What Do You Do With An Idea?
Before Reading
Today we'll listen to What Do You Do With An Idea? What do you see on the cover? Please find four things you notice.
- What is an idea?
- Where do ideas come from?
- Why do we have ideas?
- What do you do with an idea?
After Reading
- How does the illustrator represent the idea?
- How is the idea different from the rest of the illustrations?
- Why would someone act like an idea didn’t belong to him or her?
- What does an idea need?
- How does the illustrator represent attention?
- The child realized what you do with an idea. You use it to change the world! How did the child's world change from the beginning to the end of this story?
Art Project
Today we're going to listen to a fantastic book! Iggy Peck, Architect. Do you know what an architect (ark-uh-tekt) is? It's a person who designs buildings. Remember when we made structures out of place value blocks and we had to total up the sum of the structure? When you designed your structure, you were an architect!
Let's take a look at the cover of this book and make some predictions. (Keep scrolling down! This is a big picture!)
- What do you think it will be about?
- What is the child on the cover doing?
- What do you think the lady watching is thinking?
- What do you predict the problem in the story could be?
- What clues from the cover helped you make this prediction?
- Does this book remind you of another book we've already read?
This book has some interesting words that you may never have heard before. Let's take a look at them before we listen to the book.
As we listen to the story, pay attention to all the different things Iggy Peck builds. Think about why and how he builds each one.
Questions
- Who is the main character of this story?
- What character traits would you use to describe Iggy?
- What does Iggy build?
- Why does he build each of his creations?
- What problem did each solve or purpose did each serve?
- How does he use different materials to build an arch, a castle, and a bridge?
- How do Iggy and his classmates work together in the end?
April 13th
The read-aloud for today is Boxitects , written by Kim Smith.
Look at the cover of the book. Let's make a prediction! What do you think this story will be about? What clues from the cover helped you make your prediction?
Comprehension Questions
- What was the problem in the story?
- How was the problem solved?
- What was the lesson learned in this story? What did the character learn that would help her be a better person?
- If you were a boxitext, what would you build?
Guess what! You can be a boxitect also! Click on the link below to go to PBS Kids Design Squad and learn about building with cardboard. Do you have any cardboard laying around your house? Let's ask a grown-up if you can use it to build a structure. Then, the grown-up can send me a picture of your structure through Dojo and we can share it on our website! Have fun!
https://pbskids.org/designsquad/topbuilder/