The Littles Escape!

          The 3^rd grade class read the book The Littles, by John Peterson in reading class.  After reading the book the children were challenged to create an escape vehicle for the Littles.  The children worked in groups and came up with a plan of what they wanted to use for their vehicle.  Then they worked on designing a blue print for their vehicle.   They used all kinds of items like boxes, Legos, toilet paper rolls, caps, Duck tape, etc.  The vehicles not only had wheels to move, but some were meant to fly.  One vehicle had Zhu-Zhu Pets as its wheels.

          Next, the children were to create Littles puppets.  The children were given white paper and they had to draw what they thought each Little looked like.  They had to predict the size of the Little and use their math skills to measure the puppet to the exact inch, ¼ inch, ½ inch or ¾ inch.  They turned out to look like little human/mice with long tails.