Summer 2nd Half Home Learning Ideas

• Create an animal habitat in a shoe box 
• Write a guide for how to look after a pet 
• Draw/paint/collage/junk box model your favourite animal 
• Research and create a poster about an endangered animal 
• Take photographs of local wildlife and tweet your class teacher 

Summer 1st Half Home Learning Ideas

Castles

• Junk box model a castle 
• Design a coat of arms 
• Make and decorate a shield 
• Make a pottage (a stew with vegetables and grains) or bake bread 
• Write an invitation to your banquet 
• Draw or paint your favourite characters from The Sword in the Stone 
• Design a costume for a king or queen 

Spring 2nd Half Home Learning Ideas

Great Britain

• Design your own flag
• Create a map of your journey from home to a special place
• Write a family tree for the Queen
• Write a letter to the Queen
• Make a collage of a flag from Great Britain
• Make a British landmark from cardboard boxes
• Make a 3D map
• Design and make a new bridge to cross the River Thames
• Paint a portrait of the Queen
• Research the myth behind the Giant's Causeway
• Write a travel brochure for Kimberworth Park or another town/city in the United Kingdom

Autumn 2nd Half Home Learning Ideas

Winter is Coming

• Share Christmas stories

• Write a letter to Santa

• Create an owl collage

• Learn a favourite nursery rhyme or poem

• Research Guy Fawkes

Autumn 1st Half Home Learning Ideas

Ourselves / Where have all the flowers gone?

• Complete a family tree

• Go for a walk in the local environment. Discuss the changes they can see

• Identify evergreen and deciduous trees

• Collect autumn leaves to draw or rub

• Make collage pictures using materials they have found in the woods

• Recognise shapes in the home. Take photographs and identify the shapes

• Order household items from smallest to largest

• Plot a map of your route from home to the park/a family member