{"id":72183,"date":"2020-05-19T10:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T14:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=72183"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T17:43:48","slug":"ideas-to-riddles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-1-3\/generating-and-collecting-ideas\/ideas-to-riddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas to Riddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Generating Ideas<\/h5>\n<p>Sometimes ideas can be turned into a puzzle for others to solve by choosing the very best ideas and words.<\/p>\n<p>A new idea found me as I watched my dog in the backyard. Here are some ideas about my dog that found me as I watched her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wagging tail<br \/>\nchipmunk chasing<br \/>\nbarking catching balls<br \/>\ndrinking water<br \/>\nfurry body<br \/>\nWet nose<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I decided to choose the very best words and ideas about my dog to write a \u201cWhat am I?\u201d riddle.<\/p>\n<p>Wet nose on my hand<br \/>\nCatching balls in the air<br \/>\nWagging tail before chasing a chipmunk<br \/>\nWho am I?<br \/>\n(answer: a dog)<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-info\">\n<h2>Families:<\/h2>\n<p>Help your child to brainstorm some ideas and words that refer to a person, place or thing. Choosing the very best ideas (that don\u2019t give the answer away too easily!) encourage your child to write and a test out their riddle with another family member or friend. This can turn into a fun game to play together by taking turns creating and telling the riddles!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes ideas can be turned into a puzzle for others to solve by choosing the very best ideas and words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72594,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72183","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72183\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}