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In the Kitchen

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Home

There is a place that I call home

And house is it's name-o

H-O-U-S-E

H-O-U-S-E

H-O-U-S-E

That's what I call home!

Build a House

(tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Build, build, build a house
With doors and windows, too
Add a roof to keep it dry.
A home for me and you!

Houses, Houses Everywhere!

(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle)
 

Houses can be made of bricks.
Houses can be made of sticks.
Houses can be big or small.
Houses can be short or tall.
Houses here and houses there;
Houses, houses everywhere!

Houses can be very new.
Houses can be older, too.
Houses can be low or high.
Houses! Houses! My, oh my!
Houses here and houses there;
Houses, houses everywhere!
 

Shape House

Have a variety of construction paper squares, rectangles, and triangles prepared for this project.  Ask the students to glue the shapes on their paper to make their house or apartment.  After the shapes are glued to the paper have students add house features such as doors and windows with crayons.

Folded House

Materials: Paper, crayons or markers.

Fold large sheets of construction paper in half and cut the top in the shape of triangular roofs.  Once you have a class set of folded houses ask the students to add the critical attributes of a house or apartment to the front.   Next, they can open the house and draw what is found inside. (this project is the perfect companion to "In a People House") 

Using a large sheet of butcher paper (color of your choice) have the students each make a small construction paper house to add to the class mural.  You might want to add the school as the central point on your "map".  Have the students add features such as roads, buildings found in your community, and favorite stores.  You can even add environmental print for the stores like McDonald's or Wal Mart.  This mural could be a starting point for learning about homes, then extended upon when you learn about community.  You could leave it up from the time you study homes until you get to community and then add the community features at that time. 

Cut a sheet of butcher paper into the shape of a house.   With the students helping, sound out the word "Homes" and write it in the middle of the paper.  Ask students to come up and help you write the letters as you go.  Next, as a large group ask the students to brainstorm different homes, for people or animals.  For example, bird=nest, bear=cave, beaver=dam, rabbit=hole etc.  As you are writing draw little pictures to go along with each home for visual clues.  Hang this chart on the wall for student reference.  As a follow up activity have the students draw their favorite type of home.  This is a good activity to accompany the book "A House is a House for Me".

Cut a large house shape from butcher paper.  Divide the house into "rooms" using a black marker and hang on the wall near your art center.  During center time let the students cut pictures for each room from old magazines and glue on the collage.

Make a class phone book to keep in the writing center.   Make a cover for your class phone book using construction paper (triangle for roof, square for house), decorate it with markers and give it a title like "Our Class Phone Book".  Next, glue each student's photo to a sentence strip and write his or her phone number using the marker.  Glue each sentence strip to a piece of construction paper and write the child's address below the phone number.  Once all the pages are finished, laminate and bind into a class book. 

Copy an outline of a house on cardstock paper and send one home with each student along with an instruction sheet.   Parents may help their child decorate the house using unique household items such as buttons, string, fabric, macaroni, etc.  When the projects are returned proudly display them on the walls of your room.