For some reason my son's class made lots of paper planes last year. Another thing was colouring on themes that had nothing to do with the topics they were studying. There were also wordfinds related to nothing in particular and lots of watching clips from You Tube, which isn't even work, just entertainment. This year, I'm glad to say, there is less of all of that. However, I notice that the 'extension activity' in his most recent reading topic is to design a magazine cover. No discussion of what constitutes an effective cover or anything like that, so I think that's just busy work too.
