This week in P4C we revisited the story of ‘Frog and Toad’. We listened carefully to the story and thought about how the characters were feeling and how this resulted in their actions. We then put the characters in the ‘hot seat’ and asked them interview style questions to find out their response.
After an initial discussion about numbers, our favourite and most important numbers, we were just about ready to start our enquiry when we received the news flash! The numbers had gone on strike! What will we do? What might go wrong? Could we get along without numbers? Might the world be better without numbers or simply impossible?
This week in P4C we shared a story called ‘Dragons and Giants’. We listened carefully before discussing what the ‘Big Ideas’ in the story were. We are looking forward to exploring our questions linked to the story next week.
We have explored the story of the squirrel and the magpie in our second P4C session. We discussed the big ideas of friendship and kindness. We have answers in full sentences and built on each others ideas.
We talked about our classroom community. We will listen carefully, join in and contribute respectfully.
We then answered a ‘would you rather…?’ question to get us thinking.
Year 3 Jemison have looked at their first stimulus of the year and worked together to discuss ‘Can being different be a good thing?’
We used our speaking and listening skills to discuss who we thought was in the wrong – the pigs or the wolf.
We looked at the text ‘How rude!’ as our stimulus. We identified big ideas from this text and created questions to discuss. The class voted on one question to discuss. We then agreed or disagreed respectfully. Amazing work Armstrongs!
We enjoyed another fantastic philosophy session.
We warmed up by trying as a class to count to 20 – only one person was allowed to stand up and say a number at any time. If two people said the same number, we had to start again!
Then we looked at the story of the Squirrel and the Magpie. We discussed issues of kindness, stealing, fairness and rivalry.
We began the session by collaboratively creating our own set of rules for future P4C lessons. After that, we held a vote on whether we would rather be a ‘Cowardly Lion’ or a ‘Brave Mouse,’ leading to a thoughtful discussion where we used sentence stems like “I agree” and “I disagree” to share our perspectives. We enjoyed our stimulus, For The Birds, and engaged in a lively discussion about the clip. We explored what we believed the central message or ‘big idea’ of the video might be, sharing our thoughts and insights with one another.
Year 2 Goodall have discussed the big idea themes from their stimulus ‘For the Birds’.
We created our very own questions forum our big idea of feelings.
We were excellent with ground rules of positive communication, listening, applying our caring, collaborative, creative thinking this week. Our focus was critical thinking as we tried to persuade each other with justifications for our views. We even tried to respectfully challenge different perspectives. Should the squirrel let the magpie out of the trap when he had stolen acorns? What is the kindest reaction? What is the fairest way? We considered actions, consequences and virtue. What grounds do you have for your decision? Would you invite someone?
After listening to the story – Finn’s Little Fib. Discussions were had around telling the truth. The children came up with some great ideas around good lies and bad lies! We decided telling a little fib to keep a secret is okay, but it is never okay to lie to get out of trouble!
In our Philosophy session this time, listened to the book “Finn’s little fibs”. The children talked about the Big Idea shown in the book – telling the truth – and discussed whether it is okay to lie.
We created this question to discuss as a class. We had brilliant answers and respectfully listened to others.
We had a fantastic morning with our special visitor! We created some brilliant questions to discuss.
We have used a very moving stimulus to discuss a range of emotions this morning which led to an enquiry: Do we have to be happy all the time?
We found what the pictures had in common – generating some. We found that the pictures showed friendship and we were able to discuss what a friend is.
We shared happy memories and thought deeply about the concept of happiness in our P4C lesson today. Would you want to be happy all the time?
We had a fantastic philosophy session. Everyone shared their thoughts, listened carefully, was respectful and built on each other’s ideas. We used the video Batman/War Hero as a stimulus and discussed some of the ‘Big Ideas’ from this. Then we came up with some questions to discuss.
Our enquiry got metaphysical this week and blew our minds! What is a hole? Does the world have holes? Are holes something or nothing? Has a straw got two holes? Or one? Or none?
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