What Makes Me A Me?

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Their thinking then moved away from friends, to consider animals and objects - just as in the book, when the main character thinks about superheroes and trees. Stomping like a dinosaur As the children enter play your chosen song to sow seeds in the children’s minds - eg ‘Beautiful’ (Christina Aguilera) or ‘Go the distance’ (Hercules) . Display the question image ‘What makes me, me?’ The main character looks a similar age to the children in my class, so his picture on the front cover meant they could connect with the book immediately. The character and colourful text makes it an eye-catching choice, causing Noah to comment on the sparkly letters on the cover.

Does the book contain anything that teachers would wish to know about before recommending in class (strong language, sensitive topics etc.)? The title, front-cover illustrations and colours made it very easy to engage the children’s interest. This adaptation of Peter Worley’s 'The If Machine', encourages children to consider the meaning of identity and explores personal memories, experiences and the soul.Learning about ourselves is a fundamental part of childhood development, especially as pupils start to ask questions about who they are and how they are the same, or different, from others. As such, the start of the academic year - when everybody is getting to know one another – is the ideal time to start an “all about me” topic. Our Members get access to over 39,000 high quality printable activities for children! Become a Member here. The conversation continued with Millie adding that she runs like a fast dinosaur, but isn’t so tall.

Pupils could sit in a circle and start a discussion using the questions provided at the end of each part, or you could work with the children to create your own questions. Help me to accept and embrace the differences within myself as I grow older and change both physically and spiritually.

An exploration of the concept of identity using the story of the Ship of Theseus, made famous by British philosopher Thomas Hobbes. And we keep growing into teenagers. Then adults. And we continue changing our whole lives. Our hair grows and falls out and more grows without us even noticing. We get a whole new set of teeth. Everything changes. So if every part of us gets replaced too, Like Dave's ship, then that raises a big question.'

When I asked the class, we were nearly all in agreement that we were pleased this book is now in our book box. You could choose to pause the video at these times for a short discussion, or alternatively, watch the video through once and then stop at the questions the second time through, or pose the questions after the first viewing. Yes, thank you. Dave and his crew are setting off on a long voyage. It's a tough voyage, with many storms and mishaps. And it gets really quite hard to keep the ship sailing and stop bits of it falling into the water. Every time the ship is damaged, Dave takes the Theseus to George's ship yard. And George replaces the broken' Since completing my last book review for Tes, I have moved schools and begun a new autumn term with nearly 60 early years foundation stage (EYFS) children. Stories and picture books always play a key part in an EYFS classroom, so the Ladybird and Bumblebee classes were very excited to get the chance to give their thoughts on What Makes Me a Me?Ben Faulks’ thought-provoking story is accompanied by illustrations from David Tazzyman, whom older readers will recognise as the illustrator for the Mr Gum series. Harry said “I can stomp like a dinosaur, but I am not scary”, prompting a lot of stomping from everyone.

Further questions could include: ‘What is it that makes the Theseus the Theseus?’ at the end of part 2. And ‘If you could make a clone of yourself, would the clone also possess your thoughts and memories?’ at the end of part 3.This book is extra special, as it is written by Ben Faulks, otherwise known as CBeebies’ Mr Bloom. This fact alone caused a lot of conversation about who he is and why he has two names. You may choose to discuss the questions posed in the video now if they weren't discussed during the video. You can also display the image called 'How do we change?' taken from the video to aid the discussion around 'change'.