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I hope you all managed to complete some home learning yesterday. Mrs Taylor and Mrs Freeman are always happy to help. Please email if there are any queries about the home learning.
Keep sending your work too! We love seeing what you have been up to.
jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org
carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org
There are 2 more spellings to add to this week’s list.
are
our
To help you to learn the homophones, have a go at this activity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p
Let’s start the day with some Cosmic Kids Yoga.
Today’s tasks
Task 1
Reading
Listen to Mrs Taylor reading chapter 2 of How to NOT go to school.
Can you write down five facts about the Eiffel Tower? Let’s get creative!
Have a go at creating your very own Eiffel Tower. You can chose how to do it. Here are some ideas and there is a step by step tutorial below. We have used these in class before.
Task 3
Maths
Do some counting in multiples of 2, 5 and 10. Watch the following video to warm your brains up:
LO: I can use positional language
BBC Position and Direction
Here, there are 10 short clips to help you understand position and direction in relation to the real world!
I hope you have all enjoyed the weekend. Did you celebrate VE Day?
We had a street party. Everyone stayed outside their own houses and we played bingo and took park in a quiz – great fun!
Here is your fluency text for this week.
All about Africa Africa is a continent which is bigger than the United States of America, Canada and India put together. Africa is home to 54 countries and more than one billion people. In Northern Africa, you can trek through the Sahara desert; it is the largest and driest hot desert in the world. You can also visit the world’s longest river, The Nile.
Millions of people visit Africa on holiday to see its famous pyramids and go on animal safaris. In Africa, you will find some of the largest mammals on the planet. Among them are the elephant, the giraffe and the world’s fastest land mammal, the cheetah.
Today, you have spelling, reading and maths tasks to complete.
Task 1
Spellings
This week, all the words are homophones or near homophones. A homophone is a word which sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning. They are often, but not always, spelled differently.
We are going to start with three words. There will a few more tomorrow.
there their they’re
Copy and complete the sentences below. This is a great chance to practise your handwriting too.
Challenge
Create your own pictures (and sentences) to help you remember how to spell these three words. Here are a few ideas.
Task 2
This week, the reading tasks will be based on a new story. We will read a chapter a day and you need to complete the task.
Here is the front cover.
Complete this task by using the front cover only.
LO: I can answer questions.
How many animals are there in the picture?
Why is NOT written in capital letters?
This book has been written by a teacher. Why do you think he has chosen to write it now? Explain your answer.
Now, listen to Mrs Taylor reading the first chapter.
Mike Forde has published the book titled How to NOT go to school, which navigates issues that children might be experiencing like missing friends and feeling cooped up during the coronavirus pandemic. The story follows a character of Parsley Mimblewood who never goes to school. Instead, animal lover Parsley spends her time taking care of three goats, three guinea pigs, two dogs, a cat and a stick insect, whilst solving mysteries with Detective Dracula. Reahttps://drive.google.com/open?id=1mUESf7TBkpIgU_XN6qsPx4TD4P4jQUxNding
Task 3
Maths
LO: Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers and tens
This week, Year 2 have been enjoying some scary learning based on extracts from The Funnybones books.
When they had completed their reading task, the children were asked to get creative and make skeletons using materials they could find around the house.
Morning, everyone! Today, as you may know, was supposed to be a bank holiday. For consistency for those parents that need it, we’re still going to set some optional tasks.
Before we get going, I thought you might like to see what the Year 2 staff have been up to.
First of all, Mrs Bharath has been busy learning to play the piano on a keyboard and planting some rose bushes.
She has also read a lovely book called The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. It is a story of friendship, relationships and life lessons for people of all ages. These unlikely characters discuss life, forgiveness, and the journey we all take on this earth. The characters have hopes and dreams, fears and desires, questions and advice for one another are a quickly becoming four of the most memorable characters in literature. Readers will be able to connect with the boy, the fox, the mole and the horse in many different ways and on different levels. Don’t miss this one, it will make you glow inside.
Mrs Freeman, as you already know, continues to be busy in the garden. I had this Acer tree delivered and I’ve planted it into a huge pot. I wonder if the leaves will stay on the tree all year round? Thank you for all your suggestions about the chimney pots. I have added some lavender to one and some pansies to the other.
A message from Mrs Taylor
Hello Year 2
Hope you and your families are safe and well. We are missing seeing you all in person but thank you for all your messages and photos that you’ve been sending us. They really make our day and it’s great to keep in touch.
Here’s a photo of Abigail’s bedroom window.
We’ve been adding a different figure every day – who can you spot? It’s great to see families stop and look as they pass. Can you also spot what event we will be celebrating?
Until we see you again, keep learning, be active and look after each other.
Right, let’s get on with today’s tasks.
Today, is different to other days and you can choose which tasks you would like to do. Some of us are having VE Day celebrations in our gardens so you can also carry on with some of yesterday’s activities.
Please ask someone to test you on your spellings, including the 2 extra words.
The Acer tree in Mrs Freeman’s photo is a deciduous tree. Describe what will happen to my tree.
These photos are of 3 different types of tree in my garden. Can you describe the leaves of each tree? Think about how they might feel. What is the same and what is different?
Now, take a close look at this picture.
The four seasons of the deciduous Oak tree. The tree is pictured in winter, summer,spring and autumn. Can you work out which part of the tree is in which season?
What season are we in now?
Can you draw your own tree showing all 4 seasons? Splitting it into sections and using colour will help.
When you are out and about, look around at the different types of trees. Take a notebook and record what you see.
Look at the picture below. Then, answer the questions.
How many people are in the picture?
Do you think they are important people? Explain your answer using clues in the picture.
Why is there no colour in the photo?
How do you think these people are feeling? Explain your answer.
Task 3
VE DAY
Please read through this with your child. There are some activities to do at the end.
On Friday, lots of people will be celebrating VE Day.
VE Day: What is it, when is it and why do we remember?
VE Day – or ‘Victory in Europe Day’ – marks the day towards the end of World War Two (WW2) when fighting came to an end.
How was VE Day celebrated?
Tuesday 8 May, 1945, was an emotional day that millions of people had been waiting for. Many people were extremely happy that the fighting had stopped and there were big celebrations and street parties.
Here are the answers to the photo above.
Huge crowds – with lots of people dressed in red, white and blue – gathered outside Buckingham Palace in London. They cheered as King George VI and his family, including Princess Elizabeth (the current queen) and Princess Margaret, came out onto the balcony to greet everybody. Princess Elizabeth and her sister were allowed to leave the palace and celebrate with crowds outside, although they had to do it secretly. The future Queen described it as “one of the most memorable nights of my life”. Many people also attended church services to thank God for the victory.
They are great! We are going to have some fun with these interesting characters!
They live in a dark dark cellar of a dark dark house on a dark dark hill. The skeletons venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, but everyone is in bed so they amuse themselves by scaring each other and playing with the skeleton animals that live in the zoo.
We hope you are enjoying the videos from your teachers. We have been told, by lots of families, that seeing your teachers helps with your home learning.
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. If you have run out of your own books to read there is a super online library of eBooks to read. on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
LO: To name and locate the major seas surrounding the United Kingdom.
Over the next few weeks, as explorers, we will be doing all sorts of things to do with oceans and seas, from boats to treasure maps, from coral reefs to sea monsters!We’ll get in the mood today by imagining ourselves taking a journey around our country in a seaplane – a flying boat!
Is it a boat that can also fly – or an aeroplane that can also sail on water?
Seaplane Scene
Close your eyes and imagine boarding the seaplane. I will read to you.
As the journey progresses, explain what you can hear and see as well as how you feel.
Carefully, walk up the steps to the seaplane. Strap on your seatbelts. Listen carefully to the safety announcement. Are you feeling excited? A bit scared? Nervous? Very happy? Listen to the motor of the seaplane. Is it very loud? Thunderous? Grumbly? The seaplane is rocking on the waves. Can you feel the movement? The seaplane is moving quickly, getting ready to take off. It’s going faster and faster… up and up… until you are high above the water, looking through your window at the sea below. The waves seem small. The distant land and all the buildings are tiny. The clouds are close. Now we are flying through the white fog, up and away over the sea, flying swiftly. What do you feel? Our journey takes us over the sea until we decide to fly down, down, down… to land safely back on the sea.
Navigate to the UK, hovering well above it so that the children can see the British Isles entirely surrounded by sea.
Can you see UK here? Which part of our image shows water? Which is land? Stress that the UK is really a set of islands, surrounded by sea.
Although all the seas join up into one great body of water, each sea has its own distinct name, a bit like places on land. Look at the names of seas around the country (you may wish to use the simple Labelled UK Outline Map – the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Bristol Channel, the Irish Sea and the Atlantic.
Answer the following questions about the sea plane text.
True or false?The sea plane moved very slowly.
Are these instructions in the correct order? Strap on your seatbelts. Listen carefully to the safety announcement. Carefully, walk up the steps to the seaplane. If not, write them out correctly.
Why did the author describe the land as distant and the buildings as tiny?
Mrs Freeman and Mrs Taylor are alternating (weekly) setting the home learning. Please contact either of us through the week. However, it is likely to be whoever has set the work that will respond. Thank you
Here are some messages from Mrs Freeman. Hope they work!
All the words are homophones or near homophones. A homophone is a word which sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning. They are often, but not always, spelt differently.
Please copy the words into your home learning book using a staircase.
here hear quite quiet one won hole whole blue blew night knight break brake our hour
I am giving you two extra words to spell this week. These are words that are misspelt a lot in class.
because
with
Task 2
Reading fluency In class, we often have mindfulness sessions. These activities can boost the quality of our lives in many ways. In today’s rush, we all think too much—seek too much—want too much—and forget about the joy of just being.
During these unsettled times, we all have more time to just sit and think.
Why Do We Need Mindfulness?
Being mindful helps you:
pay attention better
be less distractible
learn more
stay calm under stress
avoid getting too upset about things
slow down instead of rush
listen better to others
be more patient
get along better
feel happier and enjoy things more
Read the poem below. Make a note of any new words or phrases.
Breathe and Be
I breathe slowly in,
I breathe slowly out. My breath
is a river of peace.
I am here in the world.
Each moment I can breathe and be.
I watch the stream.
Each thought is a floating leaf.
One leaf is worry,
another leaf is sadness.
The leaves drift softly away.
I breathe slowly in,
I breathe slowly out. My breath
is a pathway of peace
moving softly through me.
Each day I can breathe and be.
Please read this poem every day. Try sitting or lying down in different positions or places.
I would like you to send some pictures, or films, of yourselves reading your fluency text out loud. Towards the end of the week, I will put them together for a class news post.
Get reading!
Mrs Freeman
Optional activity
Safari
The Safari exercise is a great way to help kids learn mindfulness. This activity turns an average, everyday walk into an exciting new adventure.
Tell your children that you will be going on a safari: their goal is to notice as many birds, bugs, creepy-crawlies, and any other animals as they can. Anything that walks, crawls, swims, or flies is of interest, and they’ll need to focus all of their senses to find them, especially the little ones. Adults can do this too! A similar exercise for adults is the mindfulness walk. This exercise provokes the same response in children that a mindful walk elicits in adults: a state of awareness and grounding in the present.
Task 3
Maths
Starter
Write these numbers as words. 99 37 12 54 8 76
LO: Fact families addition and subtraction bonds to 20
It’s almost the end of another week. Thanks again for your photos – they’ve been amazing!
All of you have been finding arrays everywhere.
The Bog Baby story has been very exciting and there has been some excellent character descriptions and sequencing work.
Finally, a few extra ‘crafty‘ pictures to share.
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Let’s get creative!
BBC Position and Direction
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