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//If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”// //Albert Einstein// || **We used the Six Thinking Hats to think about characters, settings and plots in some traditional tales**
 * //“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.//

**__• The White Hat is Information__** What are the facts? What information do we have? What information do we need? How do we get the information we need? Stories need a beginning, middle and end.

We went to visit some traditional tales in the park. Cinderella media type="file" key="Cinderella.mov" width="300" height="300" Goldilocks and the Three Bears media type="file" key="Goldilocks and the Three Bears.mov" width="300" height="300"

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Hansel and Gretel media type="file" key="Hansel and Gretel.mov" width="300" height="300" Jack and the Beanstalk media type="file" key="Jack and the Beanstalk.mov" width="300" height="300" [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/4011-4020/sb4011.html#.U0tnWCj8-20]

Little Red Riding Hood media type="file" key="Little Red Riding Hood.mov" width="300" height="300" Rapunzel media type="file" key="Rapunzel.mov" width="300" height="300"

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves media type="file" key="Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.mov" width="300" height="300"

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The Three Billy Goats Gruff [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/4011-4020/sb4016.html#.U0tn_yj8-20]

The Three Little Pigs media type="file" key="The Three Little Pigs.mov" width="300" height="300"

**__• The Red Hat is feelings.__** What do I feel about this? What is my hunch or intuition?

We looked at some characters from traditional tales and we said how we felt about them. Follow this link to find some useful Red Hat words. [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/previews/9326-9350/sb9344-emotions-word-mat.html#.U0tmwCj8-20]

**__• The Yellow Hat is benefits or good points.__** What are the good points? What are the benefits? What are the reasons why this will work?

We talked about the plot of traditional tales. At the beginning they start “Once upon a time…” or “Long, long ago…” In the middle the baddies try to trick the goodies. At the end the goodies win and it says “and they all lived happily ever after.The end.”

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**__• The Black Hat is dangers or cautions.__** What’s wrong with this? What could be the weaknesses? What are the dangers? Is this true/right/correct? Will this work?

The characters in traditional tales have to be careful because they might eat a poisoned apple or have a spell cast by a baddie or meet a witch or a wolf.

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Stories need a setting. [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/previews/10376-10400/sb10392-story-setting-description-writing-frames.html#.U0tmESj8-20] [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/2026-2030/sb2027.html#.U0tpUSj8-20]

Stories might have have magic that helps. [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/previews/8976-9000/sb8978-fairytale-event-posters.html#.U0tpvyj8-20]

**__• The Blue Hat is thinking about thinking (or steps).__** What thinking has been done? What thinking is needed? What is the next step?

We put the steps in order to tell the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.



**__• The Green Hat is creative new ideas.__** What ideas do we have? What creative new ideas are possible? What if ???

Some of us drew the setting from a traditional tale. Some of us used some gold coins as the magic ingredient and we made up a play.