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:

'The Koala Who Could' Read Aloud

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.

Maths Activity
Maths Answers

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:

Hit the button

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.

Dark is Exciting - Comprehension

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.

WORD HIPPO

Listen to The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright up to 0:45mins:

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The Lion Inside

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:

The Lion Inside - Rap Edition

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.

Maths Activity
Maths Answers

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:

Hit the Button

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

RSC Play Making Festival July 2020

The children in Year 5 will be joining other schools around the country for this years RSC Associate School Play Making Festival. Even though everyone is still staying safe the children have been set two challenges. Here are two short film- Mrs Hotchkiss explains to the children what they have to do.


RSC DESIGN CHALLENGE

RSC DRAMA CHALLENGE

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:

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Weekly Challenges PDF
Learn - Overarm Throwing
Turkey Shoot Challenge
Get Moving with Disney
Science - Food Chains
Geography - Seas and Coasts
Geography Activity Sheet
RE - The Pentecost

Have a brilliant week filled with superb learning and concentration!

Miss Woodend

"To reach a port we must sail. Sail-not drop anchor, Sail-not drift" Roosevelt

Keep sailing children and you will reach the right destination! Your next port of call will be Year 6! Speaking of Year 6 the week beginning 6th July Mrs Gregan will be taking over the Year 5 learning blog of the week. She will be setting you lessons and tasks introducing you to Year 6! Mrs Gregan has also organised this years Sports Day. We can’t come together but she is setting a daily challenge next week and you will be telling us how you have done so that we can collect house points! Come on Bamber!!!! Thank you for working so hard this week I know the maths was tough and long- but you got there. I have loved looking at your boats photos and films- you took this very seriously I have included them in the weekly film. Watch with care as some clever headlines appear too! I’m glad you enjoyed learning about the Titanic it was a great little topic. Next week is DRAMA!! Below is an explanation of the challenges the Royal Shakespeare Company have sent us and what we will need to do to take part. Please read carefully. Thank you!

We had two birthdays this week too- Tess and Alice! Happy Birthday girls!!!


RSC Play Making festival- important information for next week

Dear children and parents, studying Shakespeare is part of the Year 5 curriculum. We were fortunate enough to study two plays this year before we had to stay at home. This summer we should have been taking part in the RSC playmaking festival down in Stratford. Two members of the class would have accompanied me to Stratford to perform the Taming of the Shrew with other children from all over the country. Sadly, this will no longer take place. However in its place, the RSC is celebrating the play making of all its Associate Schools through film. We have been asked to prepare part of two speeches from “The Taming of the Shrew”. You will need to listen to my instructions carefully on Monday. You will then film yourself, the film needs to be sent to me by a parent with permission in that email for me to send it to the RSC and The Grand Theatre Blackpool for them to use and publish. Films can be too big to send via email so you will need help from your parents to use Wetranfer or Google Drive. I will then forward your work. You have until Thursday night to send your drama piece. I will be sending them on the Friday 19th. You may then appear on the RSC website performing your lines. This task is set for the next four days for you to practice to give you time to organise the sending via email.

I have create links to useful online videos explaining how to WEtransfer and Google drive via email. You could practice this weekend send me a happy message! I’ll reply with a thumbs up!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

WeTransfer
Google Drive