In our day to day class activities the children are directed, while still have an element of experimentation.  Today the children were all given a blank plastic mask.  they were asked to look at it closely and compare them to the cardboard ones they had made.  We wanted the children to think about how they were able to pick out their cardboard masks i.e. they knew the shape of their mask, they knew the colours, they knew the features they had cut out too. How would they recognise their white masks.  Would they be able to use the same selection process as they had for the cardboard masks?

The children were so confident about this task, not for one moment did they think the masks were all the same and would be impossible to find their own.  We asked the children  to place all their masks on the floor and try to remember where they placed them.  Three children came and rearranged the masks, then the children were asked to come and find their mask.  As we thought, they picked at random but sure it was theirs!!