Placote-Spy Operation

Objective: Make inferences

Albert is doing his favorite thing: spying on the people in his neighborhood! He hides and watches people without their knowledge, trying to figure out what's happening to them. But Gertrude, a neighbor in a less than accommodating mood, has unmasked the little spy! She is furious and threatens to go to the neighborhood party to warn everyone that the boy is spying on them! Help Albert spy on his neighborhood and get on stage before his angry neighbor so he can grab the microphone!

Spy operation is designed to encourage children aged 3½ to 6½ to make inferences, or deduce information that is not explicitly provided in a situation. The child answers questions that concern, for example, the problem, the goal, the action or the emotion of a character in a given situation. In this way, the child gets used to making inferences, a skill that will be particularly useful at school to understand texts.