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Framework for teaching Year 2 Term 3 Week 9 2021Monday 6/9 Tuesday 7/9 Wednesday 8/9 Thursday 9/9 Friday 10/9

Morning English Spelling Select 10-15 words from the week 9 spelling list and practice writing them. Choose 3 of these words and write them into 3 interesting sentences. Make sure you use joining words (and, because, so, but) and adjectives. Select an activity from the spelling grid.

Reading Read the attached sheet on ‘Dolphins’ and answer the questions

or read a book of your choice.

English Spelling Look, say, cover, write, check using your spelling list. Improve these sentences by adding adjectives, joining words and further information. - He walked on themoon.- The sky was blue.- The bird flew.

Select a new activity from the spelling grid

Reading Read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes. You can read a book from PM eCollection online, Ziptales or Epic.

Writing: Information Report Choose an event from the Paralympics in Tokyo and research information about the

English Spelling Look, say, cover, write, check using your spelling list. Editing activity: Edit and rewrite the 3 sentences. Make sure there are capital letters, full stops and no spelling mistakes.

Select a new activity from the spelling grid

Reading Read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes. You can read a book from PM eCollection online, Ziptales or Epic.

English Spelling Look, say, cover, write, check using your spelling list.

Select a new activity from the spelling grid

Reading Read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes. You can read a book from PM eCollection online, Ziptales or Epic.

Grammar Nouns are naming words (person, place or thing) Verbs are action/doing words (eg. ate, swim, bake, sing) Adjectives are describing words (eg. rainy, spotty, huge) Complete the parts of speech word search by colouring the nouns red, the verbs blue and the adjectives green.

English Spelling Look, say, cover, write, check using your spelling list.

Spelling BOGGLE - using the letters in thegrid, spell as manywords that you can. Youcan only use each letteronce in your word.

Reading Read a book of your choice for at least 10 minutes. You can read a book from PM eCollection online, Ziptales or Epic.

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Writing: Persuasive Topic: Books are better than movies Choose whether you agree or disagree with the topic. Remember to open with a sizzling start to get the attention of your audience and to give AT LEAST three different reasons for your choice. Each new point begins a new paragraph.

sport and how the athletes train for their event. You may like to present your report to your class during your next Zoom session.

Writing: Imaginative Animal Town Imagine you are on a road trip with your family to go camping at a place called Animal Town. When you arrive, you are shocked to find it literally is Animal Town. All the animals live and work there. They work in human jobs, drive cars, live in houses and run stores. Describe your experience as you holiday there.

Write a silly sentence using one of the nouns, verbs and adjectives. eg.The yellow bucket liked to sing.

Writing: Procedure Choose an activity you have done during Learning from Home that you really enjoyed. Think about what material you needed and the steps you had to take to complete this activity. Write it out in order to share with the class. It may be something like cooking, playing a game or doing an art or craft activity. Don’t forget to draw a picture of you doing the activity you chose!

Writing: Imaginative Use the story starter below. Make sure you PLAN your story before you begin. We quickly scampered up the stairs looking for a place to hide…...

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Middle Mathematics Thinking While Moving Count by 10s to 300 while doing star jumps.

Finding the unknown number - 1st Grade Math (1.OA.8)

Mathematics Thinking While Moving

Count by 5s to 100 while doing air punches. Can you go further?

Addition and Subtraction Within 20 | Subtracting to Find the Unknown Added | Kids Academy

Mathematics Thinking While Moving

Count by 4s to 52 while doing air squats.

Complete the worksheet below by finding the missing number in the number sentence.

Can you make up some challenging number sentences for someone else to answer? For example 12+ _ = 42 13+ _ = 28 25+ _= 38

Mathematics Thinking While Moving

Count by 3s to 60 while bouncing and catching a ball.

Reading a Calendar.

Have you got a calendar in your house/classroom? (Phones have a calendar on them). Look on the calendar to find your family’s birthday days.

Mathematics Thinking While Moving

Count by 2s to 50 while doing chest passes to a partner or to a wall.

Telling the Time on an analogue clock.

Telling the Time for Kids: Quarter To Times

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Afternoon Science

What happens when we mix things together?

Over the next 3 Science lessons you will be introduced to the role of being a chemist and identify some common, everyday objects created by chemists. You will see how things are mixed and changed.

Enjoy!

Complete worksheet 1 ‘What happens when we mix things together?’.

Creative Arts Sculpture Using aluminium foil, create an animal of your choice. When you have finished, email a picture of it to your teacher.

Challenge Use aluminium foil to make your name.

Wellbeing Wednesday (Screen-Free Activity)

Students, staff and parents are encouraged to use Wednesday afternoons to look after their Wellbeing.

Turn off any technology and have a break from school work to engage in other activities. These could include: ● Read a book.● Listen to music.● Do some yoga.● Complete a jigsaw

puzzle.● Paint/draw a picture● Bake a cake.● Get some exercise.

History Lesson 3 - Preserving the Past Understanding why History is important http://inq.co/class/ANB6X Code: 2460 If you do not have access to the internet, use the resource sheet.

Science

What happens when we mix things together?

Over the next 2 Science lessons you will need an adult to supervise you while you attempt the Science experiment and complete worksheet 2 ‘What happens when we mix things together?’. If you are at school today and next Wednesday (week 10) then attempt this lesson when you are Learning from home.

Year 2 Spelling These lists have been taken from the KPS Scope & Sequence for Spelling Term 3.

Week 9

Sight words

playing make sister still ever

Focus: oo / ew / ue / u_e

food

moon

room

new

flew

blue

true

tube

cube

June

* ’oo’ is found within a word and ‘ew’ is found atthe end of a word.

SPELLING ACTIVITIES Write your spelling list in

alphabetical order A-Z

Select 5 words and draw a picture for each one

Write your spelling words in order from least letters to

most letters.

Clap out and write the number of syllables in each of your spelling words.

Ask 5 questions using 5 of your spelling words. Don’t forget to use a question

mark?

Rainbow words – use different colours to write each letter in your word

Create a word search or crossword with your spelling

list

Using a dictionary, write the meaning of 5 words from

your spelling list

Write your spelling list using 2 different colours to show the vowels and consonants.

vowels = a e i o u

Write your spelling words in a word pyramid

s sp spe spel spell

Across and Down – write your words across and down,

sharing the first letter eg.

Words Within Words - Make a list of as many

smaller words you can find in the words on your spelling

list eg. watch = cat, hat

Write each of your spelling words into word boxes. Remember your body, head and tail letters.

Write your spelling list in reverse alphabetical order

(backwards) Z - A

Write your words from easiest to hardest to spell.

Why did you order them that way?

Spell your words out loud. When you say each letter, do a star jump, hop on one foot or bounce/catch a ball.

Spelling shapes – Write your spelling words inside different

2D shapes.

Fancy Letters - write each of your words in fancy

writing. Your letters could be curly or dotty.

Air Writing - write each of your words in the air with

your finger.

Scrabble Challenge: Use scrabble tiles to work out the sum of your words

Extension:

Year 2 LSCWC Spelling

My Words Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Dolphins

Where do dolphins live?Dolphins live in seas and rivers. They live together in groups called ‘pods’.

What do dolphins look like?A dolphin is a sea animal. They have two fins on the side and one on the back to help them to swim fast. They can be a mix of black, white and grey. Dolphins have fat under the skin to keep them warm in the cold seas. They breathe out of a nostril on the top of their head called a blowhole.

What do dolphins eat?Dolphins eat fish. They wait for the fish to jump out of the sea into their mouth.

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What do dolphins do?Dolphins can jump out of the water as high as 4.9 metres, flipping over to land on their backs, bellies or sides. This is called ‘breach’. They breach to let other dolphins know about food nearby.

Dolphins

Questions1. Why do dolphins have two fins on the side and one on the back? Tick one.

to help them to jump out the water so they can swim on their back to help them to swim fast

2. Why do dolphins have fat under the skin?

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3. What is the name of the nostril on the top of their head?

4. What do dolphins eat? Tick one.

5. What is it called when dolphins jump out of the water and flip over toland on their back, belly or side? Tick one.

breach

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splash spin

OPTIONAL6. Do some of your own research on dolphins. Write down some interesting facts that you found out.

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Editing Task – Wednesday

Edit and re-write these sentences

1. i wos playin catch with my sista when our ball floo over the fence ( 1 capital letter, 4 spelling mistakes, 1 full stop)

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2. is it trew that the moon is mad out of cheeze ( 1 capital letter, 3 spelling mistakes, 1 question mark)

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3. i decided that i wantet to macke my new room bloo but i had to wait until june ( 4 capital letters, 3 spelling mistakes, 1 full stop)

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ANSWERS

1. I was playing catch with my sister when our ball flew over the fence.

2. Is it true that the moon is made out of cheese?

3. I decided that I wanted to make my new room blue but I had to wait until June. .

Parts of Speech Word SearchIn the grid, find the words that are listed below. Colour the squares in the correct colour according to the word type.

b r i g h t s i n g

j n n c b u t r e e

b h l h d u o p b x

j l t a b d c w l h

u t a i l o o k e y

m i l r q l u g e j

p n k t l m i n l t

b y s e i b o n c q

r a y w y m d c u e

f b s y x s h i r t

yellow

bright

bucket

chair

money

shirt

bounce

tiny

fast

tree

jump

swim

sing

talk

big

red nouns blue verbs green adjectives

GRAMMAR

Name: Date:

Grammar - Thursday

Boggle

Spelling Word Puzzle

D G B R

S O A T

P C L I

T A H L

Date:

Name:

Word Count:

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Spelling - Friday

Maths - Monday

Maths - Tuesday

Maths - Wednesday

Maths - Thursday

Reading a Calendar July

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Baseball game

2 3 4 Picnic

5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 Library books due

17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 David's birthday

29 30 31

1. What month is shown on the calendar?

2. What is the first day of the week?

3. How many days are in one week?

4. How many Mondays are in this month?

5. What day of the week is July 10?

6. What is the date of the picnic?

7. When is David's birthday?

8. When are the library books due?

9. When is the baseball game?

Maths - Friday

Lesson 3 Understanding Why History is Important

Year 1 / 2 History The Past in the Present 1

Unit 2 Preserving the Past

Why are historical sites important?

Name some of the historical places you saw

in the video.

Which ones do you think are most important

to preserve?

Which reason for preserving

historical places do you think is the best one?

Watch the video and think about the questions.

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Lesson 3 Understanding Why History is Important

Year 1 / 2 History The Past in the Present 2

Unit 2 Preserving the Past

Look at the photos of these familiar places.

What do you remember about their history?

What makes their history  important?

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Port Arthur prison

History of your area Albany Skate Park

Tailem Town

Kakadu

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Imagine that only one of the sites or places you have learnt about will be kept the way it is (preserved). Choose the one that you think is the most important to preserve and give your reasons why.

I think ______________________________________________________________ is an important historical place.

I think it should be preserved because: ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What would you do to preserve this site? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Look at these images. Do they represent an important person, place, culture or historical event? Write your choice on the line underneath.

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Name: Worksheet 1

What happens when we mix things together?

Sometimes it’s hard to see what things are made from because when they are mixed with

other things they change.

1. If you mixed the ingredients in each of these pictures, what do you think they would

change into? Write in your answers below.

Answer: ________________________

Answer: ________________________

Answer: ________________________

Some scientists are a bit like chefs. Chefs can mix different ingredients together to make new

food. Scientists can take different chemicals and mix them together to make new products.

These scientists are called chemists.

2. Chemists create things that are useful in our everyday lives. Look at some of the items

chemists have created. Think about why each one is important.

(a) Which one do you think is the most important?

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(b) Which one do you think is the least important?

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Name: Worksheet 2 – To complete over 2 lessons

What happens when we mix things together?

Hands-on investigation – Ask an adult to observe or help with this activity.

You are going to be a chemist and observe what happens when things are mixed together.

Look carefully at all the ingredients.

Note: If you don’t have cream of tartar, swap it for baking soda.

1. What do you think these ingredients will make when they are mixed together? I predict

the ingredients will make… ___________________________________________________

2. Look at the flour, salt and cream of tartar (or baking soda). How are they the same? ___

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How are they different? ______________________________________________________

What do you think will happen when they are mixed together? ______________________

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3. Mix the flour, salt and cream of tartar (or baking soda) together? What happened to

them? _____________________________________________________________________

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Could they be separated again? _________________________________________________

The flour, salt and cream of tartar (or baking soda) have become a mixture because they are

mixed together.

4. Look at the water and food colouring. How are they the same? ______________________

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How are they different? ________________________________________________________

What do you think will happen when they are mixed together? ________________________

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5. Mix the water and food colouring together. What happened to the water and food

colouring? ___________________________________________________________________

Could they be separated again? __________________________________________________

The water and food colouring have mixed together evenly, they have become a solution.

6. Look at the coloured water and the oil. How are they the same? _____________________

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How are they different? ________________________________________________________

What do you think will happen when they are mixed together? ________________________

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7. Mix the oil and water solution together. What happened to the oil? __________________

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Mix all the ingredients together and knead it. How is it different from the things you started

with? _______________________________________________________________________

What did the ingredients make? _________________________________________________

Was your prediction correct? ______________

8. In this investigation:

9. If you were asked to take one ingredient away from the recipe for playdough, which one

would you take? ______________________________________________________________

Why would you take it away? ___________________________________________________

How do you think the playdough would be changed? ________________________________

10. If you could add one new ingredient to the recipe, what would it be? ________________

Why would you add it? ________________________________________________________

How would the playdough be changed? ___________________________________________

11. Playdough wasn’t created for children to play with. It was created as a clay for cleaning

walls.

Nowadays, we clean walls with a wet sponge so cleaning clay isn’t used anymore. Cleaning

clay has been repurposed as playdough! Think of 3 other ways playdough could be used.