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:Â 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 )Â 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