DT - To draw a picture of a house with the key features.

 Today in DT we continued to discuss the different types of houses and the types of houses we live in. We described what our house looks like to our friends - thinking about the colour and what they were made out of.  We then thought about how to draw our houses and spoke about the word ‘proportion’. We thought about how big the door, roof and windows should be on our drawings. We then drew our houses, with a sense of proportion and then labelled the main features. 


















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