Your Task:

1. Watch the video about Andy Goldsworthy.
   Look at how he uses different natural materials to make his art.

2. Go outside and collect some natural things.
   You could use:

   • Leaves

   • Twigs

   • Stones

   • Flowers

   • Grass

   • Bark

3. Make your own land art!

   • Try to make a pattern or a shape.

   • Think about how the size, colour, and shape of your materials can work together.

   • Can you arrange them in a spiral, circle or line?

4. Take a photo of your art if you can!
   You can share it on the Padlet or keep it as a memory of your nature artwork.

Challenge Questions

• How does your art change if the weather changes?

• What message or feeling does your land art give?

• How is your work similar to or different from Andy Goldsworthy’s?

Your Task:

Visit a Landscape
This could be a park, beach, countryside, city view, or even your garden.

Take a Photo of the Real Place
Try to capture the scene that inspires you most.

Create Your Artwork

You can do a sketch, drawing, collage or painting using materials of your choice.

Think about:

• The colours, shapes and textures in the landscape

• How you can show depth (what’s near and far)

• The feeling or mood of the place (peaceful, busy, wild, etc.)

Share Your Work

• Upload a photo of the real landscape

• Upload a photo of your artwork

• You can also include a short explanation of what inspired your piece and what materials you used.

Challenge:
Can you add something imaginative or unusual to your landscape art?
Or try showing the same scene at two different times (day/night, summer/winter)?

Step 1: Choose Your Destination

Pick a place that excites you! It could be:

• Somewhere you went on holiday

• A day trip you remember well

• A dream destination you’ve always wanted to explore

Step 2: Find Out (or Remember) Fun Facts

Write down at least five interesting or fun facts about the place:

• What is it known for?

• What did you (or would you) eat?

• What’s the weather like?

• Are there animals or nature?

• Any cool landmarks, stories or traditions?

  
  

Step 3: Plan or Recall Your Trip

• If it’s a place you want to go: plan a 3-day trip with what you’d see, do, eat and explore.

• If it’s a place you’ve been to: tell us what you did each day and what you enjoyed most.

  
  

Step 4: Create Your Blog Post

Write a blog post, make a poster or create a short video that includes:

• A catchy title

• A short intro to your place

• Your 5 fun facts

• A 3-day itinerary (real or imagined)

• Why this place is special to you

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Step 5: Make it Stand Out!

Add drawings, photos, maps or decorations to bring your blog to life. Share it with your family.

The Magical Holiday
You find a glowing, talking map in your suitcase that shows a secret place no one else knows about.

Tips:

• Include a magical creature or guide.

• Describe the secret place using your five senses.

• Use strong verbs like whispered, glowed, or shimmered.

  
  

Mystery at Midnight
You wake up to a strange noise outside your window and discover something unbelievable happening!

Tips:

• Use short, punchy sentences to build suspense.

• Add sound words like CRASH! or WHISPER…

• Describe how you feel (scared, curious, excited).

  
  

Animal Switch!
You wake up as an animal and see the world from their eyes!

Tips:

• Write in the first person ('I').

• Describe what you can see, smell and hear as the animal.

• Think about what your animal likes and dislikes.

  
  

🎯 Remember to plan out your story.

Watch and listen carefully - notice how the story is told and how the characters behave.

Step 2: Explore the Story with the 3 “Wonders”

🧐 I Wonder About the Character...
What do you think motivates or worries one of the characters? Is there something surprising about them? Use evidence from the story to explain your thoughts.

🤔 I Wonder If This Could Happen in Real Life...
Do the story’s events seem realistic or magical? Explain why, using examples from the story or your own experiences.

💭 I Wonder What Would Happen Next...
Imagine the story continues. What new adventure or problem might the characters face? Write a detailed paragraph or create a comic strip to show your idea.

Step 3: Create Your Own Mini-Story Inspired by the Book

Choose one of these creative options:

• Write a new story with a similar theme (e.g. bravery, friendship, kindness) but set somewhere different.

• Invent a new character and describe what happens when they enter the story’s world.

• Rewrite the story’s ending with your own exciting twist.

Tips:

• Use descriptive words and phrases to bring your story alive.

• Include dialogue or thoughts to show what characters feel.

• Plan your story with a clear beginning, middle and end.

  
  

Step 4: Share Your Ideas

• Share your “Wonders” and your mini-story with a family member.

• Record yourself reading your story aloud, practicing expression and pace just like the storytellers on Storyline Online.

You have a blank grid or paper divided into equal parts.

Your challenge:

• Divide your paper into equal sections (e.g., 12 squares, 16 triangles, or 20 rectangles).

• Colour some parts using different fractions (for example, colour 1/4 blue, 3/8 red, and the rest yellow).

• Try mixing fractions that add up to 1 (a whole) in different ways.

• Write down the fractions you used and explain why you chose them.

• Can you create a pattern or design using your fractions?
   
  ✏️ Be an inquirer and communicator — explain your choices and patterns!

You’re designing a box for a gift, a snack, or a toy. You can choose the item.

Your challenge:

• Select an item that you want to create a box for. What are the measurements of the item?

• Pick a length, width, and height (e.g. 6cm × 4cm × 3cm).

• Now redesign it to fit the same item with different measurements.

• Draw or make your box using paper or recycled materials.

✏️ Be an inquirer — how many ways can you make the box to fit in one item in different ways?

Make a list of 8–10 items (e.g. hat €5.50, torch €7.20, snack €1.80).
Try to create 3 different “packing lists” as close to €30 as possible.
Can you find the cheapest, most expensive, and most useful combinations?

✏️ Be reflective — how do your choices affect your adventure?

💪 What to Do:

• Walk, run, cycle, or swim - any kind of movement counts!

• Ask a parent or adult to help you track how far you go and how long it takes.

• Keep a running total - can you reach 100km by the end of the holidays?

📸 Share Your Progress:

• Upload pictures of your activities

• Share how far you went and how long it took

• You can even make a chart or map to show your journey!

🏅 Top Tip:

Break it into smaller goals - just a few kilometres each day adds up quickly!

🏃‍♂️ Step 1: Choose Your Events

Pick 3–5 fun activities to include. Here are some ideas:

• Vortex or ball throw - who can throw the farthest?

• Standing long jump - how far can you leap from a standing start?

• Mini obstacle course - use cones, cushions, skipping ropes or anything you can find!

• Speed bounce - how many jumps can you do over a line or object in 30 seconds?

• Balance challenge - walk along a rope or line without falling off

• Relay race - create teams or take turns with a timer

✏️ Step 2: Set Up and Keep Score

• Make simple scorecards to track distances, times or points

• Decide how points will be awarded (e.g. 1st = 3 pts, 2nd = 2 pts...)

• Take turns being the timer, scorer or judge!

📸 Step 3: Celebrate and Share

• Take photos or draw a poster showing your events

• Create your own certificates or medals!

  
  

🏆 Bonus Challenge:

Design your own event! Give it a name, make the rules, and get your family to try it.

Take a slow, quiet walk - it can be in your garden, local park or even around your home. As you walk, focus on your 5 senses. The goal is to notice what’s around you right now.

What to do:

As you walk or sit quietly, pause and focus on:

• 5 things you can see
  (Look for small details: a leaf shape, cloud patterns, cracks in the pavement)

• 4 things you can feel
  (The ground under your feet, the breeze on your skin, the texture of a leaf)

• 3 things you can hear
  (Birds, footsteps, distant sounds - really listen!)

• 2 things you can smell
  (Fresh air, flowers, food, earth)

• 1 thing you can taste
  (this is maybe something to drink or snack afterwards)

  
  

Reflect:

After your walk, write or draw:

• One thing you noticed that you’d never seen before

• One word to describe how you felt before and after the walk

• A colour or image that matches your mood

  
  

Bonus:

Try a walk barefoot (in a safe space) or with your eyes closed for a few steps. What changes?

Click the link to try an online yoga session. These videos will guide you through simple poses like Tree, Warrior, and Downward Dog - helping you build strength, balance and calm.

Whether you need:

• a moment to focus,

• some quiet time, or

• just a fun way to move,

Yoga is a great way to feel strong and relaxed - inside and out.

🎯 Your challenge:
Try one yoga session a week. After each session, reflect and write or draw how it made you feel!

Here are some ways you can help:

🏠 At home:

• Tidy up shared spaces

• Help with cooking or setting the table

• Water the plants or feed the pets

  
  

🌿 In the garden:

• Pull weeds, plant seeds, or pick up litter

• Create signs to remind others to care for nature

  
  

👨‍👩‍👧 With your family:

• Talk about ways to save water and electricity

• Help a younger sibling, family memebr or friend with a task

• Offer to read a book together

  
  

🏘 In your neighborhood:

• Say kind words or smile at someone

• Help an elderly neighbour (with an adult)

• Create a positive poster or card to brighten someone's day

  
  

✅ Your challenge:

• Keep a Helping Hands Log to track how many ways you helped this summer

• Write or draw how each act made you and others feel

• At the end of the summer, reflect:

  • Which was your favourite way to help?

You may also find this link helpful:

Read and write | LearnEnglish Kids

Give them a go and enjoy learning while you play!

Make Your Own Paint

Choose a few natural ingredients like:

- Berries (strawberries, blueberries)

- Spinach or kale

- Turmeric powder

- Beetroot

- Red cabbage

With an adult’s help, crush, blend, or mash them. Add a little water to make liquid colours. These are your natural paints!

Investigate Colour Mixing

Try mixing two different natural paints:

- What new colours can you create?

- Can you make warm colours like orange or cool colours like purple?

- Create a simple colour wheel to show your mixes.

Test Different Surfaces

Paint on different surfaces such as:

- White paper

- Cardboard

- Cloth or fabric

- Wood

Write down what you notice:

- Which surface made the colour look brightest?

- Did any colours change?

Observe Colour Over Time

Leave your painting out for a day or two and record:

- Did the colours fade or become lighter?

- Which paints lasted the longest?

Record and Reflect

Make a table or short report:

- Which ingredients made the strongest colours?

- Which ones were best for mixing?

- What surprised you?

Extra Challenge:

Create a design based on something in nature- like a flower, tree, animal or sunset. Use only your natural paints to bring it to life.

Materials Needed:

• Blank white paper or card

• Colored pencils, crayons, or markers

• A quiet space to create

  
  

Mindfulness Tips:

• As you create, take deep breaths and focus on the patterns in the mandala.

• Pay attention to how the lines, shapes and colours make you feel. Are there any that calm you or make you feel happy?

• Take your time. There is no rush. Let your mind relax and enjoy the process.

• If your mind starts to wander, gently bring it back to the design and the patterns in front of you.

Summer Theme Suggestions for Mandala Design:

• Sun Mandala: Include elements like suns, rays, clouds and stars, symbolising the bright and warm summer days.

• Ocean Mandala: Waves, seashells and beach scenes arranged in a circular pattern.

• Flower Mandala: Summer flowers like daisies, sunflowers or tulips in a repeating design.

• Fruit Mandala: Mandala shapes made of summer fruits like watermelons, strawberries and pineapples.

Reflection Section:

• Once you’ve finished creating the mandala, spend a few minutes thinking about the lines, colours and shapes you chose and how these made you feel.

🔍 Step 1: Library Explorer

Visit your local library at least once during the summer. While you're there:

• Borrow a book you’ve never read before.

• Ask the librarian for a recommendation.

• Take a photo or draw a sketch of the front cover of the book you borrowed.

  
  

📌 Bonus: Find out about any events, clubs or reading challenges your library is running and join in!

📖 Step 2: Choose Your Challenge(s)

Complete some of the following tasks - or try them all if you dare!

The Book & Me Write a short letter to the main character in your book. Ask them questions or give them advice!

Reading Bingo Create a bingo card with boxes like “read outdoors,” “read to a sibling or pet,” “finish a chapter at night,” and tick them off as you go.

Genre Jumper Read two books from completely different genres (e.g. fantasy and biography). Which did you prefer and why?

Reading Selfie Take a fun photo of yourself reading in an unusual place (treehouse? blanket fort? beach?). Create a reading journal and add a sentence about the book.

Quote Collector Find a sentence in your book that made you laugh, think or go “wow!” Write it down in creative lettering and explain why you picked it.

Book Soundtrack Choose 3-5 songs that would be perfect for your book's scenes. Explain your picks!

What to do:

1. Choose an Ecosystem:
   Pick a local environment you know or can observe—this could be a garden, park, pond, or woodland area near your home.

2. Research the Organisms:
   Find out which plants (producers), animals (consumers), and decomposers live there. Producers make their own food (like grass or trees), consumers eat other organisms (like insects, birds, or small mammals), and decomposers break down dead material (like fungi or worms).

3. Plan Your Food Chain:
   Draw or write a simple chain showing who eats whom. Build Your Model:
   Use materials like paper, clay, recycled items, or craft supplies to create a 3D model or a detailed poster of your food chain or food web. Include pictures or drawings of the organisms.

4. Explain the Energy Flow:
   Write a few sentences describing how energy moves from one organism to the next and why each part of the chain is important for the ecosystem’s balance.

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Your Task:

1. Write a short report about your experiment.

   Include:

   • What you were trying to find out or create

   • What materials you used

   • The steps you followed

2. Record your results.

   • What did you see happen? What changed?

   • Take photos or draw pictures to show your experiment

3. Explain the science.

   • Why do you think it worked? What caused the reaction or change?

   • Use your own ideas or ask an adult to help you research

Bonus:

Try changing one thing in your experiment and see if the result changes!

Challenge Yourself:

Try changing one part of the experiment. What happens if you use warm water instead of cold? Or more vinegar than before? Record your new results!

Materials Needed:

• Lightweight plastic bag, tissue paper, or fabric

• String or yarn

• Small object to act as a weight (like a toy figure or a small stone)

• Scissors

• Stopwatch or timer (optional)

• Tape or hole punch

Steps:

1. Build Your Parachute:

   • Cut your plastic bag or fabric into a square (about 30 cm by 30 cm).

   • Attach a string to each corner. Make sure all the strings are the same length.

   • Tie the strings together and attach them securely to your small weight.

2. Test Your Parachute:

   • Find a safe, high place (like a balcony or staircase) to drop your parachute.

   • Drop it and observe how it falls. Use a timer if you want to measure how long it takes to reach the ground.

3. Experiment with Variables:
   Try changing one thing at a time and see what happens:

   • Use different sizes of parachute canopies (bigger or smaller).

   • Change the length of the strings.

   • Use different materials for the canopy (tissue paper vs. plastic).

   • Change the weight attached.

4. Record Your Observations:
   Write down what happens with each change. Which parachute falls slowest? Which falls fastest? Why do you think that happens?

5. Think About the Science:

   • Gravity: This force pulls your parachute down towards the ground.

   • Air Resistance: The parachute’s canopy pushes against the air, slowing the fall. Larger canopies create more air resistance.

   • How do these forces work together to control the speed of your parachute?

   • How does changing your parachute’s design affect these forces?

6. Draw Conclusions:
   Summarize what you learned about how size, material, and weight affect falling speed. Explain why parachutes are designed the way they are to keep people safe.