Family Portraits

Week of March 3, 2014

This week we created family portraits. I took the children two at a time to the table. If they had a family picture we grabbed it from the shelf. We then sat at the table with a large piece of white paper, and markers were in a bucket nearby. First I asked the children who was in their family. They all told me and I wrote the names on the paper. They were then given time to draw their family pictures. The children who did have family photos kept them nearby as a reference. As they were drawing I noticed the children were concentrating very hard. They seemed proud when they were finished drawing. The children who had their family photos in class were overjoyed, and after they were done drawing kept them close by, and took the photo to the other center so their families could play with them. I think the children liked having their families close while interacting in school activities.

 

After doing the family portrait activity I was excited to learn who was in each of the children’s families. Many of them have siblings which is very exciting because now we can incorporate the brother and sister role. In the Next few weeks we will be talking about what jobs the different people in our family do. We will be acting out different scenarios and deciding roles all of the people in our families. Next week we will be going on a grocery shopping exploration, and talking about healthy and not so healthy foods.