THEME: HOUSES AND HOMES

In this theme, the children learned the basic parts of a house, the different types of houses, shapes, colours and parts of the home. They also learned who were the people involved in the construction of houses such as the architect, building engineers, contractors, plumbers, etc. Some of the learning activities carried out were :

APARTMENT PROJECT

One of the activities was to make use of the apartment in front of the school as our learning project. We asked the children to observe the apartment : identify the shapes, count the number of the different shapes, concepts of high and low, tall and short and lastly to draw the building.

The children pointing at the different shapes found - rectangle, square, triangle and semi-circle. They also counted the number of the shapes - which was confusing to most of the children as there were a LOT to count.

After observing the apartment, the children drew the building. Ms Rajiah is pointing out something to one of the children. Here the child is drawing the apartment - see the building drawn long/high and see the other drawings by the children.

NEIGHBOURHOOD WALK

Another activity was to observe the different buildings found around the school neighbourhood. The children learnt the different types of houses, the shapes found, number of houses and colours. They also tried to read the house numbers and words along the road. Here are some of the things they saw:

Terrace houses ~ Ms Grace pointing out the houses and counting the number of houses in one row. They also tried to identify different shapes and colours found.

The mosque ~ Masjid Darul Ehsan, which is near to the school. The green pyramid is the dome of the mosque.

A block of shop houses.

Semi-detached houses.

Blocks of shop houses. There's a chinese temple across the roundabout.

The school building.

Apartment ~ which is infront of the school.

The children made a time line of the houses and things they saw on their neighbourhood walk.

SOME CRAFTS

Pasting of the different shapes to make a house on the paper plate - the children learned parts of the houses.
Fardhu ain class - Besides learning the significance of the KAABAH, the children looked at the shape and colours. This group project was done by pasting coloured papers.

CONSTRUCTION

A lot of boxes of different sizes were collected for the 'Construction Project'. The class discussed people who are involved in the construction of houses ~ from the architect to the construction workers. The children came to school in different attires and props representing their occupations. Each group of 4 children were asked to construct a building from the boxes. We had to do this project outside the classroom as we required a large space.

These boys working hard on their construction ~ maybe make some modifications or an extension? What about this box?

The 'architects' and 'contractor' discussing their 'project'. "See here - make sure this part of the building is properly glued together ~ we don't want our building to topple!", pointed out this young building engineer.

These 'building engineers' hard at work !

This group going through the pile of boxes for the building 'construction'.

They stacked the boxes to build a tower, glued them together with newspapers and painted their tower red.

Another building project - a purple one.

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