Give me 5

Create a sentence that makes sense using these five words.  You can use other words to help the sentence make sense but the aim is to use the least amount of words possible.  Try to challenge someone in your family to beat you!


Crawl, health remember, glass, seaside



One for tomorrow morning....


Symmetry, question, ladybird, violin, food

Lucky or Funny?

Would you rather be LUCKY or FUNNY?

Give me 10 reasons why you choose that answer!

The Great Skate

For this one please refer to brainstorming rules.  That way you won't shut down any ideas! The important thing to remember here is that ANY idea is a good one.  The goal is to make a long list, no matter what.  This activity is to get you thinking, breaking out of a box with your thoughts, and being super creative!

So,

how many things can you think of....

• things that are silly
• things wax could be used for
• interesting and original names for a roller skating rink

Make the longest list you can! 

For enrichment, 

Choose you favourite silly thing and write a story about it!

invent something using wax

Create a new game that could be played in a roller skating rink

Give me 5

How can you make these 5 words into a sentence using the fewest words possible.  Turn this into a challenge to see which sentence makes sense and which pupil or player has been able to make a sensible sentence with the least possible words. This could be a family challenge. 




Peanut, snow, globe, leg, computer

Try this one as well:

Happy, perish, crab, flower, halo

For example,

Browsing peanuts on my computer, I came across an advertisement for a snow globe with a ballerina 's leg in arabesque.  (20)

CHARGE? A stance, balance, perception activity

Describe the word CHARGE from different points of view...


Ticket agent:

Teenager:

Rock-star:

Governess:

Army:




Now write a song or poem choosing one of the different perspectives. 

Stance Balance and Perception activities explanation

This activity focuses on fluency, imagination, creative problem solving, flexibility and emotional intelligence.  All skills for the future according to the World Economic Forum.  It also supports calculated risk-taking as the pupil is asked to see things from other perspectives and make ethical decisions. 
The pupil learns to express "outside the box" answers without judgement.  These activities encourage high level thinking skills whilst producing an aware and caring creative thinker. 

What if.....

Here are a few what if questions! Remember to go to the brainstorming explanation page because you want a list as long as you can! When you can't think of any more try and squeeze out at least 5 more ideas!

What if...

school began at midnight and lasted until 7 am?

there were no such things as EGGS?

spiders were as big as elephants?

With you favourite idea, create an invention, recipe or anything that might help you in this situation

Harmony ( an invention activity)

You love music and have tried playing every instrument available.  However, you believe there is room for more!

Invent a new kind of musical instrument. What will you create?


Before you start think about different types of instruments.  Do you want a percussion instrument or one that can play a melody?

Write your own song!

30 days of going inside (because you can't go outside)

Rachael Williams and her sister, Louise Hankinson are launching a program starting tomorrow to help people better support themselves. 

Their website is www.intwominds.org.uk

you can find the link here on their website, on facebook or on instagram. They will provide videos about 10 min in length each day.


Tomorrow the theme is INTEGRATE 

Invent

Today, I am giving you something to invent. This could take you five minutes or all day, depending on how far you take it.  Once you come up with the invention in your head, you could try and make it with recycling or junk around the house or in the garden? The second invention you could actually try and play!

Invent

• a new creature made up from two existing ones ( for example, a centaur ) 

give your creature a name

• a new piece of playground equipment

what would you call it? Can you play with it today? 

Flow of thought exercises

Here are a few exercises to get your brain thinking fluently.  It is important to go anywhere with your imagination when answering and make as long of a list as possible.  Even when you think you can't add any more answers try and squeeze out 5 more!


How many can you think of...

• Things that can sink

• Things you can't touch

• Creative names for a sea monster

( please share any answers in comments! I would love to know some of your creative ideas! 

Survivor

I feel that we can relate to this activity considering the fact that we are all trapped inside with less resources than we may be used to!

So imagine:

The National Consumer Group (NCG)has done a survey that has shown that there are some shops in the UK that claim to sell and stock everything a person needs to survive.
The NCG has asked that all shops agree to a challenge to prove if this claim is true.  It is very good marketing for the shop that is chosen so they all agree to participate.

The challenge is that a person will go inside a shop and live there for one week.  The person will not be allowed to leave at any time  or take in any personal possessions.  That person is YOU!

• Choose a shop in the UK that you think you could live in for one week.  

• List all the things you think you NEED to survive. There will also be things that will make your more comfortable. List these separately.  

It is good to keep a routine daily no matter where you are.  Write down a schedule of a day from 7 am to 9 pm.

• What problems did you face?

• Why did you choose that particular shop?

• What are the advantages of choosing that shop as opposed to another one? 

• Design, create and make something that would entertain you! You can use the things you can find but it has to be original. Not something that is already fully completed.  

Name it- Tame it Lable it- Cradle it Rachael Williams

Ask why when your child says how they are feeling and reward their noticing!

Trying to help your child be more curious about their emotions can be a challenge, but most are generally interested in the where they feel them in their body first and then they can label them. If we name an emotion, it becomes a feeling and if we can verbalise what that feeling is, then it goes a long way to taming it in our bodies.

Name it to Tame it, or if you have younger children, Label it to cradle it J

Once we have named it, then we can have a conversation about why is has shown up and what message it brings.
Emotions don’t show up for no reason at all. They are the greatest resource for us to tap into to understand what really matters to our children. Most of the time emotions show up for one of the following reasons:

Activity- I need to move my body

Alone time- I need some time alone

Appreciation- I need somebody to notice me

Appetite- I need to eat or drink something

Affection- I need a hug

Once we have verbalised the feeling, then our bodies become a little calmer and then we can get our needs met more easily.

See if you can keep the blank body page out and encourage your child to point at where they feel it, Name the emotion and then see if they can work out what message it brings. Once they have done that, the emotion will pass, often in minutes!

An emotion is meant to come for a cup of tea, not a sleepover J

 

Take a look inside- Rachael Williams

As we can't go outside, let's look inside instead

This period of isolation is an opportunity, as well as feeling like an obligation: An opportunity to help your child relate more skillfully to their internal worlds.

Can your child bring their incredible sense of adventure and curiosity to their internal emotional worlds?

A great place to start is to think about emotions as energy in motion. They start in the body first and then our mind gives them a name.

Can you think of as many emotions as possible and give them names? Anger, sadness, joy are often the first that come to mind, but can your name any more?

Using a copy of the body outline resource below, see if you can map where you feel these emotions in your body. For example, we might notice a change in our tummy when we are frightened. 

Using a different colour for each of the main emotions, see if you can map them on your body outline. For example, you might use red for anger, green for joy and purple for excitement.

Research on emotions and how they map onto the body is really interesting for children and adults alike.

Take a look at this emotions map and see if the areas of bodily arousal shown match those of your own body map.

It is so important that children learn to see emotions as an important and inevitable part of being human. We cannot control them (most of us try daily to do so!) and yet we are often not willing to experience all of them, just the ones we view as :positive", such as happiness and pride.