Thursday 4th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We hope you are all well on what is predicted to be a cloudy day. 

Please let us know how you get on with your learning, as we miss you all and look forward to seeing your wonderful work each day. The amount of effort you are putting into your learning at the start of this final term has been incredibly encouraging. 

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by selecting a game from Disney Shake Ups.

https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups

Reading 

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

Fiction text - which part of the story best describes the setting?

Non-fiction text - why do we need a glossary?

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Turn to pages 15-16, which require you to help Storm who wants to make an umbrella. Please help the elf by testing materials to identify whether they are both strong and waterproof. You will need: a kitchen roll, plastic bag, foil, paper bag and a material of your choice. Afterwards we would like you to write instructions for the elves to follow. 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 14: To follow a route around a map'.
Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

Art
In class we have been focusing on how to create different shades, through using the tools of both pencils and paints. Today we would like you to use a pencil to draw a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Use your pencil to colour in your picture, remember the harder you press the darker the shade is. Below are some different pictures of him to support your drawing of him.

Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Josiah. He has worked incredibly hard today and we are particularly impressed with his response to the conclusion of Storm's umbrella investigation.

Daily Reflection
Good evening Year 2, thank you for creating a record for the number of emails we have received from you all today. It has kept me extremely busy but in a really good way, as we love seeing all of your work. The highlight of the day has been your drawings of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, you are such a gifted group of artists! Please take time to look below at all of the amazing drawings our class has created.

Some photos and videos of today's home learning
Drawing Isambard Kingdom Brunel

 

Investigating strong and waterproof materials

Reading

Tasting homegrown red and yellow raspberries from the garden

Spending time on Times Tables Rock Stars

Wednesday 3rd June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

Today is set to be a much cooler and it may possibly be a drizzly day. Hopefully the warm sunshine will come back soon.

Interesting fact: China manufactures 70% of the world's toys.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by selecting a Cosmic Kids class on YouTube.

Reading 

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

Fiction text - predict what you think is going to happen next. Why do you think this?

Non-fiction text - what kind of text is this? How do you know?

The Elves and the Shoemaker

We would like you to use yesterday’s story mountain plan to write your story about the helpful elves. We are looking forward to seeing plenty of description and cursive handwriting. Some children wrote their stories yesterday which are on yesterday's blog, please look at these as they are really good examples of what we would like you to create.

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 13: To identify how patterns have been created through rotation'. 
Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

RE

This term we are focusing on sacraments in RE. Today we would like you to focus on the question - What is a sacrament? To find out the answer to this please watch the video clip and then take part in the quiz. To do the quiz pause the video after each question, in order to create time to write down what you think the answer will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatLsVNR0T0 (Catholic Seven Sacraments Lesson by Margaret Shaw)

Optional Extras
The Gruffalo website – https://www.gruffalo.com/
Creating a coronavirus time capsule - time capsule pack


Stars of the Day
Our Stars of the Day are Tallulah and Isobel, because we are so impressed with their cursive handwriting. Well done girls!

Daily Reflection
It has been such a good day in our Year 2 home learning group! We are so proud of how you are progressing in applying your knowledge of rotation and the care you are taking to present your work neatly. To top this off we have heard from so many of you today, we are so grateful as we love to know how you are all doing. Thank you for making today such a good day.

Some photos of your home learning
Writing elf stories

Pattern creation through rotation

Learning about Sacraments

Tallulah has been working really hard to catch up with The Elves and the Shoemaker

Logan wearing her tie dye top which she created yesterday

Grace's learning

Ella warming up for learning with Cosmic Kids 'Alice in Wonderland'

Logan's time capsule work

Logan's morning walk

Lexi has been reading

Josiah has also been working hard

Tuesday 2nd June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

Today we launch our puppet design and technology project. As our science for this term focuses on animals, our puppets will all be animal themed. Over the next few days please spend some time thinking about which type of animal you would like to create. 

Please remember to share your home learning with us each day, so that we can be a part of your home learning experiences. Our email address is year.2@ctk.education. Thank you.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by selecting a dance class on the Go Noodle website. https://family.gonoodle.com/

Reading 

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

Fiction text - where does the main character live?

Non-fiction text - what is on the cover of the book? What does this tell you about the content inside?

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

Please turn to page 14, which requires you to plan a story about some elves that help people. Use the questions and story mountain to help you plan your ideas. 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 12: To be able to rotate shapes'
Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

Design and technology
What is a puppet?
A puppet is a character that has been created using materials such as felt or card.

What are puppets used for?
Puppets are used to entertain people, to provide an enjoyable show for people to watch. Some of you may have watched a  Punch and Judy puppet show, Button Moon, Rosie and Jim or The Muppets. There are lots of different types of puppets such as finger puppets, hand puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets and human body puppets..

Watch puppets in action
The Ant and the Grasshopper using stick puppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxuso8TMVE
Decisions Show using hand puppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzzF1l3bNk4
Show using finger puppets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzKfqUoD7HE

Next week you will be designing your own animal finger puppet.


Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Freya. We have chosen Freya because she is regularly sending us photos of her home learning. The learning clearly shows Freya is trying her very best.

Daily Reflection
It has been such a delight reading all of your elf story plans today, and some of you even moved onto writing the whole story! The stories we have seen so far show you are remembering to include interesting details and proof read what you have wrote too - well done!

Some photos of your home learning
Planning elf stories

Writing elf stories

Using Go Noodle as a learning break

Rotating shapes

Learning about puppets

Tie dying t-shirts

Reading