In this final term at school each teacher led a careers elective for grades three to six. Peter was invited to lead one on building. This has proved a very successful elective because Peter decided that each of the 19 students in his elective could make their own miniature house. The goal was to build the models, following as closely as possible to how builders really do it in full scale. This meant keeping up the supply of (1:20 scale) small section timber so the project could keep going. There were only six one hour lessons (over a six week period) to do it, so it was a bit of a race to reach the last week 'roof stage'. Peter was a little stressed in the last lesson handing out all the roofing bits to match their houses. Each one was different! But the results were super-encouraging as you can see. Also, there was no back wall to each house so that students had easy access to the room in order to decorate it any way they wanted to.
Most students were able to obtain a chair for their house to go with their table. There were many miniature house interior items available but no toilet 'kit' which was requested a number of times. All students were given a miniature Christmas tree as a parting gift. It was a fun project and each student was justly proud of his/her work.
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