Year 2 Home Learning – Week commencing 8th June

Hello lovely Year 2 children,

We hope you are all well and have had a lovely week, despite the weather changing! We have all been back into school with our new groups of children, and it is very strange without our wonderful classes! We miss you all and appreciate how tricky it is doing work from home, for you and your adults! Just know, we are very proud of all you are doing and it will really help when you come back to school.

Keep smiling,

Miss Croot, Mrs Norris, Mrs Anstey and Miss Nice 🙂

This week we have uploaded a video of a brilliant story called Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs by Ian Beck and your English learning will be based around this book.

Writing

This week we have several different writing ideas for you, have a go at 1, 2 or all of them and please share on the blog so we can see your hard work:

• Can you write a list of objects that could have been in the mystery box? Can you add adjectives to describe them?
• Can you write a ‘message in a bottle’ – pretend you are stuck on a desert island and need saving! Remember to use an exclamation mark if your sentence is shocking or exciting. Can you add a question too?
• Katy was stuck on an island with the last living dinosaurs, if you were stuck on an island what animal would be on there with you? You could choose your favourite animal or make one up! Draw a picture and then tell us about the animal/creature. What is it like? Use your senses to describe it.
• Tom flew over lots of different settings. If you can, pause the video on this page and write about the things Tom could see.

Reading

We know lots of you have been accessing Scholastic which is brilliant. It is important to read for a little bit each day.  Don’t forget to complete the quiz when you have read a book so that we can see how well you are doing. We have assigned you a Dinosaur book this week.  Read it carefully and then see how many of the questions you can get right.

Our Scholastic Reading Stars so far are…….

Ashton

Feranmi

Jamie

Luca

Harry

Zuzanna

Well done to these children who have all been reading reguarly and have had a go at some of the quizzes.  Let’s see if some other children can catch up with them this week.

This week we’d like you to look around your home for objects that have writing on them. Can you have a go at reading what they say? What is the purpose of the writing?

Let’s help get you started:

Cereal boxes – read some of the information on the box. What does it say? Why has it been included on the box?

Washing machines – what words are written on it? Why are they there? Do you know what they mean?

Board Game/Lego Box – Read the instructions. Why are they there? Why are they important?

If the words are tricky ask an adult to help and they can read while you answer the questions.

Maths

This week we are going to focus on multiplication and counting in steps.  Most activities will be based on things we have already done in school so you will be using your memory skills to think back in time! Here are three video lessons that you could work through this week. Remember to use TT Rockstars and Numbots regularly too to make sure your brains get to practice some of the important facts we learnt earlier in the year. This week’s Battle is Year 2 Girls versus Year 2 Boys. Good Luck!

Science

We have two science jobs you can choose between this week.

1. How to make an erupting volcano

Materials:

2. Hot Air Balloon Science

Tom used a hot air balloon to rescue Katy, watch this short video and draw and label your own hot air balloon.

Creative

Can you make your own dinosaur skeleton? All you will need are twigs (if you don’t have those – you can use straws or cotton buds)

Look at the photos and choose a dinosaur then use the twigs to create a dinosaur skeleton.