In the event of a school closure or for families self isolating


Dear Parents and Carers

Given the current situation with Coronavirus and the possibility of school closures or families having to begin self-isolating we have tried to put together a list of activities and ideas you can do with your children at home. We are thinking of you all and sending lots of get well and keep well wishes.

Please find below a list of possible activities for home learning over the next few weeks. We have tried to include a list of both on and offline activities for you to carry out with your child.

·        Our current topic is Wriggle and Crawl. Please look at this page to find the curriculum map https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Year-2-map.pdf and knowledge organiser https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Year-2-KO.pdf

·        After the Easter holidays we will be moving on to our new topic Towers, Tunnels and Turrets. You will find the curriculum map here https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/year-2-map.pdf for this topic and the knowledge organiser here https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/year-2-KO.pdf

·        You can also find the End of Year expectations for Year 2 here https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Year-2-End-of-Year-Expectations.pdf



Activities to do at home

Education City

We have put a selection of activities on this website that the children can do. All children have a login for this. If you need help with your login please get in touch with us.



Bug club   https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

This is an online reading resource. Children have books allocated to their reading level that they can read online.
User name - first 4 letters of your child's first name and surname

password – Whales19 or Dolphins19

School code - 99kq



The TTS website have produced some home learning packs which can be downloaded. You can find this here http://www.tts-group.co.uk/on/demandware.static/-/Library-Sites-TTSSharedLibrary/default/vaea75f5663a038b8658d258fd198e57ce70b35d6/images/homepage/My_Activity_Book_Yrs_5_7.pdf?version=1,584,037,589,000

This is a general Key Stage 1 booklet so will cover Year 1 and 2.



Twinkl

Twinkl has lots of resources that we use in school. They are currently offering temporary access to parents if you use the following details.

www.twinkl.co.uk/offer enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS



Other ideas


 Maths

·        Make your own chips and peas (10s and 1s) using straws, pencils, tooth picks, sticks or anything else you can find and practise adding and subtracting practically with chips and peas. You can also practise adding and subtracting a 2 digit and 1 digit number and 2 2 digit numbers by adding chips and peas too. Ask a grown up to give you some numbers or roll 2 dice to make 2 digit numbers to add. Remember you might need to cross a ten.

·        Practise multiplying using arrays (dot pictures)

·        Practise dividing by sharing out (draw your circle) eg 10 divided by 2

·        Practise telling the time. Please practise o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. If you can tell the time to the nearest five minutes practise that too.

·        Go on a shape hunt around your house. Can you find 2d shapes and revise their properties? How many sides? How many vertices? What about 3d shapes? How many faces? How many edges? How many vertices? What shape are the faces?

·        We have just started learning about money. Can you make different amounts using coins? Can you use different coins to make the same amount? Can you find totals of amounts of money? Can you use your subtraction skills (you might use chips and peas) to find change from 20p, 50p and £1?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ this is a website suggestion that has lots of brilliant maths games that we have used in class.

 English

·        Read as many books as you can and talk about your reading. Write a book review for ones you finish.

·        You could keep a daily diary of what you have been doing at home. Try to use your best joined up handwriting and concentration on using capital letters, full stops, descriptive language and conjunctions (and, but, because, so)

·        Practise spelling the Year 1 and 2 common exception words.

·        Choose an interesting object from around your house and write a story featuring this object it.



Other subjects

Science – On the Twinkl website there are suggestions for easy and engaging science experiments to do at home. We have done a couple in school and the children love them! There are also lots of activities on Education City and some have been set as homework already on the homework page.

Topic -  If you want to begin looking at some castle websites to begin to find facts for our new topic our knowledge organiser and topic map will tell you some of the things we will be learning.



We hope these links will be useful. We hope all our families keep safe and well and we look forward to all being back together in our classes as soon as is safely possible.



Kind regards

Mrs Brooks, Miss Shipp and Mrs Peek and the Year 2 team.

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