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Animal Homes

Explore the different types of homes animals live in. Then help your child plan and build a house for a favorite animal.

Animal Tools: "Chirp Builds a Nest" #3 (PEEP show)

Have children watch the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Chirp Builds a Nest.” Encourage children to browse through books from the Library Center to find out more about how animals build their homes.

Blueprints

Show the blueprint in Building a House by Byron Barton. Have children draw a blueprint for a building they would like to build.

Building from Blueprints

Use blueprints to build the structure out of blocks. Encourage children to discuss how to make the parts of the house strong.

Building Site

Visit a construction site and talk with your child about the tools and machines used by construction workers.

Explore Together (indoors): Build a Bridge

Have children work in pairs to build their bridges.  

Explore Together (indoors): Build a Cup Tower

Children continue to build towers using different materials. Test each tower’s stability.

Explore Together (indoors): Build-a-House

Provide the different materials children have used while exploring buildings this week. Allow free exploration and have children use the materials to build a house.

Explore Together (indoors): Build a House for a Toy

Have children make houses for toys. Focus them on the size of the house so the toys fit inside.

Explore Together (indoors): Build a Representation

Have children build a representation of the building they saw.

Explore Together (indoors): Build a Tower

Have children build towers out of blocks. Have them draw a picture to record their tower.

Explore Together (indoors): Build with Different Materials

Challenge children to recreate their houses, bridges, and 3-D representations using different materials.

Explore Together (indoors): Building More Towers

Have children continue to explore using different materials to build towers.

Explore Together (indoors): Free Building

Have children continue building towers. Encourage them to explore using the materials in new ways.

Explore Together (indoors): The Huff and Puff Test

Build straw, stick, and brick houses and try to blow them over. Encourage children to document their observations by drawing, writing, or dictating to you.

Explore Together (indoors): Using Building Materials

Allow children to freely explore the building materials. Invite them to make different structures they have learned about.  

Explore Together (indoors): Walls and Roofs

Have children work in small groups to freely explore materials as they build different parts of a house.

Explore Together (outdoors): Building Shapes

Go outdoors and look for shapes in neighborhood houses and buildings. Have children draw shapes they find and dictate or write what part of the building the shape was found.  

Explore Together (outdoors): Hunt for Materials

Review materials used in building houses in the book Houses and Homes. Go outside and look at different materials used in neighborhood buildings.

Hammering Time

Have children practice some building skills. Demonstrate how to hammer golf tees into foam pieces and how to twist a screw into a bar of soap.

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