Read the children a story set in a Victorian or Edwardian home and show them pictures of different rooms in the home. Ask them to identify each room using the furniture and household objects as clues.
Encourage the children to notice and describe as many objects as they can in each picture. Ask them to use their knowledge about their own homes to identify those objects in the picture that are the same as today's, those that are different but recognisable, and those they do not know anything about.
Use the children's suggestions and ideas to develop a word bank of new nouns and adjectives. |
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- identify the rooms in a home from long ago
- describe, using appropriate vocabulary, features, furniture and household objects from homes from long ago
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