Grant & Coda's Toolbelt Tales · Book 1
The Carpenter Story
Building Big Dreams as a Carpenter
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Grant pulls on his boots for a building day and heads down the road with Coda to watch a flat patch of dirt become a home. Board by board, they learn how a house gets its bones — and why a carpenter measures twice and cuts once.
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Words to Learn
Carpenter—a person who builds things out of wood
Frame—the strong wooden skeleton a house is built on
Blueprint—a drawing that shows how to build something before you start
Tape measure—a tool that tells you how long something is
Level—a tool with a floating bubble that shows if something is perfectly straight
Apprenticeship—learning a trade by getting paid to practice beside an expert
Talk About It
- 1.Why does a house need a strong, straight frame before anything else?
- 2.Why do carpenters say measure twice, cut once? What could happen if you only measured once?
- 3.Name three things carpenters build that you've used or played on.
- 4.Carpenters often learn through trade school and a paid apprenticeship. What's something you'd like to learn by doing it over and over?
- 5.Grant and his dad built a playhouse from a pile of boards. What would you build if you could build anything?
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