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My daughter is in grade 2 and had to do two seperate projects last year that talked about either family structure or genetics. The school called about the genetics project ahead of time to discuss it with me because they know she is adopted and wanted to know how they could accomodate it. For the family structure project I contacted the teacher to let her know dd's project would look different, and that I hoped that adoption, foster care, and the many, many other ways a family can come together were part of the unit.
In both cases I discussed it with dd and let her dictate how much she wanted to share, if anything. The genetics project was really cool because it also gave us the opportunity to talk about her being biracial and show it visually. Because we don't know much about her bfather, we used magazine cutouts for both bparents.
This year a project about ancestors has already come home. It asks questions about where your family is from before Canada and what traditions you celebrate. When discussing it with dd she has decided to put my husband's Polish background into the project.
Allowing her to dictate what is shared vs. what is not has been really successful. With both projects she was quite comfortable discussing her adoption and time in foster care and thought showing people a photo of her and her bmom was great.
Allana
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