Family Photos

I choose the activity FAMILY PHOTO because I think teachers need to guide children’s development in the cognitive awareness. Emotional disposition and behavioral skills are needed to respectfully and effectively learn about differences. Children can feel comfortably and easily to adapt to differences and emotionally accept human diversity. This includes age, gender, economic class, culture, race, disability, body size and sexual orientation. The three goals I chose are “There are different kinds of families,” “Many different people live in our community” and “Some physical attributes stay the same and some change”

FAMILY PHOTOS

      Themes: Families, Changes, Alike and Different, Clothes We Wear, Bodies

      Objective: Recognize ways people grow and change

  Materials: Photographs of children’s parents, photographs of each child, resealable plastic bags

      Description: Teachers need to collect photos from children parents. Some photos may include different types of families (single parent, gay/lesbian, and blender families). Make sure to put photos in resealable bag to protect them. Give each child the photo of herself to hold (make sure they remind quiet and no to tell the other children which are their parents).One by one, ask the children to come up in front of the group with their picture and show to the rest of the class. Encourage children to look at the families photos, and ask questions like “Who can guess which photo is of                   ‘s parents?”. Children will start notices the physical differences like hair color, skin color, and similarities. When children find the child’s family put the photo next to their parents (every child need to have a turn).When all kids has they turn, teachers could continued with ask them if they think they can have the same parent’s appearance. Teacher also can talk about how children get their skin color and physical looks from their biological parents. Also talk about many of our physical characteristics such skin color and eyes color stays the same as we grow older.

      Variations: 1. Teacher may need to vary the activity if they have adopted or                              multiracial children in class.
                           2.   Make a class book of the children’s families.
                         3.   Repeat the activity with baby pictures and currents photographs of each child

This goal also is good to help children that came from a multiracial background. For example a child in class room might be both Latino and Asian, or both white and black. Some children of color have been adopted into white families. Like all preschoolers, they are recognizing differences and developing classifications skills. “Teachers most help interracial children feel good about themselves, their physical features, and their families. Most of all we must accept and recognize each interracial child as a UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL.” (York Pg. 50)

 The books I choose are: 

I like this book because each photograph or an African American child is holding something that can be used to which he or she is being compared. Differing is dividing in sections such as skin tones, hair texture, and eye color“and the final section, which concludes with the same phrase that is repeated to introduce each section: "I am Black. I am unique." (Ages 3 - 11)

On a field trip to an apple farm, the ethnically diverse kids in Mr. Yee’s class enjoy a creative, rhyming countdown from 20-1 which includes grouping and simple addition. Fun apple facts are packed into this cheerful book’s end pages. (Ages 4-8)

The last reason why I chose this activity is because my family has diversity age, culture, language, and race. My husband is 18 yrs older than me; we speak different language, race and cultures. So, as my own experience families can be combine with different types of components.

                                

This is my Husband and I.                These are my children