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Week 5 Themed Activities 18 May - 22 May 2020 Pirates and Treasure
Here are some tasks we hope you will enjoy. Please scroll down and select the tasks appropriate to your child.
BLUE COLOURED TASKS - are aimed at Pathway 1 pupils as well as pupils who prefer more interactive activities and require a higher level of support.
GREEN COLOURED TASKS - are aimed at pupils in the main body of the school.
PURPLE COLOURED TASKS - are aimed at pupils who would enjoy more of a challenge
If you prefer, you can download and print off the sheets by clicking on the attachments at the bottom of the page.
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Aims: These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Blue coloured tasks are aimed at Pathway 1 pupils as well as pupils who prefer more interactive activities and require a higher level of support. These are tasks we hope you will enjoy, please select the ones you feel are most appropriate for your child. |
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Thinking |
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Literacy FocusBuilding skills following
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Speaking & Listening and Reading: Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5EKP1y4Ic No internet, no problem - this story is on the powerpoint below... Powerpoint W5 Skullabones Island PirateStory BLUE as
Speaking & Listening and Writing: Resources: Powerpoint W5 Becoming a Pirate BLUE as Optional: An old t-shirt or shirt, paint or felt tips, bandana, scarf or
Here is a pirate themed signed story:
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Maths Focus
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Watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_wvvEvkw4
Watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPa9V2wtZs
Discuss the meaning of addition and subtraction. Can you remember the addition symbol? Can you remember the subtraction symbol? Can you remember the equals sign?
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Science Focus
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Task 1: Create a waterproof pirate ship - Explore and discover different materials around your home that you can stick on your pirate ship.Using water, check to see which materials are waterproof and which materials absorb water
Link: https://www.science-sparks.com/waterproof-pirate-ship/
Task 2: Does it sink or float? - Do you know why things float in water?
Link: https://www.science-sparks.com/sink-float-pirate-style/
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Creativity |
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Cooking/Technology
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Cooking: Task: Cheese and Apple Pirate Ships - This is a fun step-by-step recipe where students can create lovely cheese and apple pirate ships. Once made, they can explore the different flavour combinations and the textures.
Key Skills: Cut with assistance and assemble Attached: PDF - Cheese and apple pirate ships - Blue
Technology: Task1: Pirate Treasure Hunt
Task2: Interactive phonics treasure game This is a fun interactive game where students can apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decoding words when reading. Link: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/poopDeck/
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Drama / Arts / Music
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Task focus: Making a pirate hat and eyepatch
Key Information: Not all little pirates are lucky enough to be fully outfitted when they hop aboard a ship. If your child has not got their own gear, why don’t you start making your own pirate hat and eyepatch in less than 15 minutes! Task helpful clip to watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/swashbuckle-make-your-own-pirate-hat-eyepatch https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-16878-paper-pirate-hat Pirate hat You can also used attached pages on the website.attachment pages
Materials Needed: . A paper plate · Black paint · A paintbrush · Glue · Ribbon · Decorations · Scissors (grown-up use only) · A pencil and crayon · A ruler · Black card · A cup · Modelling clay · Wool Keywords: pirate hat, pirate eyepatch, pirate life, rowing. Other Activities Pirate Drama: After making your cool pirate hat and eyepatch why don’t you watch the Drama Tots and become a pirate. Be prepared! because you will have to do a lot of rowing and pirate jobs. Follow the link below:
Other optional ideas for wider learning: Follow the link below and find out how Jeremy Jacobs became a pirate: https://youtu.be/y4m_BW5yddU |
Health & Wellbeing |
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Physical Activity
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Cosmic Kids Yoga ‘Popcorn and the pirate’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0P5grVoyg Talk like a Pirate: Listening and Movement game - https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-tp-1303-talk-like-a-pirate-listening-and-movement-game
Pupils to draw a ‘treasure map’ of their garden/ home. Obj: Parents/ carers/ siblings to hide ‘treasure’ around the area for the students to find. Students are required to mark on the map the location of each treasure. Treasure Island: At Home Addition - Pupils to create at least two ‘islands’ in the opposite direction, within the playing area. Objective: Pupils to stand in the middle of the playing area. When instructed, pupils need to run/ move to the correct ‘island’ within a certain time (decided by a family member). Progression: Communication skills - Pupils can instruct their family members to move to the designated ‘island’, making sure they use a clear and appropriate voice level.
Land or Sea: Play with members of your family. One person in charge with those playing standing side by side on some form of “line”. Where they are standing is “land” and in front of the line is “sea”. The person in charge calls out “land” or “sea” and players must jump into the right section. Calls get faster and in different orders to try and trick the players. If you get it wrong you lose a life or are out.
Steal the Treasure: Play with at least 2 teams (you only need one per team if you like). Each team finds 10 (maybe more) items of “treasure”, these can be anything you like. Treasure is placed in a pile on your “island” and islands are as far apart as you like. There further apart the more fun it will be! The rules of the game are that 1 person from each team needs to run to another island and steal ONE piece of treasure and return it to their island before the next person on their team must go. The game continues for a period of time 2, 3, 5 minutes it is up to you. Whichever team can steal the most treasure the fastest is the winner. You can make it harder by trying to hide where your islands are in the house or garden or awarding different pieces of treasure more points if stolen.
ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE
Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew
Go Noodle I Get Moving: Lots of videos to get children moving, dancing and exercising with lots of music and singing. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames
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Cross Curricular
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Task 1: Make your own Treasure Chest Using a cardboard box (or any box you have lying around), make your very own treasure chest. Inside place objects that are special to you. Your own little treasures. Examples:
Decorate your treasure box with paint, paper, any materials you have. Helpful videos: https://youtu.be/vL5EgeKtZ2I Task 2 : Message in a bottle- ‘How do I feel today?’ Key information: Make a message in a bottle and add rolled up pieces of paper of how you’re feeling everyday. What you need:
Instructions: Everyday write down how you’re feeling on a piece of paper using the word map to help, if you want add why you feel like this eg. “I am happy because I made a pirate ship”. Roll up your piece of paper and put it in the bottle. You can decorate your bottle too!
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Aims: These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Green coloured tasks are aimed at |
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Thinking |
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Literacy FocusLiteracy Focus: Identifying and talking about key information in short texts. Developing research skills, using this information to add detail to a short piece of fictional writing task. Key Terms to try and learn:
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Speaking & Listening + Reading: Resources: Powerpoint Research Pirates GREEN as
Speaking & Listening + Writing: Resources: Powerpoint W5 New Pirate Character as Films, T.V. programmes and books [you have at home]
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Maths Focus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8bIDeW5co No counting allowed!
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Science Focus
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Task1: Pirate Science Experiments at Home
Here are a range of experiments that you can choose from to do at home.There is a list of things you will need and the instructions on how to do it. The Experiments: Pirate density investigation, Which material makes the best pirate ship, How to waterproof a pirates ship, Fizzy pirate coins and Pirate magnet maze Attached: PDF - Pirate Science Experiment at Home - Green Task2: Density experiment - Density is quite a hard concept to grasp but this is a really nice introduction and full of little wow moments!
Link: https://www.science-sparks.com/density-experiment-pirate-themed/
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Creativity |
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Cooking/Technology
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Cooking: Task1: Hardtack Biscuit Recipe
Key Skills: Weight, Mix, Shape and Bake Attached: PDF - Pirate themed hardtack recipe - Green
Task2: Swashbuckle Smoothies Key Skills: Chopping, Sequencing and Blending Attached: Swashbuckle smoothie pirate recipe - Green
Technology: Task: Egg box pirate ship - This is a fantastic activity where you can use an empty egg box and transform it into a pirate ship. The template of the sails are also included.
Attached: PDF - Egg box pirate ship instructions - Green PDF - Egg box pirate ship resource - Green
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Drama / Arts
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Task Focus: Develop imagination by pretending to be Sailors and Pirates
Key Information: One of the jobs of a sailor is chasing pirates on the sea. Like the police chasing robbers in the city. What do you think a pirate is like? What do you think a sailor is like? Start by making a sailor hat, you can turn it into a pirate hat by drawing a skull on it! (See Link) Task helpful clip to watch: How to make a sailor hat/boat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hPKuqZsEc
Drawing a skull: How to draw a skull, step by step challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW1veqluvg Materials Needed: News paper or photocopy paper- 1 for each person playing. Paper and scissors for sailor hats. A scarf to use as a belt for the Pirate. Keywords: Pirate Sailor Stop Start Hot Cold Treasure Listen Speak Decide Describe Clothes Hair Size.
Drama Games:For 2 or more people Game 1: Hot and Cold -Hidden treasure Everyone should find a piece of treasure, something they own which has meaning for them- this is an opportunity to learn something new about each other and what is important to each of you. They should say why they chose their treasure and why it is important to them. Each person take-turns to be a pirate and hide the treasure in the room, while the others who are sailors try to find it. When someone is close to it, the hider says their name and you are hot but if everyone is far, they can say you are cold! Once the treasure is found make sure you congratulate the hider and the finder then let someone else take a turn in hiding their treasure.
Game 2: Spotting Pirates
Other Activities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hP79vMjinQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34UNb6q9uA
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Health & Wellbeing |
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Physical Activity
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Battle Pirate Ships: 2 people needed to play. On three pieces of paper write (not thick marker that can be seen from the other side) “Pirate ship 1”, “Pirate ship 2”, “Pirate ship 3” and place face down with a number of other blank pieces of paper. The more blank pieces the harder it will be. Scatter them in a grid shape in front you. Players take it in turns to throw a softball or scrunched up piece of paper at the other players grid. Whichever piece of paper gets hit, gets turned over and if it is a Pirate ship then the ship is sunk. First player to sink all ships wins. You can change it around by adding more or less ships, increasing the distance between grids, or even if you have lots of plastic cups and having to land the ball in the cup to be able to see if it is a ship.
Cosmic Kids Yoga ‘Popcorn and the pirate’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0P5grVoyg
Talk like a Pirate: Listening and Movement game - https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-tp-1303-talk-like-a-pirate-listening-and-movement-game
Pupils to draw a ‘treasure map’ of their garden/ home. Obj: Parents/ carers/ siblings to hide ‘treasure’ around the area for the students to find. Students are required to mark on the map the location of each treasure.
Treasure Island: At Home Addition - Pupils to create at least two ‘islands’ in the opposite direction, within the playing area. Objective: Pupils to stand in the middle of the playing area. When instructed, pupils need to run/ move to the correct ‘island’ within a certain time (decided by a family member). Progression: Communication skills - Pupils can instruct their family members to move to the designated ‘island’, making sure they use a clear and appropriate voice level.
Land or Sea: Play with members of your family.
Steal the Treasure: Play with at least 2 teams (you only need one per team if you like). Each team finds 10 (maybe more) items of “treasure”, these can be anything you like. Treasure is placed in a pile on your “island” and islands are as far apart as you like. There further apart the more fun it will be! The rules of the game are that 1 person from each team needs to run to another island and steal ONE piece of treasure and return it to their island before the next person on their team must go. The game continues for a period of time 2, 3, 5 minutes it is up to you. Whichever team can steal the most treasure the fastest is the winner. You can make it harder by trying to hide where your islands are in the house or garden or awarding different pieces of treasure more points if stolen.
ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE
Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew
Go Noodle I Get Moving: Lots of videos to get children moving, dancing and exercising with lots of music and singing. |
Cross Curricular
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Task 1: Make your own Treasure Chest Using a cardboard box (or any box you have lying around), make your very own treasure chest. Inside place objects that are special to you. Your own little treasures. Examples:
Decorate your treasure box with paint, paper, any materials you have. Helpful videos: https://youtu.be/vL5EgeKtZ2I
Task 2 : Message in a bottle- ‘How do I feel today?’ Key information: Make a message in a bottle and add rolled up pieces of paper of how you’re feeling everyday. What you need:
Instructions: Everyday write down how you’re feeling on a piece of paper using the word map to help, if you want add why you feel like this eg. “I am happy because I made a pirate ship”. Roll up your piece of paper and put it in the bottle. You can decorate your bottle too!
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Pirates and Treasure |
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Aims: These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Purple coloured tasks are aimed at pupils who would enjoy more of a challenge . These are tasks where pupils should be working with greater independence, however please take time to support pupils in starting the tasks and build communication skills. |
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Thinking |
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Literacy FocusCompleting extended research over a range of texts. Identifying and recording key information in texts and making notes. Using research in fiction and non-fiction writing [contrasting formats]. Key Terms to try and learn: non-fiction = facts and information fact = a true piece of information fiction = made up/story key information = the most important information brief notes = are to help you remember key information. paragraph = a short section of writing. heading = what the text is about. sub-heading = what that section of text is about. leaflet = a piece of paper giving information on a particular subject. format = to organise or arrange a particular way for a particular type of text eg letter, newspaper article structure = the way that the text is organised to help the reader. style = the writer’s choice of words, sentence structure. images =photos or illustrations audience = is a person or group of people listening to or reading a text |
Speaking & Communication, Research Reading: Resources: Powerpoint W5 Research Pirates PURPLE as T.V. documentaries, internet, books [if you have these at home]
Planning and Writing a Narrative: Resources: Powerpoint W5 Fiction + Non-Fiction Writing PURPLE as Own choice films, T.V. programmes or books
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Maths Focus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc6VA7Q1vXQ
Five pirates board a commercial vessel, do what pirates do best, and flee with 100 gold coins. Back on their own ship, the scalawags must decide how to divide up the booty. The pirates have a system that they are sworn to follow, else they are killed. It works like this: The oldest among them proposes a way to divide the coins. Then all the pirates, including the one that made the proposal, vote on whether or not to accept the terms. If 50 percent or more accept, then they divide the loot as proposed. If less than 50 percent of the pirates agree to the plan, then the pirate who made the suggestion is thrown overboard and killed. The next oldest pirate then makes a suggestion, and they vote again. There are a few important things to know about these pirates. First, they will make their decisions according to whatever will net them the most money without getting them killed. Second, they are bloodthirsty pirates, and all other things being equal, they would rather throw someone overboard. Third, they do not trust each other in the slightest and will make no agreements amongst themselves to determine how they vote. Finally, these are highly logical pirates, capable of considering all possible outcomes. Let's consider the pirates A, B, C, D and E, with A being the oldest and E the youngest. How should Pirate A suggest they divvy up the coins? ANSWER: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a25369/solution-to-riddle-of-the-week-17/ |
Science Focus
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Task1: Living Organisms - Follow the pirate at sea and explore the different organisms he encounters. Complete the quizzes after each section on the characteristics of the living organism and their cells
Link:https://en.e-learningforkids.org/science/lesson/plants-and-animals/ Task2: Crack the code game! - Code cracking is brilliant for helping to develop logical thinking and you can make it as easy or as hard as you want!
Link: https://www.science-sparks.com/crack-code-pirate-theme/
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Creativity |
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Cooking/Technology
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Cooking: Task1: Fruity Pirate Ship - This is a healthy fun recipe where you can create a delicious fruity pirate ship snack.
Key Skills: Cutting, Arranging and Presentation Attached: PDF- Fruity pirate ship recipe - Purple
Task2: Piece of Eight Cookies -This is a step by step recipe to create 'pieces of eight' cookies! This is where you have the opportunity to be creative with the decorating of your cookies.This is a more challenging recipe so support will be required.
Key Skills: Weighing, Mixing, Baking and Decorating Attached: PDF - Piece of eight cookie pirate recipe - Purple
Technology Task1: Pirate Island - Why not make your own pirate Island. All the templates are provided, so all you need to do is get some cards, decorate, cut out and assemble
Attached: PDF - Pirate Island instructructions - Purple PDF - Pirate Island resource - Purple
Task2: Pirate Chest - You can make your own pirates chest out of paper. You can keep hidden your precious treasure in your very own chest.
Attached (Instructions with template): PDF - Pirates Chest - Purple |
Drama / Arts
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Task Focus: Sharing thoughts
Key Information: It’s important to share feelings. Even big strong sailors need to share what they are feeling. It’s what makes them so good at their job! Start by making 2 paper sailor hats each, On one hat draw a skull, wear this when you want to be a pirate and the other one when you want to be a sailor, you are now ready to play the game, remember to keep it fun and don’t judge other people!
Task helpful clip to watch: How to make a sailor hat/boat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hPKuqZsEc Drawing a skull: How to draw a skull, step by step challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBW1veqluvg
Materials Needed: News Paper, Paper, Pencils, Colour pencils scissors Keywords: Pirate Sailor Stop Start Plank Treasure Listen Speak Share Decide Describe Clothes Hair Size.
Game: Walking the Plank You might want to make sailor hats before you play, following the online tutorial.
You have all been captured by a pirate ship! One of you is the captain of the pirate ship and the rest of you are sailors. The captain is going to make you walk the plank unless you can save yourself. Make an imaginary plank using sheets of paper or newspaper on the floor. Everyone should stand on their own plank. Decide who the Captain of the pirate ship is. The Pirate-Captain takes turns asking the sailors what they have done well this week. They need to say something good to keep them from walking the plank into the ‘Sea of Sharks’! If the captain is happy with what the sailor says, then the sailor is saved, otherwise they have to walk the plank! They can save themselves if they promise to help the captain with something this week! Remember to make sure the rules are clear at the start and everyone knows they have 2 chances to save themselves! You can take turns on who is the Captain.
Other Activities: Did you manage the other skull? This one is a little harder! Drawing a skull: How to draw a skull, step by step challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rye-uIIa2Xk
Try some of these Pirate drama games, how many characters can you be? |
Health & Wellbeing |
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Physical Activity
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Battle Pirate Ships: 2 people needed to play. On three pieces of paper write (not thick marker that can be seen from the other side) “Pirate ship 1”, “Pirate ship 2”, “Pirate ship 3” and place face down with a number of other blank pieces of paper. The more blank pieces, the harder it will be. Scatter them in a grid shape in front you. Players take it in turns to throw a softball or scrunched up piece of paper at the other players grid. Whichever piece of paper gets hit, gets turned over and if it is a Pirate ship then the ship is sunk. First player to sink all ships wins. You can change it around by adding more or less ships, increasing the distance between grids, or even if you have lots of plastic cups and having to land the ball in the cup to be able to see if it is a ship
Land or Sea: Play with members of your family. One person in charge with those playing standing side by side on some form of “line”. Where they are standing is “land” and in front of the line is “sea”. The person in charge calls out “land” or “sea” and players must jump into the right section. Calls get faster and in different orders to try and trick the players. If you get it wrong you lose a life or are out.
Steal the Treasure: Play with at least 2 teams (you only need one per team if you like). Each team finds 10 (maybe more) items of “treasure”, these can be anything you like. Treasure is placed in a pile on your “island” and islands are as far apart as you like. There further apart the more fun it will be! The rules of the game are that 1 person from each team needs to run to another island and steal ONE piece of treasure and return it to their island before the next person on their team must go. The game continues for a period of time 2, 3, 5 minutes it is up to you. Whichever team can steal the most treasure the fastest is the winner. You can make it harder by trying to hide where your islands are in the house or garden or awarding different pieces of treasure more points if stolen.
ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE
Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew
Fitness Blender: Build your own circuit training session https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos
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Cross Curricular
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Task 1: Make your own Treasure Chest Using a cardboard box (or any box you have lying around), make your very own treasure chest. Inside place objects that are special to you. Your own little treasures. Examples:
Decorate your treasure box with paint, paper, any materials you have. Helpful videos: https://youtu.be/vL5EgeKtZ2I
Task 2 : Message in a bottle- ‘How do I feel today?’ Key information: Make a message in a bottle and add rolled up pieces of paper of how you’re feeling everyday. What you need:
Instructions: Everyday write down how you’re feeling on a piece of paper using the word map to help, if you want add why you feel like this eg. “I am happy because I made a pirate ship”. Roll up your piece of paper and put it in the bottle. You can decorate your bottle too!
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