Love is a family book activities

If you are reading Our Class is a Family with your students, then you will love this activity. Create a fun bracelet where each bead represents a different important part of being in a family. This set comes with printables that can be used as posters or stapled into a book as well as a ... Read more

A fun way to share a little about each child's family. The color coded key would be fund for the students to use to create their home strip. It can hang in our outside the classroom. Great for open house. Also a fun way in September to get to know each student.

I love my family best of all! -craft for family theme - could use people stampers to represent own family?

On Day 2 we read "What Mommies and Daddies do Best" by Laura Numeroff. Then we share connections about our parents or guardians. I also love to read Weird Parents by Wood. This is a funny story about parents who love to embarrass their children. (one of my favorite things to do) After reading and connecting, we make our parents and/or guardians. We also do this sort below with Parent/Children or Both.

Home is Where the Heart Is... use painter's tape and make a house and a heart. Have the children use liquid watercolors. They love removing the tape and finding their homes and hearts.

Families Have/Can/Are Anchor Chart

Peek inside Simply Kinder's NEW Our Class is a Family book companion for extension activities that will help foster classroom community.

This is my family coloring page that you can customize and print for kids.

What better way to start an all about me theme unit than to make a book that is shaped just like your hand print! Your preschooler is going to love this!

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