Christmas Challenges

Over the Christmas holiday, have a go at these challenges to show to the rest of the class during the first week back.

Make an alien mask using coordinates!

To draw the alien, you will need:

Some squared paper

A pencil

Optional to make your alien into a mask: Some card - A4 is ideal

Some Glue

Pens or paints.

A stapler or sticky tape.

Once you have your materials draw an x and y axis on the squared paper.

The x axis should go from 0 to 19

The y axis should go from 0 to 28

Face: (8,4) (11,4) (17,16) (17,20) (16,23) (15,25) (14,26) (12,27) (7,27) (5,26) (4,25) (3,23) (2,20) (2,16)

Left Eye: (4,19) (6,19) (8,17) (9,14) (9,13) (8,13) (6,14) (4,17)

Right Eye: (15,19) (13,19) (11,17) (10,14) (10,13) (11,13) (13,14)

Left Nose: (8,10) (9,10) (9,9)

Right Nose: (10,10) (11,10) (10,9)

Mouth: (8,7) (11,7)

Once you have plotted the coordinates, join them together like a dot to dot.

Find a poem to recite to the rest of the class.

Find a poem that you like and practise it so that you can tell it to the class. If you can learn it by heart, you will get extra points!