Year 1 Local area: where do we live? worksheet

“Our Homes from Above” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 geography unit “Local area: where do we live?”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 7 to 12 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Our Homes from Above

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Geography · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can name home types and use locational words to say where things are.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the letter that means north.
NESW
2.
Which season comes after spring? Write it.
3.
Circle the letter that means the opposite of north.
NESW

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia's home is next to the park. Look at the map to see where each place is.

Watch me

Mia's house is in the middle row.

The park is in the same row.

The park is next to the house, on its right.

Now you

1.
The top of the map is north. Find Sam's house and the shop. Is the shop north or south of the house? Circle one.
northsouth

C Your turn6 min

Read each clue. Circle the home that matches it.

1.
Which word means a house with no upstairs at all? Circle the word.
bungalowflatcaravancottage
2.
Which word tells you a house stands on its own? Circle one.
detachedterracedflatbungalow
3.
Which home has a neighbour on each side? Circle one.
terracedsemi-detacheddetachedbungalow
4.
Which home has wheels and can move to a new place? Circle one.
caravancottageflatdetached

Say it out loud: Which clue helped you most? Say it out loud.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A town seen from high above with rooftops and streets

Kit says: “An aerial photo is taken from the side of a house.”

1.
What is wrong with Kit's idea? Write it.

E Think deeper3 min

Think about homes seen from high above.

1.
Seen from above, how can you tell terraced homes from a detached house? Write it.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Our Homes from Above · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. N If your child circles E, point to the empty box at the top of the compass. Say north always goes at the top.

2. Look for: The word summer. If your child writes spring, say the seasons go round in a ring, so look at the season next to spring.

3. S

B

1. north If your child circles south, point to the house. Slide your finger up to the shop. Up is north.

C

1. bungalow If your child circles flat, say a flat is part of a bigger building. A bungalow is a whole house with no upstairs.

2. detached If your child circles terraced, ask whether that home has a neighbour on both sides.

3. terraced If your child circles semi-detached, count the sides that touch another house. Two sides means terraced.

4. caravan

D

1. Look for: An aerial photo is taken from high above, looking down, so it shows the tops of roofs. If your child only says it is a photo, ask: which part of a house can you see from above? The roof.

E

1. Look for: Terraced roofs join in one long row. The detached roof stands alone with space round it.

Words to use

Say“Which home is that, and how do you know? Tell me one clue.”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer.”

After the sheet

Put a cup and two books on the table. Ask your child to say where each one is, using next to and left.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Our Local Area(with a plan)
Fieldwork on Our Street(with a plan)
Finding places on a grid(with a plan)
Our Travel Survey(with a plan)
Mapping our route to school(with a plan)

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