Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 27th 2020

PhonicsMonday – Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJGKrs8BGA Come up with as many words containing the “ir” sound as you can. E.g. ir as in bird, er as in herb, ur as in curl. Tuesday – Look at the ir sound spelt as ear as in pearl and or as in word. Write a list of words with these spelling patterns. Wednesday – Put some of the words you have thought of this week so far into sentences.Thursday – play this spelling game. https://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/games/er_ir_and_ur_sounds.jspFriday – Practice spelling five of the Y1 & 2 common exception words [attached]

EnglishApril is National Pet Month so this week for your English we would like you to think about pets and animals.Monday – Alphabet animals – Write the alphabet down a piece of paper. Can you think of an animal starting with each letter of the alphabet?Tuesday – Add an adjective and a verb to each animal you came up with yesterday. Eg. Amazing ant actingWednesday – Choose five of your favourite animals from your alphabet to put into a list poem.Start your poem with Out of my window I can see… E.g. Out of my window, I can see…An amazing ant acting angrilyA beautiful butterfly bouncing ballsA clever cat climbing cactusA dangerous dog digging And an Elegant elephant eating eggsThursday – Copy out your poem in beautiful joined handwriting and decorate.Friday – Choose one of the animals you would like to have as a pet and create a list of the things you would need to buy to look after it properly.

ReadingLog onto Oxford Owls - www.oxfordowl.co.uk into your web browser and click on the pink ‘My class login’ logo in the top right hand corner. Enter the details below and then follow the on screen instructions to choose a book. You can choose books by age or type. There are several different books about animals or pets in the e books to link in with your writing. If you type ‘animals’ or ‘pets’ into the search button it will come up with a selection of books for you to choose from.Try to read a fiction and a non-fiction book this week.Log in details:Cuckoos – Username: cuckoos2 Password: bird Swallows – Username: swallows2 Password: birdWoodpeckers – Username: woodpeckers2 Password: bird

MathsLog onto the White Rose Maths link for this week’s activities [Summer Term Week 2 - April 27th] This week’s focus is measuring. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/This gives you a daily lesson including a teaching video and worksheets. When it says “pause here” on the daily video, you will be ready to do the questions on the downloadable sheets.If you do not have access to a printer, you could use real objects such as coins, toys, pasta shapes, pebbles to practise the questions. You could also draw them onto paper.

In addition to the White Rose here are a few other activities to try this week: Draw a picture of your family in height order. Gather a set of objects from home and put them into order of height or length. Use your hundred square to jump and count in different steps such as 2s, 3s, 5s or 10s.

Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 27th 2020

ScienceHow do plants grow?Watch either (or both if you want to) of the clips and talk about them together. What did you see? What happened to the seed? Which came first the roots or the stem? How did the roots spread out and grow? Did you notice the leaves growing in pairs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77zPAtVTuI This clip shows the germination and growth of a bean over 25 days using time lapse photography.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDBX2gCXxYw another clip showing a seed germinating and growing using time lapse photography.

Now have a go at drawing the different stages of the plant growing in order. You could draw a cartoon, a set of boxes with arrows showing the sequence. You could number the boxes, or you could even draw a story map. Try to add a caption underneath each picture to explain the stages of growth. At the end of the home learning are two ideas. You do not need to print these.

Creative Curriculum IdeasUse a map/atlas/google maps to find where people in your family live/come from.

Make some homemade instruments using things around the house. Use your instruments to make some noise during NHS clap time.

As it is National Pet Month, take some time to find out about 2 people who care a lot for animals by researching Steve Irwin and his daughter Bindi Irwin.

Friday is May 1st. Find out about the Traditional May Day – What is the history behind this day and what traditional events might take place in the UK to celebrate it

Health & WellbeingContact one of your class mates – draw a picture, make them a card, ring them, or wave to them when you go past their house on your daily exercise.

Have a go at Andy’s Wild workouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06tmmvz/andys-wild-workouts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6r99N3kXME Joe Wickes Body Coach info

Help to make a menu or shopping list for the family meals this week.

Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 27th 2020

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