The boys love learning new things and are absorbing information like sponges.
I’m a town planner by profession, so I thought they were finally old enough to learn the basics of Town Planning – the main types of residential dwellings:
- Single storey house
- Two storey house
- Duplex (dual occupancy) – 2 dwellings on 1 lot
- Townhouse (multi dwelling housing) – 3 or more dwellings on 1 lot with each dwelling having access from the ground floor
- Apartment building (residential flat building) – 3 or more dwellings (I say to the boys – lots and lots of units in 1 big building)
I used basic shapes – rectangles (buildings, doors), squares (windows), triangles (roof) to make up the buildings with A4 and A5 coloured paper from Kmart.
I cut out the shapes and the boys helped me to stick them onto the wall with sticky tape. For older kids could cut out the shapes themselves.
It’s a great way to count, use basic shapes, and learn the different types of houses as we live in an area with lots of different types of housing which the boys can see as real life examples.
