Chapter 5: Counting the Treasure
Correlation
"When the sun is hot, ice cream melts!"
A picture of an ice cream cone next to a picture of the sun. An arrow connects them.
About this page
An ice cream cone, a blazing sun, and one arrow between them, page 71 draws its big idea with almost no words at all. This is correlation, the discovery that two things change together. Hot days and melty ice cream travel as a pair, and children have already collected years of sticky evidence proving it. Noticing when-this-then-that connections is one of the deepest thinking skills in the whole book, and the way a child talks through this page can tell you a lot, which is part of why coloring doubles as gentle assessment. The arrow is small, but the idea is enormous.
Talk about it while you color
- What happens to your ice cream when you eat it outside on a hot day?
- Can you think of two other things that always seem to happen together?
- On a freezing snowy day, what do you think would happen to this ice cream cone?