A huge thank you to all of you who have thrown yourselves into today ... its been incredible. You last job is to play this link from the official Star Wars Day- it sums up everything we've experienced today. Click here for A New Hope.
A long time ago...
in a home-school classroom...
far far away...
Standby for an Important Transmission from the Empire...
Happy Star Wars Day... May the 4th be with you all...
To celebrate the best day of the year, I've put together a whole host of fun Star Wars things to do today, from puzzles to challenges, to artwork to cooking.... and our first Kahoots quizes. I've put all todays actvities under one 'Star Wars Wall', just for today.
So fire up your ions engines, finish your blue milk and strap yourselves in the falcon.
Its all about having some fun today and celebrating George Lucas' great films, stories and characters. Here's the list of things you can choose to do today:
C-3PO says, "Choose your activity below, and a click will take you straight there ."
1. Dress up in your Star Wars costume / mask / make-up and
get someone to take a great photo. Send it in and I can
start building the voting wall. (Click here)
2. Go to Star Wars Kahoot Quizes - take part in our first clas
Kahoots - the quizes close at 5:00 pm today and we'll see
who's top of thepodium. (Click here)
3. Have a go at our funny Star Wars caption competition.
4. Try a fiendish Star Wars puzzle - use your jedi skills to
solve these maths puzzles from Lord Vader. (Click here)
5. Galactic poetry - watch the incredible, awe-inspiring opening
to Star Wars Eposide IV - A New Hope, and put it into
words with a piece of astounding poetry. (Click here)
6. The Great Tatooine Bake-off - whose peppermints, or other
galactic delights will impress the Emperor. (Click here)
7. Try your hand at being a Star Wars artist with these great
instructions. (Click here)
8 Although it's Star Wars day, don't forget to check out this
week's new double School Games challenge by clicking here..
Find Out about Star Wars Day 2020 through Newstround at the BBC - lots more to do on here as well. Just click below:
Actvitiy 1: The Star Wars Parade
Send you photos over today if you can (or later in the week if needed). Click below to visit the Character Wall, where I will be updating regularly. I will not put the voting form up until the end of the day, so no-one gets an unfair advantage in terms of voting time. There will be 3 categories to vote for.
1. Most original costume - best use of odds and ends to
create something out of nothing.
2. The most impressive Light Side character.
3. The most impressive Dark Side character.
Activity 2: Quiz Yourself on Star Wars and Science
For the first time, we are going to introduce Kahoot into our weekly home-school day. Kahoot is a great little application where I can set up quizes for you, which you can access and complete in your own time.
Follow the simple instruction below to take part - have a go, have a guess - big chocolate prizes for the winners.
1. All you need to do is go to 'kahoot.it', or click on the
banner below..
2. Type in the code of the quiz I have provided below.
3. Type in your initials so I will know its you.
3. Choose A, B, C or D in the time allowed.
4. All quizes finish at 5:00pm tommorrow, then come
back here and see who's on the winner's podium.
Kahoot Quiz 1: Star Wars
Challenge PIN : 05070011
Congratulations to OR - Star Wars Quiz Champion
Kahoot Quiz 2: Star wars Higher Challenge
Challenge PIN : 09456092
Congratulations to OR - Star Wars Advanced Champion
Kahoot Quiz 3: Earth and Space Science with Star Wars
Challenge PIN : 03376374
You may need to load the KAhoot App to play this one
Congratulations to EF - Star Science Champion
Well Done to everyone who took part Kahooting... !
Activity 3: The Star Wars Caption Challenge
Create a humorous caption for one or more of the following scenes: I have added some examples. WE will create a caption wall when you send them in.
Click on the caption wall - make us laugh with some great Wreningham Class 4 humour.
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Activity 4: The Star Wars Maths Puzzle Challenge
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Mission 1:
Use your incredible maths skills to meet the 'Race to the Deathstar Challenge. If you can send me the eight codes relating to the 8 questions and they are correct, we can unlock the Empire's defence system and disable the turret guns - oh, and you'll also go into the Maths Puzzle Grand Draw.
Click here to download 'Race to the Deathstar '
Mission 2:
We need to break into the Empire's systeme to find out which detetntion block the proncess is held in. Solve these 4 sequences to access the main computer - fill in the missing numbers on each sequence (each line is a different sequence)..
For example: 10,14,18,22,26, is sequence which goes up by adding 4 each time.
Click here to download 'Stormtrooper Sequence''
Mission 3:
Solve these picture puzzles and find the coordinates of the rebel base.
Challenge 1: Challenge 2:
Activity 5: A Poetic Galactic Opening:
Watch the incredible opening sequence from Star Wars IV - A New Hope, from 1977, and use your finest poetic skills to put the awe inspiring scene into words.
Click here to download the film sequence (mp4)
Don't forget to use all your powers of powerful writing for this: strong imagery, powerful, ambitious vocabulary, metaphors and similes... and some passion and performance thrown in as well. Here's one of my efforts to give you the idea:
Have a read of ORs great work today:
Activity 6: The Great Tatooine Bake-Off
Your job, if you have the correct ingredients, is to make a batch of Star Wars themed peppermint creams (or whatever flavour you decide to make them). If you do not have these ingredients, that's no problem - just create a Star Wars themed edible treat:
- HP was on the case early yesterday... hmmmmm...
Due to the huge online traffic today, I have been unable to make peppermints as promised - looks like I will have to wait til the small hours to have a go now. I will post my efforts tomorrow.
Hope you've cleared up your mess - or got a mouse droid to do it...
I've found a simple peppermints recipe here, but you can use egg white instead of condensed milk if you like. We all made these at Xmas, so you know what the consistency should be like - we don't want it sticky. When your dough is ready, shape into your Star Wars themed treat - and decorate with chocolate/sweets , or anything to make your creation come to life.
Ingredients:
Doesn't have to be Carnation,(or egg white)l
Step 3 of 3
Remember, we don't want boring old disc shaped peppermint creams; we want Star Wars themed shapes and creations.
Make sure you take a picture of your confectionary and send it to me for judging... not to Jabba !!!!
Activity 7: Star Wars Artist
Our first skill wil be to learn to draw baby Yoda (although it isn't actaully baby 'yoda' as you'll know if you're lucky enough to have seen the brand new Star Wars series, 'The Mandalorian', on Disney - it's really fantastic).
Stay tuned today, as I'll be adding lots more drawing instructions through the day.
Here's some great simple character drawing lessons-
R2-D2, Chewbacca and Leia - just click on him for the video.
Here's MCs great work from this morning:
Some fantastic artwork today from HY:
Careful skills shown here by EP:
