A home belongs to a place — Geography, 4–6 years
Learn how a home is part of a street, neighbourhood and wider place. Geography, 4–6 years.
One home, many surrounding places
Your home is one small place inside bigger places. It may be on a street, in a neighbourhood, in a town or in a city, and each bigger place contains the smaller one.
Why name the bigger place?
If someone only knows your house, it may still be hard to find you. Street, neighbourhood and town names help people describe where a home is and send letters or visit safely.
From home to town
Mia lives at number 8 on Pine Street. Pine Street is in Greenfield neighbourhood, and Greenfield is in the town of Oakbury, so her place can be described from small to large: home, street, neighbourhood, town.
The nearby place is not the whole place
A child may say, “I live in my street,” because the street is the part they know best. That is a sensible start, but a street is only one part of a neighbourhood or town, not the whole place.
Finding a place
When a parcel is delivered or a friend comes to visit, people use layers of place to give an address. They might name the house number, street, town and country so the place is not confused with another one.
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