Fast Finishers Years 56

Fast Finisher Activities

Years 5/6

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CONTENTS

What’s for dinner ............................................................ 3

Find the Correct Mailbox ................................................ 4

Top Secret Message ...................................................... 5

Crack the Joke ............................................................... 6

Maze .............................................................................. 7

Symmetry ....................................................................... 8

Graffiti .......................................................................... 10

Sort the Mountains ....................................................... 11

Highest Mountains Word Search .................................. 12

Verb, Noun, Adjective Sort ........................................... 13

Synonym Spiders ......................................................... 14

Line Drawing ................................................................ 15

Battleships ................................................................... 20

Answers ....................................................................... 22

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What’s for dinner?

Use the clues to work out what is for dinner. Colour each picture as you

work out it isn’t the correct answer.

CLUES

1. I don’t contain chicken

2. You won’t find pineapple in me

3. I do not have pasta in my recipe

4. I am not a fast food

5. You won’t get to eat corn chips when you eat me

6. You don’t cook me on the barbecue

What is for dinner?

……………………………………………...

Spaghetti

Lasagne

Roast beef

McDonald’s

Hawaiian Pizza

Sausages

KFC

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Find the correct mailbox

Use the clues to cross out or colour in the numbers to find the

correct mailbox to open.

5788 5987 7322 8944

4498 7832 2311 1593

3579 1876 9540 4576

8787 6545 9884 8221

1. I do not end in 8

2. The two last numbers are not the same

3. My first and last numbers do not equal 7

4. My first two numbers do not equal 14

5. The post box is not equal to 2471 x 4

6. I do not contain the number 1

7. I do not contain the same number twice

8. I do not contain any even numbers

9. The sum of my numbers adds up to 24

What mailbox number am I?..................................

CLUES

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Top Secret Message

Follow the directions to find out what the secret message is.

red better rough the yield

zoo idyll enemy toxic will

grey march entertains north tread

idle negative at zebra midnight

venomous dread bread dawn smothering

1. Cross out words that are the names of colours

2. Cross out any words that begin with the last 2 letters of the alphabet

3. Cross out any words that begin and end in the same letter

4. Cross out words that rhyme with dead.

5. Cross out any synonyms of poisonous

6. Cross out any homophones of idol

7. Cross out any antonyms of smooth and positive.

8. Cross out any 10 letter words.

9. Cross out any leftover 2 syllable words.

What is the top secret message?.....................................................................

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Crack the joke

Use the code to work out the joke.

A B C D E F G H I

11 10 1 16 15 19 5 6 22

J K L M N O P Q R

12 14 9 17 2 20 4 8 21

S T U V W X Y Z

13 18 25 26 24 3 23 7

How do skeletons call their friends?

20 2 18 6 15 18 15 9 15 10 20 2 15

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

What do witches say when they overtake each other?

10 21 20 20 17 10 21 20 20 17 10 21 20 20 17

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Why was the werewolf arrested at the butcher’s shop?

6 15 24 11 13 1 11 25 5 6 18 1 6 20 4 9 22 19 18 22 2 5

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

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Make your way through the maze.

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SYMMETRY—Draw the other side of the picture.

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SYMMETRY—Draw the other side of the picture.

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Graffiti

Write your name in graffiti style using felt pens or pencils...some ideas have been provided

below.

Online programs that can be used instead:

http://graffiticreator.net/

http://www.graffitigen.com/

http://www.calderdale-online.org/community/fun/graffiticreator.html

Note: To save many of these images, you may need to “print screen” (usually a button up

top right of keyboard Prt Sc); paste it into an image editing program such as Paint.NET and

save it then as an image.

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Sort the Mountains

1. Sort the highest mountains in the world from

highest to lowest.

K2 (Pakistan/China) 8611 metres

Annapurna (Nepal) 8091 metres

Manaslu (Nepal) 8163 metres

Everest (Nepal/Tibet) 8850 metres

Lhotse (Nepal/Tibet) 8516 metres

Broad Peak (Pakistan/China) 8047 metres

Nanga Parbat (Pakistan) 8125 metres

Makalu (Nepal/Tibet) 8463 metres

Kangchenjunga (Nepal/India) 8586 metres

Dhaulagiri (Nepal) 8167 metres

Cho Oyu (Nepal/Tibet) 8201 metres

Gasherbrum 1 (Pakistan/China) 8068 metres

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Highest Mountains Word Search

K U L A K A M D G E R S

A C D F S F B H A 1 2 D

N F V B M A N A S L U D

G R X H F R M U H J A L

C A S D F G H L E J K L

H Q B W E R T A R Y U T

E V E R E S T G B I O A

N P L Z O X C I R C V B

J B N H M A A R U S D R

U U F G O H D I M J K A

N Y L Q W T E P R T T P

G O Y K 2 4 S K E L Z A

A O X C V B N E M A Q G

S H W D R Y F V B N K N

T C M A N R U P A N N A

G H I J K L M N O P Q N

Everest

K2

Kangchenjunga

Lhotse

Makalu

Cho Oyu

Dhaulagiri

Manaslu

Nanga Parbat

Annapurna

Gasherbrum

Broad Peak

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Verb, Noun, Adjective Sort

Cut out the words in the table. Sort into correct labelled cups.

Extension: Choose a word from each cup and write a sentence using all 3

run class sigh tiny

ladies ancient student beach

rectangular whistle red feel

clever pencil write Australian

thought wooden frog explain

round grab key green

biscuit long arrow knead

hairy laugh huge book

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Synonym Spider

Write a word in the centre of the spider. Students use a thesaurus or dictionary

to add synonyms on the legs of the spider. See example Page 25.

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Line Drawing

Divide up the picture given and use different lines and shapes to fill in the

picture similar to the example below.

Pictures have been provided to use for this activity or you could draw your

own.

EXAMPLE

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LINE DRAW

Fill the spaces with your own lines and patterns.

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LINE DRAW


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LINE DRAW


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LINE DRAW


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BATTLESHIPS

This activity can be an ongoing game, put away for when time permits, but will

require two students to play together.

Instructions: Give each student a “battle ground”. Put up a barrier, such as a book, between 2 players. Have them draw 6 battle ships that cover 3 squares each (you can change this to suit your time frame, e.g. 2 x 4 squares, 2 x 2 squares etc.) on their battle ground so that their partner does not see (See Ex-ample). Player 1 calls out a location to their partner, e.g. C2. If he/she hits a battleship they must say “Hit” or do a bomb sound (if you can put up with the noise). Then Player 2 has a turn. The winner is the person that knocks out all the battle ships first. Note: they must hit all the squares that the battle ship covers to kill the whole battleship so if they have one hit, they need to realise the rest of the ship will be in adjacent squares to the right, left, up or down from their hit.

EXAMPLE

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BATTLE GROUND

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ANSWERS

What’s for dinner: Roast beef

Find the correct mailbox: No. 3579

Top secret message: The enemy will march north at dawn.

Crack the Jokes:

How do skeletons call their friends? On the telebone.

What do witches say when they overtake each other? Broom, broom,

broom.

Why was the werewolf arrested at the butcher’s shop? He was caught

chop lifting.

Maze: See answer Page 23

Mountains (highest to lowest): Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Maka-

lu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna, Gasherbrum 1,

Broad Peak.

Note: There are alternative spellings for Kangchenjunga...Kangchen Dzö-

nga, Khangchendzonga, Kanchenjanga, Kachendzonga,Kanchenjunga or Kan

gchanfanga.

Word Search: See answers Page 24

Verb, noun or adjective:

Verbs— run, sigh, whistle, feel, write, thought, explain, grab, knead,

laugh

Nouns—class, ladies, student, pencil, frog, biscuit, key, book, arrow,

beach

Adjectives—tiny, ancient, rectangular, red, clever, Australian, wooden,

round, green, long, hairy, huge

Synonym Spider: Examples on Page 25

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MAZE ANSWER

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K U L A K A M D G E R S

A C D F S F B H A 1 2 D

N F V B M A N A S L U D

G R X H F R M U H J A L

C A S D F G H L E J K L

H Q B W E R T A R Y U T

E V E R E S T G B I O A

N P L Z O X C I R C V B

J B N H M A A R U S D R

U U F G O H D I M J K A

N Y L Q W T E P R T T P

G O Y K 2 4 S K E L Z A

A O X C V B N E M A Q G

S H W D R Y F V B N K N

T C M A N R U P A N N A

G H I J K L M N O P Q N

Word Search Answers


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whopping

imm

ense

large Hum

ungous

massive

huge

gigantic

BIG

enorm

ous

LITTLE min

iatu

re

minute

tiny

insig

nificant

microscopic

Dim

inut

ive

small

minuscule

Synonym Spider Examples

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