Home Learning week beginning 20th April

Good Morning Year 2

We hope you have had a restful Easter and have enjoyed some exciting activities at home.

Please find, below, the home learning grid for this coming week.

Our new topic for this term is, Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.

The grid contains your Bread and Butter Learning, taken from our normal home learning sheets that are sent home each half term. We have also included 5 English and Maths activities, one for each day of the school week. Please also complete the two topic lessons and science activity.

During the school week, we would also normally have Marvellous Maths, Phonics and PE lessons. We have included some suggested activities for these subjects should you wish to complete them.
This time at home is a valuable opportunity for you to learn some new skills at home. Each week we will suggest a home or life skill that you could try with your grown ups.

Don't forget you can send us your learning or a message once a week.
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Subject	Home Learning Tasks	Resources and links
Bread and Butter Learning.	1.    Read your home reader books, a book from the library or from home. Try to read a little bit every day. There are lots of books on Bug Club. 2.    Practise reading and spelling all the common exception words, these can be found on the blog. Choose the Year 1/2 words or Year 3/4 words. 3.    Practise all the sounds you have learnt in phonics. There are lots of resources for this on Twinkl, Phonics Play and YouTube. 4.    Practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. Hit The Button is a great game to help you. There are also games on Education City to help. 5.    Practise your handwriting and letter formation using our joined up, cursive handwriting style. There is a help sheet on the blog.	1.    Bug Club: https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 3.    Phonics Play: username: march20, password: home https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sW4j8p7k9D_qRRMUsGqyw 4.https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
English 3 writing tasks 1 reading comprehension (a passage of texts with some questions to answer) 1 SPaG task (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar)	1.    Writing task: Can you make a mind map to show facts that you already know about castles. Add questions that you would like to know about castles. Don’t forget a question mark at the end. 2.    Writing task: Can you use books, the internet and interviewing adults to find out about castles? Make notes about what you learn. 3.    Writing task: Can you make an information poster showing everything you have found out about castles so far? Remember to add pictures and bright colours to make it attractive. 4.    Reading Comprehension: Can you read the castles information and choose the questions to answer. (Bronze = 1 star, Silver = 2 stars, Gold = 3 stars). 5.    SPaG: Can you match the capital and lowercase letters on the sheet? Play the quiz to remind yourself of how to use capital letters for Proper Nouns (Names, Places and People)	Mr Thorne does Grammar, when to use a question mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_eymWspTko Links to websites with castle facts: http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/castles/index.html https://kidskonnect.com/history/castles/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zqr4d2p https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zxsgkqt Reading Comprehensions Capital and lowercase matching Proper Nouns SPaG
Phonics	1.    Can you log on to phonics play and play flashcards to practise digraphs and trigraphs? 2.    Can you play Buried Treasure on Phonics Play?	1.    Flashcards username: march20, password: home https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/FlashcardsTC.html 2.    Buried treasure https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/BuriedTreasure2.html
Maths	1.    Can you complete lesson 1, finding out about fractions and equal parts? 2.    Can you complete lesson 2, recognising ½ fractions? 3.    Can you complete lesson 3, finding halves ½ fractions? 4.    Can you complete lesson 4, recognising ¼ fractions? 5.    Can you complete lesson 5, finding ¼ fractions?	https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ Week 1, Lessons 1-5 Mini videos, PDF documents and printouts are available on the website found on the link above. For practical ways of learning fractions, see the links below https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t5TJ35sh0CDb4XA4dE9CjGEbRLP-qNnX/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2rgjD5YSzH2SrsDDTqOwjLMmk_SBHba/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1swErqcW38jK0sieogViMscRXcl-BFwHK/view?usp=sharing
Marvellous Maths	1.    Can you play Hit The Button to practise your number bonds to 10, 20 and 100? 2.    Can you complete the challenges on the PowerPoint?	Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Marvellous Maths PowerPoint https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_5tDAvBu4VfPzlmlLfZ6pcUJccU8aVpd/view?usp=sharing
Science	1.    Can you make a castle wall using a resource of your choice, such as Lego. 2.    Test the strength of your wall against attack, what knocks the wall down the best? 3.    Make a table to record your findings.	Attack material Attack rating Notes Rolling toilet rolls 6/10 Middle was knocked down, sides stayed standing. Example table idea.
PE	1.    Can play Protect the gate?
Art	Can you draw a detailed diagram of a castle and label its features? You could use books or the internet to help you.
DT	1.    Can you design and build a castle using a resource of your choice, e.g. Lego, recycling materials, playdough, etc. 2.    Make some cards or stickers to add labels to the different parts of your castle.	Parts of a castle http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/castles/parts.html
Home/Life Skills	1.    Can you help an adult to make a cup of tea or coffee? 2.    Think about what the dangers or hazards might be when completing this. 3.    You could make a poster to explain how to keep safe or write some instructions to explain how to make the hot drink.	Making a cup of tea sequencing pictures Instruction writing cup of tea

Please note, updated Twinkl links will appear in red.

We look forward to seeing your home learning, have fun!
Year 2 Team.