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Family Tree Worksheets and My Family Pages

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Three family tree templates, a family words chart, a read-aloud about different families, counting, home jobs and a family interview.

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Family tree templates

Three family tree templates with frames to draw each face and write each name: grandparents and grown-ups, brothers and sisters, or an open tree for any family.

Families are different

A family words chart, a read-aloud about three different families, and a page to count the people in each family.

Helping at home and family history

Sort jobs kids can help with from jobs for grown-ups, track jobs on a helper chart, and interview a grown-up about when they were little.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these my family worksheets

A family tree is a simple way for kindergartners to show the people they live with and the people who came before them. These family tree worksheets give children big frames to draw each face and a line to write each name, so the tree works for pre-readers.

Families come in many shapes, so there are three family tree templates. The classic template has frames for four grandparents, two grown-ups and me. The second shows me with my brothers and sisters and my grown-ups. The third is an open tree with seven blank frames and me on the trunk, so every child can draw exactly the people (and pets) in their family. Children can leave a frame empty if they do not need it.

The rest of the pages build on the tree. A family words chart names the people in a family, a short read-aloud meets three different families, and a counting page compares family sizes. Children sort jobs kids can help with at home from jobs for grown-ups, keep a weekly helper chart, and interview a grown-up about when they were little. Pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2.

Standards

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.2Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.3Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.CIdentify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
  • C3 D2.His.2.K-2Compare life in the past to life today.
  • C3 D2.His.3.K-2Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities.
  • C3 D2.Civ.6.K-2Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.2Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

How to use them

  1. Read the family words chart together and talk about who is in each child's family. Every answer is a good answer.
  2. Let each child choose the family tree template that fits their family, or give everyone the open tree.
  3. Send the family tree or the family interview home. Grown-ups can help write names, and children can bring the page back to share.
  4. Use the jobs at home sort before sending the helper chart home, so children know which jobs are safe for them.
  5. After the interview, talk about what was the same and what was different when grown-ups were little.

Teaching tips

  • Be ready for every kind of family: one parent, two parents, grandparents, foster families, step-families and more. The open tree fits all of them.
  • Children who do not want to share family details can draw the people at school or the people who take care of them.
  • Write names for children who are not ready to write them yet, or let them write the first letter.
  • On the counting page, have children touch each person as they count, then say the last number.
  • Pets count as family to many children. The open tree and the family words chart include them.

Questions teachers and parents ask

How do you make a family tree with a kindergartner?

Start with the child in the middle or on the trunk, then add the grown-ups they live with, then grandparents. Have the child draw each face and help them write each name. Keep it to people they know.

Which family tree template should I use?

Use the classic template for three generations, the brothers and sisters template for a family of children and grown-ups, or the open tree when families in your class look different. The open tree has blank frames that fit any family.

What if a child has a different family?

Every family is a real family. Let children draw the people who live with them and take care of them, and leave frames empty if they do not need them.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. The read-aloud questions, the counting page and the jobs at home sorts have an answer key on page 2. The family trees, chart and interview are about each child's own family, so they have no key.