Download House Glyph

House Glyph
This glyph activity can be used with the folded house book (directions provided) to get
to know students, as well as to challenge students to think about information that is
represented nonverbally. First, students will construct their folded house book, then
color and draw to represent the following information:
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Roof Color - Color the roof to represent the kind of house you have.
Regular house – brown
Mobile home – red
Apartment – blue
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Number of Windows – Draw a window to indicate each person who lives in your
house.
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House Color – Color the walls of the house to represent the number of brothers and
sisters you have.
0 = green
1 = yellow
2 = tan
3 = purple
4+ = orange
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Door Color – Color the door of your house to represent your favorite subject in
school.
Reading – red
Math – blue
Science – brown
Social Studies – white
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Doorknob color – Color the doorknob to represent the pet you like best.
Dog = black
Cat = purple
Bird = orange
Other = yellow
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Chimneys – Put a chimney on your house to represent each pet you have.
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Flowers along the bottom – Draw flowers along the bottom of the house to
represent the number of the month in which you were born.
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Leaves on the flowers – Put green leaves on the flowers you drew equal to the
number of the day of the month on which you were born.
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Parents – Put curtains in the windows to represent who lives at your house.
Both parents = long curtains
One = short curtains
Neither = None
Take up the houses and have students try to identify who each belongs to using the
key.