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Home is Where
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Curriculum Objective
To develop the young person as an individual
Progress in Learning
I am beginning to: Thinking Skills and
• recognise what a baby is;
Personal Capabilities
• understand the concept of growing up;
Thinking, Problem-Solving and
• understand what a family is; and Decision-Making
• understand my place in my family.
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Key Question
Resource 2:
Is Baby Happy
or Sad?
Baby Talk
Discuss with your pupils how we start our lives as • Baby doll and
small babies. accessories
Use a baby doll and the appropriate accessories to embed • Baby photographs
the concept of what a baby is. For example, put a nappy, of your pupils
baby grow, bib or hat on the doll, or give it a bottle. Offer your
pupils the chance to dress, hold and pretend to
feed the baby. You can also use this to reinforce
the skill of turn-taking.
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Thinking Skill and Personal Capability:
Examine evidence, distinguish fact from
fiction.
Key Question
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Key Question
What is
growing up?
You will need:
Resource 3:
What is Growing Up?
Resource 4a-c:
All Change
As a Baby I Could…
Now I Can?
Collect photographs of your pupils’ first birthdays, first year
at school and from the present day.
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Thinking Skill and Personal Capability:
Sequence, order, classify and make
comparisons
• Language and Literacy by reading stories what they can do now. Remember to be
relating to growing up and changes (for sensitive to individual pupil’s ability. Sort these
example ‘When I Was A Baby’ by Deborah similarities and differences into a simple
Niland, ‘What Was it Like When I Was a Baby’ Venn diagram.
by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross, ‘Tell Me
About When I Was a Baby: A Truly Interactive Examine the pictures in Resource 4c and talk
Pop-Up Book’ by Lisa Rojany-Buccieri, Jane about what babies do (for example cry, crawl,
Chambliss-Wright and K.A. Bickle and sleep, drink milk and use a dummy). Use the
‘Sing and Play: All About Growing Up’ by pictures to compare how our ability to move
Pie Corbett). All of these books are available around, communicate and many other things
from bookshops, online or the library. change as we grow-up (for example talking,
walking, running, eating, the foods we like,
Identify similarities and differences between using the toilet).
what your pupils could do as babies and
Finish by helping your pupils sort and stick the
images into the correct category: things babies
can do versus things older children can do,
using Resources 4a and 4b.
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Key Question
What is a family? /
Who do I live with?
You will need:
Resource 5:
My Family Tree
All in the Family
Ask your pupils to collect photographs of their immediate
family members. Have them place the photographs on the Resource 6:
family tree template in Resource 5. Use Resource 6 for group My Family Portrait
family photographs.
Encourage non-verbal pupils to point to the pictures of family Resource 7a-e: What
members as you call them out. Encourage your pupils to listen Do My Family Do?
to/about each other.
Playing House
Discuss family sizes and people who live together in one
house (for example nuclear family, one parent family, etc.).
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Thinking Skill and Personal Capability:
Justify methods, opinions and
conclusions
Communication –
Key Question Understand and explore ideas and
events in texts
Using ICT –
Access information
Using Mathematics -
Identify and collect information
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Key Question
What is a family? /
Who do I live with?
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Baby Photographs Resource 1
Allow your pupils to choose one of the following recording sheets, have them attach
photographs and record their names and dates of birth.
Me as a baby
My name
My date of birth
Me as a baby
My name
My date of birth
Me as a baby
My name
My date of birth
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Is Baby Happy or Sad? Resource 2
Sad
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What is Growing Up? Resource 3
Me at age 1
Me at age __
Me as I am now
As a Baby I Could…
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What Do My Family Do?
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