Who's original? Who's different? Who's random? Who's unusual?

Our next focus in GATE is Originality.

Originality in thinking is coming up with ideas that are unusual , random , different , crazy..... It's about thinking of ideas that NO-ONE else will think of.

An activity "The Clever Creators" and "The Ultimate Smarties" started with today was ... Come up with five original ideas for the use of a cereal box!

What ideas do you have?

By Liam Peters

Maya's ideas...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a .....

Today the Clever Creators were given a very 'hands on' activity. They were each given an envelope.
Inside the envelope were:
- three pieces of card
- two paper clips
- one tooth pick
- bluetack
- string
- one balloon
- one straw

Using the provided 'bits'n'pieces' (as well as glue sticks, celotape and colouring in equiptment) the Clever Creators then had to turn what they had into an animal! This is a great activity to stretch our fluency and flexibility skills that we have been learning about.

Have a look at how they are doing...we will finish them next week!

Ka pai to mahi!!!

No food!!!!

Try this warm up that "The ultimate smarties" did today... Their focus was on "flexibility" so each idea had to be different.

"Think of FIVE different reasons why Mum and Dad couldn't buy the groceries this week."

I will start you off then YOU can write down some more ideas in the comments section below!

Reasons:
- The supermarket had a serious fire and the entire building burnt down.
- Unfortunately mum and dad both had a tummy bug so they couldn't leave the house.

YOUR TURN!!!

FLEXIBILITY - By Jade Hughes

Today we were learning about flexibility. That is coming up different ideas. It is different to fluency because all the ideas need to be different. 

Mrs Shepard gave us an activity...

"Your grandma has brought you a pink shirt for Christmas that you absolute hate. You don'tThink of FIVE different reasons why you cant wear the t.shirt for the day"

These were some of our ideas...

- I might get it muddy at the neighbours so I wont wear it today - Chali
- A moth ate it! - Joel
- It is going to be cold today so I am going to wear long sleeves - Maya
- Sorry, but it's too beautiful for me to wear - Ava
- I'm sorry but the cat and dog might spew on it - Mia
- Sorry, but the turtle filter may explode on it and then it will be
covered in poo - Hannah
- The cats love it so much they want to lye on it - Lucia
- I am size six and it's a size eight - Jade

Chali and Joel

Can you think of another idea?