The family
LESSON PLAN N° 1 NAME:
I. Description of class
School: Low resources school Time: 2 hours N° of SS.: 35
Level: First grade Age: 7 years old
II. Learning objectives
1. Main aim: To recognize the relationship with the relatives and learn its names (he is the father, she
is the mother, he is the brother, etc) and be able to write it and to pronounce it through finger
puppets and “ the family finger song”
2. Subsidiary aim: To recognize that there is not only one kind of family (conventional family) but there
are many kinds of it.
3. To learn vocabulary related with the family and how to pronounce it. (Daddy, mommy, brother,
sister, etc. )
4. To start using the verb “TO BE”
III. Procedure:
Activity 1: Warm-up
Context: First grade class, 35 students, low resources school.
Materials/equipment needed: Images of different kinds of families (annex)
Language/skill focused on: Who do I live with? Who is my family?
Group organization: Whole group.
Steps of the activity/task:
1. Ask the students: who do they live with?
2. Ask the students: The people who they live with are their family?
3. Do you think all families in the classroom have the same people: mother, father, brother, etc.?
4. Show the students different images of different kind of families (mom, dad, siblings) (single
moms) (single dads) (same sex families)
5. Make students be conscious that there are not only one kind of family, and that if they don’ t
have a conventional that is okay.
Timing: 10 minutes.
Activity 2: Make finger puppets and play with them.
Context: First grade class, 35 students, low resources school.
Materials/equipment needed: Drawings of family members (annex), colors, scissors, glue and
“the family finger song” lyrics (annex).
Language/skill focused on: Vocabulary: Father, Daddy, Mother, Mommy, Brother, Sister, Family.
Questions: Where are you? How do you do?
Group organization: whole group.
Steps of the activity/task:
1. Give students the papers with the family images, ask them to color the draws. (10 minutes)
2. Ask students to cut the images and put each image in one finger. (5 minutes)
3. Teach students the family vocabulary showing and saying He is/ she is…(Father, Daddy, Mother,
Mommy, Brother, Sister, Baby, Family) and relate it with the draws. (10 minutes)
4. Teach students some questions: Where are you? How do you do? (translate it in Spanish) (5
minutes)
5. Teacher will sing the family song and will do the mimic, and the students will repeat it. (10
minutes)
6. Play the song and sing along. (5 minutes)
7. Asking questions: how many members are in this family? Do this family have the same members
as yours? (10 minutes)
Timing: 55 minutes
Activity 3:"Finger Puppet Conversations"
Context: First grade class, 35 students, low resources school.
Materials/equipment needed: Finger Puppets.
Language/skill focused on: Recall family vocabulary. Greetings: Hello, goodbye. Ask questions: Who
are you? How are you? Answers: I am fine, thank you.
Group organization: Role-play, pair work.
Steps of the activity/task:
1. To organize the pairs for children to do the activity.
2. Teacher shows the role-play example using the puppets
T: Who are you?
S: I am the father
T: How are you?
S: I am fine thank you.
T: Goodbye.
S: Goodbye.
3. Teacher asks students to do the role-play with his/her partner, using all the puppets.
Timing: 30 minutes
IV. Homework:
Context: First grade class, 35 students, low resources school.
Materials/equipment needed: Notebook, pencil, eraser, colors.
Language/skill focused on: Family vocabulary, to recognize the family members.
Group organization: Individual.
Steps for the activity:
1. In their own house, and if it’ s possible with the help of their caregivers, children will select one of
their favorite cartoon.
2. Once the cartoon has been selected, children will draw in their own notebook the main characters
of the cartoon.
3. Children will put the family member status in each draw (Father, mother, sister, etc)
4. They will draw their own family and will do the same procedure.
FAMILY FINGER SONG
Verse 1
Daddy finger, daddy finger
Where are you?
Here I am, here I am
How do you do?
Verse 2
Mommy finger, mommy finger
Where are you?
Here I am, here I am
How do you do?
Verse 3
Brother finger, brother finger
Where are you?
Here I am, here I am
How do you do?
Verse 4
Sister finger, sister finger
Where are you?
Here I am, here I am
How do you do?
Verse 5
Baby finger, baby finger
Where are you?
Here I am, here I am
How do you do?
