Year 2 Home Learning 17.11.20

17th November 2020ajennings

Good morning year 2,

We hope you are all well. Here are your home learning tasks for today:

Phonics

We always start the day with phonics, last Friday we sent home the sound u-e huge brute. Read over the sound cards and look at the rhymes to help you remember that the best friends u-e and how the e changes the sound of the u. Now practise reading the words for each sounds, remember to spot the special friend and best friends!

Here is a link to Ruth Miskin online which will support your learning.

 

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. There are plenty of useful videos available on the Ruth Miskin Youtube channel.

 

English

Using the English Activity workbook complete pages 2 and 3 which is looking at nouns and adjectives.

 

As an extra challenge, children could write a sentence using two adjectives and a noun to describe a favourite character from a story, a film or even their pet. Remember to try and use a comma in a list of adjectives.

 

Maths

For maths, complete pages 2 and 3 in your addition and subtraction activity book which is practising adding and subtracting using pictures. Following this, children could login to Numbots for more number practice.

 

 

Odd Socks day

This week is anti-bullying week, we kick started with odd socks day to celebrate everyone being different and unique.  We’d love you to design your own pair of odd socks for the school competition using the sheet included in your pack. Send any entries to [email protected]

Here is a link to a virtual odd socks assembly for more information. We hope you have a great day.

Remembrance Day

16th November 2020L Moore

Over the last few weeks, the children have been finding out about Remembrance Day. They have been learning about why Remembrance Day is important and why it is commemorated. Each child made their own poppy. The poppies were displayed on the classroom window. Here are some photo of our lovely displays.

 

Y2S Home Learning 23.10.20

23rd October 2020E Jones

Happy Friday Everyone!

Your learning tasks are today:

English – Task 9 – To write a story (part 2)

It is now time to finish your story and write about the problem and the ending. Remember your conjunctions, commas and similes to try to make your story as detailed as possible.

Here are some sentence starters to help you or you can use your own.

  • When Rossi and Gaspar
  • All of a sudden
  • Gaspar decided to
  • Eventually
  • Gaspar was feeling
  • After that

 

Phonics and reading 

Today we would like you to look at the ‘ie’ sound.

Have a look at this video to support your learning:

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud.

You will find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Take a look at the following video to support your learning:

Now complete the following sheets from your work pack:

Go Noodle

Since it’s Friday and we finish for half term, why not end the week with a bit of a dance, take a look at the following videos and join in with the moves.

 

Don’t forget to send photographs of any completed activities to

[email protected]

If you have any questions or need anything please get in touch!

Year 2 teachers.

Y2S Home Learning 22.10.20

21st October 2020E Jones

Good Morning.

Hope you are all well. Your learning tasks for today are:

English – Task 8 – To write a story (part 1)

Today you are going to write the beginning of your story by introducing the character and where they go. Remember to include as much detail as possible by using adjectives and commas. If you want to add more information or make your sentence bigger, remember to use a conjunction.

Here are some sentence starters to help you or you can use your own.

  • Rossi and Gaspar are
  • They have
  • When they are playing, they love to
  • They live
  • Everywhere they look is
  • You can hear

You can also look at your story vocabulary sheet in your booklet to help you.

 

Phonics and reading

Today we would like you to look at the sound ‘i-e’.

Have a look at this video to support learning.

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud.

You will find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Take a look at the following video to support learning.

 

Then complete the following pages in your booklet:

 

Science

Today we would like you to explore the different animal groups. Use the following link to explore each of the animal groups, watch the videos to find out more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv

After watching the videos there is a quiz you can take to see how much you remembered.

Challenge You could create a fact file about one of the animal groups to share what you found out.

 

Don’t forget to send photographs of any completed activities to

[email protected]

If you have any questions or need anything please get in touch!

Year 2 teachers.

Y2S Home Learning 21.10.20

21st October 2020E Jones

Good Morning, happy Wednesday!

Here are your home learning tasks for today:

English – Task 7 – To plan a story

What happened in the story ‘The Runaway Iceberg’? What adventure did they go on? We are going to write our own story about Gaspar and Rossi but they are going to go on a different adventure.

Our task is to plan where they are going to go and what is going to happen.

Using your plan, try to describe your character, setting, problem and ending in as much detail as possible as this will help you write your story.

Can you use any similes or commas when listing adjectives?

Remember a simile is when you use ‘as’ or ‘like’ to compare something (e.g. The penguin is as cute as a rabbit, it was freezing like ice).

 

Phonics and reading 

Today we would like you to look at the sound ‘igh’.

Have a look at this video to support learning.

 

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud.

You will find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Take a look at the following video to support your learning:

Now complete the following sheets from your work booklet:

 

PSHE

We have been looking at plastic pollution. Can you research how plastic can be harmful to animals, humans, plants and our world? What can we do to help?

Create a poster to show what we can do to help improve plastic waste.

 

Don’t forget to send photographs of any completed activities to

[email protected]

If you have any questions or need anything please get in touch!

Year 2 teachers.

Year 2S Home Learning 20.10.20

20th October 2020E Jones

Good Morning,

Home Learning tasks for today.

English

Task 6 – To answer questions about a text

Read through the story again. I hope you enjoyed it. Now, answer the questions in your booklet. Make sure you are writing in full sentences to answer them.

 

Phonics

Today we would like you to practise the ‘ee’ sound. Use the video link below to help you.

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud.

You will find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Take a look at the following videos to support your learning today.

Complete the following pages in your booklet:

Science

We would like you to access the BBC Bitesize website and plan a healthy meal.

The links below might be useful:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zrd4d2p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4jkjxs

 

Remember to enjoy your learning, send any photos of work you complete across to us at: [email protected]

 

Year 2 Home Learning 19.10.20

19th October 2020E Jones

Happy Monday everyone!

Hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend and are ready for another week of working hard.

Your tasks for today are:

English

Task 5 – To write a character description

Today’s activity is to write a character description of Gaspar. Use the picture in your pack and discuss these questions with your grown up:

  • What three words best describe him?
  • What does he enjoy?
  • What does he look like?
  • What does he dislike?
  • Is he good/bad?

Next, answer these questions in full sentences to help your character description. You can also add in your own information if you like! Remember to use exciting adjectives and commas in a list.

 

Phonics

Today we would like you to look at the ‘e-e’ sound. Take a look at the video link to support you:

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud.

You will find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Take a look at the following video to support your learning.

Then complete the following tasks from your pack:

 

 

Geography

Today we would like you to use the BBC Bitesize website to find two facts about each continent.

This link might be a useful starting point:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zyhp34j

 

Don’t forget to send any queries or photos of completed work over to us at

[email protected]

Keep working hard.

Year 2 Home Learning 16.10.20

16th October 2020E Jones

Good Morning to you all, it’s Friday! Are you ready for some more learning?

Your tasks today are:

English:

Task 4 – To use adjectives

Have a look at the adjectives presentation. What is an adjective? Can you use some interesting adjectives to complete a wanted poster for some new explorers to join Gaspar and Rossi’s crew?

 

Phonics

Today we would like you to look at the o-e sound.

Have a look at this video to support learning

 

Challenge the children to spell and write the words using the correct sounds. You may wish to write some of the words down and ask the children to read them aloud. There are some word cards in your home learning pack to support.

You will also find useful phonics videos on Ruth Miskin youtube channel.

 

Maths

Tens and Ones

Take a look at the following video to support learning

Then complete these sheets in your booklet:

       

 

PE

As it’s Friday, have some fun to finish your week. Try these two GoNoodle video dances. There’s plenty of others available on YouTube.

 

 

Don’t forget to send photographs of any completed activities to

[email protected]

If you have any questions or need anything please get in touch!

Year 2 teachers.