Y2 Home Schooling Resources

Dear Year 2 Parents,

Please find enclosed some resources that will help your child continue with their learning at home for a little while.

There are some writing, spelling, reading and maths tasks to complete with your child as well as some recommended websites. However, please feel free to explore the huge resources available online too.

A lot of resources in this pack came from twinkl – you can currently access these resources for free if you sign up and enter the code PARENTSTWINKLHELPS. You can find many similar activities you can use, plus the answers for the homework we have sent in your pack!

Gloucestershire Virtual School Games Challenge 3
Get involved! Deadline end of play 8th July. Have a go at the three throwing challenges. You’ll need balls, plastic bottles, a marker and a stopwatch. Please submit your personal best to Mr. B via email by end of play Wednesday 8th July. Good luck!

For all Challenge information please view/download the Gloucestershire Virtual School Games Target Challenge 3.

Bee ID Sheet
Blank Comic Strip Template
How to Draw a Face Instructions
How To Make a Rain Cloud In a Jar

HEADSTART – Very good learning booklets used at school. Great for maths, reading, SPAG and spelling.
Y2 HEADSTART Activity Booklet (l)
Y2 HEADSTART Activity Booklet – ANSWERS (l)

Summer Reading Challenge – Join the Silly Squad!
This amazing creative writing competition is back for an incredible 10th year. If you like writing stories and fancy winning some awesome prizes, this is the competition for you! What is the Summer Reading Challenge? The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays. For more information, and to sign up your child to become a member of the ‘Silly Squad’, go to the Summer Reading Challenge website.

Reading – highest priority!

• We have sent reading books and a couple of extra library books home. Children can read these and any other books you can get your hands on! Ask questions about what they have read to check their understanding.
• Complete reading comprehension activities like the examples in this pack.
• Try to include some story time where your child is read aloud to by an adult or an older child.
• Check out Oxford Owl as you can sign up to read e-books for free and these are matched to book bands too.
• Nessy is a wonderful resource to help your child with reading and spelling and they are currently offering 8 weeks of free access. Sign up at http://www.nessy.com/free-trial/signup – this is highly recommended!
• Phonics Play  is also offering free access to phonics games if you enter the username march20 and the password home.

Writing

• Spelling key words is tricky so as much practise as possible please! See the list in the packs. Children can practise writing these in many ways, e.g. making playdough letters, ‘painting’ them outside using water instead of paint, etching them in a sand tray etc.
• Practise forming letters correctly – especially ensuring that the letters are sat on the line, that all the small letters are the same height and that the tall letters are all the same height too, and twice the height of the small letters.
• Complete the enclosed short writing tasks or write for many different purposes, e.g. write a recipe or a letter for a friend, write a story or a poem.

• When writing, Year 2 children need to:
o Spell words using their phonic knowledge and spell key words from the Year 1 list correctly.
o Use capital letters at the start of EVERY sentence and for names.
o Use full stops, exclamation marks, question marks and commas in lists.
o Use adjectives to describe nouns and therefore make their writing much more exciting.
o Extend their sentences using conjunctions, e.g. and, so, but, because, or, if, when, until.
o Read their writing back and edit it to make sure that it includes the above features.

Maths

• Complete the enclosed activities. See the Arithmetic methods to see some ways children have been taught to solve calculations using jottings.
• Help children to mark their work and talk to them about any mistakes they have made.
• Practise Times Tables Rockstars regularly (their username and password is on their Reading Record) – www.ttrockstars.com
• Practise reading the time – o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Once this is mastered, try reading the time to the nearest 5 minutes.
• Practise using coins to make totals in different ways and try to calculate how much change you could get.
• Get measuring – use rulers, weighing scales and measuring jugs.

Time to be creative

• Try to include some time for drawing, painting, collage, model making, creating music etc. too.

General

Gloucestershire County Council Online Resources for Parents – Includes resources support for the following: mental health and wellbeing, curriculum, reading, writing, STEM, culture & creativity, PE & sport, SEN and geography & history.
BBC Bitesize KS1 Specific Lessons
Launch of the Oak National Academy online classroom and resource hub
Fun games and teaching resources about microbes and antibiotics
Government guidance on helping primary school aged children learn at home
Government guidance on helping children with special educational needs and disabilities learn at home
Learning About Online Safety at Home – Activity Packs
Integra Schools and South Gloucestershire Council Home Learning Resources
Ed Shed
Year 2 Home Learning Pack
Nessy
BBC Bitesize

English

Oxford Owl – Ebooks

Maths

Maths with Mum

Fitness & Wellbeing

Joe Wicks (Body Coach TV) Kids Workouts – every day at 9am on YouTube
Muddy Puddle – for ideas for fun outdoor learning
Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube – offers fantastic yoga workouts combined with stories, e.g. Yoga taught through Harry Potter, Trolls or Moana. Some videos include dance and mindfulness time too.

Week Challenge 1 – 6th April
Week Challenge 2 – 13th April
Week Challenge 3 – 20th April
Week Challenge 4 – 27th April
Week Challenge 5 – 4th May
Week Challenge 6 – 11th May
Week Challenge 7 – 18th May
Half Term Reading Challenge – 25th May
Week Challenge 9 – 1st June
Week Challenge 10 – 8th June
Week Challenge 11 – 15th June
Week Challenge 12 – 22nd June

How to make a bird feeder
Leaf ID Sheet
Yellow Springtime Flowers ID Sheet
Y2 RSPB Wild Challenge Go Birdwatching
Y2 Mini Nature Reserve Activity Sheet
Y2 Continents Song
Active Ideas – Lets Get Exploring

Home Schooling Covering Letter