Good Morning Year 2!
Here are your activities for today’s learning.
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.
Please note: From the 30th June, the school’s subscription changes and the EPIC reading resource will only be available for 2 hours across the week.
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.
Complete the following reading comprehension for Chapter 3 - ‘Dark is Fun’
English
Poetry Festival - This week you will have the opportunity to read, perform and enjoy some entertaining poems written by famous poets. Using your own experiences as inspiration, you’ll innovate on some of these poems, using them as models in order to write your own!
Day 1:
Scissors by Allan Ahlberg
Read the poem Scissors here:
Now play the audio recording of the poem as read by Allan Ahlberg. Make connections with the poem. Discuss – Did you enjoy the poem? What is the role of the narrator in the poem? (teacher). What does the poem remind you of? Do I (your teacher) ever sound like this?!
Rehearse reading the poem aloud, as if you are the teacher. Try to use as much expression as you can. Don’t forget to use facial expressions and gestures too! You might start your reading very calmly and then become gradually more exasperated when the scissors can’t be found!
In the poem, it is scissors that have been lost. What tends to get lost in our classroom? E.g. glue sticks, whiteboard pens, sharpeners, pen lids, rulers, jumpers etc.
Write your own version of the poem, based on what is commonly lost in our classroom. You can use a combination of lines and phrases from the original poem with your own ideas and sayings too! E.g. Nobody leave the room.
Everyone listen to me.
We had twenty brand new glue sticks this morning, And now there’s only three!
Seventeen sets of glue sticks Disappeared from sight!
Class monitors – we need you to find them, We can stop here all night!
Keep reading your poem out loud to hear the rhythm and check it makes sense. It doesn’t have to rhyme providing it includes some entertaining phrases that I (your teacher) might say! Proof-read your poem to check for spelling and punctuation. When you have finished, perform your poem to those in your household. If you are able to, record it and send it to me at school. I’d love to hear them… they’ll definitely make me smile!
Oxford Owl Spellings
Choose a spelling rule to focus on today.
Maths
This week we are back on White Rose Maths.
Please access - Summer Term - Week 8 (w/c 15th June) - Lesson 1 - ‘Count sides and vertices on 2D shapes’ and watch the video. Then, complete the activity below:
IXL
Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.
Topmarks
Click the link below for lots of games and activities linked to this week’s shape learning.
Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!
Have a great day,
Miss Woodend