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These video resources contain short activity ideas to use with your children. They are designed to provide a variety of ideas you can try out, and vary from warm-up activities and concentration games to maths and storytelling.

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Whirl’s squares and circles activity

The perfect maths activity for LKS2. With a geometry focus on circles and squares. Why not give this activity a try today with your children?

Key stage KS2

Topic Maths, Concentration, Movement, Confidence, Numeracy

Kablam’s wellbeing check ins

A short video to demonstrate two creative activities explaining how to non-verbally "check in" with your children through your sessions to see how they are feeling. This video was created to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week (Feb 2021).

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Wellbeing, Confidence

Kablam’s making verbs come alive

In this activity you take a text that your children are studying or an article. We will then pick out the verbs and bring them to life through sound and movement.

Key stage KS2

Topic Communication, Drama, Literature, Movement, Music

Whirl’s compound words activity

A short activity, perfect for KS1 children. Use these activity ideas with your class or children to help them understand compound words.

Key stage KS1

Topic Communication, Literature, Concentration, Movement

Solids, liquids and gases

Chatter leads an activity using music and movement to explore the differences between solids, liquids, and gases. Children will explore qualities of movement related to these states of matter and change between them. There will also be a short song to learn which contains all of the key information.

Key stage KS2

Topic Movement, Performing Arts, Music, Science

Moving with your breath

Artis specialist Wizzle takes us though a calming meditation and leads the children to create their own movement piece based on breathe.

Key stage All

Topic Healthy Body, Wellbeing, Warm up, Movement, Dance

Chant: sense of rhythm and pulse internalisation

First you make your fingers click is a cleverly written chant in which there is a click, a slap, a stamp and a clap, each on a different beat of the bar. It gets children thinking about rhythm and is really useful to improve their musicality. This activity can be extended by taking the words out and doing just the actions to develop pulse internalisation and children's overall musicianship.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Confidence, Music

Clap and click: concentration and focus

Using a hand drum, teacher plays a rhythm and children clap it back. Then the skin and rim of the drum can be used and the children are asked to clap when they hear the skin and click when they hear the rim. To make the activity more challenging these can be switched round so the skin is a click and the rim a clap.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Warm up, Rhythm, Concentration, Music

Fish game: concentration and focus

In The Fish game the teacher will use one hand to represent the sea and the other to represent the fish; every time the fish jumps out of the sea children have to clap together. This activity can be used to re-focus children to get ready for work, they'll have to watch closely and concentrate to be able to clap exactly at the same time.

Key stage KS1, KS2

Topic Communication, Warm up, Concentration

 
 

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