Look and wonder
Notice, Think, Wonder
Study a strange little alien, then sort your ideas into what you notice, what you think and what you wonder.
Thinking sheet · Look and wonder
If It Could Talk
Give an everyday object a face and a voice. What would your pencil, shoe or lunchbox say?
- Grades
- K–5
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Topic
- Look and wonder
- Kids practice
- point of view, personification, creative writing
What kids do
“Pick something ordinary. Give it eyes, a mouth and something to say!”
- My object:
- Draw it with a face. Write what it says in the speech bubble.
- What would its day be like?
How to run it
- Model with a classroom object: “The stapler is tired of being squeezed.”
- Ask what the object sees, hears and worries about.
- Read a few aloud in the object’s voice.
Talk about it
- Which object had the funniest complaint?
- How do you show a feeling on an object’s face?
- What would our classroom say about us?
Take it further
Write a conversation between two objects in the same room.
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