Teaching about homes & what goes in them.

Part of teaching ELL is getting to teach all the little things we take for granted that our native English speakers know.

Right now in Kindergarten we are talking about what a "home" is. I also go into what rooms are inside a home. Seems like a simple concept but for children that just arrived from a refuge camp in Burma that have never had a bedroom or working bathroom, it is not. So I teach about the different rooms in a home, what their purpose is and what furniture we keep in each one. After a week long of this, we make our own houses. Here is what they look like.

This is only 1/2 of them.

 A close up.

They are so proud of the little town we made. We even named it after our school. I felt guilty that I didn't allow them to color in their furniture. I think that would have made them even cuter. However, we were short on time. Maybe next year.

What do you think?