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No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 1 children.
 
 

Draw a snowflake.
 
 
Write the numbers 0-10.
Read a story with the person who is looking after you.
Find 5 things starting with ‘s’.
Do 10 star jumps.
Practise writing your name.
Draw 3 things beginning with ‘t’
 
 
Count coins up to 10p.
Touch your toes 10 times.
Draw a circle, a square and a triangle.
Walk on different parts of the feet- toes, heels, outsides, insides. Change direction.
Draw a self-portrait.
Choose a winter picture to colour or make.
 
Read your school reading book.
Use scraps of paper to make a winter collage.
Draw your teacher and try to write his/her name.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 2 children.
 
 

Draw round all the family member’s feet. Ask one person to draw round yours. 
Compare them. Order them by size.
Make a clock face. Draw the hands on to show your bedtime.
 
Find objects that are the colours of the rainbow.
 
Draw pictures of three things you do to stay healthy.
 
How many stories can you find for the number 12? Write them.
 
Choose a winter picture to colour or make.
 
Draw a snowflake.
 
Read your school reading book.
Look around you. Find 5 things that start with the first letter of your name.
Draw 3 things beginning with ‘sh’
 
Use scraps of paper to make a winter collage.
Practise saying doubles up to 10 add 10.
 
Touch your toes 10 times.
Draw your teacher and try to write his/her name.
 
Find 5 things starting with ‘ch’.
Do 10 star jumps.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 3 children.
 
 

Read your school reading book.
List 5 things you enjoy about winter. Write a story about one of them.
 
Gather 10 objects. Sort them by length. Sort them by some other rule too.
Touch your toes 20 times.
Draw your teacher and write his/her name.
 
Make up a menu with foods that start with the letter ‘m’. Draw a picture of your foods.
Write out the alphabet.
Do 20 star jumps.
Draw a snowflake.
 
Show someone in your family that you can skip 10 times.
Ask them to skip 10 times too.
 
Underline a sentence in a newspaper. Guess which letter is used the most times. Find out.
Look around you. Find 5 things that start with the first letter of your name.
Cut out some pictures from an old magazine. Use them to tell a story to your family.
 
How many different coin combinations can add up to £1.
 
How many words can you make from ‘caterpillar’?
 
Draw a picture of someone in your family. Write down 4 facts about this person.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 4 children.
 

Try writing your name or draw a picture with your foot.
 
Do 20 star jumps.
Draw a plan that shows how you get to school.
Write directions.
 
Draw a clock face that shows what time your favourite TV show is on.
Describe and discuss a favourite book character. Tell what you like about this character.
Read your school reading book.
Sketch the view from your window. Make a frame for your picture.
 
Find a story in a newspaper and write a new headline, with a family member.
Practise saying the stations of your 2,3,4,5 and 10 times table forwards and backwards.
Ask someone to time you. Try to improve your time.
What is a gift you can give that doesn’t cost any money? Write about what this could be, who you would give it to and why.
Touch your toes 20 times.
List 10 words that describe you. List 10 words that describe another family member
Play an alphabet game with your family. Take turns naming words that start ‘a’, try other letters too.
Draw your teacher and write his/her name.
 
Draw as many 3d shapes as you can.
 
Practise saying doubles up to 100.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 5 children.
 

Cut out faces from magazines / newspapers and make a collage of different expressions.
Design a new PE Kit for our school.
 
Play an alphabet game with your family. Take turns naming words that start ‘a’, try other letters too.
Touch your toes 20 times.
Do 20 star jumps.
Draw your teacher and write his/her name.
 
Write a WINTER Acrostic poem.
Design your own sandwich, make it and share it with someone else.
 
Practise saying the stations of your 6,7,8,9 and 10 times table forwards and backwards.
Ask someone to time you. Try to improve your time.
Read a story to a family member. Ask them to read you a story.
 
Find out who Alexander Fleming was. 
 
Read your school reading book.
Try writing your name or draw a picture with your foot.
 
Sketch the view from your window. Make a frame for your picture.
 
 
Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with? List 6 reasons.
 
Find out what John Logie Baird invented.

 
 
 
 
 
 
No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 6 children.
 

Which celebrity would you not like to be stuck in a lift with and why. List 6 reasons.
Make up 10 sums using the digits in your telephone number.
 
Touch your toes 30 times.
How quickly can you say the months of the year backwards?
Do 30 star jumps.
Draw your teacher and write his/her name.
 
Write a WINTER Acrostic poem.
Find out what your name means.
 
Practise saying the stations of your 6,7,8,9 and 10 times table forwards and backwards.
Ask someone to time you. Try to improve your time.
Read a story to a family member. Ask them to read you a story.
 
Find out who Alexander Graham Bell was. 
 
Read your school reading book.
Try writing your name or draw a picture with your foot.
 
Sketch the view from your window. Make a frame for your picture.
 
 
Design an advert to sell your bicycle.
 
Find out who Florence Nightingale was.

 
 
 
 
 
 
No School Days – suggested activities for Primary 7 children.
 

Leave a bucket outside for one week and measure the amount of water gathered in it.
 
Do 50 star jumps.
List 5 famous Scots and what they were famous for.
 
Read your school reading book.
Record your own family tree.
 
Find out what your name means.
 
Touch your toes 50 times.
Who is your hero? List 10 reasons why?
 
Watch Newsround and write about one item that you’ve seen!
 
Complete a mind map about yourself. How much detail can you add?
Complete a bird’s eye view plan of your bedroom.
 
Practise saying the stations of your 6,7,8,9 and 10 times table forwards and backwards.
Ask someone to time you. Try to improve your time.
List, learn and recite the 11 and 12 times tables.
 
How well do you know your flags? Which country has a Maple Leaf on it’s flag?
Draw and label 10 other flags.
 
Sketch the view from your window. Make a frame for your picture.
 
Imagine you do your own shopping. Make up your ideal shopping list for a week. Have fun!