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Using a thinking frame
Thinking Frames help make the processes or steps involved in a particular thinking skill explicit. A PDF of a thinking frame for Generating Possibilities is set out on the right hand side to help pupils organise their ideas and build on other ideas.
Art and Design
- Making a fairy hill in your classroom, playground, school foyer etc. Use junk materials or other 3D materials as appropriate. (Watch out for the fairies!)
- Make a life size model of a fairy. Think about the materials which would suit her best. (You could try… stuffing tights for the arms, legs and head; stuffing a pillow case and tying it in the middle for her body; bending wire coat hangers for her wings etc.)
- Create your own individual fairy. Use e.g, modelling wire or modroc and dress her with appropriate attire. (Some of the boys may prefer to make an elf or a goblin instead.)
- Make stick puppets of fairies using card and lollipop sticks (or card and pencils turned upside down so that the sharp point is stuck to the back of the puppet) and use these to create your own class or group puppet theatre shows about fairies.
- In pairs, ask one partner at a time to describe the picture in their mind of a fairy (refer to Q2), the other partner should draw the fairy as described to them by their partner. (This may be done as a ‘barrier game’, with the drawing being done behind a ‘barrier’ i.e. without the other child seeing the picture that is being drawn.) Allow the pairs the opportunity to evaluate and to make any amendments necessary in order to create the most accurate representation of the picture in the child’s mind.
Drama
- Hot seating; Ask someone to sit in the ‘hot’ seat and to take on the role of Iris (the fairy) or any of the other characters in the story. Take turns to ask the character in the ‘hot’ seat about how they felt at different events in the story and why they took the decisions that they did. The person in the ‘hot’ seat must answer in character.
- Tableau; In groups dramatise different parts of the story in sequence. Change the ending (or any other part of the story), if you wish. (Can you create a funny, sad, happy ending?)
- Puppet Theatre; Create your own short play about Iris and her friends. Each group could create their own story sequel about Iris, Ant and friends.
Readers’ Theatre
- Record your own stories on tape (using the style of ‘Reader’s Theatre’) i.e. range of children reading the parts in character. Listen to the stories in the listening corner.