Professional Documents
Culture Documents
*Drawing and discussing our families. *Graphing the number of people in our families. *Reading stories and watching film of different families using images and stories to identify similarities and differences between students' families and those of other children *Discussions and sharing about celebrations throughout the year Easter, Christmas, ANZAC Day, NAIDOC, Ramadam, birthdays, Mothers Day, Fathers Day *Discuss the Welcome to Country and recognition to traditional owners at assemblies. *NAIDOC activities, AEIO activities *Newstelling sessions specifically targeting sharing the story of an object from home, describing its importance to the family
My Family
NAIDOC Easter Christmas Mothers & Fathers Days My Family News NAIDOC
Distinguish between the past, *Newstelling, recounts, incidental activities present and future *Using simple terms to denote time 'then', 'now', 'yesterday', 'today', 'tomorrow'
Identify and compare features of objects from the past and present
News Integrate older objects into themes of Farms (butterchurns etc), Sea (fishing and toys)
Resources
Have your preschooler draw a family portrait. Help him label his mom, dad, brother, sister, or grandparents in the portrait. Discuss family origins. Have your preschooler talk to his parents and find out his family origin. Where was he born? Where were his parents born? Where were his grandparents born? Discuss where each family member was born and what country his ancestors are from. Use a map to locate where each family member was born. Discuss any family traditions his family has. For example, do they have a favorite family meal or something special they do as a family during the holidays. Compare his family traditions to other families traditions. How are his family traditions similar or different than other families? Have your preschooler discuss his family. How many family members does he have? Does he know all of his cousins, aunts and uncles? Have your preschooler find out more about his family. He can interview each of his family members to learn more about them. Questions he might ask could be: What is your birthday and when were you born? What is your favorite thing to eat? What are your favorite things to do? Talk about animal families and human families. How are they the same and how are they different?