Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a brand new week of learning!
Here are Monday’s activities for you to work through:
Reading
Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading and Epic Reading resources. Help can be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section of my page if you need it.
Remember, you should be reading for at least half an hour each day. Also try to read both a range of fiction and non-fiction books.
I hope that you all enjoyed chapter 1 of ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ on Friday. I would like to see how much you can remember by answering the questions below. You can always watch the video again if you wish.
English
Focus theme: Be happy! Be brave! Be kind!
This week you will explore some inspiring stories with key messages. Towards the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to spread a little happiness by writing your own story to inspire others.
Day 1:
Explain to your child that this week you are going to share some inspiring stories together. Discuss what the word inspiring means. Make links to inspire, inspired, inspiration, etc. Look at synonyms (words that mean similar) using Word Hippo to expand on vocabulary.
Listen to The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright up to 0:45mins:
Ask your child: ‘What do you know about the mouse?’ Write a brief character description of the mouse, encouraging your child to use some of words and phrases from the text. Continue watching the clip up to 1:30 mins.
Ask your child: ‘What do you know about the lion?’ Now write a brief character description of the lion, encouraging your child to use words and phrases from the text. Discuss how the mouse and the lion are different.
Continue watching up to 2:51 mins. Discuss how the mouse is feeling. How does he convince himself to go to the lion? List all the reasons.
Continue watching up to 4:02 mins. What do you know about the lion now? Compare with the original description of the lion you wrote earlier. Watch and enjoy to the end of the story. Did the ending surprise you? What did the mouse and lion learn?
Watch and enjoy a rap version of the story here:
Join in if you can!
SumDog
Complete the Grammar task - ‘vowel sounds’
Maths
Watch the Video below -’ Lesson 1 - Describing Movement’ and complete the activity attached.
SumDog
Subtract within 100
IXL
Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.
Hit the Button
Practise your mental maths by clicking the link below:
Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning and to complete today’s Sports Day Challenge!
Have a great day,
Miss Woodend