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Here
are some ideas for making your Family unit special.
Music
Here
are some ideas for songs and fingerplays to go with your Family
unit.
For links to the
musical artists click here to go to the music
page.
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My
Family
Start: Hold one hand out
in front of you
This is my mother
(point to index finger)
This is my father
(point to middle finger)
This is my brother TALL
(point to ring finger and
reach way up high)
This is my sister
(point to pinky)
This is my baby
(point to thumb)
Oh, how I love them all!
(hug yourself) |
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Activities
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My Family Tree
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Materials: Green paint, brown paint, paper, and crayons.
Have each child paint a tree
on a large sheet of construction paper OR make one large tree
for the entire class using butcher paper and mount on the wall.
Next, have each child draw a picture of his or her family, cut
out and mount on the tree. Title individual pictures with
"My Family Tree", or if doing a whole class display, "Our Family
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Family class book
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Materials: Paper, crayons
or markers. After
reading What Mommies Do Best, What Daddies Do Best,
What Grandma's Do Best, and What Grandpa's Do Best
have each child draw a picture of what their family member does
best. Bind and make a class book titled "What Families Do
Best". |
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Paper Doll Family
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Materials: paper, crayons or markers, glue.
Using an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of
paper trace a person shape with a black marker. Make
several copies of the person for each child. Make sure to
make some of the people smaller than the others for younger
siblings. Each day have the students draw a different
family member using the people patterns. When the family
is finished cut them out and glue them together by the hands to
make a paper doll family. |
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Family Hugs
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Materials: adding machine tape, multicultural paint, white
paper, scissors, and glue.
Have each child make his
or her handprints with multicultural paint on white paper.
Provide each child with a strip of adding machine tape as
wide as their arms. Glue handprints at each end and help
the students write "I Love My Family" on the strip of paper in
between the hands to make a banner. These look great when
hung in the classroom on the wall. |
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Printable
Family words for your thematic word wall
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