Week 4
BBC Bitesize has all kinds of holiday fun for kids. Our Summer holiday packs are filled with fun learning activities to do at home. Enjoy being creative, crazy workouts, and fun quizzes that keep you entertained.
This week you can;
- write a silly nonsense poem,
- become an artist with the line drawing challenge,
- explore the world in Pirate Bunnies: World Adventure.
Create: Line drawing
Drawing is when you use lines to make a mark on a surface. It could be a sketch, a figure or a plan.
It is an important technique used today by many people and in many jobs, including artists and designers.
Find out what drawing is and all the different ways to do it with Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers: We're doing one of my favourite things. Drawing!
Everything I do starts with drawing even if it turns out to be a painting.
So drawing means putting down lines and marks that make a picture.
All you need is something to draw with and something to draw on.
Sometimes it's fun to draw something that you see in real life. Or something that you think up in your own mind.
Drawing can bring your ideas to life or can show other people how you're feeling inside.
Did you know that human beings have been drawing for a very long time? The oldest drawings ever found were drawn thousands of years ago on the walls of caves.
Brody and Tida are doing some of their own cave drawings right now. So Brody, what are you working on?
Brody: I'm drawing animals.
Oliver Jeffers: Yeah I suppose that's the sort of thing people would've drawn in caves all those years ago.
And Tida, what about you?
Tida: I'm drawing hands of the cavemen.
Oliver Jeffers: These are both looking fantastic. I'm loving the colour you're bringing in there.
I don't know about you guys but I love drawing, what about you?
Tida: Yeah I love drawing.
Brody: I love it.
Oliver Jeffers: So, why don't you try some drawings of your own? I think I'm going to have a go at doing a cave drawing too.
Make a line drawing
Get a pen or pencil and some paper.
Look around you, e.g. the room or space that you are in right now or even what is right in front of you.
Choose something to look at and draw.
Draw the shapes and lines that you can see.
Challenge:
Can you make a drawing with just one line? No taking your pen or pencil off the paper!
Stay active
Hop on board a safari jeep and transport yourself to the middle of a savannah as Olympic Gold Medallist Bethany Shriever guides pupils on a safari!
Andy on a wild workout in the ocean! Follow him beneath the waves and find out all about the creatures in the sea.
Boost - Animal Safari with Bethany Shriever
Boost - Animal Safari: Moodboosters
Andy's Wild Workouts: Under the sea
Andy's Wild Workouts - Under the sea: Super Movers
Go explore: Amazing trees
There are so many trees around us that it is easy to take them for granted and forget what incredible living things they really are!
Trees help us live by taking in carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They make shelters for animals and grow fruits and nuts we can eat. We get wood from trees as well.
Trees are also beautiful to look at and great to play in.
Find a tree and investigate
Find a tree near you that you like and investigate:
- What shape are its leaves?
- Can you fit your arms round the tree?
- Is its bark rough or smooth?
- Does anything live in the tree? Birds, squirrels or minibeasts?
- Does it have any fruit?
Try drawing the tree, its leaves and anything that lives inside it.
Creative writing challenge: Nonsense poems
Poetry is a great way to let your imagination run wild. One of the best things about poetry is that is doesn't even need to make sense. This is called nonsense poetry.
Professor: Hello. Today I would like to talk to you about nonsense poems.
A nonsense poem is a particular type of poem that does not always make sense. They often…
Book: The crandles bunked my futtage
So I wollimered their pong
Then they tootifried my yumchaks
Til my yumchaks were all oblong.
Professor: Sorry about that.
As I was saying, they often use words which have simply been made up, usually they are mixed up with normal words to make…
Book: They pippified my loon
And they're living on the moon
Professor: Right! That's it! I give up!
Now have a go at making up some nonsense writing of your own.
Make up some nonsense words and use them to write a poem.
Play: Pirate Bunnies: World Adventures
Are you ready for an adventure?
Hop on Captain Carrot’s ship and explore the world with the Pirate Bunnies!
Discover the flags of the world, seasons and the weather, oceans and much more in this fun geography game.
Pirate Bunnies: World Adventures
Play Pirate Bunnies: World Adventures KS1 Geography
More games
There are lots more great primary games to help you learn and play.
Dinosaur Discovery. game
Dinosaur Discovery KS1 Science
Galaxy Pugs. game
Bitesize: KS1 Science
Creative Lab. game
Creative Lab: KS1 Art and Design
Where next?
KS1 Summer Holiday Pack - Week 5
Head to week 5 for more fun!
