Snow Day Activities

Snow Day Activities

Ideas for learning activities during SPS closure:

• Create a "snowy day" picture using a variety of materials
• Sledging/build a snowman
• Baking healthy food - perhaps showing children how to make soup
• Stories - watch/listen/read with discussions of likes and dislikes
• Discussions about the snow and then link to the different forms of water
• How does sledging work?  Link to basic forces and what makes them
• Discussions about the weather, how does it make you feel?
• Take a photograph of a snow scene and explain what you like about it
• Look out of your window and draw what you see
• Write an imaginative 'snow' story/create a newspaper article on snow or keep a diary of what you have been up to in the snow
• Create a short script based on "A Winter Story".  This could be shared with your class when we are back!
• Design a sledge work- Design a fast or slow sledge- what did you choose and why?

General Activities

• Revisit phonic sounds/ spelling words already covered to date (using online books set by class teachers)
• Maths/Problem Solving Activities – can you create a snow related maths game?
• Play counting on games such as Snakes and Ladders, Dominos

Ideas for websites to try at home

Maths:

• Times Table Rock Stars
• ICT Games

Science:

• Met Office - Weather for kids
• Weather Wiz Kids
• How Stuff Works - Snow Activities

Online game/activities:

• Top Marks
• ICT Games
• Winter games
• Winter games 2
• Hour of code

Oak National Academy

Select the appropriate Key Stage and choose from the content available

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage

Snow Creativity

We are very busy clearing the snow to make it safe to open, our lovely staff did take a quick break to build us our very own SPS Snowman!

We would love for you to share pictures of your snow creations with us please tweet us your pics @SevenoaksPri or email them to homework@sevenoaks.kent.sch.uk

Happy snow building!