PACK 1 - Themed Activities - 5 January 2021 - Seasons

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.

BLUE THEMED SHEETS

SEASONS

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.

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Learn about the seasons and provide an opportunity to talk about change in a positive way.

Building reading skills comprehension skills.

Initial sounds work.

Build observation skills of the world around.

Encourage going out including and extension creative task.

Resources: Powerpoint ENG Seasons BLUE as [picture story in words + widgit, task sheets and extension activities all on the powerpoint - see screenshots below for a preview!

Social Story: Final slide is a social story to help with accepting ‘change’.]

Maths Focus

Use Youtube to listen to songs relating to Seasons and days of the week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZjpI6fgYSY
Copy the days of the week from the Hungry Caterpillar worksheet. Draw pieces of food for each day of the week, count how many pieces of food you have drawn for each day.
Ask an adult to help cut out the acorns on the worksheet, then find number bonds to 10.
Count in 2s to fill in the missing numbers for each of the seasons on the worksheet.
Count the Autumn objects on the worksheet.
Go outside with an adult and collect 10 objects. Draw the objects and decide what shape they are.
Count the Autumn objects and colour a box for each object you can see.

Science Focus

Start a picture diary and observe the changes in the weather and the seasons. Draw or take pictures of the trees and flowers and see if you see them changing.
Watch the weather forecast daily with an adult and discuss the weather. Be a weather presenter and act out the weather forecast to others in your house, maybe record yourself doing this.
Make a rain collector and measure the amount of rain over a period of time.

What you'll need:

A plastic (soft drink) bottle
Some stones or pebbles
Tape
Marker (felt pen)
A ruler

Instructions:

Cut the top off the bottle.
Place some stones in the bottom of the bottle. Turn the top upside down and tape it to the bottle.
Use a ruler and marker pen to make a scale on the bottle.
Pour water into the bottle until it reaches the bottom strip on the scale. Congratulations, you have finished your rain gauge.
Put your rain gauge outside where it can collect water when it starts raining. After a rain shower has finished, check to see how far up the scale the water has risen.

What's happening?

Rain falls into the top of the gauge and collects at the bottom, where it can be easily measured. Try comparing the amount of rain to the length of time the shower lasted, was it a short and heavy rain shower or a long and light one?

If you want to get serious you can graph the rainfall over weeks or even months, this is especially interesting if the place you live experiences varying seasons where sometimes it is very dry and other times it is very wet.

Make a bird feeder in winter and discuss why the birds might need help to find food.

What you'll need:

A plastic (soft drink) bottle
Wooden spoons

Instructions:

Make holes in the bottle for the spoons and be sure that you angle the spoons downward so that the birdfeed will drizzle onto them. Fill with bottle with bird seed.

For more ideas see website

https://www.diyncrafts.com/3515/home/23-diy-birdfeeders-will-fill-garden-birds

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Recipe: Chocolate Strawberry Ghosts - This a fun spooky recipe that is simple and yummy to eat.

PDF Attachment: Chocolate Strawberry Ghosts - BLUE

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-24482-new-halloween-chocolate-strawberry-ghosts-recipeHalloween Chocolate Strawberry Ghosts Recipe (teacher made)

Recipe: Diwali Sweet Recipe - On 14th November 2020, Diwali is celebrated amongst Hindus. Why not try making traditional Diwali sweets.

PDF Attachment: Easy Diwali Sweet Recipe - BLUE GREEN

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-4285-easy-diwali-sweets-recipe

Useful Links:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/autumn-cooking-projects-kids

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/halloween-recipes

Drama/Arts/
Music

Download, print and work through the Blue SEASONS Arts Pack here, and here is a summary below:

Discuss seasons and paint your favourite one

Listen to the season song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksGiLaIx39c

Key Information:

How many seasons happen in a year? Can you name them? What is a season?

Task

Starter- Talk about the seasons, sign or act how you feel in the different seasons, Hot, Cold, Happy, Sad. What season makes you happiest?

Look at the pictures
Pick 1 season
Draw basic shapes
Use watercolour to paint your season

Extension:

Go outside and talk about what will happen to trees in winter

Keywords: Seasons Autumn Spring Winter Summer Hot Cold

2 LO: Learning about what people do in different seasons

Key Information:

How do seasons make you feel?

Task

Describe What people are doing in the seasons
Act out one of the actions to a friend
Make a playdough character
Say how the character feels in different seasons

Extension:
Draw you mood in different seasons

Keywords: Gardening Stomping leaves

Building Snowman Building a SandCastle

3. Extension- Draw how you feel in Summer and how you feel in winter. What makes you feel like that?

Other tasks to try:

Collect autumn leaves and create a collage or autumn picture.

Listen to The Four Seasons violin concerto by Vivaldi and discuss the different sounds. How does the music represent the different seasons?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Cosmic Kids: Frozen Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlg052EKMtk

Cosmic Kids: Summer Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfCALKceOs

Just Dance: Last Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktm-Y_l-ftY

Just Dance: Christmas Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3CHXyWRcu0

Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Standing Long Jump: Jump from 2 feet and land on 2 feet.	0.85m	0.50m	0.20m
Vertical Jump: Stand against a wall with both arms in the air. Mark where your fingertips stop. This is “0”. Jump as high as you can and touch the wall at the highest point. Measure between the 2 points.	30cm	10cm	5cm
Sock Shot Put: Roll a pair of socks into a ball. Sit on the floor and hold the sock in your neck with your hand. Push the socks as far away from you as you can. Measure the distance.	2m	1m	0.5m
100 step dash: Time how long it takes to run 100 steps on the spot.	1 min 30 sec	2 min	2 min 15 sec
Marathon: Does not need to be done all at once Space out 10m and run back and forth as many times as you can. Count how many you can do.	0.26 miles (42 runs) 1% of a marathon	0.13 miles (21 runs) 0.5% of a marathon	0.026 miles (4 runs) 0.1% of a marathon

Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Scissor Skiing: Stand with 1 foot in front of the other with opposite hands doing the same. I.E. If your left foot is forward and right back, your right hand will be forward and you left back. Jump in the air and swap your hands and feet (a scissor jump). Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	25	15	10
Ski Jumps: Standing with your feet together, place a pillow to one side of you. Jump sideways with feet still together over the pillow and back again (speed bounce). To make it easier you can step side to side, moving one foot at a time. Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	30	20	10
Ice Cube Curling: Fill up an ice cube tray and place a drop of different food colourings in each compartment (3 per colour). This will help tell the difference when playing. Place/draw a “bulls eye” target at the end of a smooth table/floor. 3 ice cubes per player. Players slide their ice cubes to stop in the centre of the target. Opponents' ice cubes can be knocked out of the way. Points awarded once all turns are taken. Bulls Eye: 10 points 1st ring: 5 points 2nd ring: 2 points Award 1 point if an ice cube goes through its intended target. Max 33 points per player	12	7	3

Cross Curricular

Harvest produce sorting game

Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-14740-harvest-produce-sorting-game

PDF Attachment: - Harvest Sorting Game - BLUE

GREEN THEMED SHEET

SEASONS

Aims: These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Green coloured tasks are aimed at
pupils in the main body of the school. Tasks are a mixture of interactive tasks and tasks which
build core skills. These are tasks we hope you will enjoy, please select the ones you feel are most
appropriate.

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Key Focus:

Building reading comprehension skills through a range of tasks.

Writing task - picture cues to support sequencing and build storytelling skills.

Extension Non-Fiction reading and writing.

Identifying FACT and ADVICE in a text.

Extended Writing: Expressing a personal opinion.

Resources:

Powerpoint ENG Seasons GREEN as [all worksheets and resources are on this powerpoint - please print from this document].

Videos

- Demeter & Persephone [read-along - some signing to support understanding]

- Advice On Visiting London [read-along - some signing to support understanding]

(apologies - the two videos above are not currently available).

Maths Focus

Count in 5s or 10s to fill in the missing numbers for each of the seasons on the worksheet.
Spring Missing Numbers Worksheets - 5s - pdf
Spring Missing Numbers Worksheets - 10s - pdf
Answer the questions relating to the Sunflower Growth Line graph.
Measure the length of leaves found outside. Draw around them and measure on paper. Put these measurements into a bar chart, remember to label and colour in your completed chart. Leaf measurement bar chart pdf.
Roll, add and colour! With a partner, take turns to roll 2 dice, add the numbers together and then colour in the total number on the Leaf worksheet. Whoever has the most coloured leaves wins! (This can also be a 1 player activity). Leaf Roll and Colour Activity pdf
Cut out the acorns on the worksheet, then find number bonds to 20.
Acorn number bonds to 20 pdf.
Continue the leaf pattern on the worksheet by adding the last picture.
Leaf Sequencing pdf
Count the Autumn objects and colour a box for each object you can see. Autumn count graph pdf

Science Focus

Activity: Autumn Themed Science Experiments - Here is a selection of lovely science experiments based on the theme of Autumn and suitable for use in all key stages. Each experiment contains details of what you will need, along with step by step instructions on how to carry it out. They also have prompt cards to promote discussion and exploration.

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-253707-eyfs-autumn-themed-science-experiments-resource-pack

Activity: Apple Experiments - This link will give you science experiments using apples.

Link:https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/apple-science-experiments-stem/

Activity: Autumn Experiments - Her is a link that gives you good ideas of Autumn experiments

Link:https://www.science-sparks.com/science-experiments-for-autumn-and-fall/

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Recipe: Spider Chocolate Crispy Cake - This is a spooky, creepy recipe you can make for Halloween.

PDF Attachment: Spider Chocolate Crispy Cake - GREEN

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-253244-halloween-spider-chocolate-crispy-cake-recipe

Recipe: Diwali Sweet Recipe - On 14th November 2020, Diwali is celebrated amongst Hindus. Why not try making traditional Diwali sweets.

PDF Attachment: Easy Diwali Sweet Recipe - BLUE GREEN

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-4285-easy-diwali-sweets-recipe

Useful Links:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/autumn-cooking-projects-kids

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/halloween-recipes

Drama / Arts

Here is the Seasons Art Pack (Green) which can be downloaded and printed. Below is a summary which can also be followed:

LO: To develop experimentation skills for Autumn

Key Information:

Can you name the Autumn colours?

watch the video and discuss

What happens in Autumn?

Watch the video to discuss what happens in Autumn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZk3SpyJKeA

Task

1: Find leaves

2: Paint over them to make a pattern

3: Can you make a warm Autumn coloured

Extension:

You could also experiment with other methods like- a sponge or even your fingers to apply the paint

Keywords:

Printmaking Dabbing Texture Paint Brush Finger painting Sponging

2. LO: To design a Spring Coloured Bird

Key Information:

Spring is full of bright colours outside because their are so many beautiful flowers and baby animals

Task

1: Describe the pictures

2: Draw a picture or outline 1 on the worksheet

3:Colour or paint them using your imagination

Extension:

You could also experiment with other methods like- a sponge or even your fingers to apply the paint

Key words:

Colourful Spring Birds Imaginations

3. Look at the pictures and guess the Season

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Cosmic Kids: Frozen Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlg052EKMtk

Cosmic Kids: Summer Yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfCALKceOs

Just Dance: Last Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktm-Y_l-ftY

Just Dance: Christmas Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3CHXyWRcu0

Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Standing Long Jump: Jump from 2 feet and land on 2 feet.	1.00m	0.5m	0.3m
Vertical Jump: Stand against a wall with both arms in the air. Mark where your fingertips stop. This is “0”. Jump as high as you can and touch the wall at the highest point. Measure between the 2 points.	40cm	20cm	10cm
Sock Shot Put: Roll a pair of socks into a ball. Sit on the floor and hold the sock in your neck with your hand. Push the socks as far away from you as you can. Measure the distance.	4m	2m	1m
100 step dash: Time how long it takes to run 100 steps on the spot.	25 sec	45 sec	1 min
Marathon: Does not need to be done all at once Space out 10m and run back and forth as many times as you can. Count how many you can do.	1.305 miles (210 runs) 5% of a marathon	0.26 miles (42 runs) 1% of a marathon	0.026 miles (4 runs) 0.1% of a marathon

Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Scissor Skiing: Stand with 1 foot in front of the other with opposite hands doing the same. I.E. If your left foot is forward and right back, your right hand will be forward and you left back. Jump in the air and swap your hands and feet (a scissor jump). Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	35	25	15
Ski Jumps: Standing with your feet together, place a pillow to one side of you. Jump sideways with feet still together over the pillow and back again (speed bounce). Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	45	30	15
Ice Cube Curling: Fill up an ice cube tray and place a drop of different food colourings in each compartment (3 per colour). This will help tell the difference when playing. Place/draw a “bulls eye” target at the end of a smooth table/floor. 3 ice cubes per player. Players slide their ice cubes to stop in the centre of the target. Opponents' ice cubes can be knocked out of the way. Points awarded once all turns are taken. Bulls Eye: 10 points 1st ring: 5 points 2nd ring: 2 points Award 1 point if an ice cube goes through its intended target. Max 33 points per player	18	10	5

Cross Curricular

1.Harvest discussion cards

Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-t-10000265-ks2-harvest-fact-and-discussion-cards

PDF Attachment: Harvest discussion cards - GREEN

2. All about Harvest powerpoint:

Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/cfe-t-t-2548739-eyfs-all-about-harvest-powerpoint

PDF Attachment: Harvest ppt - GREEN

Purple Themed Sheets

SEASONS

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.

Thinking

English Focus

To support students to build their core skills linked to examination work.

This week we are thinking about what happens when the seasons change through engaging with fiction and non-fiction texts. This work includes extended responses to Reading type questions as well as higher level Writing tasks linked to descriptive writing terms students need to be able to recognise and use.

Key Words:

[see powerpoint]

Resources: Powerpoint ENG Seasons PURPLE as [all texts and worksheets and work paper are on here. - see below for screenshots of some of the slides.]

Maths Focus

Roll, Multiply and colour! With a partner, take turns to roll 2 dice, multiply the numbers together and then colour in the total number on the Leaf worksheet. Whoever has the most coloured leaves wins! (This can also be a 1 player activity). Roll, Multiply and Colour pdf
Answer the questions relating to the Sunflower Growth Line graph.
Watch the video for multiplying 1 digit numbers - https://vimeo.com/413573097
Watch the video for multiplying 2 digit numbers - https://vimeo.com/413579403
Read through the White Rose Multiplication 2 by 2 digits Powerpoint and answer the questions from the worksheet.
Read through the White Rose Multiplication 3 by 2 digits Powerpoint and answer the questions from the worksheet
Continue to follow GCSE catch up on Padlet - https://padlet.com/knolan16/MHSmaths

Science Focus

Activity: Halloween Slime - This is a fun experiment where you can make slime and answer the question to understand how it is made and its properties.

PDF Attachment:Halloween Slime - PURPLE

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t3-sc-918-halloween-slime-science-recipe

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Recipe: Pumpkin Soup - This is a nutritious and healthy recipe where you use pumpkin which is in season at this time of the year.

PDF Attachment: Pumpkin Soup - PURPLE

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-4198-halloween-pumpkin-soup-recipe-sheets-vegetarian

Recipe: Coconut Square for Diwali - On 14th November 2020, Diwali is celebrated amongst Hindus. Why not try making traditional Diwali sweets.

PDF Link: Coconut ice square diwali - PURPLE

Link:https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/hi-t-t-13903-coconut-ice-squares-diwali-recipe-cards-recipe-english-hindi-

Useful Links:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/autumn-cooking-projects-kids

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/halloween-recipes

Drama/
Arts

Here is the PURPLE Seasons Art Pack which can be downloaded and printed. Below is also a summary of the work:

1. Learning Objective: Discuss seasons and paint your 4 season tree

Key Information:

How many seasons happen in a year? Can you name them? What is a season?

Task

Starter - Talk about the seasons, sign or act how you feel in the different seasons, Hot, cold, quite hot, qute cold. What season makes you happiest?

Look at the picture label the different seasons in the tree
Draw out your own tree
Split it into four (does not have to be even)

And label the seasons

Use watercolour to paint colour wash background
Mix poster paint to add the snow, and leaves

Extension:

Experiment with mixing paint colours

Keywords:

Seasons, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer

Watercolour-wash, Background, Poster Paint, dabbing

Colour mixing

Lo2: Drawing and Painting a four Seasons Pizza

Can you design your own Pizza inspired by the weather and nature

In the four seasons

Your pizza does not have to be something you can eat

This is an imaginative design brief

Keywords -

Autumn Orange/Summer Green/Colourful Spring/ Icy Blue Winter

3. Extension: Making a four seasons Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hexM3GaE2J4

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Just Dance: Last Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktm-Y_l-ftY

Just Dance: Christmas Tree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3CHXyWRcu0

Summer Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Standing Long Jump: Jump from 2 feet and land on 2 feet.	1.5m	1.0m	0.5m
Vertical Jump: Stand against a wall with both arms in the air. Mark where your fingertips stop. This is “0”. Jump as high as you can and touch the wall at the highest point. Measure between the 2 points.	50cm	30cm	10cm
Sock Shot Put: Roll a pair of socks into a ball. Sit on the floor and hold the sock in your neck with your hand. Push the socks as far away from you as you can. Measure the distance.	5m	3m	1m
100 step dash: Time how long it takes to run 100 steps on the spot.	15 sec	30 sec	45 sec
Marathon: Does not need to be done all at once Space out 10m and run back and forth as many times as you can. Count how many you can do.	2.61 miles (420 runs) 10% of a marathon	0.26 miles (42 runs) 1% of a marathon	0.026 miles (4 runs) 0.1% of a marathon

Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Scissor Skiing: Stand with 1 foot in front of the other with opposite hands doing the same. I.E. If your left foot is forward and right back, your right hand will be forward and you left back. Jump in the air and swap your hands and feet (a scissor jump). Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	45	30	15
Ski Jumps: Standing with your feet together, place a pillow to one side of you. Jump sideways with feet still together over the pillow and back again (speed bounce). Count how many you can do in 1 minute.	55	40	25
Ice Cube Curling: Fill up an ice cube tray and place a drop of different food colourings in each compartment (3 per colour). This will help tell the difference when playing. Place/draw a “bulls eye” target at the end of a smooth table/floor. 3 ice cubes per player. Players slide their ice cubes to stop in the centre of the target. Opponents' ice cubes can be knocked out of the way. Points awarded once all turns are taken. Bulls Eye: 10 points 1st ring: 5 points 2nd ring: 2 points Award 1 point if an ice cube goes through its intended target. Max 33 points per player	25	15	10

All about Harvest powerpoint:

Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-tp-5268-all-about-harvest-powerpoint

PDF attachment - All about Harvest powerpoint - PURPLE

2. Harvest comprehension activity

Link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-4288-harvest-ks2-differentiated-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity

PDF attachment - Harvest comprehension activity - PURPLE

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PACK 1 - Themed Activities - 5 January 2021 - Seasons

BLUE THEMED SHEETS

SEASONS

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Drama/Arts/
Music

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

GREEN THEMED SHEET

SEASONS

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Drama / Arts

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Purple Themed Sheets

SEASONS

Thinking

English Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/
Technology

Drama/
Arts

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

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PACK 1 - Themed Activities - 5 January 2021 - Seasons

BLUE THEMED SHEETS

SEASONS

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/ Technology

Drama/Arts/ Music

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

GREEN THEMED SHEET

SEASONS

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/ Technology

Drama / Arts

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Purple Themed Sheets

SEASONS

Thinking

English Focus

Maths Focus

Science Focus

Creativity

Cooking/ Technology

Drama/ Arts

Health & Wellbeing

Physical Activity

Cookie Policy

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Technology

Drama/Arts/
Music

Cooking/
Technology

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Technology

Drama/
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