This week we wanted to share about some of our favorite idea books. An idea book is about creative problem solving and guides students down the path of independent thinking. It gives students the extra oomph to go after their ideas, dreams & goals.
What Do You Do With An Idea? by Kobi Yamada
"This is MY idea, I thought. No one knows it like I do. And it's okay if it's different, and weird, and maybe a little crazy." We love this book because kids don't often get the chance to sit, come up with their own ideas and love them into fruition. The message of this book is all ideas are important and you can come up with more ideas through talking, collaboration and independent thinking. Your ideas can be weird or different and people might laugh at you, and that's ok. The book puts creative problem solving in kid terms, it gives students access to a different way of thinking about our world. When we were first reading this book we knew it needed to be added to our classrooms, but the last line of the book put it into a special place in our hearts: "And then, I realized what you do with an idea ... You change the world."
Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg
Children need to know that mistakes are good. Mistakes are what make you learn. Without mistakes you're not learning. This book treats kids mistakes as an opportunity to make something beautiful. It's a great reminder to help children who think their work must be perfect to see it in a new light. It looks at an oops in a different way and makes it into a masterpiece. "Oops! A torn pice of paper ... is just the beginning!" We love reading this in the classroom because it's a great segue away from the first of the year meltdowns.
More Idea Books...
Looking for more books like Beautiful Oops or What Do You Do With An Idea? take a look at some of these...
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Happy Reading,