Name: Family in Spanish – Family Tree Activity
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Use this fun “FamilyTree” activity to help your students learn the members of a family in Spanish!

First, watch this YouTube video to review Spanish family vocabulary: MI FAMILIA (MiCamino Spanish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0-NfrMIJM&t=20s
Then, print out the tree on white cardstock so that you have one for each student.
Print out the family pictures that you prefer for this activity on regular paper. (There are frames with pictures & labels, pictures with no labels, empty frames with labels, and empty frames with no labels.)
Finally, have students present their family tree to the class in Spanish!

Learn the following Spanish vocabulary:

Mi Padre / Mi Madre
Mi Abuelo / Mi Abuela
Mi Hermano / Mi Hermana
Mi Tío / Mi Tía
Mi Primo / Mi Prima
Mi Perro / Mi Gato

What's included

A completed "Mi Familia" example tree with ten labelled positions, from Mi Abuelo and Mi Abuela at the top through Mi Madre, Mi Padre, Mi Tío and Mi Tía to Yo, Mi Hermano, Mi Perro and Mi Primo
A teacher instruction page setting out the four steps, from a vocabulary warm-up to the spoken presentation, alongside a thumbnail of the completed example
A blank "Mi Familia" tree page for printing on white cardstock, one per student
Four sheets of fifteen picture frames each — two printed with the Spanish labels Mi Abuelo, Mi Abuela, Mi Abuelo, Mi Abuela, Mi Padre, Mi Madre, Mi Hermano, Mi Hermana, Mi Tío, Mi Tía, Mi Primo, Mi Prima, Mi Gato, Mi Perro and Yo, and two without labels
A listed vocabulary set of twelve words: abuelo, abuela, padre, madre, hermano, hermana, tío, tía, primo, prima, perro, gato
A link to the vendor's "MI FAMILIA" vocabulary video, suggested as the opening step

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Recognise and use twelve Spanish family terms in the possessive form, from Mi Abuelo to Mi Gato
Place family members correctly by generation on a tree diagram, following the completed example
Match a Spanish label to the right family member without picture support, using the unlabelled frame sheets
Distinguish the masculine and feminine pairs that run through the vocabulary — abuelo and abuela, hermano and hermana, primo and prima
Present a completed family tree to the class in Spanish

Teaching tips

Print the tree on white cardstock and the frames on ordinary paper, as the instructions specify — the two are meant to be different weights so the frames sit on the sturdier tree
The four frame versions are the differentiation built into the file: labelled pictures for beginners, empty unlabelled frames for students ready to supply both the image and the Spanish word
Show the completed example first; it is the only page that demonstrates which relative belongs at which level of the tree, and it sets the standard without a separate rubric
The frame sheets print two sets of grandparents plus Yo, fifteen frames in all, so a student can build a fuller tree than the twelve-word vocabulary list on its own suggests
The last step is spoken, not written, so build in presentation time — the tree is a prompt for talking rather than the finished piece of work

Skills covered

Spanish family vocabulary — students work with abuelo, abuela, padre, madre, hermano, hermana, tío, tía, primo, prima, perro and gato, all in the possessive form Mi ___.
Matching a label to a person — the labelled frame sheets pair each Spanish term with a picture, and the unlabelled sheets take that support away.
Building a family tree diagram — frames are placed on a printed tree so that generations sit in the right positions, following the completed example.
Personalising vocabulary — the empty-frame versions leave the picture space blank for students to fill with their own family instead of the supplied clipart.
Speaking in the target language — the closing instruction asks students to present their finished tree to the class in Spanish.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How many versions of the picture frames are supplied?

Four, named in the instructions: frames with pictures and labels, pictures with no labels, empty frames with labels, and empty frames with no labels. The same tree can therefore run as a matching task, a labelling task or a drawing task depending on the group.

Which family words does the activity cover?

Twelve are listed on the instruction page: abuelo, abuela, padre, madre, hermano, hermana, tío, tía, primo, prima, perro and gato. The frame sheets go slightly further, printing both sets of grandparents and adding Yo, for fifteen frames in all.

What is the finished tree meant to lead to?

A spoken presentation. The final instruction asks students to present their family tree to the class in Spanish, so the assembled tree works as a speaking prompt rather than as the end product.