Post Holiday Gloom?

Want to beat the heavy sighs when you ask the kids to "write a story about what you did in the holidays"? Here's a suggestion! (PS It uses the simple strategies we teach in our courses which you could learn too). ((PPS This is for all kids, but Q 10 is the one to design to appeal to the ones that ask tricky questions!)).

Post Holiday Gloom….🙁  

Don’t want to have to write a story about what you did in the holidays? Here’s a few different ideas for you to try – have fun!

First of all: Do a brain-storm of every single thing you did during the holidays that was different from a school week. Try to add at least 10 things!

For example, did you: have breakfast in bed, have a first-ever overnight stay with a friend, have an indoor picnic because of the weather, teach yourself to play a new video game, visit the ice-cream shop for a super large sundae, go op-shopping, look after your brother or sister while Mum was at work, learn how to bake cookies?????

Use your brain-storm to help you choose one (or more) of the activities below!

[1] Draw a detailed PICTURE of the activity you enjoyed most.

[2]. Write a POEM describing your feelings about the activity you enjoyed most.

[3] Take your brain-storm of your activities and give each item a label (eg bkfst in bed, picnic, op-shop, cooking). (Optional: add a little drawing if you can). Use your labels to create either A SNAKES AND LADDERS GAME or A MAZE.

[4] Make a MOBILE, using your brain-storm of your holiday activities.

[5] Make a CARTOON STRIP of your holidays.

[6] Use your brain-storm to design a TIME CAPSULE that could show children in 100 years’ time what children did for fun in today’s world.

[7] If you’ve made a time capsule, share it with A MUCH OLDER PERSON. Ask them to compare your time capsule with what they used to do in their school holidays. What differences did you find? Which of their activities would you like to do yourself?

[8] Make an INTEREST GRAPH for each day of the last week of your holidays, recording your feelings about that day. Don’t forget to include a key – maybe you could do it in colour.

[9] As best you can remember, make a TIME PIE GRAPH for each day of the last week of the holidays, using divisions like sleep, chores, travel, eating, special holiday activity, etc.

[10] COMPARE your interest graph with your time pie graph. Is the information they contain the same? If not, in what ways is it different? Which do you think tells you most about your holiday? Why?

CLASS DISCUSSION:

Are holidays useful?