Object: Pictures of before and after a house is remodeled or sided.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about making old things new. We like things to look almost brand new. Look at this picture of the seen an old house made to look like a new house? (Let them answer.) I brought along some pictures of a house that used to look like this. (Show them the pictures.) It's not very pretty, is it? It looks like it needs to be painted, the windows fixed, the yard cleaned up, and a lot of different things done to it before you or I would want to live in it. I feel sorry for houses like this, don't you? It's not the way that we would like to be treated if we were a house, would we? I always think about how the house looked when it was first painted. It had people living in it …