How Would You Include Family Members in You Preschoolers Free Play

Notes:

This is a dandy lesson to teach little ones as they completely understand the concept of family.  It includes finger puppet activities.

IMPORTANT: if possible, ask the parents before class to arrange for their kids to bring in family photos – parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, themselves.  Besides, bring in a few family photos of your own.

Lesson Process:

Warm Upward and Maintenance:

See our "Warm Up & Wrap Upwards" page.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Practice "Teacher'southward Family unit Photos Time" activity
If you tin bring in photos of your family unit, this is a great activeness to do. Too try to encourage your students to bring in photos of their family - you lot'll need to arrange this with the parents earlier the lesson. If y'all can't bring in photos, see the alternative beneath.

Draw 7 squares on the top of your lath in a row (come across epitome beneath). Hold up a photograph of yourself and ask "Who is this?". Arm-twist that it is you, stick the photo within the center foursquare and write your proper name under the photograph.

Next take out another photo (eastward.g. your father) and over again ask "Who is this?". Elicit and teach the family vocab and stick the photo in one of the squares and write the word (e.g. "father") nether the photo. Do for all of the following: begetter, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother - you may non have some of these family unit members, but for the sake of this lesson, use photos of friends, etc., and pretend they are your brother, grandmother, etc.

Your students will really savour seeing your family photos and will probably ask questions - experience free to extend the information y'all requite on your family members, especially if information technology reviews previous lessons, such equally ages and jobs. Besides, you tin practise/review describing vocab (e.1000. blond hair, large eyes, etc.).

Alternative: If you tin't bring in family photos: instead of using your family unit photos, cutting out pictures of people from magazines and pretend they are your family unit members. Younger kids will generally believe you (and may even be quite impressed!).

2. Do "Students' Family Photos Time" action
If your students have brought in photos of themselves and their families, this is a great activeness to do. If not, get to stride 3.

On the board, under the row of 7 photos of your family you lot are going to identify photos from each of the students' families. First, hold up the photos of the students in your class and arm-twist who they are - each time, stick their photo in the middle column and write their names underneath.

Next, yous are going to play a guessing game - hold upwardly a photo of i of your student'south family members (e.k. Hugo's sister) and get everyone to guess whose family unit the person belongs to. Elicit family unit vocab (e.g. "It'south Hugo's sis") and identify the photo on the board in the correct place (e.g., for Hugo's sister, it would go in the row of Hugo's photo and in the sister column).

Go on belongings upwardly randomly selected photos of your students' family members and placing on the board until your lath is full of family photos.

3. Make "My Family Tree" Posters
Requite out a piece of colored construction newspaper / card to each educatee. They are each going to brand a family tree affiche of their family. Begin by demonstrating the activity - with a dark-green and brown crayon draw a large tree, filling up the whole piece of paper. At the meridian write in large letters "My family unit". And so, either stick your photos family photos onto the tree or draw pictures of your family (grandparents at the superlative, next your parents and you and your siblings at the bottom). Finally, under each family fellow member photo/picture write the vocab (grandpa, mother, etc.).
Now go your students to do the same. If they brought in photos they can use them on their poster - if not, encourage them to draw pictures of their family members. Students can copy the words from your poster (display information technology conspicuously).

Finally, have each student pin their poster to the walls of the classroom. Ask each pupil questions (e.m. Is that you lot mother? What is your brother's name? How old is your sis?).

NOTE: Depending on the level of your students you can take them write more information about their family members on the poster (e.g. names, ages, jobs, etc.). Students tin can even draw pictures of their pets.

4. Make and play with Finger Puppets
For the song we are going to use finger puppets (use the "Finger Family Craft" canvass). Before grade, print and cut out the finger puppets. Nosotros have colour and blackness & white versions of the craft sheet - if using the black & white version, have your students color in the puppets earlier starting the vocal. So attach the puppets to each students' fingers past taping the straps around the finger - three puppets on each mitt.

Next, check everyone understands which puppet is which - say "Everybody wiggle granddaddy" - make sure y'all are wearing your finger puppets too so yous can demonstrate. Become through each puppet, wiggling fingers. So play a quick game: say "Wiggle the sister" and everyone has to apace wiggle the right one. Do for a few rounds until everyone has got the hang of it.

5. Sing "The Family Song"
Play the vocal and sing along - wiggling the correct puppet for each verse (e.g. poetry one is "father"). If anybody enjoyed the song, play it once more than.

Lyrics for "The Family unit Vocal"

Verse ane:
Hullo father, Howdy father,
How are you lot? How are you?
I'm fine thank you lot, I'g fine give thanks you lot,
See you soon, Come across you soon.

Poesy 2:
Hi female parent, Hi female parent,
How are you? How are you?
I'm fine cheers, I'm fine thank you lot,
Run into you soon, See y'all soon.

Verse 3:
Hello blood brother, Hello brother,
How are you? How are you lot?
I'm fine thank you lot, I'm fine thanks,
See you shortly, See you soon.

Verse iv:
Hi sister, Hello sister,
How are you? How are you?
I'm fine cheers, I'm fine thanks,
See you soon, See you before long.

Poetry 5:
Hello granddad, Hello grandfather,
How are y'all? How are you?
I'm fine thanks, I'g fine thank you,
See you soon, Come across you lot soon.

Verse six:
Howdy grandmother, Hello grandmother,
How are you? How are you?
I'm fine thanks, I'm fine thank you,
Meet you shortly, See you soon.

Poesy 7:
Hello family, Hello family,
How are you lot? How are you?
I'm fine thank you, I'm fine thank yous,
Meet y'all soon, Run across yous soon.

(download MP3 here)

Gestures for "The Family Song"

For this vocal students use finger puppets - cut out the puppets from the "Finger Family Craft" sheet:

• before the song, aid everyone to put on the puppets - there are six puppets altogether, 3 on each mitt.
• equally the song plays, students wiggle the boob for that particular verse (due east.g. in Verse ane it is "father") and sing along.
• for the terminal verse (family) students wiggle all of their finger puppets

We also have a video that you can stream in class to sing along with (Internet connexion required):

6. Play "Finger Boob Conversations"
By now, anybody should take the idea of the structures from the song, and so nosotros are going to have some fun role-plays with the finger puppets. Start model with one student. Hold upwardly one finger puppet (due east.g. female parent) and become the other student to hold upward 1 finger (e.g. grandfather). Role-play a fun chat, for instance:

T: Hello grandfather.
S: Hello mother.
T: How are you?
Due south: I'yard fine, thanks. How are you?
T: I'1000 fine, cheers. See you soon.
S: See you before long.

Then you can change finger puppets and do the chat again. Depending on level, you tin also throw in a few more questions, such as, "What'due south your proper noun?", "How old are y'all?", "Where do you lot live?", etc.

Now the form tin role-play. Put everyone into pairs and set a timer to one minute. Shout "Start!" and the pairs should part-play with different puppets until the timer goes off. And so shout "Change partners!" and everyone finds a new partner for another ane-minute chat. Continue going for a few rounds.

7. Read classroom reader "The Monster Family unit"
We'll end the lesson with a fun story. Earlier class, download and print off the reader "The Monster Family". You may have already used this reader in the Body Parts lesson - if so, this will be a good review (kids loves returning to favorite stories). As you go through each page, point to the pictures, arm-twist each key trunk word, and take your students judge which family member each monster is, for instance:

Instructor: Which family unit member is this? (pointing at the monster on page 2)
Students: Sister?
Teacher: Yes, right! It's Lilliputian Monster's sis. And what are these?
Students: Shoulders!
Teacher: Yes, big shoulders! Everyone, affect your shoulders (touching shoulders).
Students: (Touching shoulders) Shoulders!
Instructor: What color are her shoulders?
Students: Pink!
Teacher: Correct! (Reading) This is my sister. She has large shoulders.
etc.

Get the students really involved in the story past asking lots of questions (east.g. eliciting colors) and getting them to touch and say the parts of the body in the story.

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Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader (Net connection required):

Wrap Upward:

1. Assign Homework: "My Family unit" worksheet.
2. Wrap up the lesson with some ideas from our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" page.

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