KS2 Summer Holiday Pack - Week 6

Week 6

Need creative activities for kids to do at home? This summer holiday pack offers fun learning activities for kids, with games, workouts, and crafts that will make your holiday enjoyable and entertaining.

This week with BBC Bitesize you can:

• draw a cityscape
• give your brain a workout with some Olympic mathletics
• go on a seaside adventure
• write your own adventure story
• play Ancient Greeks: Argo Odyssey.

Stephen Wiltshire was born in London in 1974. He is known for his incredible drawings of cityscapes. He can draw from memory after seeing scenes for a very short time.

When he was three years old, Stephen was diagnosed with autism. He first communicated with others using his drawings as he was mute.

Stephen Wiltshire draws every single day. His motto is do the best you can and never stop.

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Challenge: draw from memory

Instead of looking at an object and copying it onto paper, Stephen Wiltshire uses his amazing memory to make drawings with lots of details.

Try and use your memory to draw an image. You could:

• think of a building or person you have seen recently,
• look out of a window,
• find an image in a book or use an old photograph.

Try to remember as many details as you can, then look away and draw everything that you can remember.

Combine maths and movement in this week's Super Movers. Boost your brain with Max and Harvey and learn about units of measurement.

You can also practise your agility with Rhys in this fun, interactive video.

In sporting competitions such as the Olympics, athletes compete in events to see who can run or swim the fastest, jump the longest or highest and who can throw the furthest. Courses need to be set. Races are timed. Record jumps and throws are recorded.

Can you measure distances like an Olympic official?

Challenge:

• Find out more about metric measurements and try the quiz to see if you're a medal-winning mathlete.
• Host your own sporting competition at home to see who can jump the highest or run the fastest.
• Record the measurements to see who is the winner.

If you're going to the seaside with your family, there are lots of different activities you could do.

You could try:

• a beach scavenger hunt,
• fossil hunting,
• sand art,
• wildlife watching,
• long jumping in the sand,
• beach football.

Find more ideas and important tips for keeping safe when you're at the seaside.

This week's creative writing challenge it to write or draw your own adventure story.

Adventure stories often include:

• Something exciting and extraordinary, often a quest or a mission.

• Escaping danger, going on a quest or experiencing something out of the ordinary.

Think about where your adventure takes place.

Does it take place in a city like your cityscape? In Paris like the Olympics? Or at the seaside?

Learn about the lives of the Ancient Greeks and take part in the Olympic Games to save the sacred bronze discus from the master of thievery!