Activity: Where we live
Houses and Homes
Year Level: Senior Infants
1.Start the lesson with a picture of different houses from around the world, some quirky homes like the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna or the transparent house in Japan.
2. Show pictures of the homes we live in in Dublin:
– apartments/Flats
– Semi-Detached
– Detached
– Cottage/bugalow
3. Distribute marla/playdough and ask the children to create their own homes with features such as windows/flat roofs etc.
4. children sit in a group and talk about their house and it’s feautures.
5. Ask the children to group all the houses together and show that we live in a village/community/town. Ask them to think of what other buildings are missing, scaffold their discussions by talking about the things we need to live, food to buy etc requires shops/bakeries, schools and roads are also needed. Children can create these additional buildings and add them to the ‘village’. Village could be arranged on the class ‘tuff tray’ for future work in drama/art/oral language development.
6. End the lesson with a song such as ‘gonna build a house’.