27) [GS 24, 29 FC 11, AL 10 – 11, CCC 222-227, 299, 353 – 354, 356-361]

Explore how humans seek God's truth, beauty and goodness with their body, mind and spirit.

Express how families are where they learn to love self and one another, made in the image and likeness of God.

Identify expressions in family relationships which promote the dignity of a person's body, mind and spirit (e.g. appropriate touch, personal space, boundaries, bodily integrity, listening, doing things together, praying together, etc.).

Understand that God desires abundant life for us as healthy, whole persons, gifted into families. [CCC 50-53, 362 – 368, 2288-2289, 2522 - 2524]

Evaluate how the Catholic faith tradition along with home, school and parish supports the development of a person's self-concept, sexuality, self-awareness, self-acceptance, strengths, needs, etc., and how these factors contribute to personal health and well-being. (HPE D2.4)

Connect how a person's actions – positive or negative, in-person or online – can affect the mental health, emotional well-being and reputation of self and others. (HPE D3.2)

Articulate changes and stressors that occur during puberty as people mature and develop emotionally and interpersonally, and identify strategies to help manage these stressors. (HPE A1.2 and HPE D2.5)

Demonstrate an understanding of human growth and development as graced from conception to natural death. [GS 50, FC 28, 30, AL 83, 92, CV 217, CCC 2258, 2318-2319]

Analyze how families help the human person to grow and develop during adolescence.

Describe how the body changes during puberty, identifying the parts and processes of the reproductive system, menstruation and ovulation, and spermatogenesis, and explain how these processes relate to reproduction and overall development. (HPE D1.3 and HPE D1.4)

Articulate how in a family, the virtue of patience supports the process of human growth and development, especially during puberty.