Year 2

Home Project – Year 2 - 6.07.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week we are focusing on Poetry.

• Lesson one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azQJKhN1yNs Watch this video clip of a bird soaring through the sky. Close your eyes and imagine what it might be like to swoop around in the sky. Where would you go? What would you do? What would you see?
• Lesson two – Read the poem ‘The Eagle’ and discuss what the word azure means. What do you think they are talking about when it says crooked hands? How do we know this is a poem? Sometimes poems are a bit like puzzles and we have to work out what they mean. What do you think this poem is about?  
• Lesson three – Re-read the poem ‘The Eagle’. Look at the phrase ‘like a thunderbolt’ what do you think this phrase is? It is a simile, this is when we say something is ‘as’ or ‘like’ something else e.g. She ran as fast as an arrow! He jumped like a kangaroo. Can you use some similes to describe the eagle?
• Lesson four – Read the poem ‘Little Bird’ this is a good poem but I think you could make it more exciting. Edit or rewrite this poem including interesting vocabulary, adjectives and similes to improve this poem.
• Lesson five – Read the piece of non-fiction text and answer the comprehension questions.

Maths

This week we will be recapping Maths knowledge taught within Year 2.

• Lesson one – Can you partition these two digit numbers into tens and ones. Remember that a tens number will end in a zero. E.g. 34 = 30 + 4
• Lesson two – Today we are continuing with partitioning. Follow the PowerPoint to partition two digit numbers in different ways.
• Lesson three – Today we are recalling our knowledge on the column addition method. Remember we always add the ones column first. Choose which challenge you want to complete:
  1. 1. Column addition with no carrying
     2. Column addition with carrying
• Lesson four – Now let’s look at the column subtraction method. Don’t forget to look at the ones column first.
  1. 1. Column subtraction with no exchange
     2. Column subtraction with exchange
• Lesson five – Complete the Big Maths challenge, how many questions can you answer in 90 seconds? Did you beat your score? Now complete the rest of the questions using a different colour.

History

• Read the information ‘All About Tokyo’ to find out more about the city that will host the Olympics next year.
• Create a fact file or poster to present what you have learnt about Tokyo.

Art

• Explore the different events involved in the Olympic Games.
• Create a piece of artwork that represents one of these events using resources of your choice.

RE

• Throughout the year, we have explored a variety of Jesus’ parables and miracles. What is a parable? What is a miracle? Recall your favourite parable and miracle with someone at home. Why is it your favourite?
• Draw a picture to illustrate your favourite parable or miracle and explain what you like about this story and why it is your favourite.

Science

• Can you order these movements from the slowest to the fastest?

French

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzR_d6uJkb8 Listen to this French song about colours, can you join in and say the colours in French?
• Complete the wordsearch by identifying the colours in French.

Home Project – Year 2 - 29.06.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week we are focusing on Poetry.

• Lesson one – Read the poem ‘Question time’ by Michaela Morgan. What do you like/dislike about this poem? Read this poem aloud using a clear voice and expression.
• Lesson two – What do you notice about the pattern of this poem? Each verse has a question sentence and some statement sentences. Can you identify these two types of sentences by highlighting or underlining them?
• Lesson three – The poem Question Time is all about a monster, today you are going to write a similar poem but you can choose your own animal. Use the questions on the template to write your poem. Refer to the poem Question Time to help you with the layout of your poem. Remember each verse starts with a question followed by statement sentences.
• Lesson four – Illustrate your poem and read it aloud using a clear voice and expression. Remember to make it sound really exciting when you are reading.
• Lesson five – Access Bug Club and choose a story to read, don’t forget to answer all of the questions by clicking on the bug’s face. 

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is Measurement.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcbwr2p follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z9dp7yc follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdfq4xs follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpgtjsg follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson five – Complete the Big Maths challenge, how many questions can you answer in 90 seconds? Did you beat your score? Now complete the rest of the questions using a different colour.

Geography

• The next Olympics will be held in Tokyo, can you find out which country this city is in?
• Use google maps to explore this city and country. Is it close to England? What is the capital city of our country?
• Can you label these cities and countries on the world map? (Tokyo, Japan, London, England)

Science

• Use your knowledge on forces to answer the questions.
• Complete the wordsearch involving key words.

RE

• Re-read the story of St Peter in Prison - Acts 11: 27-12: 23
• Can you retell the story in role as Peter; think about how he is feeling at different points in the story.

ICT

• Using the ‘Bee-Bot’ app, access the Egyptians challenge and complete levels 3 and 4, programming the bee-bot to reach the treasure. Can you find different ways for the bee bot to reach the treasure?

French

• This week we are looking at colours, can you identify the colours using the word mat.
• Now colour in the rainbow using the word mat to help you identify the colours.

Home Project – Year 2 - 22.06.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week we are focusing on fictional quest and adventure stories.

• Lesson one – Using your story map, write the beginning of your story, use adjectives, expanded noun phrases and conjunctions to make your writing more exciting. Remember to use your neat, joined handwriting.
• Lesson two – Using your story map, write the middle of your story. This is the main part of your story and should be the longest. Before writing, leave a line so you know it is the start of a new paragraph.
• Lesson three – Using your story map, write the end of your story. In this paragraph, any unsolved problems should now be resolved. Remember to leave a line before writing to show that you are starting a new paragraph.
• Lesson four – Read your story again and use a different coloured pencil/pen to edit and improve you work:
  • Check your punctuation is correct, (capital letters, full stops)
  • Add in adjectives/expanded noun phrases to improve a sentence
• Lesson five – Access Bug Club and choose a story to read, don’t forget to answer all of the questions by clicking on the bug’s face. 

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is 2D and 3D shapes.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zq6p7yc follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zq6p7yc follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zp2tjsg follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdjtjsg follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson five – Complete the Big Maths challenge, how many questions can you answer in 90 seconds? Now complete the rest of the questions using a different colour.  

History

• Read the information about the history of the Olympic Rings.
• Now follow the activity sheet to design a new logo for the Olympics.

Science

• Last week you looked around your homes to find different objects that you can push or pull.
• This week you need to illustrate at least two objects that you can push and two objects that you can pull. Draw an arrow to show which direction the force is.

RE

• Read the story of St Peter in Prison - Acts 11: 27-12: 23
• Now discuss the following questions with someone at home:
  • How did Peter end up in prison?
  • Why would you have wanted Peter locked up?
  • Why did people think he was doing something that was wrong?
  • What would it have been like to be chained between guards?
  • What did Peter do when the Angel appeared?
  • What did he think was happening?
  • Why do you think the angel was sent to Peter?

ICT

• Using the ‘Bee-Bot’ app, access the Egyptians challenge and complete levels 1 and 2, programming the bee-bot to reach the treasure. Can you get the bee-bot to reach the treasure using only one algorithm? (only press go once)

French

• Use the following to link to introduce yourself to French https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhg7639.
• Can you say "Hello", "How are you?" and "Goodbye" in French?

Home Project – Year 2 - 15.06.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week we are focusing on fictional quest and adventure stories.

• Lesson one – Last week during our zoom call we read the story ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers. Last term, we read the story ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. Make a list of the similarities and differences between these two stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33hZSjyeO0 – Lost and Found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgGVJmPLNS4 – The Way Back Home

• Lesson two – At the beginning of the story ‘Lost and Found’, the boy finds a penguin on his doorstep. How do you think the Penguin got there? Write a short story explaining this.
• Lesson three – In quest and adventure stories there are many problems and solutions, re-read the story Lost and Found, can you identify each problem and how it was solved? Record this using your neat, joined handwriting.
• Lesson four – Over the next week, we are going to write our own version of this story using different characters. Create a story map for your Lost and Found story, but change the characters and setting. E.g. A lion arrives on the boy’s doorstep and he has to take him back to Africa. How are they going to get there? What might their problems be? How will you solve them?
• Lesson five – use your spellings to write sentences, remember to use your neat, joined handwriting and think carefully about the spellings. 

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is recapping fractions.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4j83j6 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6cbhcw follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zwphjsg follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3.
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfx6dp3 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson five – Complete the Big Maths challenge, how many questions can you answer in 90 seconds? Now complete the rest of the questions using a different colour.  

History

Over the next few weeks, we will be learning all about the Olympics.

• This year the Olympics should have been held in Tokyo, unfortunately it has been postponed until next year.
• Using your research skills, what can you find out about the Olympics? What events do they have? How often does it take place? Is there a symbol for the Olympics?

Science

This unit of work focuses on ‘Movement’.

• Use the PowerPoint to explore moving an object by using a push or pull force and complete the challenge.

RE

• All of us belong to God’s family and we belong to this family because the first disciples of Jesus spread the good news.
• Read the story of the conversion of St Paul Acts 9: 1-25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXFy3zjJh4 this link may also help you to understand the story.
• What was he like before and after his conversion on the Damascus Road?
• Draw two pictures of Paul one before and one after his conversion. Label each picture with words to describe him.

ICT

• Using the ‘Bee-Bot’ app, access the garden challenge and complete levels 4 - 6, programming the bee-bot to reach the flower. Can you get the bee-bot to reach the flower using only one algorithm? (only press go once)

PE

• Complete a Joe Wicks workout https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Home Project – Year 2 - 08.06.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week’s focus is about explanation texts.

• Lesson one – Discuss the questions in activity one and write down your ideas. (page 4)
• Lesson two – Read the piece of text in activity two and complete the questions. (page 5-7)
• Lesson three – Complete the reading challenge identifying the key features of an explanation text. (page 9)
• Lesson four – Use the template to plan your own explanation text about a topic that you are interested in e.g. your favourite sport, favourite animal, a hobby, favourite toy.
• Lesson five – Use your plan to write an explanation text about your chosen topic, remember to include pictures and use your best handwriting. There is a checklist attached to help you. (page.13)

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is multiplication and division.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk89d6f follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2.
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfxtnrd follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhwmhg8 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr23c7h follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson five – Log on to TT rockstars and practise your times tables.  

Art

• https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/by-period/tudor look at some of these portraits from the Tudor times, can you find Queen Elizabeth I? What do you notice about these portraits? Can you create a portrait of someone at home? Draw in pencil and include lots of detail. Now colour in your portrait using resources of your choice.

Science

• Recall last week’s learning on food chains using the PowerPoint to help you. Draw a food chain and label using: producer, consumer, prey and predator.

RE

This unit of work focuses on ‘Our Church’.

• What do you think the word ‘community’ means? Can you name any communities that you belong to? (School, family, God’s family etc.) What makes each of these a community?
• What roles and responsibilities do people have within these communities? What might happen if people didn’t fulfil their roles and responsibilities?
• Draw some of the communities that you belong to and write a sentence explaining how it makes you feel to be a part of the community.

ICT

• Download the free app ‘Bee-Bot’ using the app store. Access the garden challenge and complete levels 1-3, programming the bee-bot to reach the flower. Can you get the bee-bot to reach the flower using only one algorithm? (only press go once)

Music

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjcwqp3 follow this link to explore pulse and rhythm and learn how to make a range of sounds using different parts of your body.

Welcome back, I hope you all had a lovely half term!

Home Project – Year 2 - 01.06.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7g8jhv use this link to explore homophones and complete activity 1. Now choose some of these homophones and put them into sentences.
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjdxhbk use this link to explore coordinating conjunctions and complete activity 1 (attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvr6pg8 use this link to explore verbs and complete activity 2.
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhh6pg8 use this link to explore sentences and complete activity 1.
• Lesson five – Read the piece of text and answer the questions.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is multiplication.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhchscw follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrf8jhv follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7hdqp3 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 2.
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhn6pg8 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 3.
• Lesson five – Can you solve these Maths challenges?

History

• Lesson one – Research who Queen Elizabeth I is, When was she queen? What countries did she reign over? Can you name any of her family members?
• Lesson two - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zt4kjxs use this video clip to explore a traditional Tudor dance, can you recreate this dance?

Science

• What do animals eat? What do we eat? Identify what the words herbivore, carnivore and omnivore mean. Which one are we? What do you think a food chain is? Use the PP to explore food chains.
• https://toybox.tools.bbc.co.uk/activities/id/gm2zlfh9hq/exitGameUrl/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Ftopics%2Fzbnnb9q%2Farticles%2Fz93vdxs/palette/colour-palette-7/language/en-GB/project/blocks-bitesize Play this game to create different food chains.

RE

• On Sunday 31^st May we celebrated Pentecost. Recall the story of Pentecost - Acts 2: 1-13. What were the disciples like before the Holy Spirit came? What were the disciples like when the wind and tongues of fire came into the upper room? What were the disciples like after the Holy Spirit came?
• Recount the story of Pentecost, using your neat joined handwriting.

PE

• Complete the task on seesaw.

Home Project Year 2 - 18.05.20

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

Reading

• Lesson one – choose a story on Bug Club, read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.
• Lesson two – choose a story on Bug Club (or continue with yesterday’s book), read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.
• Lesson three – choose a story on Bug Club (or continue with yesterday’s book), read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.

English

This week we will be exploring instructions.

• Lesson one – Choose one of these sets of instructions (or select one of your own), follow each step carefully to create either a pirate hat or superhero puppet. Were your instructions easy or hard to follow? Why?
• Lesson two – Look at the two sets of instructions, what features can you see? Use the checklist to see if you can identify all of them.
• Lesson three – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVFIhv0s1E Listen to the story ‘Instructions’ Neil Gaiman, what do you notice about this story? Do you think it is a story, or a set of instructions? Why? What is the same/different about this story and the instructions you have looked at this week?
• Lesson four – Look at the map of Fairy Land, what can you see? You are stood at the gate next to the river, where would you like to visit? Which way do you need to go? What will you see along the way? Who might you meet? Draw your route on the map.
• Lesson five – Using the route you created on the Fairy Land map yesterday, can you write a set of instructions to guide someone along your journey. Remember to include all of the key features that you identified earlier on in the week. Read and follow your instructions, do they get you to the place you wanted to visit?

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is addition and subtraction.

• Lesson one – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbypscw follow the link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity). There are three challenges, diving, deeper and deepest, choose one challenge and complete.
• Lesson two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvxxt39 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson three – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrnfvk7 follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson four – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znmpf4j follow this link for guidance and complete activity 1 (this is attached to this seesaw activity).
• Lesson five – Can you solve the Maths challenges?

History

• Lesson one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoaMawiZ-o Watch this video clip to find out why Florence Nightingale is a ‘Wonder Woman’. What have you learnt about Florence Nightingale? What changes did she make to hospitals? Why was she called the Lady with the lamp? Draw a picture of what hospitals were like before and after Florence Nightingale visited. Now write some sentences explaining the changes that Florence Nightingale made.
• Lesson two - What do you think life was like for Florence working in the hospital? How might she have felt? Write a diary entry in role as Florence Nightingale using the writing prompts to help you.

Science

• Use the PowerPoint to explore the seven life processes that all living things do. These help you to decide whether something is living, dead or has never been alive. Create a poster identifying the seven life processes.

RE

• May is the month of Mary, who is Mary? What do you know about Mary? What is the special prayer that we say all about Mary? Use the resources attached to take part in a collective worship. Find a quiet area, make the sign of the cross and read the first two pages. Now listen to the music and complete the task on page three https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kBicrhrcf8. Finish this collective worship by saying the Hail Mary and make the sign of the cross.

PE

• Complete the task on seesaw.

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

Reading

• Lesson one – can you retell the story of stuck in 1 minute? Did you manage to retell the whole story or did you run out of time?
• Lesson two – write a book review for the story ‘Stuck’ using the template.
• Lesson three – create a new book cover for ‘Stuck’ remember to include the title and the authors name.

English

• Lesson one – This week, you are going to be authors and illustrators. How could you change the story ‘Stuck’ to make it your own? Who will be the main character? What object will get stuck in the tree? How will your character get the object down? Use the template to plan your story.
• Lesson two – Using your plan, begin to write your story, leave some space at the end of each page for your illustrations (these will be completed later on in the week). Use the sentence opener word mat to change how you start some of your sentences to make your story more exciting.
• Lesson three – Finish writing your story. Read your story and check your punctuation, does each sentence start with a capital letter and end with a full stop? Have you used some conjunctions? (and, because, or but, so)
• Lesson four – Illustrate your story, remember to draw each picture carefully and colour them in neatly.
• Lesson five – Read your story aloud, using a loud clear voice and expression. Record yourself reading the story.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is addition and subtraction. For each lesson watch the tutorial videos and complete the tasks. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Lesson one – fact families
• Lesson two – compare number sentences
• Lesson three – related facts
• Lesson four – add and subtract ones
• Lesson five – Maths challenges

Geography

• Lesson one – Use Google Earth to explore all of the countries in the United Kingdom, can you identify the capital city for each of these countries? Now find these on the map.
• Lesson two – Label each country in the United Kingdom, now locate and label each capital city.

Science

• Use the PowerPoint to explore microhabitats. What is the same/different about habitats and microhabitats?
• Can you find a microhabitat? This could be in your garden or out on a walk. Take a photo or draw a picture of this microhabitat and identify any minibeasts that might live there, why is this a good microhabitat for them?

RE

• On 31^st May we celebrate Pentecost. Read the story of Pentecost - Acts 2: 1-13. During this time we celebrate the beginning of God’s family, the Church. The liturgical colour for this season is red, why might this colour be used?
• Explore some artwork that illustrates Pentecost, create your own Pentecost artwork using resources of your choice.

PE

• In Gymnastics last half term we were looking at different jumps – bunny hop, tuck jump, star jump etc. Can you create a routine including a range of different jumps?

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

Reading

This week’s reading tasks involve accessing Bug Club, if you are having trouble accessing this or need the log on details, please let me know.

• Lesson one – choose a story on Bug Club, read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.
• Lesson two – choose a story on Bug Club (or continue with yesterday’s book), read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.
• Lesson three – choose a story on Bug Club (or continue with yesterday’s book), read the story and answer the quiz questions each time you see the bugs face.

English

• Lesson one – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjgDn0rqFg read the story ‘Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers, recall the story with someone at home, do you like this story? Can you explain why? Did you like the ending?
• Lesson two – use the Commas PowerPoint to explore how we use commas and complete the tasks in the PowerPoint.
• Lesson three – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbjgDn0rqFg  read the story again, can you write a list of all of the items that the boy uses to try to get his kite out of the tree? Remember to use a comma after each item.
• Lesson four – Look at the picture of all of the objects in the tree, what can you see? How do you think the people and animals are feeling? Can you use some adjectives to describe the whale? The milkman? In sentences, use at least three adjectives to describe the object in the tree e.g. The huge, whale was feeling angry, sad and extremely anxious.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is measurement. For each lesson watch the tutorial videos and complete the tasks. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Lesson one – compare lengths
• Lesson two – order lengths
• Lesson three – four operations with length
• Lesson four – problem solving

History

This week our focus is linked to VE Day, which will be celebrated on Friday 8^th May.

• Can you recall what you have learnt about WW2 at school during the Autumn term?
• The British Government gave medals to those who participated in World War II. Design your own medal for a British Soldier to acknowledge their role in the war.

Science

• Explore some habitats using the links below and complete the quizzes, each quiz can be found below the video, there are also some interactive activities for you to complete.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/zc42xnb - woodland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/zw2syrd  - urban

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/zy38wmn - coastal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx882hv/articles/ztf4kqt - pond

RE

• Read the story On the Road to Emmaus. How did they feel when the stranger first spoke to them? How did they feel by the end of the story? What had made the difference?
• Imagine you were one of the two disciples who saw the Risen Jesus in Emmaus. What would you say to the other disciples when you arrived back in Jerusalem? How might they react?

• Recount the story as one of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, use the document attached to help you.

PE

• Complete the task on seesaw.

VE Day celebrations

Friday 8^th May commemorates the 75^th anniversary of VE day.

• Read the piece of text about VE day and answer the questions attached.
• Design and create your own party decorations. E.g. bunting, flags, posters etc.
• Complete the wordsearch and colouring pages linked to VE day.

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

Reading

• Lesson one – read pages 1-3 of ‘The Pet who Flew’ and answer the questions attached. Continue reading and stop at page 7.
• Lesson two – read the rest of the story and answer the questions attached.
• Lesson three – go to page 14, set yourself a one-minute timer, how many of these words can you find in 1 minute? Circle or underline each word when you find it, you only need to find each word once. Remember to skim read the text, this will help you to find the words quickly.

speedy, swooping, diving, box, long, winter, evening, dog, park, garden

English

• Lesson one – Over the next few days you are going to write your newspaper report using the plan you made on Friday. Using the template I have attached or on a piece of paper write the headline and your introduction. Your introduction should be short summarising the key points of your report. You will go into more detail about the incident with Mr Fox in the main part of the newspaper report tomorrow.
• Lesson two – Read what you have written so far. Today you are going to write the main part of your report. Now you will need to explain in detail what Mr Fox has done and the impact this has had on the farmers, you may even have something that the farmer has said that you can include – remember to punctuate this correctly using speech marks.
• Lesson three – Read what you have written so far. Now you need to write the final part of your report, the conclusion. Summarise what has happened, how the farmers feel about this incident and what might happen next.
• Lesson four – Add some pictures and a caption to complete your newspaper report.
• Lesson five – Today you are going to use your editing skills to edit and improve your newspaper report. At school, this is when we would use our purple pens to complete this task, so if you are able to, change the colour of your pen/pencil you are using. Read through your work and check for capital letters, full stops, spellings, letter formation and exciting vocabulary.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is fractions and measurement. For each lesson watch the tutorial videos and complete the tasks. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Lesson one – find three quarters
• Lesson two – count in fractions
• Lesson three – measure length (cm)
• Lesson four – measure length (m)
• Lesson five – Maths challenges

History

• Lesson one – research Emily Davison and find out what she did to help change women’s history, you may notice some similarities between Emily Davison and Emmeline Pankhurst.

• Lesson two – record what you have learnt in a format of your choice this could be a poster, fact file or record yourself explaining what you have learnt.

Science

• Use the PP to explore habitats identifying what they are and what plants and animals might live there. Choose one of the habitats (woodland, urban, coast and pond) draw this habitat and the animals and plants that live there.
• Challenge – explain why the animals/plants are able to survive in this habitat.

RE

• Lesson One - one of the most important stories in the Gospel is the Resurrection of Jesus, read Luke 24: 1-12 and John 20: 1-18.
• Discuss the two accounts with someone at home and identify the similarities.
• Lesson Two - Imagine you are Mary Magdalene, recall the events of the story of the Resurrection in role as Mary Magdalene including your thoughts and feelings when you realise the tomb is empty and when Jesus appears to you.  

PE

• Find a song that you like on https://www.youtube.com/user/KidzBopKids and learn the dance routine. Record yourself and send it to me on seesaw.

Welcome back Year 2 

We've had a change to our home learning and your tasks will now be added to  your Seesaw accounts.

1. Please either go to: https://web.seesaw.me/ on a computer or install the Seesaw Class App on iOS or Android device.

2. Tap "I'm a student"

3. Type in your student code to access your Seesaw account

4. Keep this code safe, this is like a password!

You can complete your tasks online/on the app so there's no need to print anything (unless you can and want to)

Instead, you can send me work in more creative ways - annotated pictures, videos, voice recordings, PowerPoints etc!!

Your daily home learning tasks will be released on there each day. This is the work you will need to complete daily to keep on top of your learning. I'll be marking it and providing feedback as I would normally do in school. 

You can also message me to tell me how you are all doing and how you are keeping busy. I'd love to hear from you all!

Hopefully see you soon.

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

This week our English focus is Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, we read this story last term at school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjdrqA-khd4 here is a quick summary of the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJofxwa5bMo here you can access the full story, if you want to remind yourself of the key events.  

• Lesson one - recall the story to an adult explaining the key parts of the story, use the links above to help you, you could also record yourself recalling the story and send it to me on seesaw. Draw your favourite character from the story and describe your character in sentences.  
• Lesson two - imagine you are one of the farmers in the story; create a wanted poster for Mr Fox, using exciting descriptive language, explain what he has done and what the reward is for anyone who finds him.
• Lesson three - today we will be looking at speech marks, these are also known as inverted commas. Look through the PowerPoint to identify what they look like and when they are used within a sentence. Can you change the speech bubbles to direct speech and put it into a sentence?
• Lesson four - using yesterday’s learning on speech marks, write a conversation between Mr Fox and one or more of his family members. Remember to use speech marks to punctuate when a character is speaking.
• Lesson five - next week, we will be writing a newspaper report to explain the incident involving the farmers digging for Mr Fox. Using the template attached plan your newspaper report, remember when planning we only need to write the key information - this can be done using bullet points.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is fractions. For each lesson watch the tutorial videos and complete the tasks. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Lesson one – recognise a third
• Lesson two – find a third
• Lesson three – unit fractions
• Lesson four – non-unit fractions
• Lesson five – equivalence of a half and two quarters

History

This term our new topic is ‘Wonder Women’ over the next half term we will be exploring a range of important women who have changed history.

• Lesson one  - research and find out who Emmeline Pankhurst is, why is she a wonder woman? What did she do?
• Lesson two - create a poster/fact file to explain who Emmeline Pankhurst is to someone in your family. Include lots of facts to explain why she is important.

Science

This term are unit of work in Science is ‘Living things and their Habitats’.

• Lesson one – write down what you already know about living things and their habitats and what you would like to learn during this topic. Now use the PowerPoint to identify whether something is living, dead or has never been alive and complete the tasks.
• Lesson two - on the last slide of the PowerPoint is today’s task, can you draw 2 things that are living and explain how you know this, 2 things that are dead and explain how you know this and 2 things that were never alive and explain how you know this.

RE

• Lesson one - we are now in the church season of Easter, this lasts for 50 days and the liturgical colour for this season is white or gold.
• Draw some signs and symbols that are linked with the season of Easter, remember to include some that are linked to the Church.

PE

• Take part in a ‘PE with Joe Wicks’ workout https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

A lovely liturgy by some faces that you might recognise! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-kS4ZP6hs&feature=youtu.be 

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

• Using the recounts PowerPoint, (resources below) explore recounts and their key features. What might happen if a recount was not in chronological order? Is it written in the past or present tense?
• Read the story ‘The Dog Who Wouldn’t Stop Barking’ by Ruth Merttens, discuss what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story. How do you think Smudge might be feeling? Why? How might Alice feel? Why? Does this change by the end of the story?
• Over the next few days, you will be writing a diary recount in role as Smudge the dog, can you plan what he might get up to? Think about the events that happened in the story, daily tasks e.g. eating, mischief he might get up to and friends/animals he might meet along the way. An example of a planning template can be found below.
• Using your plan, write a detailed diary recount of what Smudge has been doing, remember this is in the past tense and you are Smudge so ensure you write in first person e.g. I, me, we. Use the checklist below to ensure you have included everything.
• Re-read your diary recount, edit and improve your writing. Remember to check for capital letters, full stops, letter reversals, spellings, ed suffix has been used correctly. Improve your writing by changing a word to make it more exciting, or add in an adjective/verb/expanded noun phrase/conjunction.

Maths

This week’s Maths focus is fractions. For each lesson watch the tutorial videos and complete the tasks. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Lesson one – making equal parts
• Lesson two – recognise a half
• Lesson three – find a half
• Lesson four – recognise a quarter
• Lesson five – find a quarter

History/Design & Technology

• Listen to Tim Peake share a story with you whilst he was in Space https://storytimefromspace.com/stories/the-incredible-intergalactic-journey-home/
• Research the different vehicles that are used within Space. What do they look like? What are the key features? What are they used for?
• https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/vehicles/index.html
• Design your own Space buggy, what will your key features be? What will it be used for in Space? What materials will it be made out of?

Extension:

• Create your Space buggy using the resources available at home. Does it look like your design? Did you have to make changes along the way? Why?

Science

• Use the PowerPoint - Materials to explore different materials. Can you find some objects made from these materials in your home? Describe some of their properties to someone at home e.g. smooth, rough, bumpy, hard, soft, and flexible.
• Now look at the PowerPoint – grouping materials, collect some objects around your house, can you group these by their material or their properties?

RE

• Read the Last Supper (Matthew 26: 20-30)
• Where have you heard the words Jesus said before?
• How might Jesus and the disciples be feeling during this time? Why?
• Look at artistic representations of the Last Supper.  Create your own artwork linked to the Last Supper.

Home Project – Year 2

Please find below daily activities for your child to complete while not able to attend school. These activities are centred on activities your child would participate in at school. There are also some general whole school activities too.

Daily activities

Tasks

English

• At school, we have read the story ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl. Write a detailed book review of what you liked/disliked, explain who your favourite character is and why, did you like the ending? Why?
• Draw an image of your favourite part of the story.
• Using the suffix ‘ed’ can you write some sentences in the past tense e.g. sprinted and using the suffix ‘ing’ write some sentences in the present tense e.g. galloping.
• At the end of Fantastic Mr Fox, all of the animals have a feast on the food that they have stolen from the farmers and agree to stay underground and use the tunnels when they need food. Write an alternative ending to this story, using exciting sentences.
• Edit and improve your story, checking for the correct punctuation (capital letters, full stops), correct letter formation, add an interesting adjective/verb/adverb.
• Read your story ending aloud, using a loud clear voice and expression.

Maths

• Draw and label all of the 2D shapes that you know. Can you describe their properties? (sides and vertices)
• Can you identify at least one line of symmetry for each of your 2D shapes? Remember both sides need to be the same.
• Create a pattern by drawing 2D shapes.
• Draw and label all of the 3D shapes that you know. Can you describe their properties? (faces, edges, vertices)
• Find a range of 3D shapes in your house, can you sort them into two or three groups e.g. only flat faces, curved and flat faces.

History/Geography/Design & Technology/Art

• Research the artist Peter Thorpe, can you find some of his artwork? What is the key theme? Do you like his artwork? Why?
• Draw and colour/paint a piece of Space artwork inspired by Peter Thorpe, think about what is in the background and foreground.

Science

• Draw the lifecycle of a seed, label and describe each stage.
• Explain the similarities and differences between the lifecycle of a seed and the lifecycle of a bulb.

RE

• Read Jesus washing the disciple’s feet. (John 13:1-20)
• Why do you think he did this? How did the disciples feel? How did Jesus feel?
• Why was Peter so upset with Jesus? Imagine you had been Peter, what would you have said to Jesus at this point?
• Write this event in role as Peter explaining what is happening and how you feel.

Year 2 challenges

• SATs papers (access to all papers from 2017 - 2019)

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials#key-stage-1-past-papers

• Choose your favourite story, can you write a story about what might happen next with the characters? Where might they go? What might they do? Who might they see?
• Write some exciting sentences using adjectives, expanded noun phrases and conjunctions (or, and, but)
• Use a story map to plan an adventure story like ‘The Way Back Home’, remember to think of a problem and a solution.
• Use your story map to write an exciting story with a beginning, middle and end. Remember to use exciting vocabulary, adverbs and conjunctions to make it interesting to read.

Maths

• In Maths, we have been looking at finding fractions of a number and shape ( ½, ¼, 1/3, 2/4,3/4), can you solve some problems involving fractions – remember you can draw circles and dots or use your times tables knowledge.
• Draw a shape, can you colour in ½? ¼?  1/3?  2/4? 3/4?
• Add or subtract two numbers using the column method.
• Answer some of the questions on the Reasoning SATs papers.

RE:

• Share the story of Palm Sunday (Matthew 21: 1-11)
• Retell the story of Palm Sunday as one of Jesus’ disciples. What can you see? What can you hear? How are you feeling? What is Jesus doing?

History and Geography

• Research the astronaut Neil Armstrong and his Apollo 11 mission. Can you write a newspaper report about this exciting mission?
• Draw our solar system, can you name and label all of the planets? Sing the song we have learnt at school to help you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTaAoWs-Mo 

Science

• In Science, we have been learning about plants, sketch a plant or a tree - remember to look closely at the detail.
• We have been learning about pollination and seed dispersal, what happens during both of these stages?

Important information

Our PE days are Monday and Tuesday could you please make sure your child has their full PE kit on these days.

Homework books are given out on Fridays and need to be back in school by Wednesday. There will be a treat at the end of each term for the children that have completed their homework consistently.

Spring term

ICT

This half term we have had a fantastic time using the Lego in our ICT lessons. We followed a set of instructions to successfully make a Lego model. Then using the laptops we created an algorithm to make our model move. 

World Book Day

During world book day spent the day sharing some stories with our friends, creating new book covers for our favourite fictional stories and discussing our favourite authors. 

Poetry Day

Today we had a very exciting visit from Andy Tooze the poet. We had an excellent day listening to him share some of his poems. Andy then spent some time in the classroom with us, teaching us how to write our own poems and sharing some top tips with us to make our poems amazing! Some of us even performed our poems to the rest of the school at the end of the day! 

Science – germs investigation

In Science, we have been learning about important Scientists that have changed the world. Today, we explored Louis Pasteur and discovered that he was interested in germs. He carried out many experiments and taught people that germs do not appear, but are spread through the air or through touch.

We used glitter to explore how easily germs can spread and were shocked with how far the glitter spread around the classroom. We washed our hands without soap and discovered that most of the germs were still on our hands!

Maths – money

In Maths, we have been learning all about money. First, we identified the value of each coin and note that we use. We were then able to use this knowledge to solve a range of Mathematical problems involving money:

- Counting the total in the jar

- Finding the total when buying two items

- Calculating change

Food tasting

This half term we are learning all about India. We started our topic by exploring a range of Indian food. Everyone enjoyed tasting the food but some of it was very spicy!

Autumn term

Nativity

This week, we performed our Nativity to the other children at school and our families. We hope you enjoyed watching us retell the story of Jesus' birth. 

Christmas Disco

Year 2 had a lot of fun at the Christmas Disco, dancing with their friends and singing along to the Christmas songs.

WW2 Day

On Tuesday 3rd December we had a fantastic WW2 day. We explored a range of artefacts from World War Two and even got to see an original mickey mouse gas mask! We learnt all about the black out and what happened during this time. Our favourite part of the day was helping the injured soldiers, by shouting for help and bandaging up their wounds. 

Martial Arts

We were really excited to learn all about Martial Arts. We learnt some basic moves and even got to have a go with the pads and gloves! 

World War Two

To start our new Topic, we took on the role of a historian and explored the artefacts in the classroom. Our task was to discover what our new Topic is. We wrote down our evidence on post-it notes and shared this with the class. We were able to find out that our new Topic is all about World War Two and we are all really excited to learn all about this historical event!

Maths - Measurement

This week in Maths, we have been looking at measurement. We used rulers and tape measures to measure a range of objects in centimetres. We then used these measurements to order a group of objects from shortest to longest and compared the differences between them.

School disco

Year 2 had lots of fun at the school disco dancing with their friends and singing along to the music.

Rosary

October is the month of the Rosary. In Year 2, we have been exploring Rosary beads and identifying the prayer for each bead. We enjoyed making our own decade of the Rosary and used these during our collective worship.

Maths

In Maths we have been busy partitioning two digit numbers into tens and ones and counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are now moving on to learning our 3 times tables! 

English

In English we have been using our imaginations to explore a range of texts including Journey by Aaron Becker and The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. We worked in small groups to role play the journey we might take on the magic carpet and what we might see and do whilst we're there. Next we created our own wordless books and now we are currently writing an adventure about a lost item.