Pencaitland Primary Blog

 Lesson 1 - 20/2/07

We started something different today. We have been practising our thinking skills.

As a warm-up we practised speaking in turn and listening effectively - this involved a story about a Dalek!

Each week Mr Cain is going to give us an impossible mission to complete. Todays mission was to make two identical fish, same size, same shape, same colour.  Each group was given the same pack of materials and had to work out how to complete the task, by working as a team.  When we shared our results at the end of the mission, we found that the different teams had completed the task but in different ways.  One group had made a template from card to make the two fish, another group had used tracing paper to copy two fish, while a third folded one piece of card in half, drew one fish and cut through two layers of the card to get two fish.

We were very proud that we had come up with these different methods without any help.

Check back next week for our next impossible mission!