Kindergarten - Religious Education

Believing

Celebrating

Living a Moral Life

Living in Community

Living in Solidarity

Praying

demonstrate an awareness of God as Creator

investigate and explore God's created world through their everyday interactions with nature and make connections to God as Creator (e.g., investigate living things such as insects and plants; respond to the changing seasons; explore a trace of God in all creation)

demonstrate (verbally and non-verbally) in social interactions that all people are created in the image and likeness of God (e.g., show kindness; care for others; celebrate differences)

discover Jesus as the Son of God

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) their understanding of the nativity narrative (e.g., drama, visual arts, orally, representations, songs)

discover the Bible as God's Word

explore the stories in the Bible (e.g., the creation story, the nativity story) and discover its stories are inspired by God

listen and respond to Old and New Testament stories (e.g., paint, draw, construct models of characters and settings, explore the message of the story)

interact with the Bible with a sense of reverence and respect

explore family celebrations

share family traditions and celebrations (e.g., make connections between each other's family traditions such as birthdays, holidays, cultural events and celebrations)

explore the relationship between faith practices and family traditions and celebrations (e.g., lighting an Advent wreath; gathering food for those in need; family prayers; displaying a cross; nativity sets; welcoming a new baby)

explore Sunday as a special day to celebrate as a family and a parish community

explore Sunday as a special day to gather in prayer and worship

develop an understanding of the connection between the parts of the Mass and family traditions and celebrations (e.g., welcoming, showing love, sharing stories, sharing a meal, being grateful and saying thank you, saying goodbye and until we meet again)

investigate and explore the liturgical calendar through the Church seasons

investigate and explore the Church seasons. (e.g., Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, Easter)

celebrate themselves as a gift from God

explore gifts and talents (e.g., interests, strengths, and accomplishments)

share gifts and talents with others (e.g., help others in the classroom and within the larger community)

recognize others as a gift from God

contribute to creating a welcoming environment (e.g., when a new classmate arrives; learning names of classmates; when a guest comes to visit)

discover who they are through relationships with others (e.g., explore likes and dislikes; learn about the significance of names; make friends and establish friendships)

discover who God is through relationships and interactions with others (e.g., find traces of God in all things and people)

demonstrate love and forgiveness as taught by Jesus

demonstrate an understanding of and acceptance of each other's differences (e.g., families are different; we have different likes and dislikes; we have different feelings)

demonstrate (verbally and non-verbally) an understanding of forgiveness (e.g., say sorry; solve problems with peers)

explore and celebrate the meaning of friendship

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) an understanding of what friendship means (e.g., accept each other's differences; listen to each other; work together to achieve goals; share, talk, help)

demonstrate ways in which friendship is celebrated (e.g., kind words; gestures and actions; play dates; birthday parties)

demonstrate an understanding of belonging to a family, a faith and a community

develop an understanding of what it means to belong to a group, and what it means to belong to a family (e.g., everyone is welcome in the classroom; loving, caring people that respect and understand their feelings make them feel safe; being welcomed and loved in a family)

develop an understanding that we belong to a faith community, at the centre of which is a loving God (e.g., faith is continually developing through prayer, story and celebration; their faith goes with them in the larger community)

demonstrate an awareness that there are roles and responsibilities within each group to which they belong

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) the contributions made to help their family (e.g., help around the house; pick up toys; get dressed; love and care for each other)

demonstrate that within the classroom each person has important roles, and with those roles comes responsibilities (e.g., help each other; care for the classroom)

explore their responsibility to build a relationship with God (e.g., pray; be thankful; take care of God's creation)

explore their faith within a community of believers

explore how they experience faith within the family (e.g., bedtime prayers; mealtime grace; faith-based stories, movies and songs)

explore how they experience faith within the school (e.g., visits to the church; school liturgy; pastoral visits; classroom sacred spaces)

explore how they experience faith within the community (e.g., Sunday worship; children's liturgy; church socials and activities; celebration of the sacraments such as baptism or wedding of a family member)

explore that all are welcome in God's family

demonstrate (through actions, words, music, drama, dance, and/or the visual arts) an understanding that all creation is precious, and humans are special because they were created in the image and likeness of God

develop an understanding that God's love is pure gift (e.g., God always loves them; God's love is not earned; God's love is greater than can be imagined)

demonstrate wonder and awe in the beauty of all God's creation

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) an understanding that everything was created by God, and that it was created “good” (e.g., God doesn't make mistakes; all creation has purpose and meaning)

demonstrate the responsibility to be the stewards of all that God created (e.g., respect natural resources and take care of the earth; share all God's creations with others; reusing, composting and recycling; turn off unnecessary lights at home)

demonstrate love for those who are in need or who are marginalized

demonstrate care and love for others (e.g., respond to feelings and understand the needs of others; lovingly accept those who are different from us)

demonstrate care and love for those in need (e.g., help a friend who is hurt; contribute to food drives; respond to a need in the community; support the work of St. Vincent de Paul and other Catholic organizations)

discover a trace of God present in all people, all creation and all situations

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) an understanding that a trace of God is present in all people, all creation and all situations (e.g., through music, drama, dance, and/or the visual arts)

participate in preparations to pray

contribute to the class sacred space. (e.g., create the space; remove and add materials as the seasons change; change the colours and religious articles to reflect the current Church season)

demonstrate (verbally and non-verbally) that prayer time is different from other class activities (e.g., quiet self to ready for prayer; make the sign of the cross; participate in formal and informal prayer; listen to others)

explore religious articles that support prayer (e.g., a Bible, rosary, pictures, statues, Advent wreath)

explore a variety of prayer forms

participate in formal prayers (e.g., sign of the cross, class prayers, grace before meals, school prayers)

communicate (verbally and non-verbally) using prayers and/or songs that praise and give thanks to God

create prayers of petition (asking on behalf of self) and intercession (asking on behalf of others)

demonstrate reverence for sacred spaces and objects

demonstrate wonder and awe (verbally and non-verbally) when visiting sacred spaces (e.g., church; space prepared for liturgy)

interact with the materials at the prayer table (e.g., a Bible, rosary, pictures, statues, Advent wreath, natural materials)