Start the day thinkingChoose one of the people below and list ten things you might find

in their bag:• A burglar• David Beckham• The Queen• A teacher

Start the day thinkingThink of a person you know Answer these questions:

• If this person was a type of food – what kind of food would they be?

• If this person was a car – which car would they be?• If this person was a colour – what colour would they be?• If this person was an animal – which one would they

be?

• You have to try and say why for each one you answer.

Start the day thinkingDraw a quick sketch of a house

of the future

Label the three top features it will have that will make it different from houses today

Start the day thinkingYou’ve been chosen to go on a jungle expedition.

What top 10 items will you put into your rucksack? Why are you choosing those?

Think about:Eating/drinkingShadeDangerWild lifeHeat/sunshineSleepingRecording your adventuresOther people…

Draw one of these emotions: Write other words around your picture that link with that word:

Anger Fear Love Delight Embarrassment

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Start the day thinkingProduce a Top Trumps card about yourself:

Give yourself a score out of 10 for each of these categories:

Artistic ability: art, painting, drawing, music, making things , drama.Friendship skills: getting on with teachers, dinner ladies, classmates. Making and keeping friendsMaths magician – number work, mental maths, problem solving, data handling, shape and spaceLanguage & Literacy – writing, telling stories, listening to others, writing reports, speaking another languagePhysical skills – games, running, jumping, throwing, catching, swimming etc.Science & technology – scientific knowledge, how things work, nature, fixing things and making models etc.

Start the day thinkingThink of:• Something that begins with the consonant cluster

‘sl’• The scariest thing you can think of• Three things that rhyme with the word ‘Tree’• Something that is always red• The three loudest noises you have ever heard• Your favourite 3D shape• Something you can see in the sky

Write a sentence using one of your answers that someone could read in a story book.

Start the day thinkingThink of ten jobs you think you might want to do when you grow up

Put them in alphabetic orderNow list your top 5 favourites (No1 is what you’d like the best)

Start the day thinkingWhere might you read the following sentences?

Then they all lived happily ever after.And if you want to buy this special offer, don’t delay.Stop! Danger ahead!All this happened on a sunny Sunday morning in September.Robots walked the earth and humans were wiped out forever.Touch the blue tab and pull the lever to the left.

Now write a line you might find in a poem

List ten things you would never see in a school?

List ten things you would like to see in schools.

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List ten disadvantages of:An umbrellaorA bicycle

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Start the day thinkingWrite a sentence that best

describes the weather today.

Think of as many words as you can that are used to

describe weather.

You own a paper clip company but you produced too many and they aren’t selling.

What could you add to them? – or could you change them to make them more appealing?Can you think of 5 new ideas?Which would sell the best? Why?

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Start the day thinkingYou are packing a case to go on holiday.

List the ten most important things you are going to take

Now you find out you can only pack 4 of them – Eliminate 6 things.Why have you kept the 4 you have decided to take?

Think about a bed and a hairbrush.

List the top three uses for both of them.

Now combine the two things into one new invention. Draw a sketch of this new combination.Does it have a name?

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Syllable Count Challenge.

Work in pairsPick a number between 1 and 5The challenge is to spend ten minutes looking for and writing down words with that number of syllables.The team with the most words wins

Establish some ‘time facts’ with the children

60 seconds = 1 minute 60 minutes = 1 hour 24 hours = 1 day 7 days = 1 week 2 weeks = fortnight 365 days = 1 year 366 days = leap year 28 days in February (29 in a leap

year) 12 months = 1 year 100 years = a century.

Time - in fact

Then ask children to answer some time questions:How many seconds in a day?How many in a year?How many hours in a leap year?Etc…

Give children 4 or 5 shapes and attach a number to each one:The challenge is to create a work of art using the shapes as many times as the number e.g. use the square only once and the triangle 4 times.You can add instructions about using specific colours or other instructions such as the circles and the triangles can’t touch each other…

Art Challenge Geometry is Beautiful

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