1. Start the day thinking Choose one of the people below and list ten things you might find in their bag: A burglar David Beckham The Queen A teacher

2. Start the day thinking Think of a person you know Answer these questions: If this person was a type of food – what kind of food would they be? If this person was a car – which car would they be? If this person was a colour – what colour would they be? If this person was an animal – which one would they be? You have to try and say why for each one you answer.

3. Start the day thinking Draw a quick sketch of a house of the future Label the three top features it will have that will make it different from houses today

4. Start the day thinking You’ve been chosen to go on a jungle expedition. What top 10 items will you put into your rucksack? Why are you choosing those? Think about: Eating/drinking Shade Danger Wild life Heat/sunshine Sleeping Recording your adventures Other people…

5.  Draw one of these emotions: Write other words around your picture that link with that word: Anger Fear Love Delight Embarrassment Start the day thinking

6. Produce a Top Trumps card about yourself: Give yourself a score out of 10 for each of these categories: Artistic ability: art, painting, drawing, music, making things, drama. Friendship skills: getting on with teachers, dinner ladies, classmates. Making and keeping friends Maths magician – number work, mental maths, problem solving, data handling, shape and space Language & Literacy – writing, telling stories, listening to others, writing reports, speaking another language Physical skills – games, running, jumping, throwing, catching, swimming etc. Science & technology – scientific knowledge, how things work, nature, fixing things and making models etc.

7. Start the day thinking Think of: Something that begins with the consonant cluster ‘sl’ The scariest thing you can think of Three things that rhyme with the word ‘Tree’ Something that is always red The three loudest noises you have ever heard Your favourite 3D shape Something you can see in the sky Write a sentence using one of your answers that someone could read in a story book.

8. Start the day thinking Think of ten jobs you think you might want to do when you grow up Put them in alphabetic order Now list your top 5 favourites (No1 is what you’d like the best )

9. Start the day thinking Where might you read the following sentences? Then they all lived happily ever after. And if you want to buy this special offer, don’t delay. Stop! Danger ahead! All this happened on a sunny Sunday morning in September. Robots walked the earth and humans were wiped out forever. Touch the blue tab and pull the lever to the left. Now write a line you might find in a poem

10. List ten things you would never see in a school? List ten things you would like to see in schools. Start the day thinking

11. List ten disadvantages of: An umbrella or A bicycle Start the day thinking

12. Write a sentence that best describes the weather today. Think of as many words as you can that are used to describe weather.

13. You own a paper clip company but you produced too many and they aren’t selling. What could you add to them? – or could you change them to make them more appealing? Can you think of 5 new ideas? Which would sell the best? Why? Start the day thinking

14. You are packing a case to go on holiday. List the ten most important things you are going to take Now you find out you can only pack 4 of them – Eliminate 6 things. Why have you kept the 4 you have decided to take?

15. Think about a bed and a hairbrush. List the top three uses for both of them. Now combine the two things into one new invention. Draw a sketch of this new combination. Does it have a name? Start the day thinking

16. Syllable Count Challenge. Work in pairs Pick a number between 1 and 5 The challenge is to spend ten minutes looking for and writing down words with that number of syllables. The team with the most words wins

17.  Establish some ‘time facts’ with the children  60 seconds = 1 minute  60 minutes = 1 hour  24 hours = 1 day  7 days = 1 week  2 weeks = fortnight  365 days = 1 year  366 days = leap year  28 days in February (29 in a leap year)  12 months = 1 year  100 years = a century. Time - in fact Then ask children to answer some time questions: How many seconds in a day? How many in a year? How many hours in a leap year? Etc…

18. Give children 4 or 5 shapes and attach a number to each one: The challenge is to create a work of art using the shapes as many times as the number e.g. use the square only once and the triangle 4 times. You can add instructions about using specific colours or other instructions such as the circles and the triangles can’t touch each other… Art Challenge  Geometry is Beautiful  1. 2.  3.  4  5.