Second Level
Primary 5, 6, 7
Name_____________________
Class________________
This ‘Winter Weather Work’ pack has been provided for your
child to complete in the event of a school closure this winter.
The pack contains a list of fun challenges, suitable for their
stage, which are suggested for your child to complete during
their time off school.
They should not attempt to complete all of the challenges, but
at least one or two per day is manageable.
Your child should tick the
when they have completed a
challenge.
Pupils should also self assess their work and fill in the
Green, Amber or Red, depending on how well they feel they
have met the challenge.
Children can also log on to the school Blog to see updates from
their class teachers and to leave comments about what they are
doing and how they are finding the challenges. The Blog
address is:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/StoneyburnPS/
Language
o Draw a winter scene. How many adjectives can you think of to describe the wintry
scene?
o Write a set of instructions on how to build a snowman.
o Write a letter to an imaginary friend in another country. Describe what it is like at the
moment in your own country.
o Write an imaginary story about a Winter Wonderland. Use an interesting opening;
describe the setting; think about action, feelings and dialogue of characters; consider
mood and atmosphere.
o Watch a Christmassy film on TV or DVD. Write a review about what you have seen.
What were your thoughts and feelings? Would you recommend it to a friend? What was
your favourite/least favourite part?
o Look out of your house window and draw a sketch of what you see. Add as many
alliterative phrases as you can e.g. freezing frost, wintry windows, etc. (Remember –
alliteration is when the same initial sound is repeated e.g. ‘The brilliant boy bounced the ball behind the
bike.’ The b sound is repeated.)
o Write a diary entry detailing how you have spent one of your days. Use adverbs to tell us
how you did the things and underline all the ones you use.
(Remember to use past tense verbs in a diary entry and to include times:
10:00 I walked briskly to the garage and got out my
sledge excitedly.
10:30 I quickly returned to my house to heat up!)
o
Write a winter rap. If you want an extra challenge, try to make it rhyme.
o
Imagine that you are going to organise a Winter Fun Day for your village. Design a poster
to advertise this. Make sure your poster includes features of layout e.g. lettering,
pictures, bullet points, fact boxes and at least 2 examples of persuasive language e.g.
Don’t miss out, one day only!
o
Can you create another way to advertise this event? (Leaflet, jingle, TV advert, etc.)
o Write a similes and verb poem, like the one we did in class about ‘The Midnight Fox’, but
this time about a snowman e.g. As white as a ghost,
Glistening,
Eyes as black as coal,
Staring …
Illustrate the poem when you’ve finished.
o Watch items on the news about how the snow is affecting people all over the country.
Take notes under suitable headings and then use these to write a newspaper article about
one of reports. Remember to include a headline and sub-headings.
o Research as many different words from the Scots Language that are used to describe
the weather.
Maths
o Online, interactive games, related to work already covered in maths.
o In your diary, write down the times you did certain things. Include time written in words
and digital display.
o Time activities outside, e.g. how long to build 20, 30…snowballs? etc.
o Measure – how deep is the snow? Compare day to day and record in some way. What can
you use to measure? Measure the depth in different areas.
o Can you make snow 3D shapes? e.g. snow cube, snow cuboid, snow triangular prism?
o Choose different places in your house or garden. Write directions on how to get from
starting position to end position, e.g. forward 3 steps, turn left.
o Create a graph using the comparisons of snow depths.
o Use an Argos catalogue (or visit their website) to help with this task. (Another catalogue
could be used instead.) You have a budget of £20. Try to find a present that is suitable
for each member of your family, within this budget. Calculate any change you have left
and the coins/notes that make up this change. Repeat this activity for different budgets
e.g. £35, £75 , £100, etc.
o Devise a survey to find the most popular Christmas films of all your friends, family and
neighbours. Carry out the survey, collate the results and display them in a graph. Make
sure you give your graph a title, label your axes and use an appropriate scale.
o Use some of the maths games on multiplication.com to revise your tables.
o Write a set of directions detailing how to get from your house to another place in the
village. Include positional language e.g. turn, past, behind, 2nd right, 3rd left, etc. Now
try to re-write these using compass points e.g. North, South, East, West, North East,
North West, South West, South East.
Health & Wellbeing
o Design and make a winter safety poster.
o Build a snow family.
o Have a freeze dance. With your siblings, family or friends, play a game of musical
statues.
o Have a family ceilidh. Teach some of your family or friends some of the Scottish
Country Dances you have been learning at school.
o Help prepare and make a family meal with an adult in your family. Pay particular attention
to cleanliness, hygiene and safety in the kitchen. Remember: adult supervision at all
times.
o Create your own dance to a Christmas song. Think about the different levels, directions
and pathways you could use. Could you include any of the moves/steps you have been
using in P.E?
o Investigate the food in your kitchen. Can you categorise the different foods e.g.
vegetables, fruit, meats, pastas etc. Make a list. Can you traffic light the different
foods and make a list e.g. red for foods that are considered unhealthy, orange for foods
that are considered suitable now and again, green for foods considered healthy.
o Hypothermia affects lots of people every winter. Research this condition and how it can
affect different people.
Sciences
Snow investigations:
o Gather some snow and bring indoors. Predict how long you think it will take to melt.
Carry out experiment. Were you close?
o Put snow in different places – compare times it takes for snow to melt. Give reasons as
to why times differ.
o Think of places you could put snow to melt very quickly/slowly. Try this out. Were your
thoughts justified?
o Make a few little snowmen on a tray. Can you prevent them from melting inside? Where
could you put them? Can you wrap one of them in something? Will this make it melt
faster or slower?
o Put the melted water into a clear bowl on top of white paper. Is the water clean or not?
Discuss tiny germs you can’t see.
o Can you change the water back into snow? Can you change it into anything else? Discuss
ice. Where do we need to put water to make it change to ice? Can you make ice of
different shapes? Can you make something freeze inside your ice such as a small toy?
Next day, what is the best way to free your toy? Investigate.
o Read the electricity and/or gas meter every day, noting the amount used. (It may also be
possible to display the results on a graph.)
o Design a raft that will make a stone float on water. How many stones can you add before
the raft will sink?
o Snow investigation – insulate a snowball to stop it from melting: Collect several snowballs
(the same size) from outside. Place one on a plate and try a variety of different
materials to insulate the other ones e.g. wrap one in tin foil, one in cotton wool, one in
cling film, etc. Use the ‘Science Investigation’ sheet to record your results.
Materials investigations:
o What are the best things to wear when going outside in the snow? Discuss the different
materials and their properties. Discuss being warm and waterproof as important factors
to consider. Which materials are warm? How do they feel? Which materials are
waterproof? How do you know they are waterproof?
o Look at different kinds of gloves you may have in the house (wool, leather. ski, rubber).
Which are good for keeping your hands warm? Which are good for keeping your hands
dry? Which are best for building a snowman? Try out some practical investigations for
yourself. Explain your results.
Technologies
o Take a photograph of your snow family and upload it to the school blog or your class
GLOW page.
o Construct a lego model of a vehicle that could move easily through the snow.
o Use the internet to research weather in other countries at this time. You could use your
findings in your newspaper article or report.
o Take photographs of yourself in the snow. If possible, print some & bring them in to
share with the rest of the class when you return to school.
o Re-draft your similes poem or winter rap on the computer. Use different fonts and
colours and add some pictures from the Internet if you can.
o Design a snow plough of the future. Label all the parts to explain what they do.
**Challenge – Learn a new skill!!! Ask someone in your house, to teach you how to do something
that you can’t already do. Write about it or take a picture of yourself doing it.