Books for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
All Families are Special by Norma Simon The Family Book by Todd Parr Rosie’s Family An Adoption Story by Lori Rosove
Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Fill your preschool reading center with books about all kinds of families such as single parent families, adoptive families, traditional families and so on. Encourage your preschool students to talk about their own families while they are looking through the books in your reading center.
Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Send a note home to your preschool students’ parents asking them to send a snack that they enjoy as a family with their child the next day. For example, popcorn, fruit or peanut butter crackers. During snack time, have each of your students take turns holding up their snack and saying, “My family likes to snack on ___.” Let them add more if they like, such as “My family likes to eat granola bars while we watch cartoons.
Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Letter: Ff
Number: 2, because a family can be as small as two people
Shape: heart
Color: pink
Fine Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Work together in small groups putting puzzles together. If you can find some, use puzzles with pictures of families.
Gross Motor Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Work together as a large group playing with a parachute. Later, talk about how your class worked together like families work together. Talk about the importance of helping one’s family. Ask your preschool students what kinds of things they do to help their families.
Art Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Set out sheets of white paper and crayons or markers. Have your students draw pictures of their families. Let them draw a full family portrait as well as make little booklets with a picture of a different family member on each page.
Songs/Fingerplays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
Where is Thumbkin?
Pre-math Center Activity for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
For use with your preschool classroom’s flannel board, provide family groups. Make sure that you have several flannel pieces of each member. In this manner, your students can add an extra woman as the aunt that might be living with them and such. Now have each of your preschool students take a turn at placing the members of their family on the family board. For example, one woman for Mom, one man for Dad, two girls for Sisters and 3 boys for Brothers. Then have them count out how many people are in their families. Be sure that they put a flannel child up to represent themselves!
Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Family
For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters F and f lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 2.
For older students, provide an example of the letters F and f and the number 2. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.
