Welcome back if you saw last week's page (you can click through to it here) If you've been trying to solve last week's riddle, some clues and solutions are below!
While schools are shut, I will put up lots of resources each week to get kids thinking and talking with their parents on this page, or with each other and teachers for those still in school.
The resources will change every Friday. Games, questions, stories, riddles. Solutions to riddles will follow the next week.
Normally I work with schools, and you can get the same free bulletin as the teachers here: free P4C resources.
Online philosophy sessions for ages 9-12, teens and adults are also available through our sister organisation, GIFT. The next sessions are on the 2nd and 6th of April. More info here.
These are normally stickers for teachers to give to children to take home to talk to parents about. Here's a load to be going on with. I'll put some new ones up each week. UPDATE - If you click on a question, it will take you through to a page where you can leave your thoughts. It might take a while for them to appear as I have to approve the comments, but hopefully we can get some (polite!) arguments going! Where year groups are mentioned, they are for England so Yr 5 = 9-10 yrs old = P4 in Scotland or NI. But the questions can be enjoyed by a wide range of ages.
Last week's riddle:
I live in a hole that travels with me.
My belly is deep
But if I swallow too much,
I get swallowed myself.
What am I?
Clues:
It's not a living thing.
It's a way of travelling.
Answer at the bottom of the page.
This week's riddle (there are some in the Sticky Questions sets):
Clues, answer and a new riddle next week!
This is a game about creativity, imagination, and being silly. You can play it as a pair or go round in a circle.
Pass a spoon to another player, with the words, “This is not a spoon. It is an extendable nose,” or whatever else you wish it to be. They then pass it on saying, “This is not an extendable nose, it is a tennis racquet” or whatever, and transform the spoon into something else. It's best to act out what the object does.
A group of seven teenagers are about to start a Duke of Edinburgh expedition. They are deciding how to split up the group kit and supplies: tents, cooking stuff, food etc. If you’re thinking of doing D of E, groups normally get on better than this, by the way.
AARON It’ll be fairest if we share it out so everyone’s pack ends up weighing the same.
BARRY No it won’t. I spent loads buying lightweight kit and I’ve made sure I haven’t brought anything I don’t need. What was the point of that if my pack ends up just as heavy as if I hadn’t bothered?
CHARLIE We should just weigh the kit and split it up so we all take the same share.
HAKIM That won’t work. I’m half the size of Frank. If I end up carrying as much extra stuff as him I’ll fall over backwards.
CHARLIE In that case Jeb shouldn’t have to carry as much because he’s unfit. He’ll be huffing and puffing just with the walking.
HAKIM That’s different. Jeb could be fit if he stopped stuffing himself with Haribo and skiving PE. But I can’t exactly help being short, can I?
BARRY Well Ethel can’t help being a girl. Are you saying she should carry less as well? I’ll end up carrying everything.
ETHEL Watch it. Just because I’m a girl doesn’t mean I can’t do the same as you.
FRANK But on the practice expedition, you were stuck at the back moaning that we were going too fast. If we want to get there before dark we should share it out, so the slower people carry less and the faster people carry more.
CHARLIE Maybe we should start off taking the same each, and then shift it around if someone starts falling behind.
BARRY So if you want to carry less stuff, you just have to be lazy, slow, short or overweight? Nice one.
FRANK I don’t mind carrying a bit extra.
BARRY If you want to carry someone else’s stuff, that’s fine by me. I’m just going to carry my share and that’s that.
JEB Who’ll carry my share for a fiver?
Who do you disagree with the most?
Who do you agree with the most?
What do you think is the best way to share out the kit?
Our sister organisation GIFT, has been running monthly online philosophy seminars for the last two years. With the surge in demand, we are now running them weekly.
There are sessions for ages 9-12, teens and on April 6th there will be a session for adults too. GIFT has a 42-year history of providing for students with bright, curious minds.
Find out more here: www.giftcourses.co.uk