KS2 Summer Holiday Pack - Week 7

Week 7

Looking for kids activities for the holidays? Our fun learning packs for kids to do at home include games, workouts, crafts and quizzes to keep your children active and entertained.

This week with BBC Bitesize

• make your own found sounds or even form a found sound band
• give your brain a work out with some space and solar system facts and go stargazing and spot constellations
• write your own science-fiction story
• help the grumpy scientists complete their experiments in the Science Bots game.

You can use sounds made with everyday objects, called found sounds to help compose music.

Have a look around the house or in the garden for everyday items and see if you can make sounds with them.

Here are some ideas to help you:

• drumming with your hands on a table or sofa
• tapping a cup or glass with a spoon
• tearing paper

Can you think of anything else?

You could even make your own instrument such as:

• shaking rice in an old washing up liquid bottle
• making a kazoo with a comb and tissue paper

Then put them together to make your own musical composition. If there are a few of you, you could play them all at once in your 'found sound' band.

Stay active with Manchester United's mascot, Fred the Red who has a song and movement routine to help you learn the six times table.

in with Johnny Cochran and Inel Tomlinson in this song and dance routine about homophones - words that sound the same.

Did you know that sounds are made when objects vibrate? This makes the air around the object vibrate and the air vibrations then travel to and enter your ear.

There is no air in space to vibrate therefore no sound waves meaning no sound! If you shouted in space nobody would hear you.

Here are some more space facts for you to discover.

Solar System facts

• The Sun is a star.
• The Earth is one of eight planets that orbit around the Sun.
• The planets are called Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
• The solar system is also home to lots of asteroids, moons, and dwarf planets such as Pluto.

Order the planets

Can you the order of the planets from the sun? Test yourself in the quiz below.

Late summer is a good time to stay up and see if you can spot stars and constellations.

to wrap up warm and, accompanied by a parent or carer, find somewhere where there is less light pollution so that you have a clear view of the skies.

The annual Perseids Meteor Shower is visible from late July to the end of August. It is made up of hundreds of meteors streaking across the sky.

Here is a guide created by Bitesize Parent's Toolkit and the National Space Centre with stargazing tips to help you work out which constellations are which.

Write your own science-fiction story.

Science fiction stories take place in a world that is different to our own.

The story could be set in space.

Perhaps your story takes place on another planet, in another time or features new technology that hasn't been invented yet.

You could get inspiration from a book that you've read, a game that you've played or a TV programme that you've watched.

Help a team of grumpy robo-scientists complete their top-secret science experiments before the nosy slimy, squidgy, green aliens interrupt them.