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Preschool Family Resources

8 preschool family resources: 7 flash cards, 1 song and 1 video. How teachers use these

Preschool Family Resources

8 preschool family resources: 7 flash cards, 1 song and 1 video. How teachers use these

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolChores Flash Cards

These chores flash cards help Preschool through 4th Grade children name 18 everyday chores with picture-front, word-back fold-over cards. Answer key included for quick, independent practice.

Video
VideoPreschoolCaring Song

Using the Caring Song, students learn how to care for others at home. This song will help build confidence and your kids will want to show kindness to others. Our students need a lot of practice and examples of how to treat each other kindly. This song will help your…

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolFamily Flash Cards

These family flash cards help PreK-1st Grade children name mom, dad, siblings, grandparents and more with 11 fold-over picture cards. A practice page and answer key are included.

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolKitchen Flash Cards

Kitchen flash cards for PreK to 1st Grade pair 24 kitchen pictures with their words and a cook, eat or clean tag, plus a practice page. Answer key included for quick checking.

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolHome Flash Cards

These home flash cards help PreK-1st grade children name 24 everyday household items and sort them by room. Fold-over cards and a practice page, with an answer key included.

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolBathroom Flash Cards

These bathroom flash cards teach PreK-1st grade children 18 everyday bathroom words with fold-over picture and word cards. Practice page and answer key included.

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Flash CardsPreschoolBedroom Flash Cards

These bedroom flash cards help preschool to 1st Grade children learn 18 picture words like bed, lamp and pillow with fold-over cards. Practice page and answer key included.

Flash Cards
Flash CardsPreschoolKitchen Tools Flash Cards

These kitchen tools flash cards teach 18 tools for cooking and setting the table, with a picture on the front and the word inside. Made for preschool to 1st grade, with a practice page and answer key included.

From our teachers' playbook

Who is in your family?

What do preschoolers learn about family?

Preschoolers love talking about the people they live with and love. They learn family words like mom, dad, brother, sister, grandma and grandpa, and they discover that every family is different. Some are big, some are small, and all of them care for each other. Kids also learn about home: the rooms in a house, what we do in each one, and how everyone helps with chores. The click comes when a child proudly says, "I help my family by feeding the dog!"

Our favorite ways to teach family in preschool

These moves celebrate every kind of family and build lots of new words.

Family picture share

Invite kids to draw their family or bring a photo, then share one thing about each person. Seeing everyone's families side by side shows that families come in all shapes and sizes.

Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.

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Which room?

Show a picture card of an object, like a bed, a pan or a toothbrush, and ask, "Which room does it go in?" Kids point to the bedroom, kitchen or bathroom. Quick rounds build home vocabulary.

Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).

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Helper of the day

Talk about one family chore each day, like setting the table or putting away toys. Then let kids do that job in the classroom. Practicing helping every day builds responsibility.

Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).

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Teacher favorites right now: Chores Flash Cards, Caring Song and Family Flash Cards.

Questions parents and teachers ask about preschool family

What should preschoolers learn about families?

They learn family member names, that every family is different, and how family members help and care for each other. Home words and simple chores are often part of it too.

How do I make family lessons inclusive?

Use language like "the people who take care of you" and show many kinds of families in books and pictures. Let each child tell about their own family in their own words.

What chores can a preschooler do?

Preschoolers can put away toys, feed a pet, help set the table, match socks and wipe up small spills. Little jobs build big confidence.

How can I teach about family at home?

Look through family photos together, talk about relatives, and give your child a small daily job. Naming rooms and objects around the house builds vocabulary too.