Johhny Thumbs by: Bob Hartman Tom Thumb by: Brad Kessler
iTunes book - Click on any of the books for Tom Thumb's story.
by: Andrea Beaty
Story Summary of Johnny Thumbs: Competing in a contest to build an outstanding house and win the hand of their princess, Bill Builder brags about his construction skills while Johnny Thumbs builds with love.
Story Summary of Iggy Peck, Architect:
Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials. But hey! What’s wrong with a tower built of diapers? (Even dirty ones!) Dear Ig has it made until second grade. That’s when he meets his match. His teacher, Miss Lila Greer, frowns upon architecture. Banned from building in school, second grade becomes a bore until one day a fateful field trip lets Iggy Peck show the world his true talents!
Learning Objectives Across the Curriculum:
http://andreabeaty.com/iggy_guide.pdfWhat Were Castles For? (Usborne Starting Point... by Phil Roxbee Cox
Math and Science
Play with your food! Iggy often plays with his food: he builds
churches and chapels from peaches and apples, and a replica
of the St. Louis arch made of pancakes. Draw a picture of a
structure made from food. You can use as many different
kinds of food as you wish. Label your drawing.
Be like Iggy! Build models or structures using gumdrops,
marshmallows, or frozen peas held together with toothpicks
or broken strands of spaghetti. Construct houses or buildings
using graham crackers for boards and frosting for cement.
Have a Lego® building contest with prizes for: tallest, most
symmetrical, most creative, most colorful, most realistic, etc.
Figure out an award for every structure in the contest.
Compare: Use different kinds of building blocks (small
colored wooden blocks, foam blocks, cardboard bricks, unit
blocks, etc.) to figure out the best way to make a stable tall
structure and the best way to make a strong
structure.
Build bridges: Using “found” materials from
your classroom including paper, string, and
writing utensils and anything else
besides regular building objects
such as blocks, work in teams to
see who can build the longest
bridge between two desks. Test it
with weights or toy cars.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Word Study: Architects design and plan buildings and
structures. What do these architecture words from IGGY
PECK, ARCHITECT mean? What words do they rhyme with?
Build, model, replica, story, suspension, trestle
Fun fact: The word “skyscraper” was first used in the late
1800’s to describe the new, 10‐20 story tall buildings that
were just starting to be built. Today, skyscrapers are much
taller. There are up to 100 or more stories in the world’s
tallest buildings! “Skyscraper” is a fanciful way to describe
buildings so tall, people believed they might actually touch
the sky. Make up your own fanciful words to describe these
items as people from the 1800’s might view them: cell phone,
vacuum, electric coffee pot, laptop computer, money machine
(ATM), automated car wash.
Writers’ Workshop: Iggy’s dream is to build. Write a few
paragraphs explaining your own dream job. Why do you think
this would be a good job for you? What do you have to learn
to be good at this job? Who can help you?
CREATIVE ART
The illustrations in IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT have lots of
texture. Gather objects with texture: leaves, toys, anything
with a surface that is not smooth. Place white paper on top of
the object and color with a crayon. Do this with
different textures and colors, then cut shapes
from the colored paper to make IGGY collages.
Text-to-Text Connections :
"What Were Castles For?" by Phil Roxbee Cox
"Small Knight and George" by Rhonda Armitage
"The Three Wishes" by David Melling
"How to Build a House" by Nick Turpin and Barbara Nascimbini
"A Head Full of Stories" by Su Swallow and Tim Archbold
Links to other websites:
http://www.andreabeaty.com/index_files/Page2040.htm
http://flatterworld.com/
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=fables&story=thumb
http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/tom-thumb/
http://storynory.com/2010/08/01/tom-thumb/
http://themes.pppst.com/kingarthur.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/childlit.html
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/157/childrens-books/reviews/how-to-build-a-house-pip-likes-snow-bird-watch-molly-is-new-a-head
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/buildings.html
http://educatorsweb.lego.com/en-US/Seriousplay/InPractice/LEGOSERIOUSPLAYMovie.aspx
Story Summary of Iggy Peck, Architect:
Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materials. But hey! What’s wrong with a tower built of diapers? (Even dirty ones!) Dear Ig has it made until second grade. That’s when he meets his match. His teacher, Miss Lila Greer, frowns upon architecture. Banned from building in school, second grade becomes a bore until one day a fateful field trip lets Iggy Peck show the world his true talents!
Learning Objectives Across the Curriculum:
http://andreabeaty.com/iggy_guide.pdfWhat Were Castles For? (Usborne Starting Point... by Phil Roxbee Cox
Math and Science
Play with your food! Iggy often plays with his food: he builds
churches and chapels from peaches and apples, and a replica
of the St. Louis arch made of pancakes. Draw a picture of a
structure made from food. You can use as many different
kinds of food as you wish. Label your drawing.
Be like Iggy! Build models or structures using gumdrops,
marshmallows, or frozen peas held together with toothpicks
or broken strands of spaghetti. Construct houses or buildings
using graham crackers for boards and frosting for cement.
Have a Lego® building contest with prizes for: tallest, most
symmetrical, most creative, most colorful, most realistic, etc.
Figure out an award for every structure in the contest.
Compare: Use different kinds of building blocks (small
colored wooden blocks, foam blocks, cardboard bricks, unit
blocks, etc.) to figure out the best way to make a stable tall
structure and the best way to make a strong
structure.
Build bridges: Using “found” materials from
your classroom including paper, string, and
writing utensils and anything else
besides regular building objects
such as blocks, work in teams to
see who can build the longest
bridge between two desks. Test it
with weights or toy cars.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Word Study: Architects design and plan buildings and
structures. What do these architecture words from IGGY
PECK, ARCHITECT mean? What words do they rhyme with?
Build, model, replica, story, suspension, trestle
Fun fact: The word “skyscraper” was first used in the late
1800’s to describe the new, 10‐20 story tall buildings that
were just starting to be built. Today, skyscrapers are much
taller. There are up to 100 or more stories in the world’s
tallest buildings! “Skyscraper” is a fanciful way to describe
buildings so tall, people believed they might actually touch
the sky. Make up your own fanciful words to describe these
items as people from the 1800’s might view them: cell phone,
vacuum, electric coffee pot, laptop computer, money machine
(ATM), automated car wash.
Writers’ Workshop: Iggy’s dream is to build. Write a few
paragraphs explaining your own dream job. Why do you think
this would be a good job for you? What do you have to learn
to be good at this job? Who can help you?
CREATIVE ART
The illustrations in IGGY PECK, ARCHITECT have lots of
texture. Gather objects with texture: leaves, toys, anything
with a surface that is not smooth. Place white paper on top of
the object and color with a crayon. Do this with
different textures and colors, then cut shapes
from the colored paper to make IGGY collages.
Text-to-Text Connections :
"What Were Castles For?" by Phil Roxbee Cox
"Small Knight and George" by Rhonda Armitage
"The Three Wishes" by David Melling
"How to Build a House" by Nick Turpin and Barbara Nascimbini
"A Head Full of Stories" by Su Swallow and Tim Archbold
Links to other websites:
http://www.andreabeaty.com/index_files/Page2040.htm
http://flatterworld.com/
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=fables&story=thumb
http://www.tonightsbedtimestory.com/tom-thumb/
http://storynory.com/2010/08/01/tom-thumb/
http://themes.pppst.com/kingarthur.html
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/childlit.html
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/157/childrens-books/reviews/how-to-build-a-house-pip-likes-snow-bird-watch-molly-is-new-a-head
http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/buildings.html
http://educatorsweb.lego.com/en-US/Seriousplay/InPractice/LEGOSERIOUSPLAYMovie.aspx