Children explore who belongs to a family, how families can differ, and what family members do for one another. Photographs, puppets, collaborative games, modelling, and collage support conversations about family identity, togetherness, roles, and connections.
What children learn
- Identify family members and discuss why families are important.
- Recognise that families differ in size and structure.
- Describe activities and experiences that family members share.
- Explore the roles and responsibilities performed by different family members.
- Recall how a family tree represents family connections.
Key activities
- Exploring My Family with family photographs and ice-cream-stick figures
- Making Family Faces from paper plates and yarn
- Exploring Diverse Families through pictures, family trees, and drawing
- Making Family Puppets and presenting group role plays
- Exploring Togetherness with collaborative puzzles and clay family units
- Discovering Family Functions through a roles-and-responsibilities collage
You’ll need
family photographs, paper and chart paper, pencils, crayons and markers, ice-cream sticks, paper plates and bags, yarn, googly eyes, magazines, glue, scissors, puzzles, playdough or clay
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, Social Studies/Science, Creative Learning, English, Maths