This week our learning theme was about houses. Traditional, igloos, tipis, and tree houses to be exact. We watched videos of their construction, talked about different types of houses, and constructed a few miniatures of our own.
We started with igloos.
Then transitioned to a modified gingerbread construction.
We have yet to construct our mini tipis and tree houses, maybe next week.
This is my lesson plan but in true child-led-learning fashion, we didn’t follow it exactly.
House Lesson Plan
House Theme Lesson Plan PDF & House Theme Materials ListPDF
House Videos
How to Make a Perfect Igloo – Ray Mears World of Survival – BBC
How to Build an Igloo – A Boy Among Polar Bears – BBC
Home Construction
- Gingerbread houses, attention to features such as roof, chimney, windows, doors, walls, walk way (use a milk carton, or small cardboard figure to help support the walls and roof of the house)
- Construct a traditional home using Lincoln logs, legos, blocks
- Make a paper bag tipi
- Make a fabric tipi with wood, canvas, pins and paint
- Construct a marshmallow or sugar cube igloo – use royal frosting, or white glue
- Make a tree house out of nature finds: twigs, leaves, pine branches outside, decorate with acorns, pine cones, and stones
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It was a very positive week. I am continually amazed at how much children want to be engaged, guided to knowledge, and love getting messy. (Well my daughter at least.) Surprisingly there was very little consumption of gingerbread or igloo making supplies. And for our igloo and gingerbread sessions we had young guests join us. All present had much fun. *Here is to really fun summer learning.*
P/S I am guest posting on Marci’s blog Overcoming Busy today. Visit her at Green Bath if you’d like to learn how to make a couple really simple all-natural bath and beauty products that can help your personal health and the health of our earth!
