Feasts of the Christmas Season (5&6)

Title: Feasts of the Christmas Season

Year Level: 5 & 6

Strand: CHURCH AND TRADITION

Suggested Duration: 5-6 Weeks

Enduring Questions: What does the church look like in our community? How can I be like Jesus in our community?

Unit Outline:

This unit examines the feasts and celebrations during the Christmas season. The unit explores the season of Christmas, in particular the feasts that follow Christmas within the first Octave through to the second Octave, with the Epiphany.

Achievement Standards:

By the End of Grade Six:
Students explore and identify the deeper significance of Christmas as a significant church season.

Unit Outcomes:

By the end of this unit students should be able to:

Identify the major feasts of the season of Christmas - Christmas Day, the Feast of the Mother of God, the Feast of the Holy Family, and the Epiphany.
Explain the significance of the feasts of the Christmas season.
Examine and interpret the meaning of the metaphor, Jesus as light.