In KS1 we like to include the children's own interests in our planning. This year you may have noticed that the film Frozen has been a big point of interest for most of the children.
In our joint Year 1 time, the children discovered that the Snow Queen had been and she had frozen a princess (Polly Pocket) into a block of ice. The children put Princess Polly in a safe place and we left her to thaw...this took a long time and she did not escape until the following day. The children talked about how the ice was melted in Frozen and came up with a list of ideas. These ranged from in the microwave to sunshine.
The following week we tried out some of these ideas, however to save any Princesses from further harm we only used ice cubes! The children drew up a list, predicted which would be quickest and which would be slowest, they tested their ideas and recorded the results. We found that just leaving the ice cube took the longest, where as the microwave only took 44 seconds to totally melt it, beating the oven, salt, hot water, cold water, the sun, the classroom, our hands and a heater.
As part of literacy, Hargreaves class then read the Snow Queen, learnt a simple version of it and re-told it using story maps and actions. They then contrasted this to Frozen and looked for similarities and differences.
After this they wrote their own version on the story, keeping some of the original elements/ideas and changing others. The Group story was about two brother who defeated the Snow King with a sword of flames.
As an end of term treat most children in KS1 were able to watch the film Frozen and I think we all know the words of every song now!
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