The staff provided design paper on clipboards with pens and encouraged children to design their own buildings encouraging children to give meaning to marks as they draw (Literacy: Writing. 30-50 Months).
when the designs were complete the children were encouraged to build their building following their paper designs allowing the children to show interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects. (Mathematics: Shape, Space and Measures. 30-50 Months)
"I'm making so many windows and a light and a sofa, it a house"
"This is my house, this is my oven, this is my back garden and another oven and a little bedroom and a big bedroom. I'm going to build it now"
"This is a kitchen and this is a house. I've done a garden and a kitchen and a living room, my house is teeny"
"I draw a cupcake shop, it has pink cakes with pink fairy icing and it has blue fairy icing too"
"I make a pet shop, this is a cat and I've made a jelly fish. A builder will come and say WOW that is very cool"
"I did a police station, this is a police man running to his car and this is a giant catching the police man, it has thunderstorms too."
"look at my house, I've done windows and a door and a chimney and its raining and sunny and a rainbow"
"I've made a rock and it stops the cars. The rock says he wants to crash the cars."
"This is a shop it bricks and there is oranges and pears and two orange, it's a big shop with lots oranges"
"I make a house, I did the childrens making noise."
"My house is bigger and bigger, these are bricks"
