- chart paper
- markers
- brother
- different
- family
- grandfather
- mother
- same
- sister
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.4: Describe personal experiences; tell real or imagined stories.
Writing/W.PK.MA.2: Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic/Reasoning & Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Logic/Reasoning/Symbolic Representation: Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
English Language Arts 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Watch Together: “I Love My Family” (BTL clip)
Tell children they are going to watch a short video about different things two families like to do together. Say, The video is called Between the Lions “I Love My Family.”
Before You Watch
Set a viewing focus by telling children that the video is about two families and the families are the same in some ways and different in other ways. Say, Just like all of our families.
As You Watch
Watch the video once without pausing.
For the second viewing, create a picture map of the different things each child in the video likes to do with her family.
Pause each time a new activity is mentioned and have a child draw a picture that represents the activity on the map (two people walking, a berry bush, two people playing ball, a book). As children draw ask questions such as,
- Do you have a special place you like to walk to with your family?
- What things do you like to play with your sister or brother?
- How are the families similar? Different?
After You Watch
DIscuss how the families are the same and different.
Have children add to the picture map by describing the things they like to do with their families.
- Have each child think of a time they did something special with a family member. For each response, have the child draw on the map a picture that represents the activity.
- Point out different activities their families like to do, and point out how some are the same.
- Display the picture map so children can revisit it and add to it through the week.
Adaptation: For younger children or those struggling with the concepts of “same” and “different,” begin by focusing on how the families are the same. Once children master that concept, ask them how the families are different.
Take It Further: Make a Venn diagram on chart paper. Think aloud as you label each section: (left circle) Family #1, (overlap) Family #1 and #2, (right circle) Family #2.
- Tell children that the Venn diagram is a chart that will help them see what is the same and what is different about the two families in the video.
- Point to the overlap section and explain that things that are the same about the families will go in this section. Then point to the non-overlapping sections and explain that things that are different about the families will go into these areas.
- Encourage children to name things that are the same and different about each family and write or dictate on the diagram. Ask questions such as: Do the girls like to do the same things with their mothers? How are these families different? How are they the same?
