My Family

Preschool, Kindergarten

This social studies lesson gets students learning all about different types of families. After reading an engaging
book, students make their own family pictures.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to describe the makeup of their family.

Materials and preparation Key terms

Families by Shelley Rotner and Sheila Kelley family

Paper family member
Markers or crayons friend
Class set of Family & Friends

Attachments

Family and Friends (PDF)

Introduction (5 minutes)

Ask students who is in their family.

Tell students that many different people may be in their families, from grandparents to parents to
cousins.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (15 minutes)

Read aloud Families.

Ask students to make connections between what they see in the book and what they see in their own
families. Have students turn to a partner and share one thing that is the same and one thing that is
different.
Have the group come back together and share their comparisons.
Explain that we are going to focus on the family that lives in our homes. Share that families can come in
many different varieties. Families can have two moms, two dads, a mom and a dad, a grandma, etc.
Some people may have more than one home that they live in.

Guided Practice (5 minutes)

Tell students that they will be drawing pictures of the family members that they live with.
Show students how to draw pictures of each family member.
Ask students to share the difference between family members and friends.

Independent working time (15 minutes)

Hand out the papers to each student. Have them work independently to complete their family pictures.
If students finish early, they can complete the Family and Friends worksheet.

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BOOK: Families by Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelley

Differentiation

Support:

Provide students with cutout figures of people that they can color in and glue on their pages instead of
drawing.

Enrichment:

Dictate descriptions of the students' families.

Assessment (5 minutes)

Assess how students are describing the members of their families and distinguishing between family and
friends.

Review and closing (10 minutes)

Display the community pictures around the classroom.

Have students go on a "gallery walk" to check out each other's pictures.

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 Family & Friends
Social
Studies
Community
&
Cultures

Family is a very important group of people. Some family members you live
with and some you only see on special occasions.
Friends are another important group of people. Friends are people you enjoy
spending time with.
Draw a picture of your family in the first box and a picture of your friends
in the second box.

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