Communication, Language and Literacy

Cut out/Drawing of big house with labels of rooms on it

Ladybird series

Rosie & Jim - living on a barge - talk about different types of homes, moving house - new people, new places
Story/rhymes/
Songs

Goldilocks and the 3 bears

Peace at last

I'm a little teapot

Build a house

  Personal and Social Development

Homes - a shelter from outside, a safe place

The homeless - people who have no home to go to

Topical issues - floods, earthquakes etc.

Families - at home

Helping at home

Visits to special homes -
homes for the elderly, a church, a farm etc.

  Mathematical Development

Counting stairs/steps in building, put 'numeral stickers' on steps/stairs

Sorting furniture into rooms in doll's house

Counting number of windows & doors

Table settings

House numbers and shapes

Sorting shells
 

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Topic Web

   
Knowledge & understanding of the world

Walk around the school/area/building

Display of photographs of our homes

Making houses from Duplo

Smelling/touching/feeling objects and substances from home

Safety in the home

Road safety outside our homes

  Creative Development

Models of homes

Collages of houses

Dough models of snail shells and nests

Display of a street of different types of houses

Making a spiders web

Printing patterns - making wallpaper

My home is the sea - fish/shells

  Physical Development

Digging a house foundations

Building the walls

Carrying in the furniture

Keeping warm

'Here we go round the Mulberry bush'

Using tools to mend things around the home - role play

Cutting and sticking - making 2D homes

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