Week beginning 1st 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:

Tremulous

nervous, timid, shaking or quivering slightly

Maybe you could include the word of the week when you write us your e-mail. Try to use the word of the week in your tunnel adventure story.

Please note that our maths lessons are currently behind the dates named on the White Rose Website. For this week’s learning please see the Summer Term Week 5 (w/c 18^th May) starting with Lesson 1 – Multiplication Sentences using the x symbol.

Bread and Butter Learning ·         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. ·         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. ·         Practise all the sounds you have learnt in phonics. There are lots of resources for this on Twinkl, Phonics Play and YouTube. ·         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. ·         Practise your handwriting and letter formation using our joined up, cursive handwriting style. There is a help sheet on the blog.

Bug Club Phonics Play Mr Thorne Network for phonics, spelling and grammar Hit the button Online Handwriting Letter Join  Education City – see updated home learning week beginning 1st June

Monday/Day 1 English This week, our English lessons are all going to be based on ‘The Great Escape’. Your task today is going to be finding out about The Great Escape so that you can complete the rest of this week’s lessons. What do you think about when you hear the words ‘The Great Escape’?  Who might be escaping? Where are they escaping from? Why are they escaping? Task: Can you read about The Great Escape and answer the questions? You could use the internet with your adult to find out more if you would like to. Maths Can you remember what this maths symbol is? X How many other ways can we describe this symbol? X Let’s recap multiplication today. We are going to revise arrays, repeated addition and equal groups. Can you remember what an array is and what it helps us to do? Arrays are pictures that we can draw to help us solve multiplication problems. Normally we draw circles or crosses like this: 2 x 3 = 6 X X X X X X We can also say that this is 2 + 2 + 2 as repeated addition or There are 2 equal groups of 3. Can you play ‘PlayLive Multiplication’ and ‘Field Goal’ on your Education City home learning? Watch today’s video to practise multiplication. Task: Can you complete Lesson 1?                                            How did you get on today? Try our extension challenge.

Reading comprehension Education City Video 1 Lesson 1 Extension

Tuesday/Day 2 English What did you think of The Great Escape? I wonder how the prisoners would have felt and what it would have been like to be there? Have a look at the picture. What does it make you think about? How does it make you feel? Can you remember the 5 senses? Today you are going to be using your five senses to describe the picture. Look at your Education City home learning. Play ‘Dancin’ in the drizzle’ to practise using words to describe senses. Imagine you are there. What can you see? What could you touch and feel? What would you smell? What might you be eating and what would it taste like? What can you hear? Task: Can you use your five senses to describe the picture? Maybe you could include the word of the week: tremulous Maths Remind yourself about arrays by working through the PowerPoint or print off the cards and play a matching game to revisit arrays. Watch today’s video to find out more about Lesson 2, using arrays. Can you play ‘Football Mad’ on your Education City home learning to practise multiplication facts? Task: Can you complete Lesson 2? How did you get on today? For an extra challenge, have a go at the extension.

Picture Education City Array matching game PowerPoint   Video 2 Education City Lesson 2 Extension

Wednesday/Day 3 English Think back to the picture we looked at yesterday. Remind yourself of the writing you did using the five senses. Today you are going to draw a picture of a prisoner. It could be yourself as a prisoner or one of the prisoners from the photograph. Try to add lots of detail to your drawing as this will help you with your writing. Think again how the prisoner would be feeling. What would they be wishing for? Task: Can you draw a picture of yourself as one of the prisoners and write adjectives, captions and sentences to describe your thoughts, feelings and wishes? Maybe you could include the word of the week: tremulous Maths Today we are going to be using our 2 times table to solve multiplication problems. Remind yourself of the 2 times table by using the splat square. Remember, if you get stuck, you could use whisper counting. Now join in with the BBC Supermovers workout to practise your 2 times table. You could now practise your 2 times table by playing hit the button. How many can you get before the timer runs out? Remember, if you have 4 x 2, you could count in 2s 4 times to find the answer: 2, 4, 6, 8! Can you play ‘Multiplying by 2’ on your Education City home learning? Watch today’s video to find out more about Lesson 3. Task: Can you complete Lesson 3? How did you get on today? Try our extension challenge.

Splat square BBC Supermovers Hit the button Education City Video 3 Lesson 3  Extension

Thursday/Day 4 English Today you are going to be writing a diary entry as one of the prisoners from The Great Escape. What do you remember about The Great Escape? Maybe you could re-read the information to refresh your memory and help you get into character. Work through the PowerPoint about how to write a super diary. Try to include as many features from the PowerPoint as you can. When you are writing your diary, it might be helpful to have the checklist with you to remember the super diary features. Think carefully about your 5 senses, perfect punctuation, amazing adjectives and super similes! Task: Can you write a diary entry as one of the prisoners from The Great Escape? Maths Today we are going to be using our 5 times table to solve multiplication problems. Remind yourself of the 5 times table by using the splat square. Remember, when we count in 5s, the numbers always end in a 0 or 5. Join in with the BBC Supermovers workout to practise your five times table. Can you play ‘Multiplying by 5’ on your Education City home learning? You could now practise your 5 times table by playing hit the button. How many can you get before the timer runs out? Remember, if you have 4 x 5, you could count in 5s 4 times to find the answer: 5, 10, 15, 20! Watch today’s video to find out more about Lesson 4. Task: Can you complete Lesson 4?

Reading comprehension Diary Writing Diary writing checklist Splat square BBC Supermovers Hit the button Education City  Video 4 Lesson 4

Friday/Day 5 English Today we are going to be learning about suffixes. What is a suffix? What do you already know? Can you think of any suffixes? Have a look at your Education City home learning. Look at the Learn Screen ‘Little Hikes’. Watch the videos to learn about different suffixes and words that you might see them in. There are 2 videos of just under 4 minutes each. You could have a go at making the suffixes fortune teller game. Task: Can you complete the Suffixes sheet? Maths A couple of weeks ago, it would have been our school Sports Day. Today we will have a mini Sports Day linking to our Friday Position and Direction maths topic. What vocabulary can you remember? Think back to the ‘Cha Cha Slide’. Have a look on your Education City home learning and try “Chalk the plank” and “Maze directions.” Can you set up an obstacle course in your house or garden? You could use chairs, chalk markers, cushions, tins, boxes and/or much more! You can make your obstacle course as easy or challenging as you would like. Think carefully about how you position different parts of your course. Think about your vocabulary too. Your task today is to direct someone around your obstacle course or follow directions you are given. How about making it even trickier by using a blindfold! Under the duvet. Over the cushion. Turn left 90 degrees at the chair… Task: Can you give and follow directions?

Education City Suffixes Part 1 Suffixes Part 2 Fortune teller game Suffixes task

Topic Science This week we have been learning about tunnels. Let’s look at The Euro Tunnel. It allows you to travel from England to France. But there is a sea in the middle, how does the tunnel work? Why do the cars not get wet? Today we are going to be making a tunnel that can allow a toy car (or similar) to pass through it without getting wet! Think carefully about the materials that you might want to use for your tunnel. Remember, the car can’t get wet so you will need consider waterproof materials. The tunnel must be watertight and sturdy. Try different materials and see which is best. You can choose how to display your results. Have a look at your Education City home learning and look at the ‘Material World’ Learn screen. It might give you some ideas of thoughts! Task: Can you design a tunnel to allow a car to pass through it, underwater? Cross-Curricular Learning Today we are going to do a mix of Geography, Maths and Science all rolled in to one lesson! Let’s start by looking back at our PowerPoint of tunnels from around the world. Which is your favourite tunnel and why? With an adult, you can find out more information about these tunnels. Try to find out how long they are and then order them according to their lengths. What did you find out? What do you notice? Using pictures of the tunnels or simply the tunnel names, find a way of sorting them. You could sort them based on their Geography, their use or something else. You could sort them in multiple ways. Task: Can you research tunnels, order their length and sort them in different ways? Choose how you wish to display your results and findings. Art In art today, we are going to be finding out about coats of arms and shields but you can choose the task that you would like to complete when designing your own. Go through the PowerPoint to find out about Shields and Coats of Arms. This will give you inspiration for designing your own. Option 1: Think about things that are important to you and your family. It could include favourite colours; foods; pictures; places; etc. design your own coat of arms to represent your family. You could choose to make it out of cardboard (from a cereal box, or similar) and decorate it with paints or collage materials. Option 2: Knights could be identified by their shields when they were in battle. Their shields were all different but represented each individual knight. Can you design your own shield that represents you? Think about that colours that you like and pictures or symbols that you would have on your shield. Task: Can you design a coat of arms or a shield?

Education City Tunnels around the world Shields and Coats of Arms

Additional learning activities Phonics Can you play your phonics game and work through your adult’s PowerPoint? Marvellous Maths Can you play Whack a mole to practise counting in different multiples? Remember to change the ‘steps of’ and ‘starting number’ to make it harder. Maybe you could have a go at counting in 4s, 9s or 11s? Can you work through the PowerPoint and solve the problems? PE Can you play Knee Boxing? Can you join in with a Zumba lesson? Spanish Can you remember how to count or say different numbers in Spanish? Watch the Spanish numbers song and try to join in. Practise saying and spelling the numbers. Use the word mat to help you or print it and stick it on the fridge to help you practise counting in Spanish. Task: Can you complete the Spanish numbers sheet? Home/Life Skills In our Street Detectives topic, earlier in the year, we were learning about keeping our world safe and tidy. Today you can find out which items of rubbish can be recycled, and which items of rubbish go elsewhere. Can you remember what the word recycle means? Share your thoughts with an adult. Have a look on your Education City home learning. Look at your science ‘Think It’ questions about plastic. Read the messy magpie story and then play the rubbish sorting game. Task: Can you help your grownups to sort the rubbish?

Miss Shipp, Mrs Peek and Mrs Brooks: Game PowerPoint Mrs Weston: Game PowerPoint Mrs Whitlock: Game PowerPoint Mrs Longcroft: Game PowerPoint Whack a mole Marvellous Maths PowerPoint Knee boxing Zumba Spanish numbers song Word mat Spanish numbers Education City Messy Magpie story Rubbish sorting game

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.

Year 2 Team.