Home Learning Friday 24th April 2020
Year 2 Home Learning
Hello Year 2! We hope you are all well. We have heard from many of you that you are out enjoying the sunshine which is definitely helping use to stay at home.
We have so enjoyed chatting to you on the phone and thought we would let you know what we have been up to as well.
Mrs Osborne has been enjoying her garden and has been loving the fact that she can dry all her washing outside in the sunshine. She has been doing lots of walking and bike riding to try and tire out her 10 year old son and has been trying to wake up very early and get out and have a coffee in the garden.
Mrs. Sumba has been practising painting flowers in watercolor; aren’t they great!
I have been spending lots of time with my dog, Theodore. He is very needy and doesn’t like the sunshine because he gets too hot! I’ve been going on lots of walks around my house. I’m really lucky to have some beautiful walks around me. I have heard that lots of you have been walking too. I have really enjoyed speaking to you on the phone as I miss seeing you at school! I hope you are all keeping safe and are enjoying the sunshine! Have any of you been lucky enough to get Disney Plus? If you have, what is your favourite thing you are watching on it? I keep watching Finding Dory and Moana! Miss Foote 🙂
Please use the blog for checking Home Learning as that is where it will be posted with easy to follow links and downloadable documents.
Reading
Please continue to read daily for 10 – 15 minutes. You can read books from your book shelf at home, magazines or log onto.
Hampshire HIAS has also written some resources for pupils which we will be adding. This weeks is a document which shows you activities you can do with your children at home using the books you already have. It is titled ‘Menu of reading response ideas’ and if you click the link you will be able to view it in full.
Attached is also a mini reading project about The Big Blue Book with a link to a free downloadable version of the book to support your learning.
Writing – Watch the video, ‘Don’t go’ below:
https://www.literacyshed.com/dont-go.html
Write a set of instructions to help the pink creature avoid being caught by the cat.
Success Criteria:
- Use ‘How to…’ in your title.
- List of equipment which might be needed.
- Use clear, simple sentences.
- Use imperative verbs.
- Numbers or bullet points could be used to show order.
- Could you draw a diagram?
Question time!
- How do you think the cat felt before the pink creature arrived?
- Could you write two adjectives to describe the pink creature’s character?
- Where could the pink creature have come from?
Up for a challenge?
Create a new world for the pink creature. Describe the world you have created and explain why the pink creature may need these features.
You could create a 3D model, collage or painting to represent his/her new world!
Spelling
On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, please continue to practise your letters and sounds using resources from www.twinkl.com and www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Maths
On SUMDOG, you will find both maths challenges and times table activities. Remember to keep practising your number bonds to 10, 20 and place value of number.
On MyMaths you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week.
In addition to this, HIAS have set some weekly Maths problem solving challenges using strategies we use in school. Click on the link to view and try these.
Year 2 Week 2 Problem 1 Year 2 Week 2 Problem 2
Science (2 weeks)
We have been learning lots of about different habitats and focusing on our gardens. This week, we would like you to design and create your own ‘minibeast hotel’. The images below are there to help you, but you do not have to do the same.
Topic (2 weeks)
How is life in Kenya different to life in England?
Find out about schooling, farming and houses. You could make a poster, leaflet, fact sheet or a mind map where you show your findings. You could also use a Venn Diagram to organise you ideas e.g.
Music- Tortoises
Close your eyes and listen to:
Can you move around to the music? Is it slow or fast?
Now move around to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Diu2N8TGKA
Is this slow or fast?
What else did you notice?
Did you spot that they are the same tune? Saint-Saens slowed down Offenbach’s famous Can- Can music and used it to represent tortoises
Art from Mrs Pearson
UNDER THE SEA
The title for your art this week is ‘Under the Sea’. This can take the form of a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, a collage or anything else that you would like to create. As always, I’m sure you will impress me with your creativity!
Here are some ideas
However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson
Enjoy your week!
From the Year 2 Team 🙂
Home learning for Friday 17th April: Part 1
Year 2 Home Learning
Friday 17th April 2020
Hello, we hope you have had a peaceful Easter.
This blog post contains many links so be sure to click on them to be able to view PDF documents mentioned.
Reading
Please continue to read daily for 10 – 15 minutes. You can read books from your book shelf at home, magazines or log onto.
Hampshire HIAS has also written some resources for pupils which we will be adding. This weeks is a document which shows you activities you can do with your children at home using the books you already have. It is titled ‘Menu of reading response ideas’ and if you click the link you will be able to view it in full.
Attached is also a mini reading project about Meerkat Mail with a link to a free downloadable version of the book to support your learning.
Menu of reading response ideas KS1
Writing – Look at the picture below:
Sick sentences
These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you improve them?
A boy looked through the fence. The boy held a camera. He stood on grass.
Sentence challenge
Can you use expanded noun phrases to describe what they boy might see?
For example: As he peered through the old rickety fence he caught a glimpse of a space ship made of jelly.
Up for a challenge?
Imagine you can spot anything through a garden fence. What would you see? How could you describe it? Write a piece of writing using your best imagination and adjectives to describe.
We have also included a bank of writing ideas for you to pick and choose from at home.
Spelling
On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, please continue to practise your letters and sounds using resources from www.twinkl.com and www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Maths
On SUMDOG, you will find both maths challenges and times table activities. Remember to keep practising your number bonds to 10, 20 and place value of number.
On MyMaths you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week.
In addition to this, HIAS have set some weekly Maths problem solving challenges using strategies we use in school. Click on the link to view and try these.
Science
There is a choice of 2 different activities. Do one or both.
| Garden focus
You could plant seeds, chop weeds, help mow the lawn, pick flowers, draw and label plants or look for mini beasts |
Food chain
Think back to the learning we did in the Autumn Term about predators and their prey. Can you research or use your own knowledge to draw a food chain e.g. |
Topic (2 weeks)
How is life in Kenya different to life in England?
Find out about schooling, farming and houses. You could make a poster, leaflet, fact sheet or a mind map where you show your findings. You could also use a Venn Diagram to organise you ideas e.g.
Home Learning for Friday 17th April: Part 2
Hello, In addition to the tasks and online links published in Part 1, here are some other home learning task for Music, Science and RE.
Music- Opening The Carnival of the Animals
This activity can be done on your own or with other members of your family. You may want to find a comfortable place to lie down in.
Close your eyes and listen to this piece of music: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrJ7JU.95ZedwwAj.5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEybHNpMmM4BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjk4NDhfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=carnival+of+the+animals+Royal+March+of+the+lion&fr=mcafee#action=view&id=15&vid=1cfd51408275cd6c377df974c1767751
What pictures, patterns or colours come into your head?
Can you draw a picture of what you imagined?
Ask your family to do the same. Talk about and compare what you did. Remember- there is no right or wrong answer.
Family Science Activity
Fizzy Bottle Rockets – click on the links below to view a video and download the information sheet.
https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/fizzy-bottle-rockets
https://www.rigb.org/docs/fizzybottlerockets_infosheet_v2_0.pdf
Questions to ask children:
When tablet is put in glass of water: What do you think is in the bubbles?
Where do you think the bubbles are coming from?
What do you think would happen if we used more than one tablet? Why?
What do you think would happen if we used warm water? Why?
Before making rocket:
What do you think will happen if we put some tablets and water in this bottle and close the lid? Why?
What things could we change to make the rocket go higher?
Going further:
Experiment with different sizes of bottle and different combinations of water and tablets to find out what combination gives you the highest flying rocket.
Does it matter how many tablets you use?
What about if you break the tablets into smaller pieces?
How does the temperature of the water affect things?
Watch a flame powered bottle rocket: http://bit.ly/FlamingBottleRockets
Learn more about propulsion by building a balloon powered car: http://bit.ly/ BalloonCars
Religious Education
As part of your RE learning and reflection upon Easter, we would like you to complete ONE of the following activities, in order to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Church calendar…
· Design your own Easter Egg and include as many symbols for new life as you can!
· Create a comic strip cartoon of the key events that took place in the Easter story.
· Write a journal that includes the thoughts and feelings of Mary and the disciples, when they had discovered the empty tomb.
· Draw your own Good Friday crucifix and fill it with prayers for Jesus, as well as those around the world who have been working hard and making sacrifices for the good of others.
· Make a prayer station at home, for moments of peaceful reflection. Choose an Easter prayer as part of your worship, from https://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Prayer-resources/Easter-prayers
· Build your own Easter word search and include as many religious key words as you can, e.g. Resurrection, Sacrifice, Miracle, New Life, Tomb.
· Decorate your own Easter postcard with a Biblical image. Record your own Happy Easter message and spread the Good News to one of your friends!
Art Homelearning
Art Home Learning
The title for your art this week is ‘NEW LIFE’. You can be as creative as you like. It could be a drawing of yourself as a baby, a baby animal made out of kitchen roll tubes, a photograph of a tree with buds, an Andy Goldsworthy inspired piece of art made out of natural things in your garden or when you have been on a walk. Impress me with your creativity!
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you!
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson
Easter Art
Draw or paint a scene from Good Friday. You can take inspiration from one of the pictures you find on the internet, or use your own imagination. Try to use either pointillism, Pop Art or a combination of the two.
However, if none of these appeal to you , why not try one of these?
Fancy something different:
Make a stained glass window about ONE of the Stations of the Cross that means the most to you.
Create your own Easter Garden, include a simple cross, cave/tomb, add flowers and/or seeds that will grow over Easter.
I will also love to see any other art work that you make and will post it on the Art Blog.
Email your art work to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Remember to include your name and Year group
Thank you
Mrs Pearson
Easter Holiday Home Learning
Happy Easter.
Please continue to log onto Sumdog where you have been set weekly spelling and Maths challenges.
- Create a PowerPoint that includes information about each station of the cross.
- Write prayer booklet, to thank Jesus for His sacrifice and offer prayers of strength and support to those who are suffering.
- Record the thoughts and feelings of Mary in a journal – how would she have felt at this time? Why?
- Make a stained glass window about ONE of the stations of the cross that means the most to you.
- Host a worship session with members of your household. Can you choose a special image or bible passage to use as part of your reflection on the events of Holy Week?
- Write the words ‘Holy Week’ in large bubble writing and include any relevant religious symbols, signs and Holy colours to decorate it with.
- Look up the stations of the cross online and read the Bible story. Can you use drama or role play to re-enact each scene and remember what happened?
- A painting of all of the religious symbols found within this faith? Label what each one is called/used for.
- An information poster including 10 key facts about the religion.
- Write a diary entry for a follower of this faith – what would their day look like and how would they pray?
- Build a place of worship for your chosen faith (e.g. temple, Gurdwara, Mosque)
- Create a piece of music that could be used for prayer by the followers of this religion.
- If you could make a set of rules or commandments for this faith, what would they be?
- Create a set of top trump, ‘snap’ or ‘pairs’ cards about this faith, to play with your family members.