Monday 1st June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

How was your half term break? I expect some of you enjoyed paddling pools, watching your bug hotels, BBQ s, picnics, walks with the family and talking to friends online. Please let us know what your highlight of the week was, as we enjoy listening to your half term adventures.

We hope you are all well and ready to embrace our final term together.  Unfortunately we are returning to home learning and we just need to continue learning this way for now. Below are your learning tasks for today, please let us know how your home learning works out today by blogging a comment or emailing us at year.2@ctk.education.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by either creating your own warm up or completing a warm up exercise of your choice (Go Noodle, Cosmic Kids, Disney Shake Up or Joe Wicks). 

Reading 

Please spend 10 minutes reading and respond to the appropriate question below.

Fiction text - describe what the main character looked like.

Non-fiction text - what kind of things would you expect to read in this book?

As we are into a new term you may appreciate a new site for accessing different ebooks. As a school we have recently discovered Love Reading, which shares free children's ebooks and book related activities. Just like Oxford Owl, there is a requirement to create a free account. Some of the books are only recommendations for purchasing.

Link to Love Reading: https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/most-popular-books/free-books-to-enjoy-6084

Link to Oxford Owl:    https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/

The Elves and the Shoemaker

To remind yourself of The Elves and the Shoemaker story please read pages 4-6. Then turn to pages 12-13, you will read a letter from Mr & Mrs Cobbler and then write a postcard back to then in role of the elves. The link for this pack is below.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Rotation
This week is our final week learning about shapes using the series of lessons created by Oak National Academy. Each lesson contains quizzes and an online teaching lesson.
Choose 'Lesson 11: To make predictions about rotation'
Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

PSHE 

Catch up with our loveable giraffe Harold by reading his diary entry for today.

https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary

Afterwards spend some time listening to the news report about the SpaceX craft which landed at the space station yesterday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround

Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Macy. She produced a beautifully illustrated letter to Mr and Mrs Cobbler.
We were impressed with the way she organised her writing into two paragraphs, to focus first on Mr and Mrs Cobbler and then on describing what the elves had been up to. As well as illustrating the letter with images of places from all around the world, which provide clues to the places Clary, Pepper and Jas had visited - well done Macy!

Daily Reflection
It is so good to be back. We have enjoyed hearing what you have got up to during the half term break and seeing the work you have produced today. Our highlight of the day has been the PSHE diary entry, because it focused on a book called Everybody Worries. The message of the story is so powerful, if you have not looked at this learning task yet please create some time to look at it tomorrow.

Some photos of your day
Watching Newsround

Listening to the story Everybody Worries and joining the character draw-a-long

Predicting Rotation

Writing letters to Mr and Mrs Cobbler

Warming up for learning

Checking Bug Hotels

Ella explored Greyfields Woodland Trust yesterday

Freya created a xylophone

Term 6 - planning for first week back (Monday 1st June)

Good morning Year 2,

We hope you have all had an enjoyable half term, full of family time, bug spotting and fun activities. We have been truly blessed with such beautiful weather. I have really enjoyed going out for extra long walks and having picnics on the beach with my daughter.

Below is a link to our weekly plan. Please take a look at this with your families to see what we plan to learn next week. weekly plan for the week commencing 1st June

From
Mrs Leaker

Friday 22nd May - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We have made it to the last day of term 5, wahoo! 
You have worked so hard this term and we are so
pleased to hear how well you are doing. During this term we have had the privilege of reading messages from some of our class's family members/carers who wanted to share the rewards they have experienced whilst teaching their son/daughter. Thank you for sharing these moments with us.

Year 2, please remember we are all stars and we must continue to show everyone our amazing learning skills no matter where we are learning.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by joining fancy dress PE with Joe Wicks, The Body Coach on YouTube.

Reading 

Read one of your school reading books for 10 minutes and ask someone to listen to your response to one of the questions below. If you need a new reading book ask a carer to help you access an ebook on the Oxford Owl website.
Fiction: Is this a place you could visit? Why?
Non Fiction: What is the purpose of including pictures in this text?
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/library-page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=oxford+level+1&level_select=oxford+level+1&book_type=&series=#

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Turn to page 11, which require you to design clothes for the elves, they need hats, suits and shoes.

The link for this pack is below.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Directions: rotation
We are continuing our shape series of lessons using Oak National Academy. Each lesson contains quizzes and an online teaching lesson.
Choose 'Lesson 10: To use the language of rotation'.
Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

Create a bug hotel

This task is to create your very own bug hotel. A few weeks ago Ella created a bug town and so we are going to see how many of you are able to create bug hotels. The instructions are accessed through the link below. For this the suggested equipment list is a flower pot, stones, twigs, small pieces of bark, waterproof marker pen, dried leaves and sugar cubes. However you can adapt this list to other items that are spare and your parents are happy for you to use. Have fun!

Instructions for bug hotel

Please remember to email us with pictures of your home learning, we are especially looking forward to seeing your elf clothing designs and bug hotels. Our email address is year.2@ctk.education . We hope you have a fantastic week off, as you have all worked so hard this term and definitely need a break, parents included. Take care and we shall look forward to starting our final term with you on Monday 1st June.

From

Mrs Leaker and Mrs Triggs

Star of the Day

                                                       

Isobel is our Star of the Day. We have selected Isobel today because we like the way she has decorated the outside of her bug hotel in addition to filling it with everything the bugs will enjoy.

Daily Reflection

Well done you have made it through the day and can now enjoy your week off. We have been so thankful to all of your parents and carers who have been supporting home learning this term. Please say a big thank you to them! 

Some photos of your home learning

Couture's Bug Hotel

Conrad's Bug Hotel - to form the sugar cube Conrad mixed sugar and water together, afterwards he shaped the mixture and let it set. This afternoon Conrad managed to photograph ants inside his bug hotel.

Isobel's Bug Hotel

Macy's Bug Hotel design

Conrad has also made a bird house today!

Ella completed her warm up with Joe Wicks in costume

Conrad recreated a scene for The Elves and the Shoemaker

Practicing rotation 

Designing new clothes for the elves

Reading

Grace has created a model of a pascal candle