Being Responsible Discussion Prompts
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Spid the Spider Has a Day Off learning benefits:
- Teaches children that planning ahead leads to better outcomes
- Shows how shortcuts often create bigger problems
- Encourages responsibility for decisions
- Builds problem-solving and forward-thinking skills
In the story, Spid doesn’t know how to spend his day off – until, after a big breakfast, he has an idea. It’s perfect. At least it should have been. But as so often happens for Spid, things don’t go quite as he planned …
So Spid learns that shortcuts rarely work and mistakes help us grow wiser.
How does this help fuel a ‘growth mindset’?
Spid’s failed “easy plan” demonstrates that mistakes are learning opportunities. He improves not by luck, but by reflection and trying again. If you keep going and you’ll get there in the end.
Find the book in Spid’s children’s bookshop.
