Tuesday 9th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

Yesterday we were so grateful for those of you who initiated sharing photographs of rainbows and themselves as a baby, which links to our English and PSHE topics. If you have not had the opportunity to view Logan's rainbow and a few of Ella's baby photographs and videos, please take time to look at yesterday's blog by scrolling down. 

We love looking at photos. To share a rainbow or baby photograph of yourself, you must seek permission from your family first and then email the photo to us at year.2@ctk.education.

Today's riddle has been created by Antony. Have a try at working out what animal is being described.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by warming up to a dance sequence using Go Noodle.

https://family.gonoodle.com/

Reading 
The Summer Reading Challenge 2020 was launched last week. It will run online from June to September. To learn more about this year's challenge click on the link below.
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

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

Fiction text - how is the main character feeling at the start, beginning or end of the story? Why do they feel that way? Does this surprise you?

Non-fiction text - what sort of person do you think would use this book?

Rainbows, rainbows everywhere!
Start today's task by watching the short YouTube clip which shows how rainbows are formed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPPLhPTAIk
Turn to pages 5-7, which require you to read a non-fiction text about rainbows and then write down some of the information you have learnt.
Rainbows, rainbows everywhere

Fractions

Today's Oak National Academy lesson is focusing on parts of a fraction. Use the website link below to access 'lesson 2: to identify the parts of a fraction'. https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-2/subjects/maths

Design and Technology
Let's have fun designing animal finger puppets. The design you create will be used to make a puppet next week. To do this you need to create a plan. Your plan needs to include the criteria that has been listed below:
* the name of your chosen animal
*  what you will use to create it (talk to your family to find out what materials you will be able to use next week)
* a drawing of the front of your puppet
* a  drawing of the back of your puppet

Below are some examples to help you create your design.
    


Star of the Day
We have chosen two Stars of the Day. Our first Star of the Day is Ella, after learning more about rainbows Ella created a rainbow in her garden using a hose! Our second Star of the Day is Grace, who showed perseverance whilst creating her tiger puppet today. Well done girls.

Daily Reflection
So has anyone worked out which animal Antony is describing? If you think you know please tell us in the comment blog box. We have loved seeing your work today and are pleased to hear some of you have had fun whilst completing tasks. As we are learning about changes and rainbows Grace has shared her baby photos and a photo of her rainbow drawing too with us. Have a good evening with your families.
From Mrs Leaker


Grace aged 0 -3 (she is still smiley)

Some photos of your home learning
Ella created rainbows

Designing and creating puppets

Ella had lots of fun warming up for learning with her brother

Kaye has shared her elf story with us

Identifying parts of a fraction

Learning more about rainbows from a non-fiction text

Reading

Monday 8th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We hope you have all had a good weekend. It was so lovely seeing some sunshine yesterday. What fun activities did you enjoy? 

School is an interesting place at the moment.  Children from Reception are being welcomed back in this week, whilst children in Year 6 and Year 1 returned last week. At the moment we do not know when other year groups will be welcomed back, so for now we need to keep going with our home learning. Mrs Triggs and I are so proud of you all being the best you can be. Lets keep showing everyone how amazing you are.

Each morning this week I am going to display one of your animal riddles for the class to solve. I wonder how many of you can work out this animal riddle created by Conrad.

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 - who are the main characters in this book?

Non-fiction text - find something that interests you from the text. Explain why you chose that particular part.

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/

Rainbows, rainbows everywhere!

Today is the start of a new Talk for Writing Home-school booklet and the theme of the booklet is rainbows. Turn to page 4, which requires you to talk to someone at home about rainbows and then complete the idea boxes. The link for this pack is below.

Rainbows, rainbows everywhere

Fractions
This week we are starting a new unit on fractions using the series of lessons created by Oak National Academy. Each lesson contains quizzes and an online teaching lesson.
Choose 'Lesson 1: To relate halves and quarters to division'.
Resource: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-2/subjects/maths

Changes
This term our PSHE is focusing on how much we have changed over time. To start this unit we would like you to make a list of things you can do now that you couldn’t when you were a baby. Which of these things was the hardest to learn? What did you do to help you learn how to do these things? What encouraging phrases can you think of to help someone who is learning how to do something new?


Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Antony, Well done Antony, you have impressed us with the vocabulary in your animal riddle. We shall reveal his riddle tomorrow for you all to solve.

Daily Reflection
What a beautiful sunny day it has been. Today we have learnt you all know so much about rainbows and it has been interesting to see each of you describe the shape of the rainbow in a such different ways, no one used the same descriptive words - impressive! Out highlight of the day has been looking at videos and pictures from when Ella was a baby and toddler. If you would like to share photos with the class from when you were little, please do email them to us.

Photos and videos of Ella 

Photo of a younger Logan looking at a rainbow with her cousin

Some photos of your home learning

Reflecting on skills you have achieved

Reading

Logan created a rainbow

Isobel visited her Great Nan's garden

Ella created an umbrella for Storm

Next week's planning

Good evening Year 2,

Click on the link below to view next week's planning.
planning link

Have a wonderful weekend,

From
Mrs Leaker and Mrs Triggs

Friday 5th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We hope you all have a good day today and a fantastic weekend. Fridays are great, because they mean the weekend is nearly here. What are you all planning to do this weekend?

Thank you for staying in touch with us. Yesterday was a wonderful day, as so many of you emailed to share home learning. If you have not seen your friends amazing Brunel drawings please have a look at yesterday's blog.

Today's Learning Tasks:

Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by joining a dressed up Joe Wicks, ‘The Body Coach’, on YouTube.

Reading 

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

Fiction text - what was the least exciting part of the story?

Non-fiction text - how could the information be presented better?

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Today focuses on a riddle task. A riddle is a type of poem that works like a puzzle. Riddles describe something and sometimes use words with a double meaning. Watch the BBC short clip about riddles https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/z84p97h .

Afterwards turn to page 17, which requires you to read a riddle and guess what it is about. Then have fun writing your own riddle. The link for this pack is below.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Rotation
As the week comes to a close so does our shape and rotation maths topic, created by Oak National Academy.  We would like you to choose 'Lesson 15: To consolidate and review'. 

Resource: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

Animals including humans
Animals have basic needs. Basic needs are the things animals need so that they can stay alive. To begin our science topic we would like you to find answers to the questions below by researching in books or online. 
What are the basic needs of animals?
Why are these needs important? 


Headteacher Awards
From our class we have selected Isobel, Ella, Tallulah, Josiah and Reggie for Headteacher Awards. Take a look at the newsletter to read all about their achievements.

Daily Reflection
We have really enjoyed reading your animal riddles today. You have worked so hard to create a list of adjectives linked to your chosen animal and spent time putting these with verbs to create a riddle. We are so pleased with the riddles you have created. Our photos for today begin with the riddles. Please read each one and see if you can work out which animal each riddle is describing. Next week's planning will be uploaded onto the blog later on this evening.

Some photos of your home learning
Creating animal riddles

Drawing portraits of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Reading

Warming up for learning

Researching the basic needs of animals

Checking bug hotels

Consolidating maths learning

 

 Grace used her senses during a mindfulness walk