- brownstone
- cabin
- crib
- dome
- houseboat
- hut
- mansion
- pad
- stilts
- thatched
- yurt
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8 Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Watch Together: “My House” #2 (BTL show)
STEM Key Concepts: Understand that people and animals live in many different kinds of homes; Different materials are useful for making different structures and different parts of structures
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Compare and Contrast, Story Comprehension, Make Connections, Vocabulary
Invite children to watch the Between the Lions video “My House” again. Encourage them to sing along and move to the music.
Talk about the various houses. Ask,
- How is a mansion different from a hut? How is it the same? Talk about the different sizes of the houses, and ask children to imagine how many people would fit inside each one. Guide children to talk about how all houses provide shelter and a place where people can live together.
- Why might some people build their houses on stilts?
- Why would someone want a house that could be easily taken apart and put back together?
