Lesson Two – What Homes
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to locate, describe and compare the range of different type of homes that can be found in the school neighbourhood.
The class can complete a survey recording information about one house in the local area to indicate its unique properties such as the door colour and number of windows.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to locate, describe and compare the range of different type of homes that can be found in the school neighbourhood
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to collect and record information about one house that can be found in the local area close to the school and a set of cards to label a model of a house built using construction bricks to show its different parts.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the range of different types of homes that can be found in the school neighbourhood.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate, describe and compare some of the different types of homes found in the local area around the school environment. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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