Year 1 Spring 2 Topic

Houses and Homes

Read...
Look out for these books in the Imagination Room or at Brierfield Library!  

Key words...

bungalow
city
cottages
detached house
flat
materials
semi-detached house
terraced house
town
village

Fun facts...

  • A house is a building that is made for people to live in.

  • Houses come in many different shapes and sizes. 

  • Houses in different countries look different to each other, because they are made from different materials.

  • Houses can be made from mud and clay, bricks, timber (a type of wood), and stone.

  • Traditional cottages are built with a thatched roof made from water reeds and grass.

  • People living in large cities often live in town houses, terraced houses or flats.  Flats take up less room so more people can live in one space.

Explore...

Listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs on the CBeebies website.
Find out more about the different materials in your house by playing this BBC Bitesize game.
This online game lets you find out more about different types of houses.
Play a game of Snap! by clicking on the picture.

Visit...

Towneley Hall - Burnley
Eureka! Children's Museum - Halifax

Do...

  • Draw your house. 

  • Count how many rooms there are in your house.  How many bedrooms are there?  

  • Build a junk model of your house or someone else's house.  You could use an empty cereal box to get you started.

In school...
Class Books - The Three Little Pigs & A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano and Lane Smith