A house – and a hope

Day 14 · Five optional activities. Get a pencil and some colours, and choose one task at a time.

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Page 1: three birdhouses and a plan; three sentences to sort into has happened or hope — Page 1 · Find details and sort cards

Page 2: a birdhouse, two short cards, answer choices, a drawing frame and a game for two — Page 2 · Read, hope and draw on

Read the tasks as text

Picture descriptions for the tasks:
1. Mira’s plan: Pointed roof. Round hole. Two stripes on the wall. House A has a pointed roof, a square hole and two stripes. House B has a pointed roof, a round hole and two stripes. House C has a flat roof, a round hole and two stripes. Circle or tell which one fits.
2. The cards from the top: 1 I saw two birds by the tree. 2 I hope a bird moves in. 3 I put up the house today. On the right are the boxes HAS HAPPENED and HOPE. Connect or tell.
3. A drawing shows a bird on the roof. The inside of the house is not shown. Mira says I hope three baby birds will come. Noah says I saw one bird on the roof. Answer choices: Three baby birds. The cards do not say.
4. An empty drawing frame with a star and a leaf in the corners.

THE JOURNEY WITH LUKE / ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
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A house – and a hope
Get a pencil and some colours. Choose one task at a time.
Made-up exercises inspired by the game. These are not historical sources.
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Find the house that fits
Mira has drawn a plan for a birdhouse. Read the plan. Circle the house that has all three
details.
MIRA’S PLAN
Pointed roof. Round hole. Two stripes on the wall.
A
B
C
2
Has it happened – or is it a hope?
Match each card to a box. More than one card can go in the same box.
1
“I saw two birds by the tree.”
2
“I hope a bird moves in.”
3
“I put up the house today.”
HAS HAPPENED
HOPE

THE JOURNEY WITH LUKE / ACTIVITY WORKSHOP
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What do we know of the birds?
Get a pencil and some colours. Choose one task at a time.
Made-up exercises inspired by the game. These are not historical sources.
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3
What is inside the house?
Read the two cards. How many baby birds are inside the house? Put one cross.
MIRA
“I hope three baby birds will come.”
NOAH
“I saw one bird on the roof.”
Three baby birds.
The cards do not say.
4
Draw what you hope for
Make up something good that could happen next at the birdhouse. Draw it. This is a hope,
not something we know has happened.
5
See one thing – hope for one thing
Put three things on the table. Say one thing you can see, and one thing you hope to do with them.
Let a friend point to what you see. Swap roles.

Made-up exercises inspired by the game. You can use the sheets without remembering the conversations in the game.