Year 2 Home Learning Friday 29th May
Hello again from all the adults in Year 2. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the topic, science, RE and Art; there is no expectation to complete them all.
English tasks
This week’s English lessons continue to come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. This week’s lessons follow on from the home learning that we sent on Friday 15th May. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome.
Lesson 1: To be able to make inferences
Lesson 2: To be able to make inferences- part 2
Lesson 3: To be able to identify the key features of a character description
Lesson 4: To able to identify and use expanded noun phrases
Lesson 5: To able to write a character description
Spelling
As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week these are:
| wild | climb |
| most | only |
| both | old |
| cold | gold |
| hold | told |
On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.
Maths -National Oak Academy
The Maths lesson follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.
Lesson 1: To be able to give directions
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-be-able-to-give-directions-year-2-wk2-4
Lesson 2: To use the language of rotation
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-use-the-language-of-rotation-year-2-wk2-5
Lesson 3: To make predictions about rotation
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-make-predictions-about-rotation-year-2-wk3-1
Lesson 4: To be able to rotate shapes
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-be-able-to-rotate-shapes-year-2-wk3-2
Lesson 5: To identify how patterns have been created through rotation
In addition to this, HIAS have sent some ideas for Maths Home Learning.
Click on the link to view and try these.
Practical Mathematical Tasks in the Home
Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.
Science
Find out all about the parts of a plant. Draw and label plants and explain the function of each part e.g. The roots absorb water and minerals from the soil. The BBC Bitesize page linked will help you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z3wpsbk
Music
Friday 29th May
This half term we are going to be focussing on Prokofiev’s famous piece
Peter and the Wolf.
Week 1- Peter
Listen to this short piece of music and find the picture of the violin?
How does the music make you feel?
Can you move around to it?
Art
ANIMAL MAGIC!
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to ANIMALS! Your animal can live on the land, in the sea or the sky. If you prefer, you can make your own mythical animal from your own imagination… or even a fusion of two animals. It can be a drawing, a painting, it can be made from a kitchen roll tube, a painted stone, made from things you find in the woods or at the beach or anything else that you can think of. I’m sure you will create something ‘magical’, as always!
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
Ideas to inspire you:
Happy Half Term- Friday 22nd May
Well we have definitely had the most unusual half term that I have ever known and am sure that a break is deserved by all.
We will not be setting any new home learning over the half term period but will encourage you to continue to read, practise times tables and use it as an opportunity to catch up on any home learning you may have missed from the last few weeks.
As ever, we are missing you and thinking of you and very much remain your teachers.
Mrs Osborne, Miss Foote and Mrs Sumba.
Home Learning Friday 15th May 2020
Year 2 Home Learning Friday 15th May 2020
Hello again from all the adults in Year 2. See the post below about what some of us have been up to this week.
Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the topic, science, RE and Art; there is no expectation to complete them all.
English
This week’s English lessons come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome. 
Lesson 4: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-adverbs-year-2-wk1-4
Lesson 5: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-set-of-instructions-year-2-wk1-5
Spelling
As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week these are:
| door | mind |
| floor | kind |
| poor | behind |
| because | child |
| find | children |
On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.
Maths
Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.
National Oak Academy
These next lessons will have a teacher teaching you a virtual lesson, and activities to follow. They follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.
Lesson 1: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-name-and-describe-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-4
Lesson 3: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-describe-and-create-shape-patterns-year-2-wk2-1
Lesson 4: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-compare-and-sort-2-d-and-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk2-2
Lesson 5: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-describe-the-position-of-an-object-year-2-wk2-3
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
Balancing Structures
The activity – Make a balancing toy.
Experiment with the design of your toy to find out what affects whether or not it balances.
Learn about the centre of mass of an object and how it relates to whether or not something balances.
https://www.rigb.org/docs/balancing_sculptures_infosheet_0_0.pdf – activity worksheet in full
What you need:
- A carrot or similar vegetable
- Kebab skewers
- Marshmallows and/or other jelly type sweets, or small pieces of carrot or similar hard vegetables.
- Plasticine or blu-tac
- 500ml soft drink bottle or washing up liquid bottle
Stage 1: Cut a piece of carrot about 3 cm long. Stick a kebab skewer into one end of the piece of carrot and break the skewer so that you have only 2 or 3 cm of it sticking out. Try to stand the carrot piece up on the end of the kebab skewer – you should find this very difficult, if not impossible to do.
Stage 2: Stick a kebab skewer into each side of the carrot so that they point downwards at about 45 degrees. Then stick a marshmallow or other jelly sweet onto the ends of the skewers, as shown in the picture below. Place this on top of a bottle and you should find that it balances.
Get children to investigate what happens when you slide the marshmallows up and down the ‘arms’ of the sculpture and if you add more marshmallows. Stick an additional two or more kebab skewers into the carrot and challenge children to add at least one item to each skewer and still keep the sculpture balanced.
Questions to ask children: With just central part of the sculpture: why doesn’t this stay balanced? Before showing them stage 2: do you think we can use more kebab skewers and anything else to help it balance? Why do you think it balances like this? What can we change? (position of skewers, items pushed onto the skewers, position of things on skewers) What do you think will happen if we change these things? What do you think we need to do to make sure our sculpture balances?
Going further:
Try making some animal-shaped balancing toys: http://bit.ly/AniBalance
Make a balancing butterfly: http://bit.ly/BalanceButterfly
Topic (2 weeks).
Lots of you know that Mrs. Sumba’s husband comes from Kenya. For his tribe, it is the custom for the sons to build houses on the family land which they call the home. Mrs. Sumba has drawn a map of the Sumba family home.
Task 1 -Look carefully at the map and key and complete the table:
| How it is the same as my home. | How it is different to my home. |
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Task 2- Draw a map or plan of your family home. Don’t forget the key.
Music
Friday 15th May
Persons with Long Ears from The Carnival of the Animals
Listen to the violin.
Is this music sad or happy?
Which kind of animals might have long ears?
Can you draw them?
Art
Art Challenge Famous Landmarks:
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to a famous landmark. Your landmark can be natural or man-made. It can be a drawing, a sculpture made from recycled materials, a collage, something made out of pebbles and twigs , it could be drawn on a tablet or made out of Lego, or indeed else that you can think of. I have even seen Big Ben made out of socks! Let you imaginations run wild!
Here are a few 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
What we have been up to this week…
Mrs Pitman: This week I was extremely lucky as we had a hedgehog in our garden. Unfortunately hedgehogs numbers are declining in England now. So it really was amazing to see one. I haven’t seen one for about 15 years. Unfortunately we didn’t get a photo as we were too busy watching it, but I’ve got a picture off the internet to show you how wonderful they are.
If you do see one in your garden or out on a walk there is a great website that you log onto to inform them that you have seen one. This website then does a map of everywhere the hedgehogs have been seen.
Mrs. Sumba and her family are trying to do a jigsaw puzzle of the Titanic- it is very challenging!
Mrs Taylor: This week I have been finding new places to walk with my sons and my dog Mollie ( because despite the extra walks she is still a little over weight ). Having lived in waterlooville all of my life, I have still been able to discover some beautiful places I have never been before. For VE Day I joined the nation in celebrating, it felt sad that we couldn’t celebrate in the style we were hoping but we have hung out our home made bunting and had a social distanced street party. I hope you had a lovely time marking the special day. Stay safe and stay strong.
Mrs Pallet: hello I hope you are all well, my son William & I have been busy planting seeds. We decorated pots & in Williams he’s planted “seeds for butterflies” & mine is “seeds for bees”. I have also planted cucumber seeds & the plants are doing well, fingers crossed I’ll have cucumbers which I’m really excited about as I’m not very good with plants! Hope you are all keeping busy & I’m looking forward to seeing you all very soon.
Home Learning Friday 8th May 2020
Year 2 Home Learning Friday 8th May 2020
Hi Year 2! We miss seeing you all everyday!
We’d like to share what we have been up to this week!
Miss Foote
Hi everyone, I hope you are all well! On Monday, the children and I made mini-beast hotels in school and we also had an investigation into which mini-beasts were inside our hotels. We found some fantastic insects such as spiders, a centipede, lots of woodlice and we even spotted a dragonfly nearby! I have also been planting some basil seeds, although most plants I have do not seem to last very long at all! Fingers crossed these seeds decide to grow! If not, I will keep asking Mrs Osborne for advice! I’m still going on long walks around my local area, which I know lots of you are doing as well! It is nice to get out and about isn’t it? Keep sending your photos and updates to the class email! (elephants@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk) I love seeing what you are all up to! I’ve been very impressed with all the work I have seen so far.
I hope you have a fabulous weekend! Stay safe 🙂
Mrs Osborne
I have been learning how to make fudge this week and was also delighted to see a double rainbow after the huge rain. I took lots of photos of it and thought of all our key workers who are keeping us safe.
Mrs Pitman
Please complete the reading, writing, spelling and maths tasks. Then choose one of the other activities set.
Reading
Please continue to read daily for 10 – 15 minutes. You can read books from your book shelf at home, magazines or log onto.
Attached is a mini reading project about ‘The Snow Dragon’ by The Snow Dragon, by Abi Elphinstone & Fiona Woodcock which you can download on https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/extract/16681/The-Snow-Dragon-by-Abi-Elphinstone.html
Please complete the word reading exploration task, read aloud and discuss the text answering the questions provided.
Writing – Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmqiEXe8dc
This weeks writing learning is based around the book Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. There is 5 days worth of writing tasks so plenty to be getting on with.
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. Below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.
Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern
Maths
Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week.
National Oak Academy
These next few lessons will have a teacher teaching you a virtual lesson, and activities to follow. Please follow the link to access the videos.
Lesson 1: To identify shapes by vertices and sides.
Lesson 2: To identify right angles in shapes.
https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-right-angles-in-shapes-year-2-wk1-2
Lesson 3: To recognise lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.
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 4 and 5 Task 1 year 2 Week 4 and 5 Task 2
Science – THE SCIENCE OF OOBLECK
https://www.science-sparks.com/how-to-make-oobleck/
Did you notice that if you make a ball with oobleck or gloop it feels solid, but if you drop the oobleck on the floor it turns liquid again? The slime is a non – Newtonian fluid as it doesn’t flow like liquids normally do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd-2jetT1w
Cornflour gloop ( oobleck ) is made up of molecules arranged in long chains. When the chains are stretched the liquid will flow, but when you force them together they stick together to form a solid.
OOBLECK RECIPE
- Cornflour
- Water
- Food colouring – optional
- Ice cube trays – optional
- Mixing bowl
- Colander, funnel and beakers – optional, but great for messy fun!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING CORNFLOUR GLOOP
- Fill a cup with cornflour and add to the bowl
- Add water very slowly mixing with your hands, until you get a sticky, slimy gloop.
- If you want to make it coloured add some food colouring. ( be careful this can stain skin and clothes)
- Play with the slime and see how it behaves. Can you make it into a ball? and what happens if you throw it onto the floor?
- Can you squeeze the slime into a ball? What does it feel like? How long does the ball stay solid after you let go?
- If you used less water do you think the slime would fall faster or more slowly through the colander?
OOBLECK CHALLENGE
Can you make a giant oobleck tray and walk on oobleck?
HOW TO MAKE A GIANT OOBLECK TRAY
To make our giant oobleck tray – pour about 1 kg of cornflour into a large black tray and slowly added water until the consistency was wet, but solid when squeezed.
Computing (2 weeks)
Please go onto the site: www.hourofcode.com
The children have used this website during computing lessons in school so they should be familiar with the layout. Please select ‘activities’ at the top of the page, and click on ‘Imagine a World’ (skip past the tutorial as the children should be confident using the programme). This task is connected to the topic activity below, and the children should use the research they have found out about Kenya to support their ideas.
Task: Create a Kenyan Habitat.
Points to consider:
- Which background is suitable?
- What animals should you programme to commit a particular action?
- What could the buildings look like?
- What could the people be doing?
Please feel free to screenshot pictures of the children’s work and send to our class emails. We’d love to see their work!
Topic (2 weeks)
Lots of you know that Mrs. Sumba’s husband comes from Kenya. For his tribe, it is the custom for the sons to build houses on the family land which they call the home. Mrs. Sumba has drawn a map of the Sumba family home.
Task 1 -Look carefully at the map and key and complete the table:
| How it is the same as my home. | How it is different to my home. |
Task 2- Draw a map or plan of your family home. Don’t forget the key.
RE
As part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon the upcoming celebration of Pentecost – this day is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, to remember how the Holy Spirit appeared to the Apostles of Jesus and gave them hope while they were in Jerusalem.
Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?
- Create a religious crossword that includes the following key words and symbols: wind, flame, tongue, Holy Spirit, disciples, Jerusalem. Can you add more of your own? Don’t forget to record your clues!
- Design a celebration card to spread the Good News at Pentecost – could you post it to a friend to spread joy and hope at this difficult time?
- Write a drama script to ‘act out’ the scene of the disciples as Pentecost with your family at home – what happened to the followers of Jesus?
- Make 10 quiz questions about the Pentecost story. Could you ask a friend or family member about them when you next chat on the webcam/internet, or over the phone?
- Imagine you are a news reporter who has been sent to Jerusalem to find out more about the events that took place at Pentecost. Which 5W questions (who, what, where, when, why) would you ask the disciples?
- Build a model of one of the following Pentecost symbols (flame, wind, speaking in tongues, Holy Spirit) to put on display and remind you that Jesus is near. Which resources could you use from home? Plasticine, recycled plastic, painted cardboard?
- Research the story of Pentecost on the internet, from a Biblical website. Can you draw a thought bubble and record how the feelings of the disciples changed throughout the story?
Music -Aquarium
Listen care fully to the music.
Can you spot when it gets loud and quiet?
What might live in the aquarium? What else might you see?
Could you create an aquarium in a bowl of water? How might the animals move around?
Art Challenge
Who’s YOUR SUPERHERO?
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to a superhero. Your superhero can be real, such as our key workers, or someone in your family, or a fictional character from a comic, film or your own imagination. It can be a drawing, a figure made from a kitchen roll tube, street art or anything else that you can think of.
I hope this may inspire you:
This new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.It shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt. He has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero – an NHS nurse. The artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: “Thanks for all you’re doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if it’s only black and white.”
However, if this doesn’t appeal to you then 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
Home Learning Friday 1st May 2020
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.
Attached is a mini reading project about a poem called The Sound Collector by Roger McGough which you can watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIL0kgnxJIo
Or download:
https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/sound-collector
The Sound Collector Reading task
Writing
This week’s writing learning is based around the book The Day The Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers. There is 5 days worth of writing tasks so plenty to be getting on with.
The Day the Crayons Quit writing task
Watch or enjoy an excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrd-Wdxbg-Q
https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/extract/10795/The-Day-the-Crayons-Quit-by-Drew-Daywalt.html
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. Below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.
Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern
Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern
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.
Mrs Osborne had a go showing you how the first problem could look… once you have done it will one set of numbers, try another way. Don’t worry if you make a mistake- Mrs Osborne did!
Science
click the link below to access this week’s family science task
Family Science Activity 1.5.20
Music
Hens and Roosters
Listen carefully to the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYSx6x1Ttw
Or
Youtube.com/results?search_query=carnival+of+the+animals+hens+and+roosters
Can you hear how the music shows the hens and roosters scratching the ground?
Can you hear them crowing and clucking? Create your own hens and rooster music using everyday objects.
Art Challenge Celebrations for VE Day
Portsmouth Naval Base is looking to mark the occasion of VE day and need YOUR HELP! They have asked for you to draw pictures on the subject of WW2 & VE DAY and as an extra challenge try to incorporate a rainbow somewhere in the picture (even in the corner). The pictures will be displayed within the Naval Base and once the day is over they hope to make contact with local nursing homes to distribute the pictures to help cheer our elderly community. If you would like your work sent to the Naval base you will have to email it to me by Monday evening. However, all work sent to me, even after Monday, will still be displayed, as usual, on the Art Blog.
In addition to the drawings for the Naval Base, I would appreciated any art and craft linked to this important historic occasion , such as bunting, chalk drawings, figures of soldiers, planes or medals. I know, as always, you will blow me away with your imaginative ideas and creativity.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you. Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson
History
Friday 8th May is VE day celebrations so please take part in this home learning to engage with understanding what it is all about.
Read through the Twinkl PowerPoint and watch this video to learn about what VE day celebration means: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr
Choose from the activities below:
Activity 1-Design your own medal looking at the attached document for some ideas. You can draw, colour then label it on paper or you could make a medal using different scraps of materials around your home. I don’t mind how you choose to do it just be creative and enjoy engaging in the learning about this celebration.
Activity 2-Imagine you are reporting to the news about this victory. Dress up as a soldier and talk about how you might have felt about this celebration. Express how excited you are and can’t wait to see your families.
Activity 3-Write a postcard to a missing family member telling them about your VE day celebrations. Draw a picture on the other side to show what you did and what you saw.
Activity 4-Make your own radio broadcast to announce Victory in Europe. You could even pretend to be Winston Churchill!
If possible, send photos or videos of your work to myself (Mrs Conlon) via my class email address so they can be put onto the school curriculum blog: starfishclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Have lots of fun learning all about this special celebration.
I am looking forward to seeing your great history learning.
Best regards
Mrs Conlon
(History lead teacher)
What we have been up this week…
Hello all. This week it is Mrs Pitman, Mrs Pallett and Mrs Taylor’s turn to tell us what they have been up to!
Mrs Pitman has been playing Uno with her family most nights, the winner gets a sweet.
My family and I were going to Paris at Easter, my daughter Josie was a little bit upset that we couldn’t. So I did a virtual tour of Paris for her. For each little picture (like the euro star) We pretended we were there…….The man in front of us had a long messy brown beard he had his head to the side and was sleeping, his wife was reading a book, we couldn’t see what the book was called. The little boy who had lovely curly hair was trying to play pick-a-boo with her. Oh the Eiffel tower was the best, it was so high, I’m sure the top reached the stars. Our knees were knocking together because we were so nervous going up it. Once we got to the top, we could see the whole of Paris, what an amazingly beautiful city. My daughter loves art so when we went to Le Lourve her face lit up with joy. Phew… we were so tired afterwards that we went back to our hotel, flaked on our beds. When we woke up we were back home.Josie said she had an amazing time on our virtual Paris tour and can’t wait for our next one.
Mrs Taylor: This weekend I should of been running a Beaver scout camp with the group I run. So rather than waste the beautiful weather I got the Beavers to have a camp in their own homes. The Beavers ( my son included ) shared their pictures of tents put up, in door dens made to sleep in, campfires ( some were real others were virtual or crafted) and they also learnt some new campfire songs. The Beavers had a great time having fun at home. I look forward to hearing any adventures or new things you’ve been doing and I can’t wait to see you all soon.
Mrs Pallett:
I’ve been busy walking with my family & we’re fortunate enough to live 15 minutes walk from the sea, keeping fit by hula-hooping in the garden, planting seeds & being creative by rock painting. Hope your all well, stay happy & positive & I’ll see you all soon x
