Stuck: Oliver Jeffers

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Think about the different sizes of the items that Floyd throws in the tree. How long / tall / heavy is each one? How could you measure them? What units of measurement would we need to use? Could you make a list showing the measurements of each item and use these to make a graph? (see Resources below) The author uses lots of ellipses in the story. Why is this? Can you write a sentence / paragraph / story that include ellipses? What else could Floyd have thrown into the tree? Write a new part of the story where he throws other objects up into the tree. Watch this video in which the author talks about things that he wasn’t able to include in the story:

This book is ideal for young children in an Early Years setting as well as in Key Stage 1 (ages 4-7 years) as it is a very simple story that is based around child humour. The story is great for questioning and getting children to imagine and come up with their own ideas. What’s going to happen next? How is Floyd going to be able to get the kite down? The story allows for lots of discussion and open-ended questions, children are fully involved in the story and they will find it so funny to predict what is going to happen next. I love how the end to the story is also left open-ended, allowing for even more discussion and encouraging children to use their imaginations! This story would be a great foundation for introducing story-telling; getting children to write their own endings to stories, or even for children in the Early Years to draw or use role play to tell their story endings. Write the story that explains how the different people / animals / objects got themselves out of the tree.

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Can you design your own kite? Could you have a class competition? Which kite is best at flying? Which do you think of decorated in the nicest way?

Google που έκανα για βιβλία σχετικά με το περιβάλλον που να απευθύνονται σε παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας. Όποιος το έχει διαβάσει, ξέρει πως δεν έχει καμία σχέση βέβαια.Look at the use of shadows in the illustrations. Can you draw some objects and their shadows? Could you draw the same scene at different times of the day? How would the shadows change? The story is written in the third person. Can you rewrite it in the first person, from Floyd’s point of view? Floyd throws up an orang-utan ‘who surely had somewhere else to be?’. Write the story that explains where he was and how Floyd caught him.

Add a speech bubble to each image to Floyd in which he explains what he is thinking / doing and how he is feeling. Make a model of a tree and put some unusual items in it to recreate one of the illustrations in the book.Look at the different illustrations of the tree in the story. Although it is the same tree, it is coloured in different ways. Can you draw the same thing lots of times and decorate each one with different colours? How does this alter how the picture looks? Which one do you prefer? Estimate the price of each item that Floyd throws into the tree. What is the total value of all of the items in the tree by the end of the story? Look around your school grounds / local area. Is there a tree big enough to hold all of the items that Floyd threw up?