Chapter 5: Counting the Treasure
The "Eureka" Moment
"We found the answer!"
The Squad jumping in the air, throwing papers (confetti style).
About this page
Papers fly like confetti as the whole Squad leaps into the air, because all that counting, sorting, and puzzling has finally paid off. Page 74 is the eureka moment, the electric second when the pieces click and the answer appears. Children deserve to know that this feeling is the reward waiting at the end of hard thinking, and that scientists literally jump for joy too. Pages like this one also show a child's ideas about effort and payoff, one of the quiet insights behind coloring as assessment. Celebrate loudly here, discovery has earned it!
Talk about it while you color
- What do you think the Squad just discovered that made them this excited?
- How does your body feel when you finally figure something out?
- If you threw celebration confetti right now, what would you be celebrating?