2.5: My family
This activity encourages students to recognise and respect all family structures and circumstances.
Tasks
- Read Fly Away Home by Eva Bunting or similar text to initiate discussion about different family situations
- Discuss the following with the class:
- What is a home?
- What does a home provide?
- Who lives in a home?
- What makes my family? Who is in it?
- Using Handout 3: My family, ask students to create simple family trees by drawing faces of family members.
- Label the faces of family members for students.
- Ask students to sit in a circle students and share their family trees with the class. Encourage students to understand that each family is unique and special, and that there is no one way to be a family.
- This activity encourages students to recognise and respect all family structures.
- Sensitivity is needed when discussing students’ family circumstances. Texts which reflect different family structures can be used to educate about diversity and discourage bias.
- Fly away home tells the story of a father and son who live in an airport. Any similar text which presents different family situations may be used instead. Possible examples include: A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams, You will always be my Dad by Ann de Bode & Rien Broere, Reflections of Family Diversity photos by FKA Multicultural Resource Centre.
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Downloads
- Text: Fly Away Home by Eva Bunting or similar text
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