Record information in webs, charts, or Venn diagrams. Explore naming traditions in the students' own families and the families under study. Use things students bring or suggest to share with the class that depicts family life. Compile a list of family characteristics. Use analogies to further define families.
Students often make an art folder at the beginning of the year.
This project may continue throughout the year with students adding symbols within each concentric circle as they learn about people, places, and things nearby and far away. As an alternate project, compile a bulletin board display of concentric circles, with each child adding a pictorial representation to each concentric circle. The class or individual students may wish to compile an anthology of poems and songs representative of each environment. Naming Explore names, particularly names from cultures represented in your classroom. Learn about naming traditions in Indian cultures.