- drawing materials
- cabin
- castle
- dome
- house
- mansion
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Writing/W.PK.MA.2 Use a combination of dictating and drawing to explain information about a topic.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Composition 16 Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
My Kind of House
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Talk with children about the different types of houses they’ve been learning about this week. Use any pictures, photographs, or book illustrations to encourage discussion. Remind children that there are many different types of houses (e.g., tent, castle, mansion, cabin, apartment, hut, igloo). Ask children, If you could build a house, what would it look like?
Invite children to draw the house they would like to build. (Some may draw their present homes, which they consider the perfect place.) Provide assistance as children dictate or write labels or captions.