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Notes:

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

Of import: if possible, ask the parents before class to adapt for their kids to bring in family unit photos – parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, themselves.  Too, bring in a few family photos of your own.

Lesson Procedure:

Warm Up and Maintenance:

See our "Warm Upwardly & Wrap Up" page.

New Learning and Practice:

1. Exercise "Instructor's Family Photos Time" activity
If y'all can bring in photos of your family, this is a great action to do. Likewise attempt to encourage your students to bring in photos of their family - y'all'll demand to arrange this with the parents before the lesson. If you lot can't bring in photos, come across the alternative beneath.

Draw 7 squares on the tiptop of your board in a row (meet image below). Concord upward a photograph of yourself and inquire "Who is this?". Elicit that it is you, stick the photograph inside the center square and write your name under the photo.

Adjacent accept out some other photo (eastward.g. your father) and again ask "Who is this?". Arm-twist and teach the family vocab and stick the photograph in i of the squares and write the word (e.k. "male parent") under the photo. Exercise for all of the following: male parent, mother, brother, sister, gramps, grandmother - you may not have some of these family unit members, merely for the sake of this lesson, utilize photos of friends, etc., and pretend they are your brother, grandmother, etc.

Your students volition actually enjoy seeing your family photos and volition probably inquire questions - feel free to extend the data y'all give on your family members, especially if information technology reviews previous lessons, such as ages and jobs. Also, yous can practise/review describing vocab (eastward.m. blond hair, big eyes, etc.).

Culling: If you can't bring in family photos: instead of using your family photos, cutting out pictures of people from magazines and pretend they are your family members. Younger kids will by and large believe you (and may even exist quite impressed!).

2. Do "Students' Family Photos Fourth dimension" activity
If your students accept brought in photos of themselves and their families, this is a bang-up action to do. If non, go to pace three.

On the board, nether the row of 7 photos of your family unit you are going to identify photos from each of the students' families. Start, concur upward the photos of the students in your class and elicit who they are - each time, stick their photograph in the eye column and write their names underneath.

Next, you are going to play a guessing game - concur up a photograph of 1 of your student's family members (e.g. Hugo's sister) and get anybody to guess whose family unit the person belongs to. Elicit family vocab (due east.chiliad. "It's Hugo's sister") and place the photo on the board in the correct place (eastward.chiliad., for Hugo's sister, it would become in the row of Hugo's photograph and in the sis column).

Keep property upwards randomly selected photos of your students' family members and placing on the board until your board is total of family photos.

iii. Make "My Family Tree" Posters
Give out a piece of colored construction paper / card to each pupil. They are each going to make a family tree poster of their family. Begin by demonstrating the action - with a green and brownish crayon draw a large tree, filling up the whole piece of paper. At the top 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 top, side by side your parents and you and your siblings at the lesser). Finally, under each family fellow member photo/picture show write the vocab (granddad, 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 tin copy the words from your affiche (display it clearly).

Finally, have each student pin their poster to the walls of the classroom. Ask each pupil questions (due east.1000. Is that you female parent? What is your brother'south name? How erstwhile is your sister?).

Annotation: Depending on the level of your students you can have them write more data almost their family members on the poster (due east.grand. names, ages, jobs, etc.). Students can fifty-fifty describe pictures of their pets.

four. Make and play with Finger Puppets
For the song nosotros are going to utilise finger puppets (use the "Finger Family Arts and crafts" canvas). Earlier class, print and cut out the finger puppets. We have color and blackness & white versions of the craft sheet - if using the black & white version, accept your students colour in the puppets before starting the song. And then attach the puppets to each students' fingers by taping the straps around the finger - 3 puppets on each hand.

Next, cheque everyone understands which boob is which - say "Everybody wiggle grandfather" - make certain yous are wearing your finger puppets as well so you lot tin demonstrate. Get through each puppet, fluctuant fingers. Then play a quick game: say "Wiggle the sister" and everyone has to quickly jerk the correct 1. Exercise for a few rounds until anybody has got the hang of information technology.

5. Sing "The Family unit Vocal"
Play the vocal and sing along - wiggling the correct puppet for each poetry (e.g. verse one is "father"). If everyone enjoyed the vocal, play it one time more.

Lyrics for "The Family Vocal"

Verse i:
Hullo father, How-do-you-do male parent,
How are you? How are y'all?
I'one thousand fine thank you, I'one thousand fine cheers,
See you soon, See you before long.

Verse 2:
Hullo mother, Hello mother,
How are you lot? How are you?
I'chiliad fine thank you, I'm fine thanks,
See you soon, See you soon.

Poetry 3:
Hello brother, Howdy blood brother,
How are yous? How are you?
I'm fine thank you, I'grand fine thank you,
See you soon, Run across you soon.

Verse 4:
Hello sis, Hi sister,
How are yous? How are yous?
I'1000 fine thank you, I'm fine thank you lot,
Encounter yous soon, Come across you soon.

Poetry v:
Hello grandfather, Hello grandfather,
How are you lot? How are y'all?
I'm fine thank you, I'm fine thank you,
Run into you soon, Run into y'all soon.

Poesy 6:
Hello grandmother, Hello grandmother,
How are y'all? How are you?
I'chiliad fine thanks, I'one thousand fine give thanks you,
See you soon, See you presently.

Poetry vii:
Hi family, Hi family unit,
How are you? How are y'all?
I'm fine thank you, I'm fine thanks,
See you soon, Run across y'all presently.

(download MP3 here)

Gestures for "The Family Song"

For this song students use finger puppets - cut out the puppets from the "Finger Family unit Craft" canvass:

• before the vocal, help everyone to put on the puppets - there are half dozen puppets altogether, 3 on each hand.
• as the song plays, students wiggle the boob for that detail verse (e.g. in Verse 1 it is "begetter") and sing along.
• for the last poetry (family) students wiggle all of their finger puppets

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

6. Play "Finger Puppet Conversations"
By at present, anybody should have the idea of the structures from the song, so nosotros are going to have some fun role-plays with the finger puppets. Outset model with ane student. Hold up i finger puppet (e.g. mother) and get the other educatee to concord up 1 finger (eastward.g. grandpa). Role-play a fun conversation, for example:

T: How-do-you-do granddad.
S: Howdy female parent.
T: How are you?
S: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
T: I'grand fine, cheers. See y'all presently.
Southward: Run across you soon.

Then you can modify finger puppets and practice the conversation again. Depending on level, yous tin can also throw in a few more questions, such as, "What'southward your proper name?", "How onetime are you?", "Where exercise you live?", etc.

Now the course can office-play. Put everyone into pairs and set a timer to 1 minute. Shout "Start!" and the pairs should role-play with different puppets until the timer goes off. So shout "Change partners!" and everyone finds a new partner for another one-minute chat. Continue going for a few rounds.

vii. Read classroom reader "The Monster Family"
We'll terminate the lesson with a fun story. Before form, 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 yous go through each page, signal to the pictures, elicit each fundamental body word, and have your students estimate which family unit member each monster is, for example:

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

Get the students actually involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. eliciting colors) and getting them to touch and say the parts of the torso in the story.

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

Wrap Upwardly:

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

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