Wednesday 1st July - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We are starting today with another outdoor What Am I riddle for you to solve.

You will come across lots of these,

When out on a walk,

They are like big stones

What is under the _______?

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
The Catch and Clap challenge (see yesterday's blog) 
or
Joe Wicks ‘The Body Coach’ on YouTube.





Outdoor Learning Task
Our outdoor activity today takes on a math theme. Choose one of the challenge cards to complete by clicking on the link below.
Maths Challenges



Reading
1. Listen to the story 'Grandma's Worst Hobby', which has been written by Agnes Elisabeth C. The story is found on the BBC Radio 2 using the link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5HQ1BvjqZfw408lbbf2c5dt/top-50-stories-2020-age-5-to-9

2. Spend 10 minutes reading and respond to the appropriate question below.

Fiction text - do you want to read the rest of this book? How does the writer encourage you to read the rest of the text?

Non-fiction text - why do you think the writer chose to present the information in the way they did?

Superheroes

We are spending another week with our superheroes Jo Awesome, Raja Extraordinary and Sammy Exceptional. Turn to page 15 to get active with Jo, who will direct you to spend 20 minutes moving your body. Afterwards write about what you did and your viewpoint on sport.

The link for this pack: Superheroes

Measures: capacity and volume
To continue to practice solving word problems related to measures. Scroll down to the measures subheading before selecting lesson 8, as otherwise you will repeating an old shapes or fractions lesson. 

Select Lesson 8: to solve word problems about capacity and volume.

Resource: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects

Science 

You are going to focus on naming the different stages in the human timeline. Please begin by clicking on the PowerPoint link to learn about each of the stages. Then complete the human growth timeline activity.

PowerPoint

Human Growth Timeline Activity

Star of the Day

Our Star of the Day is Tallulah, she has shown such a positive attitude towards completing the home learning tasks.

Daily Reflection

Good afternoon Year 2, we are so encouraged by the way some of you have applied your camera angling photography skills to the scavenger hunt. We know lots of you are accessing the blog daily and we would love to see more of the class sending in pictures of learning, so please do email and share your work with us. Our email address is year.2@ctk.education .

Some photos of your home learning

Ella and Josiah searched for items on the I Spy Scavenger Hunt sheet

Ella's human timeline

Grace and Ella completed Jo's get active challenge

Grace and her sister made chocolate cornflake cakes

Ella has been reading

Tallulah created her superhero cuffs and has enjoyed reading measurements

Josiah has impressed his family with his math work and spellings

Grace has busily solved capacity word problems and has written a listening poem

Ella has solved lots of capacity word problems and warmed up using PE with Joe

Tuesday 30th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at 10 am on Zoom, please remember to bring a pencil, paper and a dice. Also, when you join the chat, remember to include your name so I can identify who you are and let you in.

Your parents/carers received an email yesterday, ask them to click on the 'join Zoom meeting' link then enter the details below.

Meeting ID: 917 8267 6248
Password: 9jw3r6

This week is outdoor learning week and I have come across some outdoor What Am I riddles for you to think about. Here is today's:

Rake me and pile me,

Roll up your sleeves.

I've fallen from branches,

I'm a pile of __________ .

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up for learning: summer games challenge

Each week the children can take part in the summer games challenge. They will compete against themselves to achieve their personal best score in 60 seconds. When the children have achieved their best score let me know how they did and I will add it to our class score sheet. These will then be uploaded on the website at the end of each week. You have until Friday evening to practice and let me know your best score.

This weeks challenge is the Cricket Challenge, click on the link below.

Catch and Clap

Outdoor Learning Task
This week is outdoor learning week. To embrace this we will set a fun outdoor activity for you to complete. Today we have added a link below to an I Spy Scavenger Hunt.
I Spy Scavenger Hunt





Reading
1. Listen to the story 'The Game of Life', which has been written by Gia M. The story is found on the BBC Radio 2 using the link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5HQ1BvjqZfw408lbbf2c5dt/top-50-stories-2020-age-5-to-9

2. Spend 10 minutes reading and respond to the appropriate question below.

Fiction text - has the author put certain words in bold or italic? If so, why have they done this?

Non-fiction text - what are the subheadings for?

Superheroes

We are spending another week with our superheroes Jo Awesome, Raja Extraordinary and Sammy Exceptional. Turn to page 14 to help Sammy complete a poem based on what he can hear.

The link for this pack: Superheroes

Measures: capacity and volume
To continue to practice solving word problems related to measures. Scroll down to the measures subheading before selecting lesson 7, as otherwise you will repeating an old shapes or fractions lesson. Select Lesson 7: to use known number bonds and derive related facts to 1000, using the context of measures.

Resource: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects

Spellings

Play a game of Quick Write. See how many words you can spell correctly in 2 minutes. Ask someone you live with to read the words out so you cannot see how they are spelt. Choose either challenge 1 or challenge 2. Each week these will progress in difficulty.

Challenge 1: the, a, do, to, today, of, said, says, your, they, be, he, me, she, we, no.

Challenge 2: come, some, one, once, ask, friend, school, put, are, were, was, is, his, has, I, you.



Our Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Lexi, as she read a story she has written to the class on Zoom. Well done for being super brave and reading so fluently.


Daily Update
It was so much fun playing Beetle Drive with most of you on Zoom this morning. Later on this afternoon there is a staff meeting, as a result my responses to your emails will occur later than usual. Have a great afternoon. From Mrs Leaker


Some photos of your home learning
Writing listening poems

Using number bonds to calculate capacity and ordering capacity

Practicing spellings

More superhero cuff creations

Lexi has created a dress for her doll and learnt about index pages

Kaye has been designing a superhero and researching the life cycle of a frog

Ella completed the Catch and Clap challenge

Ella responding to our reading question