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.      Talking about their feelings in elaborated ways.

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’.  Recognise and point to objects if asked about them. Repeats words and phrases from familiar stories.                                                                              

Physical Development

Use play dough and ask the children to create their family. Ask the children to draw their family.   Develop manipulation and control. Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.

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.            Compare amounts, saying ‘lots’, ‘more’, ‘same’.     Say one number for each person in order: 1,2,3,4,5.

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? Notice differences between people.    Talk about the differences they have seen in photos.

Expressive Art and Design

Ask the children to collage/decorate their family using the paper figures choosing colours for hair, eyes, and skin colour.   Paint portraits of themselves and their family.     Express ideas and feelings through making marks, and sometimes give a meaning to the marks they make.                                                         

Focused Vocabulary

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