I read and reviewed A Giant Leap three years ago. Since then, I’ve been thinking about introducing it to my book club, but it’s shorter than the books I usually select, making me wonder whether it would be too simple a read. Yet, so much draws me to the book, from the childlike perspective to the exploration of a landmark event, that I decided we would read together. Here’s what we’ll do with it!
Gravity
I know that gravity as a concept is one that children study much later, but a lot of them have visited upside-down “museums”. What do they think will be most difficult to do in a place without gravity? What do they think will be most fun?
Moon Stories
There are so many more stories about the moon! Who is the man on the moon? Is there a rabbit on the moon? Does a monster eat the moon every month?
We’ll explore a couple of stories, where they come from, and then talk about things that we are still curious about – the mysteries at the end of the book.
Scrapbook
Journaling is fun! We explored it a little when we read Munni Monster some time ago, but we’ll play with it some more next month with another set of children. As we read, we’ll make one page of a scrapbook. Sketches, thoughts, ideas and feelings – everything has space in a scrapbook. Using visual aids, I’ll invite the children to write a poem or a paragraph about how they would feel if they were astronauts on the moon. Whom would they think of? What message would they send home?
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