Where the Wild Things Are - 6 Hat Thinking

We read ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ again today. Some of our foundation learners then played a game of Bingo based around this wonderful book. The other children coloured masks for our wild rumpus next week. 

While we were working we did some 6 Hat Thinking around Max’s visit with the ‘Wild Things.’

First we did some yellow hat thinking. What were the good or positive points

• Max was happy he had friends
• He was really happy when he left
• Max was glad when he was made king
• He liked playing with them.
• He got to be their king.
• The ‘Wild Things’ listened to him.
• He got to ride on the ‘Wild Things’ backs. He didn’t even have to walk
• Max liked being at the wild rumpus

Then we used our black thinking hats and looked at bad or the not so good points. 

• The wild things made him cross.
• Max was frightened by them at first.
• Max was sad because he missed his mum.
• He was alone and really hungry.
• Max might get super hungry.
• The ‘Wild Things’ are creepy. I would scream.
• The ‘Wild Things’ might eat you up like a hamburger when you are sleeping.
• They might eat you up in one go.
• They might throw you in the water or break your boat

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Green Hat Thinking - 'How to Catch a Star'

How to Catch a Star

by Oliver Jeffers

We read ‘How to Catch a Star.’ Then we put on our ‘Green Thinking Hats’ and tried to think of some creative ways  we could catch our own stars. Here are some of our wonderful ideas.

• Get a long, long ladder, the longest ladder in the whole world.
• Put rainbow lollypops in a mouse trap and catch it. Stars should like rainbow lollypops.
• By riding in an airplane.
• Build a rocket ship shaped like a star and the star will think it’s a star and be tricked.
• Go up in a rocket  ship that never ever runs out of petrol.
• Climb up a rainbow to reach the stars.
• Go in a rocket ship way up to the stars.
• I am going to wish a star and I won’t tell anyone incase it doesn’t come true.

Yellow Hat Thinking

We put on our yellow hats to help us think about all the good things we know about the sun.

Here are some of our thoughts...

• The sun makes us nice and warm.
• The sun helps us see things without lights.
• The sun makes the day time.
• The sun makes things grow like trees and flowers.
• The sun makes me happy.
• The sun makes our washing dry.
• The sun makes things more fun.
• The sun helps flowers grow.
• It makes things nice and warm.
• It would be really really cold if there was no sun