62. 1st Grade SRR: Grass, Mud, Logs, and Sod

Houses can be made in many ways. Grass grows well in this hot land, so people make huts with it.

They pack sticks in grids and map out big boxes, tuck grass tufts over the sticks, and lash them up on top.

This land is hot, but not so wet. Big plants do not grow well, so people mix up mud, sand, and water and press them into bricks.

They stack the bricks, dab on a white mix, and add grass up on top.

This is another hot land that has houses made with mud bricks. People stack bricks and prop them with logs. Houses sit one next to another, blocked from sun and wind, so it is not hot in the houses.

This house is in a hill. It has thick rock around it. Water cannot get into it. The hill helps it be snug.

Is it damp, black, and drab in this house? No, it is not! It lets in the sun, and it can be lit with lamps.

This house is in a hill. It has thick rock around it. Water cannot get into it. The hill helps it be snug.

Is it damp, black, and drab in this house? No, it is not! It lets in the sun, and it can be lit with lamps.

In the past, in lands with no logs, men cut sod into bricks and stacked them up to make sod houses.

Sod blocks got cut into big, thick bricks. Can you spot grass in this sod house’s bricks?