Monday 29th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

We hope you have had fun with your families this weekend despite the rain. It is so encouraging to see some football clubs meeting again to coach children's football skills. Hopefully more clubs and places to go to will start to reopen soon. We must continue to remember to keep our distance and wash our hands. 

We are looking forward to seeing even more of you on Zoom tomorrow at 10 am. Later on today I will send an email out with a link to our class call. For the session you will need to know how to play Beetle Drive and have a pencil, paper and a dice/spinner. 

Please keep in touch with us to share what you enjoyed doing over the weekend and to show us your home learning. Our email address is year.2@ctk.education.


Today's Learning Tasks:



Warm up for learning

Get ready for learning by completing a Go Noodle dance class online. Why not try out a classic which I expect your parents will enjoy too, Footloose.

https://family.gonoodle.com/activities/footloose




Reading
1. Listen to the story 'The First Ever Chocolate Milk', which has been written by Zackary S. 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 - who was the storyteller? How do you know this?

Non-fiction text - do you think the author of the book is an expert for the topic covered? Why/who not?

Superheroes

We are spending another week with our superheroes Jo Awesome, Raja Extraordinary and Sammy Exceptional. Today we are continuing our transformation into becoming superheroes. Turn to pages 12-13, which require you to complete Raja's craft challenge. 

The link for this pack: Superheroes

Measures: capacity and volume
Last week you impressed us with your understanding of reading temperatures and converting millilitres and litres. This week we are going to develop our understanding of millilitres further and practice solving word problems related to measures.

Make sure you scroll down to the measures subheading before selecting lesson 6, as otherwise you will repeating an old shapes or fractions lesson. Select Lesson 6: to compare and order millilitres and litres.

Resource: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-2/subjects/maths

Alternative Maths and English tasks
This task is for those of you who have been struggling with our maths and English tasks. The link will take you to a Classroom Secrets Year 2 pack which contains a mixture of maths and English activities that will last the whole of this week. These packs will be posted onto the blog every Monday.
Classroom Secrets learning pack

PSHE

We would like you to read Harold's daily diary and complete the activity.

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

Star of the Day
Our Star of the Day is Conrad! He has showed focus and determination whilst completing his home learning, especially during math. We are so proud of you, well done Conrad.


Daily Reflection
What a wonderful first day back we have had. It was lovely to see all of your superhero cuffs and the way you have risen to the challenge of completing the measures task, which was particularly challenging. Have a great evening, we are looking forward to our Zoom time tomorrow.


Some photos of your home learning
Creating cuffs to become superheroes

Applying our understanding of capacity

Practicing calm breathing activities

Reading

Lexi has started writing another story as well as completing some learning sheets

Tallulah's photos of her melting ice pop and she has also designed Fantastic Tallulah

 Ella's very busy morning workouts

Next week's planning

Good afternoon Year 2,

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

Have a wonderful weekend,

From
Mrs Leaker and Mrs Triggs

Friday 26th June - Home Learning

Good morning Year 2,

Today brings sunshine with a cooler breeze, which will make it much easier to focus on home learning.

There is a task today that is specific to preparing for our Tuesday Zoom lesson. Please make time to complete this so that you are prepared for the game we will play.



 Today's Learning Tasks:



Warm up your body
Get ready for learning by choosing a Cosmic Kids workout on YouTube. Did you know Jaime has created a session based on the book The Twits. This is the funny book we have been listening to at the library. A link to The Twit session is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vLpwN-_DGw




Be proud of who you are
To help us reflect on what makes us special and unique discuss these questions with someone you live with.
1. Name something you have done (an action) that you are really proud about.
2.Some people believe our gender means we should only do certain activities or dress a certain way. Is this fair? Explain your answer.




Reading
1. Listen to the story 'The Crab and the Lantern Fish', which has been written by Eleanor W. 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.Please spend 10 minutes reading and respond to the appropriate question below.

Fiction text - what did the story make you think of?

Non-fiction text - how does the layout help the reader?

Superheroes

Please turn to pages 9 - 11. Today you are going to get creative by becoming superheros. The pack will guide you through creating your superhero name, powers and symbol.

The link for this pack: Superheroes

Measures: capacity and volume

Make sure you scroll down to the measures subheading before selecting lesson 5, as otherwise you will repeating an old shapes or fractions lesson. Select Lesson 5: to use millilitres.

Resource: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-2/subjects/maths

                                            Science
We want you to understand what an animal life cycle is. To achieve this please watch the BBC Learning video below and then complete the following activity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks1-animal-life-cycles/zrg9kmn#:~:text=A%20life%20cycle%20is%20the,This%20is%20called%20metamorphosis.

Now spend some time drawing the life cycle of a frog and an ant. To help you with this there are a couple of PowerPoints you can use.
 Frog Life Cycle
Ant Life Cycle



Get ready for Tuesday's Zoom
The theme is going to be . . . animals! Feel free to dress up if you want to, I will be wearing either my Tiger or zebra onesie. During our time together we will begin by taking turns to either share an animal teddy or a drawing of an animal. For this I will mute the group and then unmute each child when they put their hand up ready to share.

Afterwards we will play Beetle Drive together. To prepare for playing this I advise you to practice the game with your family. The instructions are on the link below, there is also a link for how to make a dice in case you do not have one.
Instructions
Making a dice



Headteacher Awards
We have selected a few children for Headteacher Awards this week. Please check out the blog to read why the following children have been chosen - Macy, Josiah, Ella, Kaye, Isobel and Lexi.


Daily Reflection
Good evening Year 2, today has been a really quiet day. We hope those of you we have not heard from are well and are still joining in with our home learning tasks. Please remember the dice and beetle drive activity for those of you who are joining us on Zoom on Tuesday. I will email the Zoom link the day before again. Have a fantastic weekend! From Mrs Leaker and Mrs Triggs


Some photos of your home learning
Designing Superheros

Reflecting on what we are proud of and gender stereotypes

Drawing life cycles

Reading

Using millilitres

Photographing stages of melting ice

  

Lexi has written another story and completed some maths challenges

Ella warmed up for learning by playing an adaptation of Simon Says and joined in with the Cosmic Kids session recreating the story of The Twits