6th meeting

Our today's story - "Spud the Dragon" from "Bob the Builder" series

Umm Uzair started out today by asking us, if we liked to build things. We answered that we surely did! Some of us liked to build with Lego blocks, some with simple wodden blocks, while others liked to build things from sand. Then, Umm Uzair asked us, if we have ever seen, how houses are being built. As most of us had seen it, we shared briefly our ideas about how houses are being built.

Next, Umm Uzair asked us, if we knew, what the person, who designs the houses, was called. Some of us said that it was the builder, but we got to know from Umm Uzair that that person was called architect. Architect is the person, who gets in his head ideas about different types of houses. Once he has the idea, he puts it down on the paper - he draws the picture of the house. Then, he makes the model of a house and does all the necessary calculations that the builders would need for constructing the real house.

After talking about the houses in general, Umm Uzair showed us several apartment plans. All of us together looked through these plans and tried to guess, which room would be the dining room, which would be the bedrooms, which would be bathrooms and so on. We tried to guess also what the different pieces of furniture we could see in these plans. We identified sofas, tables, beds and many other things. Then we looked for doors and windows - to see, how they were marked in the apartment plans.

After this discussion, we proceeded to our today's story about Bob the builder. Bob is a cartoon caracter, who loves to help people fix and build their houses. He has a team of machinery as well - they help him to build. The story in this book centered around Spud, the scarecrow, who wondered into a pile of costumes in a school, as he was delivering ladder to Mrs. Percival. The story tells, how Spud, after putting on a dragon costume, tried to scare all his friends and make fun of them. However, as we all know it very well, such mischief cannot go unpunished for - his friends found him out and scared him with the very same dragon costume he had been scaring them!

When we finished the story, Umm Uzair took out huge pages of newspaper and we made our very own hats, which we could use if we ourselves would be doing any painging or fixing work around the home. We folded the newspaper into hats that were just right size for our heads and coloured them with crayons for making them more attractive and for hiding the text of the newspaper.

As we were folding our hats, Vajih noticed that the folding is very similar to that of a boat. He decided to change his plans and made a huge boat instead.