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Create a kindness newsletter
Have fun with poetry – each day, explore a new style (including examples from different cultures)– find poems about family and then write your own
Pen pals between classrooms – could expand beyond National Families Week to write to elderly members of family & community
Plan a family day for the class or school
Research cultural differences between families
Learn more about the Elderly – lifespan timeline – major events – respect

Share generational stories of family – “when I was six” – presenting an opportunity to learn some family history and compare life activities over generations
What’s good about getting old? What’s not good? How can we address that and offer help to older members of family and community?
Forming good habits – what life skills can we share to show manners, respect, patience?
How would life be different without the internet or small screens? When was life like that and who remembers that time?
What different sorts of families are there?
What are the basic needs of families? Compare with the animal world – address shelter, protection, nourishment, love, child rearing
What Indigenous history and culture can we explore in our local community?
How can we practise sustainability around our home and community?
Why do families from different backgrounds hold different beliefs?
What would we put into a family time capsule? Consider items that have meaning to family members and would tell a story to future generations.
Sport: competition and participation – How do the reactions of spectators, your team and the opposing team affect you or your team mates?
Top Ten Tips Conversation starters

Design an artwork around Top Ten Tips
Create a digital book (photo or other) on family or community
Rhyme & rhythm – with family theme. Explore songs – download lyrics – mashup – use existing tune or create original composition – perform
Write a review of a book, film, TV show shared with family
Explore artworks from Indigenous and/or other cultures. Use to inspire own works of art.
As a group or solo, perform skits (provided or created) taking on different roles within families or community.
Design a poster for a National Families Week event

Provide a short story about family. Then have sentences typed out that need to be ordered to recreate the story or scene. Extension activities – continue the story – embellish the story – change the mood – change the POV.
Embellish a simple story (sentence building)– add adjectives, adverbs – one at a time to show the power of language (group or individual activity).
Write a story or script around a family event – using a day in the life of … parent, grandparent, baby, teen as inspiration.
Conduct interviews with family members, or with school community about family, recording audio or video.
Design word games that family members of different ages can participate in (find a word, crosswords, memory games, snap)
Rhyme & rhythm – Explore songs with family theme– download lyrics – mashup – use existing tune or create original composition – perform
Cupboard or storeroom sorting – to practise classification and nomenclature
Update the classroom library for the week to include books about family, roles in the community, other cultures

Time – create timetable or schedule for family activities/ responsibilities. Extension activities could include digital alarm setting, exploring 24 hours in a day and how we divide a day – twice a day, three times etc.
Design games that family members of different ages can participate in (a deck of cards can provide a range of possibilities matched to ability)
Create a crowd of people collage using geometric shapes – represent family and community. Identify shape names and copy and cut out multiples of circles, semi-circles, squares and polygons, triangles including equilateral, right-angled and isosceles. Can address symmetry and angles.
Conduct a survey of community members. Collate data and express results numerically and by percentage.
Log in to an online shopping site for groceries to explore products, compare prices, use a budget, discuss rounding values for ease of transactions.

Create a memory game with family photos/ family names (roles – mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, uncle, aunt in language of choice).
Create a digital book (photo with labels / descriptions in language of choice)
Create a game of Snap with family roles written on cards in language of choice (could have multiples of the word in the same language or could match English translation with words for older children)
Select library books for display during National Families Week on the topic of family or roles in the community (in the chosen language)

Cooking – include measuring, mixing, following procedures, observing change, producing a result
Gardening – use observation, inquiry, identify the elements to sustain life
Explore water and its role in maintaining life – how do we use it in our everyday lives? Why is it important to protect and keep clean?
Record heart rate at rest and following exercise. Extension activities could include learning about the biology of the heart and how to maintain heart health.
Debate a science topic, including sustainable living, caring for land, responsibilities to the planet.

Create digital schedules and timetables for weekly activities
Create video and audio recordings – including edits – for classroom presentations, school community interviews or National Families Week events
Design a digital artwork around Top Ten Tips
Create a digital book (photo or other) about family or community
Rhyme & rhythm – with family theme. Explore songs – download lyrics – mashup – use existing tune or create original composition – perform

Learn an acknowledgement of Country and use it during the week’s presentations. Look at its history of use and importance for showing respect to traditional owners.
Gardening – use observation, inquiry, identify the elements to sustain life
Chart temperature and rainfall over a period of time, starting with National Families Week. Note observations, find patterns, make predictions
Consider our community responsibilities as global citizens in looking after clean air and waterways and reducing waste. Could record interviews, plan a research project over the course of the week
Debate or conversation starters:
· responsibility to protect other forms of life that share the environment
· roles, rights and responsibilities as participants in your local community

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