- glue
- magazine pictures of different families
- paper
- scissors
- different
- family
- same
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.4: Describe personal experiences; tell real or imagined stories.
Social Emotional/Family 6.1: Describe different types of families, addressing membership and social influences, and the functions of family members.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Relationships: Cooperates with others.
Approaches to Learning/
Cooperation: Helps, shares, and cooperates in a group.
Logic/Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Health Education 20: Describe members of their family and discuss what parents do for their children to keep them safe and healthy.
Small Group: Visit the Art Center
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Visit the Art Center with small groups. Display a variety of pictures of families and individuals on the table. Use the pictures to talk about families. Ask children:
- How do their families make them feel happy?
- What do their families do to keep them healthy and safe?
- What activities do they like to do with their family members?
Tell children they are going to use the magazine pictures to create a picture of their family. Model for children by choosing pictures that resemble your family. As you glue each picture onto the paper, talk about the people in the picture. For example, say,
- In this family, there is a little girl and her brother, mother, father, and grandfather. Those are the people in my family, too.
- This family likes to take walks in the woods, just like my family does.
- Discuss how families are the same in some ways and different in other ways.
Allow children to work together and talk about the family pictures they make. Encourage them to share information about how the families are the same and different. Ask questions such as:
- Can you tell me about the family you made?
- Who are the members of the family?
- How is the family Sonia made the same as the family Eleanora made? How is it different?
Encourage children to turn to another child and talk about the similarities and differences in the pictures each one created.
English Language Learners: Encourage children to use the words same and different in their home language as they compare families. Repeat the words in their home language and then have them repeat the English word after you. Continue as needed and allow other children to join in.