Junior Vocab
Imagination and Compromise
Meera: "Arjun, stop! You’re taking all the blue blocks!"
Arjun: "I need them. I’m building a rocket to the moon."
Meera: "But I’m making a temple tower. Amma said we can finish before dinner."
Appa: "What’s happening here, team?"
Arjun: "She’s ruining my rocket. I saw one in a picture book, all blue and shiny."
Meera: "And my tower will look like the one from the village, with yellow and blue steps."
Appa: "Hmm. We only have ten blue blocks. Not enough for both, is it?"
Arjun: "No. My rocket will look weird with other colors."
Meera: "And my tower will look wrong without blue."
Appa: "What if one of these is a little bit… imaginary?"
Arjun: "Imaginary? Like those monsters under your bed, Meera?"
Meera: "Hey! Those were just shadows."
Appa: "Imaginary means it can be any way you like, because it lives in your head."
Arjun: "But my rocket has to look like the picture."
Meera: "My tower can be imaginary then. It doesn’t have to match the real temple."
Arjun: "So you’ll use red and green instead of blue?"
Meera: "Yes. In my imaginary tower, the steps can be purple with yellow stars."
Arjun: "That sounds cool… like ladders to the sky."
Appa: "Then Arjun can use the blue blocks, and Meera’s imaginary tower can glow with all the other colors."
Meera:imaginary tower in the whole world." "Okay. My tower is now the tallest, most
Arjun: "And my rocket will fly past it and wave hello on the way to the moon."
Appa: "Good. Now build fast, or your dosas will get cold."