The Only Astronaut Book Study Materials
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- 5 LEGO brick building challenges based on the book
- 100+ pages of worksheets based on the book The Sour Grape
- Instant digital downloads product in PDF format; book and LEGO bricks not included
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Got a great imagination?
Want to explore space?
Ready to learn about compromise?
Then you’ll love The Only Astronaut written by Mahak Jain and illustrated by Andrea Stegmaier.
In this story we meet Avni, an creative and determined young girl who spends hours engaged in imaginative space exploration.
She soon discovers it is hard work to explore space all by herself, and decides to enlist the help of an assistant.
The first assistant (her dog, Alpha) gets too easily distracted by squirrels.
Her second assistant (a young neighbor boy still in diapers) eats her rocket ship.
Finally, Avni meets Aya, who is just as imaginative as she is.
But can Avni and Aya learn to compromise so they can both enjoy their adventures together?
To enhance this wonderful book, we’ve created some Book Study Materials, including:
LEGO Brick Building Challenges
This download includes 5 LEGO brick building challenges based on the book.
After reading the story, your child will complete these challenges using their own LEGO collection.
The challenges range in complexity from more concrete to more abstract.
All of the challenges are open-ended, with no right or wrong way to do them.
The challenges are designed to bring out your child’s creativity and to get your child thinking more deeply about certain themes from the story.
This download includes a Brick Building Challenge Planner as an optional supplement to the building challenges to help your child plan and reflect on their LEGO builds.
Book-based worksheets
100+ pages of worksheets and activities related to the book, including:
- Story Map Worksheets
- Story Cube
- Photo Backdrops
- Coloring Pages
- I Spy Games
- Find and Color
- Which One is Different?
- Can You Find the Objects?
- Compare and Contrast
- Fact or Opinion
- Design a Rocket Ship
- Positional Words
- Get to the Rocket Ship Maze
- Alone or With Others?
- Initial Sounds
- Circle the Matching Letter
- ABC Order
- Letter Tracing
- Rhyming Words
- Copywork
- Creative Writing Prompt
- Working With Others
- Alphabetizing Practice
- Story Sequencing Activity
- Word Bingo
- Word Scramble
- Word Search Puzzles
- Anagrams
- Add the Punctation
- Sentence Fragments
- Stretching Sentences
- Comparing Sizes
- Complete the Patterns
- Circle Half
- Count and Circle
- Count and Match
- How Long?
- How Tall?
- Number Order (1-10)
- One Less, One More
- How Many to Make 10?
- How Many to Make 20?
- Adding 10 Plus a Number
- Skip Counting
- Hundreds Chart
- Measurement Practice
- Fractions
- Missions Accomplished (Reading a Bar Graph)