Raise the Roof | Picture Book | Anastasia Suen's Books

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Raise the Roof Picture Book

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Raise the Roof

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Here is a picture book that has done a remarkable thing—the author has reduced the steps of building a new home, from blueprint to welcome mat, to its bare essentials and written the story in jaunty rhyme that very young readers will both understand, and enjoy. Children's Literature

Activities:

Learn about construction workers and their tools.

Compare Native American homes and the first homes built by European settlers in What Should a House Do?

Use these Home and Houses Activites and Crafts.

Make these Houses and Other Dwellings (including a Lincoln Log Cabin for President's Day!)

Think about Houses and Communities and children who are homeless.