Not a Box Board Book

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If after thinking about the past month you answer this as SOMETIMES or RARELY, that’s okay! We all start somewhere! We encourage you to think through what changes you can make to your teaching practices and routines to support your classroom assistants as they develop their skills to actively facilitate student learning. Dedicated 'to children everywhere sitting cardboard boxes', this wonderful little book perfectly captures the amazing capacity of a child's imagination to create endless possibilities out of a humble box. A super book that's as close to perfection as a picture book can get!”

Engaging your students’ imaginations can be important for raising innovative problem solvers. “Not a Box”, a book written by Antoinette Portis, can encourage your readers’ creativity by thinking outside the box. In the story, the bunny is not merely playing with a box. They are playing with a car or a mountain. The box can be whatever students imagine it to be. Here is a list of 22 activities, inspired by this story, to promote imagination in the classroom! 1. The Box House In the story, the narrator asks, “Why are you sitting in a box?” The bunny then insists that “It’s not a box.” Der er flere ligheder mellem de nordiske lande og der er stort potentiale i at samarbejde på tværs af landene og ikke mindst lære af hinanden, når det kommer til sundhedsområdet. Vi glæder os til opgaven og ikke mindst at få lov til at bidrage til anbefalinger for fremtidens samarbejde. The title of this picture-book for very young children reminds me of Magritte's famous painting, La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images), in which an image of a pipe is labeled: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" ("This is not a pipe"). Rather than calling into question the distinctions between image and reality, however, Not a Box is a charming juxtaposition of the prosaic (and one presumes, adult) perspective, when confronted with a cardboard box, and the creative response of the child, when confronted with the same. As the rabbit-like child keeps informing the off-screen questioner, this is NOT a box. It is a mountain, a burning building, a robot suit, and much, much more! It is, in short, whatever the child wants and needs it to be, in the course of her imaginative play.

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Hvordan modarbejder vi ‘ulighed i fællesskaber’, som i fremtiden - med et øget fokus på relationel velfærd - vel kommer til at have stor betydning for ‘(u)lighed i sundhed’? Vi har vores primære afsæt i sundhed, innovation og byggeri, og tror på, at vi kan bidrage med at realisere deres kæmpe udviklingspotentialer. Samfundsomstillinger og digital udbredelse kalder på nye perspektiver, nye konstellationer nye ”vi-er”. not a box tager afsæt i vi. I fællesskaber. I partnerskaber. I at sætte sammen på ny. Konfigurere. Mennesker, industrier, teknologier, kulturer. As your students begin making more comments and becoming more interactive and engaged during shared reading, another great instructional strategy to incorporate is ‘Put the CROWD in the CAR.’ With this, you will be asking various questions (CROWD questions: Completion, Recall, Open-ended, Wh question, Distancing) during the ASK step of CAR. We’re big fans of this strategy as it supports us as communication partners to ask a variety of questions (no yes/no questions here!) during shared reading. Below are some examples of CROWD questions you can ask when reading “Not a Box”:

Here’s a futuristic example from the book. Your students can create a robot head using a box and whatever art supplies you have available. You can have a robot role-play session after everyone is finished to add some extra fun. Når vi taler sundhed og bæredygtighed, så handler det om at tage udgangspunkt i mennesket. Hvordan har du det? Hvordan er din #livskvalitet? Og så handler det om at gøre en forskel.”

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How adorable are these laundry machines? I like to encourage role-play with chores since these are activities that your students will likely have to do in the future. You can put together this set with cardboard boxes, bottle tops, freezer bags, and a few other items. Can you imagine things that don’t already exist in reality? How do we invent new things then, like computers, TV, etc? This craft could spark some enthusiasm for music in your class. You only need a tissue box, rubber bands, a pencil, tape, and a paper towel roll to create this guitar. Jamming out might even inspire some students to learn how to play a real instrument.