A 5-day lesson plan introducing family identities, diversity, and togetherness. Through collaborative games, puppets, family trees, and role play, children explore the roles and responsibilities of family members.
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