May Half Term
May half term was scheduled to run from Monday 25th May until Friday 29th May this year. Even though children are learning from home at this time, we feel that it is important to honour these dates as designated holiday time, whilst also giving you some fun activities which may be helpful if you're trying to stick to a clear structure to your day. We will not be setting home learning tasks for the children to complete. Instead, we have put together two lists of activities for your children to continue with throughout the next two weeks.
Highly recommended activities
In line with our homework policy, we would strongly recommend that throughout the two week Easter break children continue to read at least five times a week and use TTRockstars on a regular basis.
Each maths group has a TTRockstars battles set up to battle another maths class in the school. Year 3 groups will battle Year 4 groups and Year 5 groups will battle Year 6 groups. All you need to do is play TTRockstars as normal and get as many correct answers as possible. At the top of the screen, you will see which other maths group you are competing against and which band is currently in the lead. The maths group in the battle with the most correct answers at the end of the holidays wins!
Each maths group has a TTRockstars battles set up to battle another maths class in the school. Year 3 groups will battle Year 4 groups and Year 5 groups will battle Year 6 groups. All you need to do is play TTRockstars as normal and get as many correct answers as possible. At the top of the screen, you will see which other maths group you are competing against and which band is currently in the lead. The maths group in the battle with the most correct answers at the end of the holidays wins!
Ideas to keep you busy
Please find below a list of fun activities that we have put together to help entertain your child. There is no expectation that any of these activities should be completed. We have simply put the list together to help you should you need it. You can also find daily PE challenges from Mr Showell on the Southwater Junior Academy Facebook Group.
- Create a treasure hunt with clues for other members of your household
- Create an assault course in your garden
- Create a summer themed piece of art. What materials will you use to create your scene? You could paint, colour or even create a collage using recycled materials.
- Create a digital piece of summer art using a program on your computer or tablet.
- Take a summer picture
- Create a summer themed game in Scratch
- Press some flowers
- Write a summer themed story
- Play a board game with your family
- Play card games with your family
- Create your own board game for your family to play
- Build a den either in your house or garden
- Before you go for a walk, write a list of things you think you might find. Then, whilst you walk, tick off the items as you see them.
- If you have a garden, get outside during the warm weather and do some gardening. Plant some plants and watch them flourish - don't forget to water them if it is warm outside
- Camp outside in the garden
- Make some no-cook fudge with this recipe from Good Food
