Week beginning 15th June
Good
Morning Year 2
Welcome to
another week of learning.
Please see your English and Maths activities for you to complete each
day.
Please see your Science and 2 topic activities to be completed, you can
choose when you would like to enjoy them.
Don’t forget you can also have a go at PE, Marvellous Maths, Phonics,
Spanish and Home/Life Skills.
Try to do a little bit of learning each day, not forgetting your
important Bread and Butter Learning.
Our word of the week this week is:
Boastful/boastfully
Bragging, being over proud, showing off.
Maybe you could include the word of the week when you write us your
e-mail.
Please note that our maths
lessons are currently behind the dates named on the White Rose Website.
Bread and Butter Learning
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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.
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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.
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Practise all the sounds you have
learnt in phonics. There are lots of resources for this on Twinkl, Phonics
Play and YouTube.
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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.
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Practise your handwriting and
letter formation using our joined up, cursive handwriting style. There is a
help sheet on the blog.
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Education City – see
updated home learning week beginning 15th June.
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Monday/Day 1
English
In English this week we are going to be continuing to focus on the
story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Remind yourself of the story The 3
Billy Goats Gruff.
Think carefully about these points:
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Who are the characters and what do we
know about them?
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Where are they going and why?
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What happens at the beginning?
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What is the dilemma?
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How is the dilemma resolved?
Today, you are going to be creating a picture
story map to retell the story. This will help you recap the story, learn the
story and think about how a story is made.
Take a look at the WAGOLL example to give you
some ideas.
Task: Can you
create a picture story map of The 3 Billy Goats Gruff?
Maths
Our maths this week will focus on money skills including adding,
giving change and problems involving money.
Today’s lesson focuses on addition with money.
Play Show me the money on your Education City home learning.
Watch today’s video.
Task: Can you complete Lesson 1?
How did you get on today? Try the extension challenge.
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Tuesday/Day 2
English
Remind yourself of the story The 3
Billy Goats Gruff.
Think about what you like and would
change about the story.
Today you are going to be thinking
about your own version of the story.
Stuck for ideas? Try the Story
Starter Machine on Education City.
Choose your characters and think about which
habitat they would be best suited to. You could choose elephants crossing a
river to the jungle, but the crocodiles are stopping them. You can change whatever
you wish to about the story, the characters, setting and the dilemma. Tomorrow you will be writing the
story in full so remember to add lots of detail to your picture story map. Remember
to have a clear beginning, middle and end to your story. Play Sandy Stories
on Education City to practise identifying the beginning, middle and end of a
story.
Task:
Can you draw a picture story map for your own version of The 3 Billy Goats
Gruff?
Maths
Our maths today is all about finding the difference between
amounts of money.
Play Star jumps on your Education City home learning to
practise finding the difference by using a number line.
Watch today’s video.
Remember, you can use chips and peas; number lines;
counters or similar resources to help you work out the
difference between two numbers.
Task: Can you complete the worksheet for lesson 2?
How did you get on today? For an extra challenge, have a
go at the extension task.
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff story - A video for you to watch if you
want to to remind you of the story.
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Wednesday/Day 3
English
Today we are going to be writing out own version of The 3
Billy Goats Gruff story.
Start by reading through your picture story map. You could
record your voice or even take a video of yourself to help you remember all
you ideas.
Try to include super time adverbs to help sequence the story and make
it flow along with similes, adjectives and conjunctions. Play Water Raider
on Education City to practise using conjunctions and revisit how to extend sentences
to add more information.
Use the Viking Voyage learn screen on Education City to practise
sequencing events in a story.
Task: Can you write your own version of the story?
See if you can include the word of the week in your story.
Maths
Today we will practise finding and giving change.
Remember there are 100 pennies in one pound. Think carefully
about your number bonds to 10 and 100 and this will help you solve the
problems.
Play Hit the Button with number bonds to 10 and 100.
Watch today’s video.
Task: Can you complete Lesson 3?
How did you get on today? Try our extension challenge.
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Thursday/Day 4
English
Today we are going to read a story about Knights and Dragons. Read the
story, or listen to it being read carefully before you read the questions.
Choose your level of challenge.
Bronze: 1 star
Silver: 2 stars
Gold: 3 stars
Remember! Read, read and read again until you find the
answer.
Task: Can you complete the Knights and Dragons reading comprehension?
Maths
Our maths today focusses on problems involving money. This lesson will
use the skills that you have been practising over the last three days.
Complete these Education City tasks to recap.
She sells sea shells
Ice cream
Cash only
Choc and change
Penny sweets
Surf shack
All change
Squids in
Pocket money
Watch today’s video.
Task: Can you complete Lesson 4?
Did you get on well today? Maybe you could try the extension.
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Friday/Day 5
English
For SPaG, from now until the end of term, you can choose to learn or
revisit any of the Year 2 SPaG lessons (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar).
Lessons include:
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Apostrophes for possession and contractions
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Commas in a list
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Compound nouns
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Conjunctions
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Adjectives
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Suffixes
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Nouns
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Adverbs
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Sentences
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Homophones
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Past and present tense.
Each week please choose just one PowerPoint and aspect of
SPaG to focus on. There are questions and activities that can be completed on
each PowerPoint. We have also included some extra challenge cards should you
choose to complete them. These will be available for Friday SPaG lessons
every week.
Maths
Well done for working so
hard on your money problems this week.
Today is your chance
to challenge your family again in the Family Friday maths challenge!
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Topic
Science
Let’s look back at the images of bridges we looked at last week.
Find out some more information about them including:
Materials they are made from
Their length
Their geographical location
The bridge style
Group the bridges according to one or more of these classifications
and choose your own way to share your findings. You could make a PowerPoint,
fact file, take photos, make drawings or even something else.
Task: Can you sort the bridges based on an interest of your choice?
DT
This week our science lesson is about bridges. Today we will be
constructing our own bridges.
Find out about the different shapes of bridges. Can you discover which
shape and style is the strongest?
Draw a picture of a bridge that you plan to make using spaghetti and
marshmallows. If you do not have these things you could use straws, sticks,
play dough, blu tack or similar items.
When you are happy with the design of your bridge, have a go at making
it.
How did it go?
What will you change to make it stronger?
Task: Can you make a spaghetti and marshmallow bridge?
History
Did you know that a man named Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a very
famous engineer and built many bridges?
Read the information about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Today you will be creating a fact file about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Use the links and resources to find out about him and then create a
fact file. You could use the fact file provided, use your computing skills or
design your own thoughts for an interesting fact file full with information.
Task: Can you make a fact file about Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
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Additional learning activities
Phonics
Each week please choose just one Outdoor phonics challenge
to focus on. These will be available for phonics each week.
Marvellous Maths
Have a go at some of the maths games to practise the skills that you have
learnt during Year 2.
Work through this week’s Marvellous Maths PowerPoint and complete the
problems.
PE
Have a go at the Get Set 4 PE challenge called Add it on.
Join in with the superheroes PE lesson.
Spanish
Let’s learn the names of farmyard animals in Spanish.
First, watch the video which explains how to say farmyard animal names
in Spanish.
Now work through the PowerPoint and practise saying the Spanish words
out loud.
Finally, if you can complete the Spanish animals word search.
Home/Life Skills
This week we are going to work on our cooking and/or baking skills.
You could help out in the kitchen when preparing lunch or dinner or
even find a recipe book and make something new.
Task: Can you follow a simple recipe?
Have you ever wanted to earn a Blue Peter badge? Now is your chance!
Have a look on this website and find out how you can be the proud owner of a
very special badge.
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Don’t forget
to send us an e-mail every week to let us know how you are and share some of
the fun activities that you have been learning about at home. We look forward
to hearing from you.
Please note that we are now in school full time with Key Worker children and Year 1 children. As a result, replies to e-mails will be slightly delayed but we aim to respond to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Year 2 Team.
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