I noticed something nobody told me

Nobody is going to tell you what to look at today.

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Being written

This one is planned but not finished yet. Everything below is what it will contain.

Not drawn yet

I noticed something by myself and I can show it to somebody.

How the fifteen minutes go

The five steps on this sheet, in the order a child meets them. This is what you will actually be doing, not a description of the method.

Print the one that fits today. Same skill, three depths — and on this sheet they differ like this.

Support

The adult narrows it: 'find something on the ground'.

Fewer items, more pictures, hints included, parent reads the instructions.

Core

Anything, anywhere.

The standard task, recognition, practice and explanation.

Challenge

Find three things, and choose the best one to show.

Open-ended. Explain why, make your own example, use it somewhere new.

The same guide that is printed on the back page, so you can read it before you decide to print anything.

The answers

None. If they show you something you have walked past a thousand times, the whole method has worked and this is the sheet that proves it.

If they get stuck

Go somewhere you have both been a hundred times. Familiar places hide the most.

Common mistakes

An adult pointing something out. Sit on your hands.
Dismissing what they found as ordinary. It is not ordinary to them, and that is the point.

When they finish early

Do it once a week in the same place. It gets harder and better.