K-1.1 Links To Important Information For Teachers

Vocabulary

On a bulletin board or poster board display your family for the past two generations. This will include you, spouse and children if appropriate, parents and siblings. Then tell the children about what you would like for them to bring to school. You may ask the students to draw a picture of their immediate family and name the people in the drawing. Make sure that the children use the correct names of siblings and not nicknames.
If there were an elderly person in your community who would come and bring pictures of their family and even pictures of how things have changed from when they were children, this would be great. Make sure that you have talked to the person before the visit and viewed the pictures they plan to show the children.
Make sure that students understand that there are many different types of families-- Single parents, married, adopted, those living with other family members, etc. Help them to understand that the family is a group of special people who take care of each other.
Use the vocabulary throughout any conversations that you might have with the class. These are terms that students must understand.
Kindergarten Dictionary for Vocabulary
Letter To Parents
Explain to students that there are different types of family groupings. Students should understand that some brothers and sisters are related by birth, others by marriage and still others are related by adoption.