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Building Empathy• Distribute Resource Sheet 2A to the children. Explain to them that this sign was displayed in one ofthe B&B’s in which families who are out of home in Ireland stay. Discuss the implications of the signwith the children.- How will the lack of access to kitchen facilities and laundry services affect the family?- What can this family do for entertainment when noise levels must be kept to a minimum?- What are the noise levels like when you play games at home?• Display Pictiúirí 8-9 on the blackboard and explore each of the photographs with the children,in the light of what they learned from Resource Sheet 2A.• Pictiúr 8 shows a little boy who is out of home and tired from walking around the streetslooking for accommodation with his family. He has nowhere to rest except on the step of themonument. See next page.• Pictiúr 9 shows the children with their mother doing her homework in a Fish and Chip shop,because there isn’t a table in their B&B.• Read one or all of the poems from Resource Sheet 2B to the children and discuss the poems with thehelp of the following questions:- What do you think the poem is about?- What do you think the poet is trying to say?- What feelings are expressed in the poem?- How did the poem make you feel?- What did you learn from the poet?• Divide the class into six groups and distribute one of the children’s pictures (Pictiúirí 10-15) to eachgroup. Explain to the children that the pictures were drawn by children who are out of home inIreland. Invite them to explore the pictures with the help of the following questions:- What do you see in the picture?- What did the child use to draw his/her picture (crayon, paint, etc.)?- What do you notice about the colours in the picture?- What mood is suggested by the colours?- What do you think the child was trying to express?- What age do you think the child is?- Can you suggest a title for the picture?• Once the pictures have been explored by the children, explain to them that the artists were in factrepresenting their ‘dream home’ in their pictures. Read the comments the artists made about theirpictures on the next page.23