Hello Lighthouse
Lesson Summary
Design a Room
This book tells the story of a family that lives in an unusual building: a lighthouse. How do you accommodate regular furniture in a round room? Students will be taking the role of interior designers to design the family’s bedroom after the baby arrives. They will be sketching and organizing furniture in the circular room, and then building a 3-D model of the room. Students will be comparing multiple solutions to compare the strengths and weaknesses of each one.
Reading Standards for Literature (RL):
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Use the information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate an understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. - Knowledge of Language
3. Use knowledge of the language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
STE or Math Standards/Practices
- Reason with shapes and their attributes
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- Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.12 Identify triangles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
- Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Video
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall