THE FAMILY

Standard Theme Topic Skills Duration Proficiency level Learning standards

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Year 1 World of self, family and friends Meet my family Language Arts 45 minutes Intermediate 1.1.3 Able to listen to, say aloud and recite rhymes or sing songs 1.1.4 Able to talk about a stimulus with guidance 3.1.1 Able to demonstrate fine motor control of hands and fingers by

: a) handling objects and manipulating them

Procedure

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Divide pupils into groups of five. Teacher distributes outline shapes of family members on paper to every group. Explain to the children that they have to prepare a family puppet. Ask them to cut out the family members (father, mother, sister, brother, baby) from cardstock and tape each of them at the bottom of ice-cream stick. 5) Show a video with lyrics of The Family song. 6) Teacher sings along the song with pupils. 7) Pupils sing the song together and raise the picture of family members.