LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Design a poster for the competition
Write a newspaper report for the flying event with picture and caption
Create an advertisement for a flying machine
Writing instructions
Retelling the story
Sequencing events
Make a board game
Character work
Hotseating
Poems about birds and flight
Stories about flying
Ideas for creative story writing
Role play area ideas
Wordsearch
MUSIC ACTIVITIES
Birdsong
Music composed about birds
DANCE/DRAMA ACTIVITIES
A flying dance
A machine to make people fly
ART ACTIVITIES
Using feathers
Design a costume
Dress the doll
Bird mobile
Bird kite
Origami bird
Bird’s eye view
DT ACTIVITIES
Moving pictures
Food technology – design a dumpling
Design and make a bird coat for Jackie
Things that fly
Nest building
SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
Variation and classification
Animal jigsaw
Animal mix up sheet
Bird feeding and identification
Paper aeroplane experiments
Making a gyrocopter
A short history of flying
MATHS ACTIVITIES
Colour combinations (patterns)
Length
Making dumplings
Number recognition and addition game
Data handling
ICT
Bird Top Trumps cards
PHSE ACTIVITIES
Goals and dreams
Individual goals
Having a dream / making a wish
Do we always have to achieve something?
Having faith in yourself
Families / parent child relationships
APPENDIX
USEFUL WEBSITES
If the classroom has a laptop for the interactive whiteboard with Internet access, you can use some of the resources in the appendix on the board.
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