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Family Dinner

Materials: dinner plate handoutcoloring toolsscissors

food handoutglue

Ages: 2+Subject: LanguageTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: language skills (letter recognition), fine motor skills (coloring, cutting, gluing), listening skills (following directions)

Procedures:1) Review the alphabet with the children. 2) Pass out the supplies and handouts.3) Review the letters on the handouts. Talk to the children about what foods are on the handout as well. 4) Explain the directions to them. They are going to cut out the foods with the lowercase letters on them and glue them onto the plate where the matching capital letter is. 5) Let the children color their work.

Guided Questions: Do you eat dinner with your family at night? Who cooks dinner at your house? What else do you like to do with your family?

Follow-up Activity: Color the family coloring page.

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Dinner Plate Handout

Food Handout

Family Dinner Coloring Page

Family Matching

Materials: family matching handoutcrayons

Ages: 3+Subject: MathTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: math skills (number recognition, counting), fine motor skills (coloring, drawing), listening skills (following directions)

Procedures:1) Review counting with the children. 2) Pass out the materials. 3) Review the numbers on the handout. 4) Explain the directions to the children. They are going to draw a line connecting the families on one side of the paper, to their homes on the other side. 5) Let the children color their work if they want to.

Guided Questions: How many families are on your paper? Are all the families the same? Are all the houses the same?

Follow-up Activity: Sing “Some People Live In”

“Some People Live In” (Sung to:”You Know the Muffin Man”)


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Some people live in, apartments in apartments in apartments

Some people live in, apartmentsThat's where some people live!

Some people live in, mobile homes in mobile homes in mobile homes

Some people live in, mobile homesThat's where some people live!

Some people live in, big houses in big houses in big houses

Some people live in, big housesThat's where some people live!

Some people live in, small houses in small houses in small houses

Some people live in, little housesThat's where some people live!

(Add some additional houses for example, cottages castles..)

Family Matching Handout

Family Story

Materials: pictures of where the children livepictures of the children’s familiespictures of the children’s favorite thing to do with their family

a picture of the child smiling alonecoloring and drawing toolsmaterials to bind the books (staples)construction paper (optional)

gluescissors

Ages: 2+Subject: ArtTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed:fine motor skills (cutting, gluing, coloring, drawing), listening skills (following directions)

Procedures:1) Have all of the materials prepared. You may want to have the books already bound together. You can create a cover page of your own using construction paper or another material or use the one provided. For the younger children, definitely have them bring in real pictures. The older ones may choose to draw the pictures in their books instead. 2) Pass the books out to the children and read what it says. Explain the directions to them. They are going to either glue the pictures they brought, or draw the pictures in on the appropriate page in their book. 3) Read each child’s book to them and let them fill in the missing blanks in their own words while you write it in for them. 4) Let the children color or decorate their books if they want to.

Guided Questions: Do you like to read stories? Did you have fun making your own story? Are you going to read your story to your family?

Follow-up Activity: Sing the “With My Family” song.


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“With My Family” (Sung to “The Muffin Man”)

Tell me what you like to do, like to do, like to do.Tell me what you like to do with your family.

Edward likes to rake the leaves, rake the leaves, rake the leaves.Edward likes to rake the leaves with his family.

(Go around the room using each child’s name and what they like to do with their family)

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Family Story Activity 1

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This is my family. Their names are

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This is where my family lives. My favorite thing about my

house is

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My favorite thing to do with my family is

It is my favorite because


This is me smiling because my family makes me happy.

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My House

Materials: small picture ofeach child’s familycoloring toolshouse handout

Popsicle stickscoloring toolspretzel sticksconstruction paper

graham crackersgoldfishpeanut butter(or substitute)

gluescissors

Ages: 3+Subject: ArtTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: fine motor skills (gripping small objects, gluing, coloring, cutting), listening skills (following directions)

Procedures:1) Pass out the supplies. 2) Cut the door so that it opens and closes. 3) Cut out the house and glue it onto the construction paper or card stock. 4) Trace the outlines of the house, chimney, steps and windows by gluing Popsicle sticks onto it. 5) Trim the picture of the child’s family to fit inside the door as best as possible. Open the door and glue the picture inside. 6) Let the children color the rest of the house either to match the color of their real house, or whatever color they want to.7) Lay the houses flat to dry.

Guided Questions: How many people live in your house? How many bedrooms does your house have? Do you have your own bedroom?

Follow-up Activity: Make edible houses.


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Edible Houses1) Give every child a full-sized graham cracker, pretzel sticks and goldfish.

2) Spread peanut butter on the graham crackers.

3) Arrange the pretzel sticks to make a house on the graham cracker.

4) Use the goldfish as windows for the house.

5) Enjoy your snack!

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House Handout

Telephone Nmber

Materials: children’s home phone numberstelephone handoutnumber tracing handout

finger paintplay phones to practice dialing

Ages: 4+Subject: MathTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: math skills (number recognition), sensorimotor (texture tolerance), listening skills (following directions), fine motor skills (tracing), social skills (dramatic play)

Procedures:1) Review numbers and counting with the children. 2) Talk to the children about their phone numbers and what their families use their telephones for. 3) Pass out the telephone handout and write the children’s phone number on it (area code included). 4) Next have the children dip one finger in the finger paint and dial their phone number on the telephone as they say the numbers they are touching out loud. They may need a little help with this, if there are multiples of the same number, have them put that many prints on that one number. Just make sure all of the prints are all visible on that number so they know how many times they have to push it while dialing their telephone number. 5) Hang the telephones up to dry and pass out the number tracing page. Let the children trace all the numbers on that page for practice.

Guided Questions: How many telephones does your family have at home? What does your family use the telephone for? Are you allowed to play with a real telephone? What kind of telephone does your family use?

Follow-up Activity:

Let the children use the play phones to practice dialing their phone numbers. Let them pretend to dial other numbers too for example, a restaurant to order takeout food or the Doctor’s office to schedule an appointment.


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Telephone Handout

Number Tracing Handout

Where Is Everyone?

Materials: coloring toolshouse handoutpeople handout

gluescissors

Ages: 3+Subject: Writing & LanguageTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: listening skills (following directions), language skills (letter recognition), fine motor skills (coloring, cutting, gluing), creative thinking skills, communication skills (story telling)

Procedures:1) Review the alphabet with the children. 2) Pass out the supplies and the handout. 3) talk about the letters on the house handout and the letters on the people handout. 4) Explain the directions to the children. They are going to cut the people out and glue them into the room with the corresponding letter. 5) Let the children color their work if they want to.

Guided Questions: How many people live in that house? Are dogs family members too?

Follow-up Activity: Let the children each take turns making up a story about the family in the handout. Encourage them to use their imaginations and make up whatever kind of story they want.

Storytelling Guidelines(use for assistance or to get the story started)Some family members are getting dressed and putting on makeup. Where do you think they are going?It looks like the grandmother cooked dinner. Do you think she is going to babysit while mom and dad are out?The little boy looks like he is enjoying his book. What do you think he is reading?




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House & People Handout

Who Would Use This?

Materials: various household objects

Ages: 3+Subject: ScienceTheme: My Family

Skills To Be Developed: critical thinking skills, analysis skills, gross motor skills, social skills (dramatic play)

Procedures:1) Gather numerous common household items. 2) Have the children sit in a circle. 3) Take one item out of the box at a time and analyze it. Talk about what color it is, what it is used for, who in their family would use this, etc. Pass the item around the circle and let all the children touch it. Repeat this until all of the items have been discussed.

Guided Questions: How many items did we just talk about? What are some other things your family uses that we didn’t talk about? Do you use any of the things we talked about?

Follow-up Activity: Let the children play house with the items you brought in, pretending to be the people in their families who use those items.




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