Family


All Kinds of Families
A great way to start off this unit--very informative!

Take picture of your students with their families on Open House or the first day of school. Post these pictures for the students to see. I also post pictures of the families that the children draw beside the photograph.



Predictable Sentence:
My family likes to....
My family is..(big, small, funny, etc.)

* Make a chart to graph the number of people in each child's family.
* Allow the children to draw/write about things that are special about their family.
* Ask each family to send in pictures to share with the class.


We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub
A great book to discuss diversity of families in a silly way.
Ask the students to draw a picture of where their family eats dinner (on the couch, in the dining room, in the kitchen, etc.)


The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five
A story about how a family adjusts to having a new baby


The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's


Franklin's Baby Sister
How a boy deals with the birth of a new baby.


Dinosaurs Divorce
A great book for children whose parents are going through a divorce.


The Pain and the Great One
A great book about siblings. This book shows each sibling's point of view.


Just Me and My Dad


The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant


Horace by Holly Keller
A great story about a "boy" who is adopted.


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