Homes around the world

This afternoon we had a really interesting discussion about homes around the world. We looked at lots of photos of different homes and talked about them. We came up with lots of good observations about the houses, for example, whether we thought they were in a hot or a cold country (and how we knew that), what we thought the building was made from and how they looked different to other buildings we had looked at. Mylo explained why he thought one of the buildings was old and Hannah said that old buildings are made of stone and new buildings are made of bricks. We came up with ideas about why some houses were built on stilts, and Dexter thought it might be to stop animals getting in. We also talked about how it would be very different living in a flat in a tall building in the middle of a city to living in a detached house in the countryside.

Not only did we make thoughtful observations, we came up with some interesting questions - Hannah in particular was great at this! When talking about people in some of the houses not having electricity, Hannah asked "do they have food?" We also looked at a photo of a treehouse, but it was difficult to see how the people climbed up to it. Hannah spotted this, and asked "how do they get up to their house?"

Great geographical thinking and questioning from everyone!

In Play and Learn time Frankie and Jack were looking at some of our books about homes around the world and were really interested to see some of the different houses. We read one of the books at the end of the day, and again all the children had really interesting comments and questions.

Well done Reception!