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Activity: Have students write down the repeated pattern they notice in the story. Then, ask them to predict what might happen if the story continued. This exercise encourages critical thinking and helps students understand how patterns can aid in understanding sequences. Floyd isn’t very good at throwing things into the tree. Can you design a game which might help improve your throwing skills? Could you have a competition with your friends in which you have to hit a target? Winner – The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts 2014 Inaugural Hay Medal for an Outstanding Body of Work Make a model of a tree and put some unusual items in it to recreate one of the illustrations in the book.

Winner – The New York Times Book Review One of the year's Best Illustrated Children's Books for The Hueys in The New Sweater Activity: Ask students to retell the story using their own words, emphasizing the cause and effect relationships.Sequential Actions: The story's sequential actions provide clear cause and effect relationships, which is essential for understanding this literacy skill. Lost and Found became Jeffers' first book to be made into animation by London-based Studio AKA, premiering on Christmas Eve 2008 on Channel 4. In Australia it aired on Christmas Eve 2009 on ABC1 and Christmas Day 2009 on ABC3. Lost and Found the animation has won more than 40 international awards, including a BAFTA for Best animation in 2009.

Oliver Jeffers is presented by Lazinc Gallery [2] in London and is regularly exhibited. The list of his one-man shows includes such exhibitions as Nothing to See Here (2013), [3] Measuring Land and Sea (2015), [4] etc. Add a speech bubble to each image to Floyd in which he explains what he is thinking / doing and how he is feeling.

Activity: Before revealing each outcome, ask students to draw what they think might happen based on Floyd's action. This activity encourages critical thinking and allows students to anticipate effects based on causes. Activity: Ask students to create a cause and effect chart. They should list each item Floyd throws into the tree (cause) and what happens to it (effect). This helps them understand how cause and effect relationships contribute to the sequence of a story. You can also use cards like the one in the image below. 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? Ragazzi, Biblioteca Salaborsa (8 April 2017). "2017". Biblioteca salaborsa (in Italian) . Retrieved 17 February 2020. Creativity: The imaginative solutions Floyd comes up with to dislodge his kite demonstrate his creativity. Cultivating this trait helps students approach problems from different angles and think outside conventional norms.

Winner – Prix des libraires du Québec 2017 international youth, for the illustration of The boy who swam with piranhas Winner – CBI Book of the Year Awards 2014 Children's Choice Award, The Day The Crayons Quit (illustrator)

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Les lauréat.e.s 2020 du Prix des libraires du Québec | Jeunesse sont..." Prix des libraires (in French) . Retrieved 17 February 2020. 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. As a co-founder of the art collective OAR, along with Rory Jeffers, Mac Premo and Duke Riley, their exhibitions include 9 Days in Belfast, book and the award-winning BUILDING. 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? 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?

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? Best-selling children's author Oliver Jeffers on his latest book, 'Begin Again' ". RTE Radio. 3 November 2023 . Retrieved 3 November 2023. In 2020, Jeffers delivered a TED Talk, ‘Ode to Living on Earth’, which was released on Earth Day. [8] and Jeffers Illustration book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is adapted to a short film by Apple TV+. [9]Clear Consequences: Floyd's actions have a direct and clear consequence, making it easier for students to grasp the concept of cause and effect. 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)