My Family

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• 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

• 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

• 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.