Hat Storage
The children in Room 1 put pictures inside their hats
Rooms 1 and 3
New Entrants and Junior School
New Entrants to Year 3
The teachers of New Entrants to Year 3 students share the outcomes of their work to make the hats easy to identify.
Solutions
Room 1 New Entrants
As most of these children aren't yet able to read they decided a picture inside the hat would be best. It was covered with clear tape to make it waterproof so that the hat could be washed.
Room 3 New Entrants
We made a quick collage of hats from magazines and we made a list of people who wear hats at work. Before the topic we had a go at making a hat with very little adult help. Discussions brought out some of the problems we would experience later... How to make it fit, which glue to use, how will we identify it as ours, could we have planned (drawn) it first?
We went over the ideas we had for how we could identify our hats then together decided on a set of criteria for identifying out hats. A hat:
- couldn't have words or numbers on it
- had to be unique
- had to be water proof
- had to last a long time (up to year 6)
The children found it very difficult to brainstorm a way to identify the hats until Antonia showed us the butterfly in her hat. We had to relate our solution to the criteria. Many children needed a lot of help. We decided to put a picture inside the hat with sticky plastic. The children then completed a paper hat and drew a picture to go inside it. Many children chose a cat so that reminded us the each idea had to be different. We used the computer to generate a page of pictures and each child chose their own. The children could see if pictures had already been selected as they were all visible on screen. Pictures were printed and stuck inside the blue school hats and the children presented their hats to eachother in small groups. The children discovered that the office lady wouldn't know who each picture belonged to and they considered this to be a problem. But they realised they would know and decided to tell her that all Room 3's hats had a picture in them and she could send them to us. A small group were chosen to present their ideas in assembly.
