Y2 Home Schooling Resources

Hello our fabulous Year 2’s!
What another amazing week! As always, we are so proud of all you and it has been wonderful to see all the great things you love doing! Well done 🙂
Here is your learning for the last week of this term. Try your best and and don’t forget to join in our Zooms, with your white-boards, at 11am every morning.
Lots of love to you all.
Keep smiling and stay safe 🙂
From
Miss Bahia and
Mrs O’Connell

Term 4 Week 8 (1-3-21)
English, Topic & Spellings
Y2 1-3-21 Explorers Finding the South Pole
Y2 1-3-21 World Book Day Activities Grid

Science
Y2 1-3-21 Science

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 – this is highly recommended!
• Phonics Play

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
Blue Peter on YouTube
CBBC on YouTube

English

Oxford Owl – Ebooks

Maths

Maths with Mum

Fitness & Wellbeing

Joe Wicks (Body Coach TV) Kids Workouts 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.

XBox and Playstation devices can be used to access Home Learning – see instructions

Term 3 Week 1 (6-1-21)
Term 3 Week 2 (11-1-21)
Term 3 Week 3 (18-1-21)
Term 3 Week 4 (25-1-21)
Term 3 Week 5 (1-2-21)
Term 3 Week 6 (8-2-21)
Term 4 Week 7 (22-2-21)