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Family Kindergarten Worksheets

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit1: Family

Week: 1-3

Selection: Whose Baby Am I?, Picnic at Apple Park, Peter’s Chair

Language Objective/Target:

I can describe my family using adjectives.

Interaction Strategy: Weeks 1 and 2: Think-Pair-Share

Week 3: 4 Corners

Sheltered Language Strategy: Pictorial Input: Family Tree

Summary / Sample / Description:

Vocabulary: mother, father, sister, brother, parents, grandma, grandpa, grandparents, siblings,

cousins, aunts, uncles.

Lesson (Weeks 1 and 2): Introduce family terms by creating (sketching/labeling) your own

family tree starting with parents. Add siblings/extended family each day, and partners talk using

the following frames.

I am ___.

I have ____ in my family.

I have a ____ in my family. She/He is _____.

A ____ is a _____. (A mother is a girl. A baby owl is an owlet.)

Lesson (Week 3):

1. Model and discuss adjectives and how to use sentence frames. (See chart below)

2. Break into groups by using 4-Corners strategy. Have the 4-Corners of the classroom labeled

brothers, sisters, both, only child.

3. 4-Corners: If you only have brothers, stand by the Brother poster. If you only have sisters,

stand by the Sister poster. If you have both brothers and sisters, stand by the Both poster. If you

are an only child, stand by the poster that says Only Child. Count and/or graph the number of

students in each group.

4. As a whole group, model asking and answering questions as a partnership. Then, partner up

to ask and answer, “Who is in your family?”

I have _________ in my family.

My _____________ is/has __________________.

family member

adjective from chart below

Adjectives: short, tall, big, small, old(er), young(er), hair color, eye color, curly, straight

Extension activity:

Family Chant

Our family comes

Family Kindergarten Worksheets