Class 2

Well done to everyone and thank you to those who have shared photos and video of the children learning. We have so enjoyed seeing what you are all getting up to. Don't forget to take pictures of learning going on at home so that we can add them to our class learning photos for everyone to share.

Mrs McLean and Mrs Wilde

WELCOME TO CLASS 2

Good morning and welcome to Terrific Tuesday! We are nearly at the end of term 4 now and it will be time for the Easter holidays.

Spelling and handwriting: Choose another five of your common exception words and practice their spelling. Write them into sentences and show your best handwriting. Perhaps you could ask a parent or sibling to test you on the 20 spellings that you have learnt over the last two weeks - how many can you remember correctly?

English: Carry on with the next activity about Auntie Comfort - we are nearly at the end of the chapter now.

Guided reading: Read another section of your home reader. Think about what you like an dislike about the book so far. Remember to say why you think these things.

Maths: Complete worksheet 7 - are you feeling confident telling the time? Are you able to work out the time differences between activities? Perhaps you could time your family and see how long it takes them to clean their teeth? Get dressed? Prepare dinner?

Science: You have already made one habitat to keep watch on over the Easter holidays, are you beginning to see anything happen in your wormery - record the changes that have taken place since you made it. Today you either need to try to make another habitat outside in your garden or observe one that is already out there carefully - wrap up warm though because it is cold out there!

The link takes you to the Wildlife watch pages

https://www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/explore-wildlife/habitats/towns-and-gardens

Scroll down the page until you find the Activities section, click on the take a look here and click on this. It will take you to a very long list of activity sheets. Look through the list and see if you can find the one called How to make a mini nature reserve.

If you do not have anything that you can use to make a nature reserve for you to watch over the holiday, have a look at a part of your garden. Record what creatures you can find in there now and look carefully over the next few weeks as the weather improves and see what changes. Are there any different creatures or plants there? You could take photographs to keep a record or set up a chart in your book to write down what is changing in your habitat / reserve.

If you want to compare the habitat in your garden with somewhere else, perhaps you could research a desert/ jungle / polar / rocky habitat and see what is different and what is the same.

Good morning Class 2!

I hope that you have had a lovely weekend and didn't get too cold in the hail and snow on Sunday. Your work for week 2 of home learning is below.

Spelling and handwriting:  Please choose another 5 words from the common exception word list and practice these with look, cover, write, check. Then write your spellings into sentences in your best handwriting. Are you checking that your letters are formed the correct size and have the lead in and lead out?

English: Please complete the next activity to do with the chapter on Auntie Comfort.

Guided Reading: 

• What has happened here?
• Why is the boy hanging from the tree?
• Why is she wearing ice skates but he isn’t?
• What might she be saying to him?
• How is he going to get down?
• What happened 5 minutes before this scene? What will happen 5 minutes after?

When you have completed the picture questions, do make sure that you read your book with your parent or carer and talk about the story. If there were any words that you didn't understand, check them in a dictionary.

Maths: Complete Worksheet 6 please in your book. We are still on the theme of time. Why not try to work out what times during the day you are doing things and how long they take?

RE:  Can you think of 5 things that are associated with Easter for Christians? Draw them into your book and write why you think we have these pictures or symbols and what they teach Christians about the story of Jesus dying on a cross.

Eg. A cross without a figure of Jesus: This shows Christians  that Jesus died on the cross, but then he rose into heaven leaving behind an empty cross and showing people that he had risen from the dead.

Music:  Remember all the work we did on rhythms in school? Where you have four beats and you make different values to fit together:

wasp          wasp            wasp           wasp

beetle        beetle          beetle          beetle

These fit together with two sounds in beetle fitting into the same amount of time it takes for one wasp - 2 halves making one whole!

Can you use some of your drum rhythms to makes a piece of music? You may need someone to play with you so you can hear how your djembe music sounds!

Finally, do take some pictures of what you get up to this week so that we can include them on our class page in the photo section.

Have fun and keep in touch!

Hello Class 2,

Happy Friday!! You’ve made it to the end of Week 1. Well done! Nearly the weekend, I hope you had a happy Thursday and you have managed to have fun playing as well.

Here are the activities for Friday 27^th March

Handwriting and Spelling

Choose 5 of your common exception words and practice the spellings using the look, cover, write and check method. Then write each of the 5 words in to a sentence on your book. Can you make any exciting sentences using your words? Please use your best handwriting and use your lead ins and flick outs for the joins. Remember if you are joining the letter r to another letter that it joins from the top, not the bottom! Underline the spelling you have used in each sentence, try to spell it without looking. If you have time, can you test yourselves on the words that you looked at yesterday?

This should take you 15-20 minutes.

Grammar

Find your sheet ‘ Capital letters: Names and ‘I’    Can you find where the capital letters should go? Don’t forget to capitalise ‘I’!  Please give me your neatest handwriting. This should take approx. 15-20 minutes.

English

In your English book, you have a list of activities to complete based around the chapter Auntie Comfort. Please complete the fifth day of these. You are going to be looking at the names of the different people in Anna’s family. Can you think about why they may have been given the names they have? If you have time, can you think about your family and make up some names for them, like Anna’s? Why have you chosen your names? This should take you approx. 60 minutes.

Maths

Please complete the fifth sheet in your Maths book (Lesson 5-‘Finding durations of time’)  I have also put some activities from the textbook to start you off before you do the worksheet if a grown- up has time to work through it with you first. Don’t worry if they don’t…just try and do some of the worksheet if you can. Use your counting in 5s to help you find the time.

This should take approx. 60 minutes. You could also use Timetables Rockstars to practise your tables, or ICT games and choose from a range of different activities, such as number bonds.

Comprehension

Look at the sheet ‘The giant called Bob’ You are going to be reading the information all about Bob and then find synonyms for the words that are given to you in a table next to the story. If you have a highlighter pen/ coloured pencil, you may like to highlight or colour in the words that you find in the story to help you.

This should take approx. 20 mins.

Show and tell

Have you made anything that you are proud of this week, or maybe you have had some great fun playing with your family? We would love to hear about it…maybe you could email us and let us know, or why don’t you ring up or video call a member of your family and share your news with them?

Choosing Time

I’m sure it’s been a busy time for you and your family this week…so now is the time to relax and have some fun-get creative with the Lego or Playmobil/draw some pictures/make a book…it’s up to you! Let your imagination run free.

Have a good weekend, recharge your batteries and relax after your hard work this week.

Hello Class 2,

You’ve made it to half way through Week 1, well done all of you, and your mummies and daddies! Have you enjoyed yourselves today? Did you manage to play outside in the fresh air?

Here are the activities for Thursday 26^th March

Handwriting and Spelling

Choose 5 of your common exception words and practice the spellings using the look, cover, write and check method. Then write each of the 5 words in to a sentence on your book. Can you make any funny sentences using your words? Please use your best handwriting and use your lead ins and flick outs for the joins. Remember if you are joining the letter r to another letter that it joins from the top, not the bottom! Underline the spelling you have used in each sentence, try to spell it without looking. If you have time, can you test yourselves on the words that you looked at yesterday?

This should take you 15-20 minutes.

Grammar

Find your ‘Capital letters and full stops’ sheet. Can you remember where a capital letter and full stop goes?  Remember to read each sentence twice so you can check that you understand it and then fill in the missing capital letters and full stops. This should take approx. 15-20 minutes.

English

In your English book you have a list of activities to complete based around the chapter Auntie Comfort. Please complete the fourth day of these. Who would like you to visit? What special things would you get ready? Can you make a list of instructions to help your parents prepare for a visitor to come to tea? Remember your instructional language- ‘First of all, then, after that, finally.’ If you have time then maybe you could draw a little picture next to each set of instructions to help show what you need to do to get ready.

This should take you approx. 60 minutes.

Maths

Please complete the fourth sheet in your Maths book (Lesson 4-Drawing Clock Hands.)  I have also put some activities from the textbook to start you off before you do the worksheet, if a grown up has time to work through it with you first. Don’t worry if they don’t…just try and do some of the worksheet if you can.

This should take approx. 60 minutes. You could also use Timetables Rockstars to practise your tables, or ICT games and choose from a range of different activities, such as number bonds.

Guided Reading

Reading aloud from your reading book/choose a book from your book case that you love and would like to share with a grown up. Can you find any common exception words in your book?  Can you talk about the story and say what you think may happen next? This should take approx. 20 mins.

PSHE

Choose one of the activities on your sheet that has been stuck into your book. Tick the activity that you have decided to do. Approx 30 minutes

Topic

This will take you a few weeks….

Your job is to research Nigeria, where Anna lives-using books and online tools to help you. It is up to you to think about how you present your information-on paper or using ICT. Think about population/Language/human and physical features.

When you have finished your research about Nigeria, I would like you to research Canada where Anna’s mother came from.

Then I would like you to compare the lifestyles of the 2 countries. How are they similar//How are they different? You can present this information in any way you like.

Have a good day. Enjoy the sunshine. I cannot wait to see what you have been up to. I’m sure you have all been busy bees!

Hello,

We hope that the early part of the week has been kind to you, and that you managed to get out into the sunshine of your gardens and find some worms! Enjoy this sunshine as much as possible, it’s meant to be lovely all week.

Here are the activities for Wednesday 25^th March.

Handwriting and Spelling

Choose 5 of your common exception words and practice the spellings using the look, cover, write and check method. Then write each of the 5 words in to a sentence on your book. Can you make any funny sentences using your words? Please use your best handwriting and use your lead ins and flick outs for the joins. Remember if you are joining the letter r to another letter that it joins from the top, not the bottom! Underline the spelling you have used in each sentence, try to spell it without looking. If you have time, can you test yourselves on the words that you looked at yesterday?

This should take you 15-20 minutes.

Comprehension

Find your ‘Seeing the future’ comprehension sheet. You need to read through the sentences and use the clues to help you finish each sentence of.  Remember to read each sentence twice so you can check that you understand it. This should take approx. 15-20 minutes.

English

In your English book you have a list of activities to complete based around the chapter Auntie Comfort. Please complete the third of these. Look at the illustration-describe the scene –think about your senses. Can you use some powerful adjectives (describing words) and powerful verbs to really make your writing come alive?

This should take you approx. 60 minutes.

Maths

Please complete the third sheet in your Maths book (Lesson 3-Sequencing Events.) Can you read the different times and say when children woke up, who woke up first/earlier and later? Can you also read the time of Emma’s different lessons? If you finish this, why don’t you challenge yourself to make your own timetable showing when you do different activities in your day? This should take approx. 60 minutes. You could also use Timetables Rockstars to practise your tables, or ICT games and choose from a range of different activities, such as number bonds.

PE

The sun is shining, if you can, try and head outside into your garden with a ball…bounce it, throw it, and even better, if you have a bat of some sort try bouncing a ball on the bat, bouncing the ball on a wall and trying to hit it back again when it rebounds. You could always use your hand as a bat! If you haven’t got a ball, then can you get on your bike or scooter and make a little obstacle course for it in the garden? Can you run around the garden? If you can’t get into your garden today then look at Joe Wicks on YouTube or Gonoodle/Just Dance 2020 on YouTube if you fancy a boogie! This should take you approx. 60 minutes.

Art

Choose one of the activities from the list that you were given in your book. If you don’t get this finished, don’t worry, you can continue it next week. Remember to tick off the activity that you have chosen. You can complete your Art in your book.

Most importantly, have a lovely day, don’t worry if you don’t get everything finished. Be kind and helpful to Mummy and Daddy!!

How did you get on on Monday? We do hope that you were able to access everything that you needed, please get in touch if there are any problems. At least the sun has been shining!

I hope your family all enjoyed the music making yesterday afternoon!! Here are the activities for Tuesday 24th March

Handwriting and Spelling: Choose five of your common exception words and practice the spellings using the look cover write check method. Then write each of the five words into a sentence in your book. Make sure you use your best handwriting and use your lead ins and flicks out for the joins. You could try joining if you like! Underline the spelling that you have used in each sentence - try to spell it without looking. -This should take 15 - 20 minutes

English: In your English book you have a list of activities to complete based around the chapter Auntie Comfort. Please complete the second of these. - this should take about an hour. Make sure you use all the features of a letter that we have looked at before. This time, you could put your home address at the top in the right hand corner!

Make sure you put the date on the next line down and the salutation on a new line as well. Don't forget to use a chatty style as this is an informal letter. 

Guided reading: Read aloud from your reading book at home and ask your parent or carer to ask you some questions about the text. Can you find any words with the ould  pattern in your book? Can you find any words with the suffix ness or ful? Can you think of any other words that fit with these suffixes? Can the rest of your family think of any? Why not have a competition to see who can come up with the most.- This should take about 20 minutes

Maths: Complete the second maths sheet in your maths book to do with time. Why not do some challenges with your family. Set a timer for five minutes. How many star jumps can you do before the time runs out? How many times can you write your name? Think of some other challenges and perhaps take a photo of you doing them. Let me know what you do, we could share them on our class pages!   -this should take about an hour

Science: We are looking at habitats. Can you describe the habitats for the following animals?:

fish / owl / polar bear / zebra / snake

Write a short description of what their habitat would look like - maybe draw a picture.

Can you set up a habitat for a worm? the following link gives a step by step guide to creating a wormery. Don't  worry if you do not have the materials to make one - go out in the garden and see if you can see any worms and look carefully at where they live.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/gardening_with_children/homegrownprojects_watchworms.shtml

ICT: Can you take photos of you making a wormery? Or photos of you looking at worm habitats outside.

This is where you will be able to find your learning activities as of Monday 23rd March. We will try to stick as close to our school timetable as possible (so you will be doing the same subjects on the same days as you would at school). Most of the instructions will be on this page, but sometimes there might be documents to look at as well. these will be uploaded for you here too. You will do the work in the exercise books that you have taken home - make sure your work is as lovely in here as it would be at school.

Everyday there will be a new set of lessons for you - these will be at the top of the list, but we will leave the previous days on in case you need to go back for anything. The new work will go on by 8pm the night before, but you do not have to look at it until morning.

If you have any questions or want to speak to us about anything to do with your learning then please email. We will check our emails daily but it may not be at the same time each day.

Monday 23rd March:

Handwriting and Spelling: Choose five of your common exception words and practice the spellings using the look cover write check method. Then write each of the five words into a sentence in your book. Make sure you use your best handwriting and use your lead ins and flicks out for the joins. You could try joining if you like! Underline the spelling that you have used in each sentence - try to spell it without looking. -This should take 15 - 20 minutes

English: In your English book you have a list of activities to complete based around the chapter Auntie Comfort. Please complete the first of these. - this should take about an hour.

Guided reading: Read aloud from your reading book at home and ask your parent or carer to ask you some questions about the text. Can you find any contractions in your book? Can you work out what the words that make them would be? - This should take about 20 minutes

Maths: Complete the first maths sheet in your maths book to do with time. See if you can make yourself a clock to help you with telling the time. If you are not sure what to do, this website gives you instructions:  -this should take about an hour

 https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/make-paper-plate-clock/

RE: We have been thinking about what is special about Easter and we are thinking today about the forgiveness that Christians believe is shown by Jesus dying on the cross. Think about forgiveness in your own life. Who do you need to forgive? Or who do you need to forgive you? Using the letters FORGIVE down the side of your page, think of an acrostic poem to explain what you want to forgive or be forgiven. Is your poem addressed to God? Another person? Yourself? 

When you have finished your poem decorate around the outside of it - please only use pencil crayon. - This should take about an hour

Music: On You tube you can find lots of drumming workshops of African drumming. Have a look at some of them and then try out some drumming yourself on saucepans / your knees / the arms of the chair....Anywhere! - This should take about 30 minutes.

The Year 2 Team

Class Teachers: Mrs McLean (Monday, Tuesday)

                           Mrs Wilde (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)   

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Garrett, Mrs Cope, Mrs Lee.

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Wednesday and will be due back in on a Monday. Homework will consist of a Maths activity and spellings.  At times there will be additional activities based on our learning across the curriculum. Please remember to read regularly in addition to your homework!

PE

PE will be delivered by specialist coaches on a Wednesday and Friday, starting with football and rugby in term 1. Please make sure you have full, outdoor PE kit on both of these days and you are prepared for being outside in the cold. Please leave earrings at home on PE days and tie up your hair.