Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Thursday 18th June

Good morning Year 2. Just two more days of learning until the weekend. I wonder what you’ll learn today? …

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.

English

Day 4:

Watch and ‘read’ the picture book I Walk With Vanessa by Kerascoët with the sound turned off:
(Click the front cover below to be taken to the video).

Pause the story throughout to discuss what is happening on each page.

Now watch this version with the sound on:

Your task over the next two sessions is to choose between either one of the following:
Write the story to match the picture book or Write a story about a time when you have shown or seen someone else show an act of kindness that has spread. This might have been towards a friend, family member, new child in the class, etc.
Discuss your version of the story. Re-tell it out loud to a member of your family.
If you are going to write the story to match I Walk with Vanessa, you could rehearse your sentences out loud over the playing of the pictures.
If you are planning your own story, you could draw a story map of the key events, attaching some key words or phrases.

Oxford Owl Spellings

Choose a spelling rule to focus on today.

Maths

Watch the Video below -’ Lesson 4 - To make patterns with shapes’ and complete the activity attached. Unfortunately, there was a little technical glitch when uploading this one and therefore my little screen hasn’t come up in the corner.

SumDog

Addition to 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!

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Wednesday 17th June

We’ve reached the middle of the week! I hope you all enjoy today’s learning activities!

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.

We have all enjoyed the first chapter of ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ together’ Can you complete the alliteration sheet attached below.

English

Day 3:

Watch and listen to We Are All Wonders by R. J. Palacio by clicking the book cover opposite.

Due to the sensitive content of this book, it is advised that the book is shared and discussed with an adult throughout the reading.

Points for discussion:

What does the word unique mean? What does the word wonder mean? What does the phrase hurt my feelings mean? How does the main character feel when others point or laugh? How does he feel when he puts on his helmet and travels across the galaxy? What do you think it means when the narrator says that perhaps people could ‘change the way they see?’ Talk together about how we are all wonders – include everyone in your household!

The book concludes with the sentence: Look with kindness and you will always find wonder.

Find some synonyms for kindness here:

Make a poster about being kind. Write the final sentence from the book – Look with kindness and you will always find wonder – in bold in the middle of your poster. Around the outside, record all the different ways you can show kindness. Remember kindness can often be shown in the smallest of actions, e.g. smiling, offering to help when someone is stuck, giving someone a compliment.

Try to make your poster as bright and engaging as possible. Put it up in your household to show everyone how you can be kind!

SumDog

Complete the spelling challenge set for you today.

Maths

Watch the Video below -’ Lesson 3 - Describing Movement and Turns’ and complete the activity attached.

SumDog

Fractions

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 focused day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Tuesday 16th June

Welcome to another Tuesday of learning Year 2. Here are today’s activities:

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.

English

Day 2:

Read the opening extract of ‘The Koala Who Could’ by clicking the front cover.

Make a list of all the reasons why Kevin the Koala chose not to move or to change.

Watch and listen to the story here up to 4:09 mins:

Imagine you are one of the wild animals trying to convince Kevin to come down from his tree. What might you say to him to persuade him? Write a persuasive speech to shout up to Kevin in his treetop! Try to include lots of reasons – you can use some of the ideas listed earlier in the book too!

You might want to use some of the following sentences or sentence starters to help you:
Kevin, I really do think you should come down from the tree now!
First of all ...
Another reason is …
Have you thought about …?
What if …?
When you come down, …
If you come down, …
Finally …
Remember to try and reassure Kevin – you are writing as if you are one of his friends!

Rehearse each sentence before you write it down to check it makes sense. Don’t forget to go back and read through your work to check for spelling and punctuation.

Enjoy watching and listening to the end of the story – up to 5:55 mins. What lesson does Kevin learn?

Oxford Owl Spellings

Choose a spelling rule to focus on today.

Maths

Watch the Video below -’ Lesson 2 - Describing Turns’ and complete the activity attached.

SumDog

Classify and sequence shapes

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!

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 15th June

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

Year 2 Weekly Home Learning Challenges - Week Beginning 15th June 2020

Welcome to another brand new week of learning Year 2! These weeks are flying by far too quickly. There are so many exciting tasks for you to complete this week, including Sports Week activities for you to participate in.

Here are the weekly challenges for this week:

Have a brilliant week filled with superb learning and concentration!

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Friday 12th June

It’s Friday! Have a super day of learning - you’ve all worked so hard this week!

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.

English

Day 5

Listen to the story of The Bird King:

Listen again and pause to make a list of all the birds who want to be ‘the bird king.’

Retell the story orally to each other. Use time sequencing words and phrases to help organise your retelling, e.g. Once upon a time …, first, next, after that, later that day, eventually, finally.

Your challenge today is to write your own version of The Bird King! Replace the parakeet, toucan, macaw etc. with your choice of birds. Perhaps you could include some birds that you have researched earlier this week!

Points to consider:
Why might each bird think that they should be the bird king? You could use this to highlight some of the birds’ special features, just as the birds do in the original (0:24 – 0:45 mins).
Think carefully about the bird which might replace the eagle. Which other large bird or bird of prey might fly so high?
Think carefully about which bird might replace the sparrow. Which other small bird could fly under the larger bird’s wing?
Talk about your ideas and your plan with an adult. Practise each of your sentences out loud before you write. Remember to keep reading through your writing to check it makes sense and to check for spelling and punctuation.

SumDog

Complete the grammar competition

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Have a go at completing the Friday Family Challenge.

SumDog

10 x tables

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

And …. as promised, here is the first chapter of ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’. I hope you enjoy it!

I hope you have a lovely weekend with your families,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Thursday 11th June

You’re nearly at the end of your first week of learning for this term, just 2 days left! Keep working hard Year 2! Here are today’s home learning activities.

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.

English

Day 4

Quizzes are very popular at the moment – amongst family and groups online. Today you are going to use your research to write your own bird quiz!

Take a look at the sample quiz cards below:

Using your research from yesterday, write a quiz similar to that shown in the extract above.

Try to include a variety of questions, including multiple choice and true/false questions. You may even notice the last question is a riddle! Test out your quiz on your family taking on the role of quiz master yourself! Perhaps you could even send your quiz to your friends or me!

SumDog

Spellings - ‘Contractions’

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 4- Odd and Even Numbers’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

Interpret and compare charts and graphs

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Have a brilliant day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Wednesday 10th June

We’re half way through the week - Welcome to Wednesday’s learning activities!

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.

English

Day 3

Continue with your creation of a set of Top Trumps cards on birds OR begin some research in preparation for a family quiz on birds! Your theme could be on birds generally, or you could choose to research a particular type of bird.

Look back at some of the previous web links referenced and/or use some of the websites below to help you in your research:

Collect key facts on sticky notes or smaller pieces of paper. You will be using these tomorrow to write your quiz!

SumDog

Complete today’s grammar challenge.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 3- Grouping’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

5 x tables

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Enjoy your Wednesday,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Tuesday 9th June

Good morning Year 2. I’m sure you’re now back into the swing of virtual learning once again and are ready for a new day of learning. Here are Tuesday’s activities.

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.

English

Day 2

Continue to research birds using A-Z Find a Bird guide on the RSPB website:

You may choose to continue researching garden birds or consider wading birds or birds of prey – it’s up to you!
This time, create some Top Trumps cards displaying key facts about each bird. You may wish to include subheadings such as: Picture/diagram, Population, Size, Wingspan, Number of eggs, Diet, One/two sentences about the bird or an amazing fact.

Colour your pictures and make your cards as presentable as possible! If you make a few cards, you could even play your Top Trumps bird game with your family!

SumDog

Spellings - ‘Contractions’

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 2- Sharing’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

Analysing graphs to 10

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Have a wonderful day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 8th June

Welcome back Year 2! Here are Monday’s home learning tasks. Enjoy!

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.

English

This week will be your second week learning about ‘Amazing Birds’. You all produced some brilliant work before the holidays so I can’t wait to see what you will achieve this week! If we were in school, we would have been enjoying one of my favourite stories ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ together, so to finish your two weeks of learning about Amazing Birds, I will begin reading this to you at the end of the week. I know you’re going to love it as much as I do!

Day 1

Enjoy the brief film clip of the blackbird feeding its chicks and the audio recording of a blackbird’s song. Discuss and marvel at each!

Look at the webpage RSPB Facts About Birds:

Read the section ‘I want to learn about …’ and use the links to read more information about the robin, house sparrow, chaffinch and blue tit. Note how each set of information is written like a series of clues, similar to a riddle, e.g. I see a bird with a chest of red, With black and white wings and grey on its head … It’s a chaffinch!

Your task today is to write a riddle(s) for other garden birds. Your riddle doesn’t have to rhyme and can include other information as well as appearance.

E.g. I see a bird that sings nearly all year round. It eats worms, seeds, fruit, insects and other invertebrates. Some think it is cute, but it will defend its territory. It is famous for its red breast. What is it? … It’s a robin!

Use the A-Z Find a Bird guide on the RSPB website to find key information on your chosen garden bird(s). Adult support will be required to read some of the information here.

Options may include: wren, blue tit, goldfinch, woodpigeon etc. Remember to sequence your information so that you only reveal the most obvious clue at the end! Test your riddle(s) out on your family!

SumDog

Complete ‘Sentence Punctuation’.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 1- The 10 times-table’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

2 x tables

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Weekly Home Learning Challenges - Week Beginning 8th June 2020

Welcome Back Year 2!

I hope that you all had a restful but fun half term holiday and enjoyed the Health and Happiness activities last week. You all certainly looked healthy and happy in your photographs which was great to see! This week we are back to learning and I know that you are going to love some of the activities I have planned.

As usual, each day I will be posting the English and Maths activities for you to complete. Then don’t forget to keep checking back here for your weekly tasks. Any documents or websites needed are attached below.

I hope you all have a wonderful week of learning!

Missing you all lots,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Thursday 21st May

Hello Year 2,

I hope that you enjoy today’s learning activities. As mentioned earlier in the week, tomorrow’s learning will look a little different, but still just as fun - if not more!

Phonics

I understand that the phonics videos are now repeating themselves because all of the sounds have been taught. If you feel that revisiting these sounds is worthwhile for your child, please do keep accessing the videos using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

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.

It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.

English

Day 4

Today you are going to find out all about feathers! Watch Feathers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMKOWKQgAcs

This clip becomes progressively more challenging so will require ongoing discussion with an adult, though you may not choose to watch it all! After each point made in the clip, pause to explain and discuss with your child. Use the opportunity to expand on technical vocabulary, e.g. display, insulation.

Reinforce your understanding by now watching Look Closely at Feathers – Nat Geo Kids. (Be warned, the narrator talks very fast! Hence, you may want to watch this more than once!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coPAfw NPEU

Read together pp12-13 of the RSPB Nature Birds Guide by clicking the front cover opposite.

Read particularly closely the sections ‘Feathers’ and ‘Moulting’. Discuss all the new found facts you have learned about feathers.

Following your discussion, write some of your own sentences about feathers. Imagine your information on feathers is going to feature in a book about birds for children your age. Check for punctuation and spelling together.

SumDog

Complete today’s spelling challenge - words ending in less and ly.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and access ‘Summer Term, Week 5’.

Watch the video ‘Lesson 4 - The 5 times table’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

Enjoy today’s maths competition

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click here for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Have a great day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Wednesday 20th May

Good Morning Year 2.

Here are Wednesday’s home learning challenges.

Phonics

I understand that the phonics videos are now repeating themselves because all of the sounds have been taught. If you feel that revisiting these sounds is worthwhile for your child, please do keep accessing the videos using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

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.

It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.

English

Day 3

Read pages 8-11 of the RSPB Nature Birds Guide by clicking the front cover opposite. This could be by reading the text to your child or by reading a paragraph, or page, to each other.

Return to pp 10-11, What do birds do all year? Using a paper plate if you have one (or a large circle drawn on paper), split it into quarters. Label each quarter with a season. Using the information from the text, write down what the swallow does in each season. You can make your own sentences using key words from the text to help you. Colour and decorate your seasonal circle to make it attractive.

Enjoy listening to Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson using the link here:

https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=D6E2rE0Y KBA

When you hear about Apollo the swallow in the story, can you make links with some of the facts you’ve recorded on your seasonal plate?

SumDog

Complete today’s grammar challenge.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and access ‘Summer Term, Week 5’.

Watch the video ‘Lesson 3- The 2 times table’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

x 10 facts

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click here for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Enjoy today’s learning,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Tuesday 19th May

Hi Year 2,

I hope that you had a superb start to your learning yesterday. Who’s ready for today? I’m sure you all are!

Here are Tuesday’s home learning activities.

Phonics

I understand that the phonics videos are now repeating themselves because all of the sounds have been taught. If you feel that revisiting these sounds is worthwhile for your child, please do keep accessing the videos using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

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.

It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.

English

Day 2

Read pages 4-7 of the RSPB Nature Birds Guide by clicking the front cover opposite. This could be by reading the text to your child or by reading a paragraph, or page, to each other.

Return to the Birdwatcher’s Code on p5 (the second page of the extract). Re-read and discuss. Create a poster on how to be a respectful birdwatcher. Use colours and illustrate your poster with care.

SumDog

Complete today’s spelling challenge - words ending in ness, ment and ful.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and access ‘Summer Term, Week 5’.

Watch the video ‘Lesson 2- Use arrays’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

x 5 facts

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click here for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Have a lovely day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Weekly Home Learning Challenges - Week Beginning 18th May 2020

Good morning Year 2 and welcome to a brand new week of learning. Can you believe that this is the final week of learning before the half term holidays? I certainly can’t!

This week is going to be slightly different. I will be posting learning as normal for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Then on Friday, look out for something a little different to start the half term holidays.

Here are this week’s extra learning challenges to access throughout the week. As usual, anything you will need is attached below the picture, as well as a PDF version of the challenges to enable you to open links.

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 18th May

Welcome to Monday’s learning Year 2. I hope that you all had a great sleep and are ready for the day ahead.

Phonics

I understand that the phonics videos are now repeating themselves because all of the sounds have been taught. If you feel that revisiting these sounds is worthwhile for your child, please do keep accessing the videos using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

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.

It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.

English

Amazing birds! Prepare to be amazed! Over the next couple of weeks, enjoy finding out all about our amazing feathered friends, using a range of texts, online resources and articles.

Day 1

Discuss with your child: What do you already know about birds? What questions might you have about birds? E.g. Can all birds fly? What is the smallest/ biggest bird in the world? Where do birds live? Over the next two weeks, your research will hopefully help you in answering some of your questions! Ask your child to write down any questions they may have, reminding them to use question marks.

Watch What are Birds? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zyd6hyc

Ask, what do you know about birds now? Watch the clip a few times, each time pausing to allow your child to record key facts. Perhaps you could record different facts on sticky notes and make a fact poster.

Now watch All About Birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0Id-hH9y4

Record more key facts on sticky notes. Have any of your questions been answered already? Begin to pick out some new words and talk about their meaning, e.g. vertebrates, bill, habitat, camouflage.

Use Word Hippo: https://www.wordhippo.com/ to look up new words and find out what they mean. Practise putting any new words into new sentences.

SumDog

Complete today’s grammar challenge

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and access ‘Summer Term, Week 5’.

Watch the video ‘Lesson 1- Multiplication sentences using the x symbol’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

x 2 facts

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click here for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend