My Family

Personal Social and Emotional

Circle time game – pass a small toy around the circle and encourage the children to discuss and describe people who are special and important to them, their likes, and dislikes, and what makes them happy.   

Communication Language and Literacy

Ask the children to bring in a photograph of them with their family doing something special. Talk to them about it and ask them to describe what is going on in the photo.

Read stories such as ‘My Family’ and ‘Owl Babies’.

Physical Development

Use play dough and ask the children to create their family.

Ask the children to draw their family.                                                                                          

Mathematics

Ask the children to count the families in the two pictures? Which family has the most? Ask them to draw their family? How many people are there in their family? Compare the totals in the family groups.                                                                                                               

Understanding the World

Encourage children to bring in photos of themselves as babies and talk about how they have changed over the years. Also discuss what the children would like to be when they grow up. Adults in the setting could also bring in photos from when they were young – can the children guess who is who?

Expressive Art and Design

Ask the children to collage/decorate their family using the paper figures choosing colours for hair, eyes, and skin colour.                                                                                                       

Focused Vocabulary

Family, Mother, Mummy, Mum, Father, Daddy, Dad, Brother, Sister, Grandma, Nana, Nanny, Grandad, Grampa, Grampy, Auntie, Uncle, Cousins.