De dierenarts laat er geen twijfel over bestaan: Kraai zal nooit meer vliegen. Maar dan heeft hij buiten Sara gerekend... Come and invent with Izzy Gizmo! Engage students with over a dozen activities that develop vocabulary, identify story elements, and work through engineering and design. These activities support English Language Arts and STEM skills, so students can: Fun, bright pictures. I love that the girl has problems not because she is a girl, but because what she is doing is hard. What is a machine you couldn't live without? Find out about the person that invented it, you owe them a lot. Inventions, gadgets, friendship, design and technology, STEM subjects, representation and diversity, positive female role models

Sara Ogilvie is one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators.Since graduating in 1993 with an illustration/printmaking BA Hons and a PG diploma in 1994 from Edinburgh College of Art, Sarahas continued to create and develop work which has been exhibited across the UK and abroad.She has won numerous awards for her work including a Commonwealth heads of Government commission to create a co-published lithograph with Edinburgh Printmakers, presented to Nelson Mandela, HRH the Queen and heads of State.Inventions with cool names like Tea-Mendous and Swirly-Spagsonic that look like something Doc Brown would make. Remember that wonderful contraption he made to feed Einstein? This is a really a story of not giving up. Oh, yes, it is also about a little girl that likes to invent things, but keeps failing at her inventions, and so she abandons them for the next thing.

Pip Jones is a Londonbased children's author,feature writer, columnist and editor,most often found writing or herding children. She is the author of the award-winning Squishy McFluff series for Faber. Once you have read something you should talk about it! Find someone to talk to about what happened in the story and maybe answer these questions: Izabelle Gizmo just loves to invent, but her inventions never seem to work the way she wants them to. And that makes her really CROSS! When she finds a crow with a broken wing she just has to help. But will she be able to put her frustrations to one side and help her new friend to fly again? Text Rationale: This exuberantly riotous story… blends the fun of rhyme with the touching friendship between a charismatic crow and a never-say-die young inventor’ Lancashire Evening Post

Shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Prize 2017, this empowering book is perfect for fans of Rosie Revere, Engineer, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. To help you with your building, you may want to conduct an experiment to find the best building material. Home Learning Reader in Residence Reader in Residence Digital Years 5 & 6 Izzy Gizmo Izzy Gizmo By Pip Jones & Sara Ogilvie Published by Simon and Schuster Glue a Sports cap bottle top to a CD, Blow up a balloon, find a smooth surface . With the sports cap shut, put the balloon over the top. Then to make it go, open the sports cap. If you’re looking for a new book with a determined, strong female role model then this is for you’ Being a Mummy blog

You can fill a balloon and put a clothes peg on the end to stop the air coming out. Then put the balloon on its side, attach a straw, feed a piece of string through. When you release the clothes peg it should shoot across the string.From the things you have learned in these experiments, revisit one of the activities from last week and see what else you can add or improve. You could copy the illustrator’s style, repeat the words exactly, or you could make it your own by changing the pictures and words.

Izzy Gizmo is a girl inventor who loves nothing more than fixing things or inventing gadgets to solve everyday problems. however, sometimes her inventions don't quite work as intended. With the help of her supportive grandpa, and an injured crow she rescues, Izzy learns to how to persist and stay upbeat - "try again and again" - until she finally succeeds. Izzy is a young inventor and creates messes (and sometimes chaos) with her inventions. One day a bird falls from the sky with injured wings, and Izzy struggles to invent something that will help the bird to fly again. She wants to give up, but her father encourages her to continue trying new things until she comes up with the perfect plan. Then start building. Try making different shapes and see if they work any better or worse. See if your structures can hold anything up. The more imaginative the better. Until she finds a wounded crow, and she tries to invent new wings for him. She keeps wanting to give up, the the crow and her dad encourage her to try again, until, she ha the crow flying again. Ze gaat aan de slag om Kraai nieuwe vleugels te geven. En dat is nog niet zo makkelijk. Keer op keer gaat het mis. Zal Sara het vol kunnen houden en zal Kraai ooit weer met zijn vrienden het luchtruim veroveren?

You can even make a balloon helicopter, but it has more steps than we could go through so you could investigate yourself!