Library of Activities for Summer Holidays 2020

Library of Activities for Summer
                Holidays 2020
   Waterbeach School is lucky to have Jane Rogers as our Early Intervention
  Family Worker. She supports families from all walks of life with a range of
    parenting issues. Throughout lockdown, Jane has been sharing regular
    suggestions of achievable activities to families over the term and I have
compiled them into this directory for easy reference. If you need inspiration on
  stuff to do in the holidays (or are at your wits end!), check out some of the
    ideas on here. We have also compiled the Parent’s Tips she sent out on
common issues such as anxiety, arguments and playing with your children. See
                  the Directory of Parenting Tips 2020 for these.

    We are looking forward to welcoming all the children back to school in
                                September!

                                Best wishes,
                    Mrs Tregoing, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Directory Contents:

  1. Reading and Stories
     Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
     Eric Carle: The Very Quiet Cricket
     David Walliams reads some of his short stories
     Cressida Cowell reading How to Train your Dragon
     Rik Mayall reads George’s Marvellous Medicine
     Puffin Festival of Big Dreams
     BBC 500 words stories
     BookTrust HomeTIme website (loads of stories here!)

  2. Mental and Physical Wellbeing
     Fun active games (NHS)
     Which Bird?
     Disney Dancing!
     Just relax…
     Treasure Hunts
     Walking Bingo
     Code Cracking Treasure Trail
     Cosmic Kids
     Wellbeing Journal

  3. Creative Time
     Frog Puppet
     Back and Forth Drawing
     Collage
     Cake Sculpture
     Writing-less diary
     Mandela drawing

  4. Science and Technology
     Experiments for little ones
     All about memory
     Endangered animals
     Dolphins
     Elephants
     Light
     Cartoons
     Be an Internet Legend
     Sleep

1.   Reading and Stories:
Eric Carle
   •    The Very Hungry Caterpillar: a real favourite! Are you one of those parents who has
        read this story hundreds of times? Take a look at this, it’s lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

                           • These Eric Carle animations are beautiful, they are for young
                           children of course, but I love watching them. Here’s The Very
                           Quiet Cricket
                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiGEjz5b0Q

David Walliams
There’s lots of fun to be had on David Walliams’s wonderful website, including free activities
you can download, and a daily reading by him.
David Walliams Elevenses - David Walliams is reading short stories from some of his most
popular books and uploading them here for you to enjoy:
www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

How to train your dragon
Cressida Cowell reads a chapter a day of her lovely book ( from her very messy shed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyUNZa7_Gjo&list=PLE5MZB5pedUMNJLdgu0wYaSlL0
dRLHcU0&index=2&t=0s
George’s Marvellous Medicine
A wonderful telling of this story by the very
entertaining Rick Mayall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niL_h6kYPbk

Puffin festival of Big Dreams This event held in June has great story-writing workshops
      recorded for anyone to use https://www.penguin.co.uk/puffin/dream-big.html

BBC 500 words story competition

Here is the silver winner in the age 5-9 category of this lovely story writing competition. It’s
beautiful.

‘The Old Rabbit’ read by Joanna Lumley

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5p8nL2kHZQP1vtWqbFN66tF/500-words-
final-2020?xtor=CS8-1000-[Discovery_Cards]-[Multi_Site]-[SL08]-
[PS_PROGRAMMES~N~~A_500WordsFinal]

Check out the other stories too, they are all amazing!

Enjoy storytime on BookTrust Home Time with our free online books and videos, play
                                       games, win prizes, test your knowledge in our
                                       book-themed quizzes, or even learn how to draw
                                       some of your favourite characters.
                                             https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-
                                             some-fun/

   2.   Physical and Mental wellbeing:
   •    NHS website, fun games here! https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-
        ups/pumbaas-hippo-hops
   •    Which Bird? Watch the clip and learn the different sounds our garden birds make.
        Test each other and make up a game! What can you hear in your garden or near
        your house? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-dOm7-WEI
   •    Disney dancing This is lots of fun, don’t worry if you can’t follow the steps, just do
        your own thing, kids and adults. Enjoy….. (come on, up you get)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDa0OMDUJEK1I&v=a0OMDUJEK1I&feature=
        emb_rel_end
   •    Just relax! Click this link to listen to some relaxing sounds of the sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmEWRZNJ3k
Here are some rainforest sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE&t=436s

You can search for your own, just type in: sounds of the jungle/river/raindrops etc

Find a quiet moment, and ask your children to get comfortable, close their eyes and listen.
Ask them to think about what they can hear / see / smell / feel and let the sounds play.

When they open their eyes, get them to describe the
       experience to you (you do it too)
Alternatively, let the sounds play and draw pictures of the
scene you are hearing.

   •    Treasure hunts are great fun, inside or out. You just need to use your imagination.
        Here are some ideas to get you going.
Try to find:
     Something the same colour as your shoes

Something for every colour of the rainbow
      Something smooth
      Something a thick as your thumb
      Something that starts with the first letter of your name

Or make one up!

 •    Try ‘Walking Bingo’ or ‘Crack the Code Treasure Trail’ both on the
      Wellbeing Section of the School Website. These will get you walking
      around Waterbeach
      https://www.waterbeach.cambs.sch.uk/page/?title=Wellbeing+During+School+Closure&pid=1474

 •    Wellbeing for children
      Would you like your children to be stronger and calmer?
      Cosmic kids uses yoga, stories and fun activities to support children’s emotional
      wellbeingYoga and Meditation can help children to relax and stay calm. Cosmic Kids
      Yoga channel on YouTube has free videos aimed at children aged 3+.

 •    Wellbeing journal
      Keeping a journal and doing daily exercise can help us to look after our wellbeing. You
      can download a free Wellbeing Journal and take part in some 15-minute exercises,
      created by Nuffield Health here www.nuffieldhealth.com/kidswellbeing

     3.   Creative time:

 •    Puppet: Here’s a frog puppet from the easypeasy website, a great crafty website with
      loads of fun ideas https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/printable-frog-puppet/

 •    Back and forth drawing This looks fun, and so simple. https://artfulparent.com/a-back-
      and-forth-drawing-game/

 •    Make a collage Here’s a fun activity from the BBC Teach website
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/art-and-design-using-textured-
      materials-landscape-collage/zfrfbdm

 •  Make a cake sculpture Don’t worry if it goes wrong, just eat it and start again!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/art-and-design-ks2-cake-sculptures/zk4bnrd

 •    How do you keep a diary without writing? Use drawings instead!
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6CPxOZwIGQ

 •    A great co-operative mandela drawing activity here
      https://artfulparent.com/heart-drawing-activity/

4.   Science and Technology:

 •    For little scientists Some really fascinating, but
      simple experiments you can do at home. Try the
      bouncy egg! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MHn9Q5NtdY

 •    Science experiments for little ones There’s lot of fun stuff to do over at the cbeebies
      website, here is the link to some cool science experiments (I like the fizzy lava lamp)
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/science-experiments-tlgc

 •    Royal Institution A great site to ‘encourage children to look closely at the world around
      them, and experiment Test your memory on this experiment
      https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/memory-masters

 •    Wordsearch Can you find the endangered animals? When you have done this pick your
      favourite animal and find out some facts about it. Why is it endangered?
      https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/activities/word-safari-endangered-species

                  •    How much do you know about dolphins? Lots of fun facts here, take
                  a look, then see if you can create a story about a dolphin, or a picture
                  maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45F2kH144zY

 •    Elephants
 Some lovely footage of baby elephants here. Lots of games /activities and interesting
 animal facts on this website including live webcam of the animals
 https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/videos/baby-elephants

 •   What is light, where does it come from? How do you teach kids about a science topic?
Sing and dance it of course. Take a look..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-science-light-reflection-and-shadows-from-
the-tardis/zdchd6f

 •    How are cartoons created? Using stop motion animation of course. Watch this fun clip
      from the BBC Teach website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YcOZ7SpyTA&list=PLcvEcrsF_9zILP3xc9QIXvN7fX
    Y2fanBI

•   Be an internet legend! Resources for children and parents around internet safety,
    including this fun game https://beinternetlegends.withgoogle.com/en_uk/interland

•   Why do we sleep?
    For children who don’t want to go to bed, it can be useful to
    explain to them why we do it. Did you know we can spend
    around 25 years of our lives sleeping!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoCL0IB4u4g