RIC-0667 Aboriginal Cult 5-6
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Other Families<br />
Teachers Notes<br />
• Gather the class on the mat or in the reading corner.<br />
• Write the word ‘family’ on a large sheet of paper.<br />
• Ask ‘What is a family?’ Accept all answers.<br />
• Ask students to supply words that best describe their family. Record<br />
them on the paper.<br />
• Choose various students to explain who lives with them in their<br />
family home.<br />
• Discuss and complete the worksheet with the students.<br />
• You may wish to show a photograph of your family to the class and<br />
tell about them.<br />
• Prior to this lesson, you will need to send a note home to parents<br />
asking them to send a family photo in with the students. (Be sure to<br />
explain the photo should be a small snapshot and will be glued into<br />
a book.)<br />
• Choose various students to stand up and share their photos with the<br />
class, explaining who each member of the family is.<br />
• Have students glue their individual photo on the worksheet.<br />
• Complete the worksheet as a whole class by answering each question<br />
together.<br />
• After looking at pictures of different families that students have<br />
brought in, talk about the importance of having a family.<br />
• Ask the following questions and discuss the answers given: ‘Do all<br />
people have a family?’ ‘ Are all families the same?’ ‘Do all families<br />
live together?’<br />
• Inform the class that, for different reasons, not all families live<br />
together. Briefly discuss some examples of this (for example,<br />
orphaned, separated, work commitments etc.).<br />
• Students cut out pictures from magazines or their own artwork to<br />
clothe the figures on the worksheet.<br />
• Tell students the names of your grandparents and also of some aunts<br />
and uncles. Talk briefly about them and how they are related to you.<br />
• Discuss with the class times that families come together as one.<br />
• Display pictures of family scenes such as Christmas or a birthday<br />
celebration.<br />
• Ask the students to contribute their thoughts on these gatherings.<br />
Use the following questions. ‘Is this a happy time?’ ‘Do these people<br />
all live together?’ ‘Who do you think these people may be?’<br />
• Students complete the worksheet.<br />
Me and My Family<br />
(page 34)<br />
About My Family<br />
(page 35)<br />
My Family<br />
(page 36)<br />
©R.I.C. Publications<br />
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People in a Family<br />
(page 37)<br />
<strong>Cult</strong>ural Identity<br />
www.ricgroup.com.au R.I.C. Publications 33Australian <strong>Aboriginal</strong> <strong>Cult</strong>ure 33<br />
ISBN 978-1-86311-807-1
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