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<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Children will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153branch out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as they explore family members and roles<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n In Advance<\/span><\/span><\/strong>: Introduce the topic of extended family by talking about relatives. What does your child do with their relatives? Do you visit relatives? Do you gather for certain holidays\/ celebrations? Play a family guessing game<\/strong> by giving clues about family members and having your child guess to whom you are referring. (Example: Who has an older brother?\u00c2\u00a0 This person is a boat captain and lives in Florida. Who has a collection of model cars? etc.) This will bring a lot of laughter, and increase children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s awareness of their larger family. Children will \u00e2\u20ac\u0153branch out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as they explore family members and roles \u00c2\u00a0 In Advance: Introduce the topic of extended family by talking about relatives. What does your child do with their relatives? Do you visit relatives? Do you gather for certain holidays\/ celebrations? \u00c2\u00a0 Make a list of family members on a large chart with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,22,67,16,15,9,66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMake a list of family members on a large chart with your child<\/strong>. Mother, father, sister brother, grandparents, grandmother, cousins, aunt, uncle etc. Mention that some families have special names for family members and that is something that makes each family unique.
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\nExplain to your child that he\/she is going to create his\/her own family tree.<\/strong> Describe the process your child will use to make a family tree. On a piece of tag board have your child line his\/her elbows up with the bottom of the paper. Ask him\/her to put his\/her arms side by side and lay fingers out flat. Trace from the elbows (trunk) up and around the fingers (branches). This will be your child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tree.
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\nInvite your child to draw pictures of his\/her extended family above and around the branches.<\/strong> Help your child label the names of family members. At the top or bottom of the tag board have children write \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Family Tree.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
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\nDisplay the tree on a wall or bulleting board for your family to appreciate.<\/p>\n
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\nRemember<\/strong>: This is a great opportunity to present the idea of diversity to children. Young children may not know the terminology for family member classifications. Accept all names children share, as some children know grandparents, aunts, uncles in different terms, or languages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"