Welcome to Learning at Home for Holly and Lime class super stars!
Friday 22nd May 2020
Good Morning everyone,
This is a quick note for the grownups! The loading of the blog is beginning to slow down and so we will archive the work so far in order to start fresh after the holidays. Hopefully this will be more helpful.
We would like to use the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl to base a few weeks work for our English after the holidays. We think that this will be enjoyed by the children and most adults! We will be linking in chapters that are read on line and snippets from the book, along with short video clips. If you could let us know by email if you will find it difficult to access the film, old or new at home. It will be really helpful if children have access to the whole film and even better a copy of the book.
It is not essential if you do not have it and we can work around this.
Spellings
Money
Mr
Mrs
Parents
Can you spell this week’s words without using the word card?
English/Geography
Take today to finish your postcard if you have not completed it.
If you have had feedback, look at any improvements you can make or practice your handwriting. Check the word mats to help from yesterday
Maths
Today we have a problem for you which you will need to use your multiplication skills you have been practising.
When you have worked out the answer can you record it as a multiplication as an addition sentence?
You may find using objects really helpful to solve this problem. You could draw out wheels, cut them up and then share them into bicycles and tricycles.
Keep reading in the holidays!! Have a look at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Possible activities if you want inspiration in the holidays! Completely optional
Use the comic strip below or make up your own about a Supertato story or create one of your own. English
Investigate Roald Dahl or Quentin Blake the illustrator Reading Art
Draw a map of your garden or room Geography
Look for minibeasts in the garden and complete a chart recording what you find. Can you draw them? Can you research and find lots of interesting facts? Science
Try to complete the Park Gate 10 every day! Physical Education
Complete one good deed a day for your family School Values Partnership Kindness Achievement
Keep singing your 3 and 5 times table songs until all your family know the words! Maths
Visit Scratch Junior from the main blog page Computing
Visit Harold the Giraffe from the main blog page Social and Emotional Development
Look up the museums around England for any on line activities All subjects
These are links for maths games Maths
http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball
http://ictgames.com/rangeArranger/
Happy Half Term from all in Year 2!
We love receiving your work and we will continue to enjoy this next half term.
Keep Sending!!!!
Thursday 21st May 2020
Hello Year 2, gosh Thursday already, this week seems to be flying by! We hope you had a wonderful day yesterday and managed to get out in the sunshine to play. At the beginning of the week we mentioned that today’s English is the activity to email back to us however Mrs Beazley and Mrs Lock have been chatting and thought you may like to spend 2 days on this activity so that you have time to go back and edit your work and enjoy some sunshine.
To start the day off in a peaceful way let’s try some mindful meditation, called Movies in my Mind.
Spellings of the day
Today we would like you to have a go at your spellings when writing your postcard and when you have finished have a check and see if you can correct the more common words you have used.
Phonics:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /oa/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /oa/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /oa/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/oaAltSpellings.html
Username: March20 Password: home
Have a go at the activity phoneme spotter and then the word sort.
English / Geography
Today and tomorrow we would like you to write a postcard, similar to Supertato.
You can choose who you would like to write a postcard to. You can choose where you visit. You can use the ideas from the video clips, the postcards that you have read this week or from your own holidays or days out.
Here is a template that you can click on and use, or you could draw your own in your book or on paper:
We have included a word mat for you to help you with your word choices and spellings: You will need to include
conjunctions correct punctuation tidy handwriting
How did you feel? What did you see? What was the weather like?
Think of something that you thought was amazing or really interesting.
You can draw the picture for your postcard or find a suitable picture.
Maths:
Today we are going to be working on our 5 times table.
Please watch the video in the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhn6pg8
Now have a read of this help sheet to remind you about arrays, repeated addition and multiplication. There is even a top tip!
Activity:
Have a look at these four different representations of 5s.
Can you show each one as:
- an array
- a repeated addition
- a multiplication sentence
- a bar model
One more thing to try this week:
Have you tried the ‘draw on my back’ challenge? You will need to have someone else with you to do this challenge- your brother sister or an adult. Get someone to draw on a piece of paper attached to your back. You then have to feel the movement of their pen, and try to copy them on your own piece of paper.
If you’re really in sync you’ll hopefully end up with similar pictures…but it’s often even funnier when they’re completely different. Here is a video on Newsround about it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52680418
Have a fabulous day!
Wednesday 20th May 2020
Happy Wednesday to everyone in Year 2. You are half way through your home learning this week! We hope you are all well and enjoyed your home learning yesterday. Thank you to everyone who emailed us their maths learning from yesterday, we have loved seeing your fabulous work. Here are the answers to the symmetry challenge.
Let’s start our day off with a little bit of yoga and mindfulness. This was a lovely one Mrs Lock did with her family at the weekend. The mindfulness rainbow at the end is just wonderful.
Spellings of the day:
clothes
busy
people
Today we would like you to find a fun way to write your words today- you could use playdough, get blades of glass and lay them out into the letters, use stones from your garden, write them in sand or flour, get your cuddly toys or toy cars and get them to make the words by laying them down, use scrabble tiles or magnetic letters. Anything really that will help you to learn your spellings in a fun way!
Maths:
Today’s maths is one of the daily lessons from BBC Bitesize. It is all about the 2 times table.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7hdqp3
Please watch the video and then have a go at Activity 1.
The information under the videos on the web page will be super helpful for when you complete the activity:
Then play the game in Activity 2.
When you are feeling confident with the 2 times table pop onto Times Table Rock Stars and practise your new skills.
Reading:
We have found a great poem all about Dinosaurs and thought you would enjoy reading it too. There are 4 questions to answer about it as well, the answers are on the second page so you can mark your own work.
English / Geography:
Supertato has been to Wales on an adventure and he wrote his postcard to Evil Pea.
Today we would like you to read the postcard and have a go at the task below:
Where do you think Evil Pea lives? Complete the address
Find and copy conjunctions. Can you find the one at the start of a sentence?
What will you draw on the front of the postcard?
We have helped him with writing different types of sentences today.
Can you copy out a question, exclamatory and a statement type of sentence?
These videos may help to remind you about different types of sentences:
statement sentences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z97r2nb
exclamatory sentences: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zqbjy4j
questions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/z2xdng8
Enrichment activity:
Create a card, write a letter or send an email to someone you are missing. Tell them what you have been learning about this week at home, share with them something that made you smile this week. This will be a lovely way of keeping in contact with those who you haven’t seen for a while.
We hope you have a great day Year 2!
Tuesday 19th May 2020
Hello lovely Year 2. We hope you are well and had a fabulous day yesterday. Today’s maths challenge is piece the of work we would love for you to email back to us please. We have loved sharing your home learning with you and Mrs Lock and Mrs Beazley are excited to see how you solve today’s maths challenge.
We found this video and it made us laugh, thought you would like to join in to get your bodies warmed up this morning.
Spellings of the day:
who
whole
any
many
Can you practise writing these words in different colours? How about putting them into sentences? Here is a challenge for you, can you write one sentence with all 4 words in it?
Geography / English:
Supertato has been to Edinburgh and has sent a postcard to us, although he has left a couple of things off. Do you think you could help him?
Can you write the address for our school?
We have helped Supertato to add some conjunctions to his writing, can you find them?
Has he included his feelings on the postcard? How is he feeling?
Can you find Edinburgh on the map of the United Kingdom?
What would you draw on the front of this postcard?
Here is the postcard:
Maisie has been loving watching Edinburgh Zoo live animal feed for the past few weeks, she was super excited when she spotted the tiger at long last. Maybe this is something you would like to do today as well.
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/tiger-cam/#tigercam
Here is a video of when Barnaby Bear visited Edinburgh:
Maths:
Learning objective: I can recognise line symmetry.
Today your maths problem is about symmetry. You need to create a symmetrical pattern using 6 squares. The line of symmetry needs to be in the middle. It says you will need squared paper however if you don’t have any at home you could make your own by drawing lines on paper or you could even just use objects like Lego or building blocks if you have those to hand.
Click on the link below and watch this video about symmetry before you try the challenge:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/ztpyr82
Here is your challenge:
Phonics:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /igh/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /igh/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /igh/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/erAltSpellings.html
Username: March20 Password: home
Have a go at the activity phoneme spotter and then the word sort.
Enrichment Activity:
At 10am today there is an online drawing lesson with the author and illustrator Rob Biddulph on his Facebook page. If you miss it have a go at drawing the sausage dog with Rob here:
Here is a little message from Miss Bisley for you all:
We hope you have a wonderful day today, we are super excited to see your maths work when you email it to us. Take care, stay safe and have lots of fun today.
Monday 18th May
Good morning everyone! We are very impressed with all of your home learning that was emailed to us last week and it made Mrs Lock and Mrs Beazley very happy. This week we will be setting you your maths task to be emailed back to us on Tuesday (symmetry) and your writing task (postcard writing ) to be emailed back to us on Thursday.
Get Moving
Read the next Supertato story. It reminds us of Sports Day!
If you have the space, we would like you to create a mini obstacle course or skipping, hopping or jumping activity. Important note …this is with your parents permission at the time it suits them. You might want to design it first while you wait for a suitable time. This can be an activity that you develop through the week. Let us know how it goes on our Facebook page.
Spellings
could
should
would
Pyramid writing: For each of your spellings today we would like you to pyramid write the word. You start by writing the first letter on the first line then each line you add another letter until it looks like a pyramid. For example:
could c
c o
c o u
c o u l
c o u l d
Maths
Learning objective: I can solve multiplication questions.
Please follow this link at watch the two videos about multiplication:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhchscw
Practise writing repeated addition and multiplication number sentences with this activity. It contains 4 questions about using arrays.
Please then play the multiplication level of the Karate Cats game:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw
Reading
Bug Club– Today we would like you to read one of the books on Bug Club and answer the questions to collect Bug Coins. Remember to read the pages carefully to help you answer the questions.
When you have finished your book please can you write a review in your home learning book about your book.
Can you think of a friend who would like this book? Why would they like it?
What did you like best about the book?
Does it remind you of any other book you have read?
Geography/English
This week we are going to focus on the countries of Great Britain and even though we can’t go away at the moment we thought it would be good to go on imaginary journeys!
Supertato and friends have had a few mini breaks over the last few years and we have included some postcards.
During this week, have a look at the ones we have helped him write and we would like you to check them for us, following the questions we have written under each postcard.
Just a quick reminder to help you with answering the questions:
Contractions – are words where letters have been removed such as:
I’ve for I have I’ll for I will
Conjunctions examples could be ; but When If because so that which while although
Here is a clip about a bear that Mrs Beazley remembers from a long time ago! It might give you some ideas about London. He has been on many journeys around London and other places in the U.K. We will try and find some more.
Look out tomorrow for Mrs Lock’s favourite Zoo in Scotland tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRJkmyggPY
Enjoy the start of your journey around the United Kingdom!
See you tomorrow!
Friday 15th May
Hello everyone,
Today is the day to send your maths problem solving activity to Mrs Beazley or Mrs Lock.
Maths I can solve problems by trial and error. I can explain my thinking.
Today we would like you to try this practical problem solving puzzle. You can use practical objects to help that represent the gold bars!
Try to explain how you went about solving the task. You could draw a thought bubble explaining your thinking, which ideas worked or didn’t work. You can take a photo of the solution or different pictures showing you at work!
Here is the answer:
Solution to the maths challenge from today
Learning objective: I can add and subtract different numbers.
Today we would like you to play the game Karate Cats Maths:
Please select the addition and subtraction- bronze level is similar to our red challenges, silver level is like our amber challenges and gold level is like our green challenges.
We would recommend having some paper and a pencil with you to help you if you need to draw anything to find the answer out. You may also want to have some objects nearby to help you work out the answers.
Don’t forget to save your game so you can get new characters and different clothes for your cats.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw
Spellings of the day:
sure
sugar
eye
Silly sentences- write silly sentences for each of these spelling words. Once you have finished underline your spelling word in a bright colour.
Enrichment
Try this coordinates activity. Have a go at making your own grid for Supertato to fly and find the Evil Peas!
The number along the botton goes first and then the number up the side goes last.
Have a good weekend. Try to keep singing the 3 times table song from earlier this week to help you know your 3 times tables.
Thursday 14th May
Thank you so much for all of your really entertaining riddles. Dont forget to send them to us when you have completed it, as we really want to read them. If you have sent a riddle but you do not recieve any feedback by Friday evening, please let us know incase there has been a technical gremlin at work!
Spellings
move prove improve
Spelling flowers:
Draw a big flower. Write each of your spelling words on one of the petals. Keep on going until you have filled your flower with the three of your spelling words. Use bright colours
English
This is a recipe for making bread. Can you remember which food group this would be sorted into?
Click on the attachment so you can read it and look at how the recipe has been set out. Miss Bisley has set you a challenge. Can you create or find a recipe that you can write? It can be an imaginary recipe. Do you remember when we made a recipe for friendship? There is a word bank to help with some nouns and bossy verbs to help.
Maths
We would like you play the counting in 3’s song from yesterday and try to learn your 3x tables. Try writing the counting in three’s pattern. This is your challenge for the rest of the week.
Try this number activity
Phonics:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /er/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /er/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster in the link below for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /er/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/erAltSpellings.html
Username: March20 Password: home
Click on – about this phoneme first and then have a go at the activity phoneme spotter
Enrichment Geography
This task can be completed today or tomorrow
If Supertato could fly around the world, where would he go? Draw him on the map.Maybe he is looking for his friends around the world? Can you add them?
Click the link and label the continents and oceans before you decide. We have looked at this earlier in the year, can you remember the names of the continents? Check the answer sheet.
T-G-273-The-Seven-Continents-Labelling-Activity-Sheet_ver_6
Have a good day!…
Tomorrow’s maths task will be the task to email to us.
Wednesday 13th May 2020
A little song to get us warmed up !
Welcome to today’s activities. We would like you to complete and send us the English activity about riddles when you can. Due to this we will plan less activities today so you have time to spend on achieving the best piece of writing that you can.
English
Click on the link below for your English riddle activity. You will need to look at this week’s examples of riddles from yesterday and those written by Mrs Short, Mrs Fuller and Ms Wall. There are hints on the veggie riddle link.
Write it in your book using the lines to help you. Have a go at spelling and then see if an adult can help you correct any muddles.
Maths
Look for numbers that you can add or subtract to find the card that shows the answer, such as 13+7= 20 20-7=13
Only use the numbers and totals on these cards.
What do you already know? Use counters to help you if you need.
In this challenge you need to make each row (numbers going across) and column (numbers going down) to make 100. Remember to use your number bonds to 10 knowledge to help you with this.
So for example in the second row you could add the 2 numbers to begin with 50 + 20 = ? Then work out how many more you need to make 100. OR you could start with 100 and subtract to find out the missing number. 100 – 50 -20 = ?
You can also count in multiples of 10 to find the missing numbers
Reading
Today we would like you to read the text called Carrot Club. It is about a group of vegetables and a club they have created!
At the end of the text there are 3 different sets of questions. You will notice that they have stars at the bottom of the page- they are for the different level of challenge.
1 star = the easiest 2 stars= a little more tricky 3 stars = the most challenging.
We think you could do the 3 stars questions as you are all super star readers, so we have copied these into the document below, the answers are there too.
Enrichment Activity
Just for fun, have a look at Harold’s experiment with carrot tops. You can see more from his diary if you follow the Harold link on the blog’s main page.
If you have a go, draw what happens and see how they change. Please share this with us on our Facebook page as we would love to know what happens!
Click on the carrot tops link below:
carrot tops
Don’t forget to have a go at your Times Tables Rock Stars as it is very important that you continue to learn times tables facts.
Thank you for all of your hard work
from all in Year 2.
I Tuesday 12th May 2020
Hello Year 2. We hope you enjoyed completing some or all of the tasks from yesterday. Don’t forget you can go back and complete any tasks today. It is also useful to remember that you can revisit a task or game that you have enjoyed in the past.
Let’s Get Moving
Have another go at the Park Gate 10 and try a different exercise. Don’t forget to check out the challenge on Park Gate’s Facebook….. PG Get Your Game On! Staff in school have tried the Plank Challenge.
Spellings of the day
plant bath path
Bubble words- Write the spelling words in bubble letters. After you have written them you can colour them in! If you know these, choose 3 spellings from your list in your book or on the spellings blog page that you struggle with. Will you know them by the end of the week?
Maths
Learning Objective: I can solve a problem involving adding 3 numbers.
Please can you record your work in number sentences and use either the part whole or bar model to show any working out. Have a look at last week’s blog to help.
You could use objects to help you or you could draw pictures.
Please click on the document below to see the problem:
Phonics
Learning Objective: I can identify different ways to write /ar/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /ar/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /ar/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/arAltSpellings.html
Username: March20
Password: home
Please click on the South of England before you begin the activities as we pronounce the /ar/ differently than people who live in the North of England.
Have a go at the phoneme spotter and then the word sort activity.
English
Learning Objective: I can draw and label my character with words that describe its appearance and personality.
We hope you managed to read the riddles that we attached yesterday. We think the adults did a great job. Before we write our riddle we would like you to think about other characters. Just like yesterday, you will need to draw and colour carefully the character but this time you can choose which character you would like to think about. To help you here is another story about these characters.
When you have drawn your character, we would like you to choose words to describe its appearance and its personality or talents. Please refer to yesterday’s link for useful word cards. Words need to be spelt correctly and with good letter shapes. Please check your pencil grip with yesterdays attached helpful hints.
Reading
Learning Objective: I can answer the riddles using the clues. I can find the conjunctions that give more information and extend the sentences
when so that but because
Extra Task if required.
Some children have been asked to look at conjunctions in their writing.
This link will help:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6rvbdm
Enrichment
Have a look back at yesterday’s tasks if you didn’t get a chance to complete them.
Try making a different character or keep going with the coding.
Have a good day love from all in Year 2.
Monday 11th May 2020
A little message from all of us in Year 2!
This week, we would like you to email your class teacher your completed English task that is set on Wednesday and your Maths task that will be set on Friday. There is no requirement for you to email it the day it is set, just when you are ready. The tasks will be responded to within 48 hours or by the following Monday evening for the Maths task.
Today’s Activities
Here are a few tasks for you to try. As we always say do what you can, when you can.
Get moving
Park Gate 10…. think of different exercises to do such as running on the spot, skipping , hopping, jumping, walking for the total of 10 minutes…you can have a little break!!
English
This week we will continue with the food theme from last week and introduce one of our favourite stories. Listen to the story about Supertato.
Look at the illustrations in the book of Supertato.
Today’s task is to draw your own picture of him, taking care to present your work carefully.
Then write at least 6 really good quality words that describes his appearance and 4 words about his personality or skills. We have attached 3 word cards that have character words on them. Some might be relevant for him but some are not so take care!
We will be using these words to help us write a riddle about him on Wednesday.
Click below and see some riddles written by people you know! There is also a helpful hint page for pencil grip.
We would like you to write a comment in your books about each riddle letting the authors know what you like about their riddle.
Was it their word choices? Was it interesting? Were the clues clever?
Reading
Here is a reading comprehension about a Greek Salad. Have a go at the questions.
Greek salad recipe Comprehension
Maths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbypscw
We will be using the bite size daily lesson for today. This is a refresher activity about adding 2 digit numbers. Click on the link above .
If you would like more activities, continue down the bite size page and find the heading below. Click on this:
Phonics Adding suffix/prefix
Everything You Need To Know About Prefixes And Suffixes. … A prefix is a group of letters (or an affix) that’s added to the beginning of a word, and a suffix is an affix that’s added to the end of a word.
Have a go at this superhero game. It is all about adding a prefix and suffix
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmnxt39
Don’t forget that on the Year 2 Spelling and Phonics pages from the main blog page there are best guess posters and strategies for helping with spellings.
Enrichment Activity
If you feel like being creative, draw, paint or collage a character from the Supertato story
Choose a vegetable and create your own superhero. Here are some ideas.
Computer Coding
Have a look on the main page of the school blog where you will find the link.
Have a good day !
Thursday 7th May 2020
Some fun activities that you may want to enjoy over the bank holiday as well as today.
Good morning Year 2! Something a little different to start the day with …
Music
Enjoy the video above of Katherine Jenkins and Vera Lynn singing “We’ll Meet Again” 5 years ago.
Now, it is your turn to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day! Have a go at singing along with the lyrics below ready for this year’s Albert Hall performance. Look at this link for a reminder: https://parkgateprimary.home.blog/2020/05/04/ve-day-concert/
English and History
When you can, research who Vera Lynn and her significance for the VE Day Celebrations. If you ever met her, what questions would you like to ask her? Write these into your book. Think about using question words such as, where, what, why, when and who. Next week, it would be great if you could send us your questions so we can compile them and hopefully send them to Dame Vera Lynn herself!
Maths and DT
The weather forecast is good so try making a range of paper (or whatever you can use) Spitfire aeroplanes. Using your measuring skills, see how far they travel. Make sure you start each plane form the same point so it is fair. Think about the shape of the planes you make and why one may be more successful than another? You could even colour it in, to make it look just like Spitfire. You’ll never guess they were made, and first flown, down the road in Eastleigh.
Enrichment Activity – Dance
The Lindy-hop was a favourite dance during wartime and was used as a celebration for VE day because of its upbeat rhythm and high tempo. Here is a favourite piece of music from a member of the Year 2 team (I wonder if you can guess who it is!) and your challenge is to make up your own dance ready for Friday. The video below, and the music, will give you a bit of inspiration. Get all the family involved, we would love to seem them on our Facebook post!
If you are in the mood for more learning, don’t forget to check the link for VE day from the Monday blog or look for earlier activities that you may not have had a chance to complete from previous days. Have a good weekend from all in Year 2!!!!
Yesterday’s Maths Solutions
Wednesday 6th May 2020
Hello Year 2 it’s Mrs Lock here. I hope that you are well and have had a lovely week so far. Just to remind you, today your Maths and Project work is the work we would love to celebrate with you. If you could please ask your adult at home to email it back to us either by taking a photo of your work, scanning it if you can or sending it in a document. Once you have completed your learning job, send it over when you are ready and we will try our hardest to reply as soon as possible. I know Mrs Beazley and I are super excited to see your learning and celebrate with you how well you are doing.
Before we begin today I just wanted to share with you a few pages from a beautiful book I have recently read called ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and Horse’.
The author and illustrator is Charlie Macksey. You may have seen his book or some of his images before. They are truly stunning and so very positive. Throughout the book you are introduced to 4 different characters you never learn their names but you follow them on their journey through life. The book is about kindness, friendship and love, something I feel we all need right now. I wanted to share with you some of my favourite quotes this morning. I hope that they make you smile your best smile and make your heart feel happy just like I felt when I read them.
To get you moving this morning let’s try a Just Dance. This is a song that I play to make me smile, Noah loves it too! We are going to start our morning off with a boogie in our sitting room to this song, I hope you will join in with us! 🙂
Spellings of the day:
class
grass
pass
Today we would like you to find a fun way to write your words today- you could use playdough, get blades of glass and lay them out into the letters, use stones from your garden, write them in sand or flour, get your cuddly toys or toy cars and get them to make the words by laying them down, use scrabble tiles or magnetic letters. Anything really that will help you to learn your spellings in a fun way!
Maths:
Please click on the link below to open today’s maths challenge. We are really excited to see how you answer this problem. Don’t forget to show how you solved the problem and your working out.
Maths Challenge to be sent back
We will put the answers up for this problem tomorrow on the blog 🙂
Just for fun here is a great problem solving game to play whenever you get the chance:
https://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/2008-09/maths/puppies/FullRelease-v104/puppyClothes-en.html
English/Project Work:
Using the information you have learnt about healthy eating, what would you put in your lunchbox?
Why don’t you ask if you can have a healthy packed lunch in the garden or on a picnic cloth in the house? We would like you to draw the food in the lunch box and write a few sentences about why you have chosen each food using the names of the foods, the type of food it is and some description about its taste, texture or smell. You could draw your own lunchbox. Label the names of the food.
We will be looking to see if you have remembered your neat handwriting some editing of your own spellings and if you have learnt new facts about healthy eating. Please try and send this work to us by email so we can send you a message as we know you are working hard.
Please click here for the task or feel free to draw your own in your book:
Reading :
Bug Club– Today we would like you to read one book on Bug Club and answer the questions to go with it.
Just a quick reminder:
A few of you are near to the end on your current level. Before moving on to the next colour please can we ask that you read quite a few of the books again so that you can develop your fluency, story teller voice, expression and intonation. If you are confidently reading the books with very little stop starting and using a super story teller voice then move on to the next colour level.
VE Day Enrichment Activities:
Well done for everyone who has created amazing bunting. We were very excited to have seen a few of your buntings on the Fareham Borough Council Facebook page! There is still time to do this activity if you haven’t had a chance yet. You are welcome to share it on our Facebook page or the Council’s page.
These are some of the real medals from World War 2. Each medal has a different meaning. Some medals were given for an individual act of bravery, some for phenomenal service. Each type of medal was different so people knew what the medals were for. They had different ribbons, clasps and emblems on them.
We thought that you would like to have a go at creating your very own medal in honour of the 75th anniversary of VE day. Here is an example of one that was designed for the celebration.
Please click on this link for a sheet for you to design your own medal and ideas of what you could include.
Another activity you may like to try it to create your own replica Spitfire aeroplane.
Mrs Beazley and I hope you have a fabulous day. We are very excited to see your wonderful learning. One last Charlie Mackesy quote to leave you with.
Tuesday 5th May 2020
Good Morning lovely Year 2 🙂 We hope you are all well and are having a great day so far. Mrs Lock thought a good way to start the day would be doing another Cosmic Kids yoga. Do you fancy joining her? If so watch the video and join in with Mrs Lock on a Pokémon adventure!
Spellings of the day:
fast
last
past
father
Can you practise writing these words in different colours? How about taking your book into each room in your house and writing out the words again without copying them? Make sure you mark them after! Here is a challenge for you, can you write one sentence with all 4 words in it!
Maths:
Learning Objective: I can use the part whole model to help understand fact families.
Today’s maths is using a model that we use in school called the part whole model.
We are going to be using this image to help us to understand fact families.
Please watch the 2 videos on this website to learn about the Part Whole model and fact families before you complete your activity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjn3gwx
Activity:
Challenge: Can you write an addition and subtraction fact families for the number 19? Remember to record your learning in a part whole model and the bar model. You could also draw a picture to represent your fact families too!
Extra Challenge: Can you find the addition and subtraction fact families for all of the number bonds (pairs of numbers) that make 20? For example:
1 + 19 = 20 19 + 1 = 20 20 – 1 = 19 20 – 19 = 1
Reading:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /ear/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /ear/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster in the link below for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /ear/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/earAltSpellings.html
Username: March20 Password: home
Have a go at the phoneme spotter and then the word sort activity.
Project:
Today we would like you to sort 10 items of food in your house into the different food groups. If you need reminding of the different food groups, look at yesterday’s project work.
Can you label the different food groups?
Are there any foods in your cupboard that belong to more than one group?
When you have finished sorting please ask your adult to take a photo of your learning and ask them when they have time to share it on our facebook page. You could also draw your sorted food in your home learning book if you would like to.
If you would prefer to cut and stick here are some images of food for you to sort into the food groups.
VE day Enrichment activity:
In the VE party pack that Fareham Borough Council have created there are some war time recipes. Why not try and make one of them for your tea party on Friday?
You could even make a menu for what you will be serving on Friday if you have chosen to have a tea party at home.
Click here for the party pack:
If you do make any of the recipes or you create your own menu we would love to see your creations on our Facebook page.
We hope you have a wonderful day today Year 2. We are super proud of the resilience you are showing whilst completing your learning at home. Remember to follow the Park Gate way at home and show kindness and respect to everyone in your house. Have lots of fun today.
Monday 4th May 2020
Good morning everyone and welcome back to another week of home learning. Happy Stars Wars day to you and your family! We hope that you had a lovely weekend and you are refreshed for the week ahead of you.
On Friday in the newsletter you were told that at the beginning of each week we will let you know two pieces of work that we are going to ask your adults to email back to for us to see what fantastic work you are doing and give you some feed back too! You can send a photo of your work if that is easier or as a document. Please remember to do this piece of work as independently as possible, if an adult has needed to help you please could they say so in the email. Please remember to pop your name on your work so we know whose it is. On Wednesday this week we will be setting you a piece of Maths and a piece of project work for you to complete and email back to us. We hope by giving you both pieces on the same day it will mean just 1 email for your grown up to send us. Mrs Beazley and Mrs Lock will aim to email it back to you within a couple of days to celebrate your learning with you. We are super excited to see your home learning!
To get you moving today we have a dance kids for you!
Spellings of the day:
pretty
beautiful
after
Can you practise writing these words in different colours? How about putting them into sentences? Here is a challenge for you, can you write one sentence with all 3 words in it!
VE day:
This week is a special week. On Friday 8th May it is a bank holiday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE day. On 8th May 1945 the British and her allies celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany. This formally recognised the end of the Second World War in Europe and became know as VE (Victory in Europe) Day.
To learn more about what VE day is click here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749
Fareham Borough Council want their residents to be able to mark the occasion even though we are in lockdown. Their website has lots of lovely ideas of things you can do and we will also be putting daily activities for you to try too.
https://www.fareham.gov.uk/leisure/ve75.aspx
One of the ways you can celebrate is by having a tea party at home on Friday. The council are asking people to email photos of how you are celebrating at home to: publicity@fareham.gov.uk
They are doing a competition for the best-bunting, the winning family will win a home-delivered afternoon tea. Now we know that Year 2 are amazing at bunting making so we thought this would be something you would love to do today. Here is a bunting template you can use or you could make your own.
Maths:
Learning objective: I can identify odd and even numbers
Please go on to the BBC bitesize page and watch the video.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zknsgk7/articles/zt4jj6f
Then have a go at the quiz at the bottom of the page to test yourself.
We would then like you to play the game Coconut Odd and Even – selecting the odd and even up to 100 please.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even
Project work:
We are beginning a new project today all about healthy eating!
Did you know that we can group the foods we eat?
Please click on this link, watch the video and the complete the activity after
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrffr82/articles/zppvv4j
Reading:
Today we have a text about VE day for you to read. Please can you then answer the questions using the information you have just read.
Have a wonderful day Year 2 🙂
Friday 1st May 2020
Happy Friday Year 2! It is your last day of home learning for the week. Today is the beginning of May, wow this month has come around quickly! May is a fabulous month for the garden, lots of flowers beginning to grow, baby birds hatching and hopefully some more sunshine heading our way!
Don’t forget at 10.30 today Miss Turner is back dancing LIVE on Facebook, join us all for a Friday boogie around your sitting room.
How is your weather chart going? It has been a perfect week for measuring rain hasn’t it! We have had so much rain over the past couple of days that Mrs Lock has managed to fill a large big blue tub, a 10 litre watering can, a 4pint milk bottle, a 2 litre bottle and 2 smaller watering cans just with rain water! Mrs Lock will be using this to water her garden when it has finally stopped raining which will reduce the amount of water she uses from the tap!
Spellings of the day:
every
great
break
steak
Today we would like you to write these words laying down on your tummy like we do at school. Please remember to check your pencil grip when you write each word. Can you do each word 8 times today using a different colour each time you write a word. Check your pencil grip every time you pick up another pencil! How about a funny sentence to finish your spelling off for the week?
Maths:
Today we would like to set up your very own shop. It could be a toy shop, a clothes shop, a sweet shop, a shoe shop, a café, a Lego shop- anything you would like!
You need to set up your shop and price up all of your items under 50p. You can create signs like they have in the shops too!
If you have coins at home you can use those if not use the coins you made earlier in the week. If not here are some you can print if you have a printer.
Activity:
How much does to cost to buy 2 items in your shop?
If you had £1 (remember that £1 is 100pence) how much change would you have left? What coins would you get back?
Can you buy 3 things with your £1?
Invite your family to come and play in your shop. Can you write them a receipt for their shopping?
If you would rather you can play this toy shop game online- select Mixed coins- give change – up to £1.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Project work:
Please can you click on this link to watch the video and then have a go at the game underneath to sort the rubbish into the correct bin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrssgk7/articles/z9w26sg
Project Enrichment activity:
Write a thank you letter with a picture for the people who collect your rubbish bins. You could stick it on the lid of your bin for when they next collect your rubbish. We are sure they will love this and it will bring a smile to their faces.
Reading:
Today we would like you to read one book on Bug Club and answer all of the questions to earn yourself Bug points! Have a look and see if you can see a message from your teac
her on one of your previous books you have read. Remember the Year 2 adults can see when you are on Bug Club and the questions you are answering.
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Mrs Lock is going to be creating some art out of old tins with Noah to hang in the garden. Mrs Beazley will be taking her dog Chewy for a walk. Mrs Short plans to make some yummy brownies with her family and watering her unicorn rainbow seeds (we are excited to see what grows from them!). Mrs Fuller is aiming to spend time finishing her book she is reading. Ms Wall is planning to go for a bike ride with Alfie if the weather is nice enough. Miss Bisley is going to be making an amazing, sparkly unicorn cake to celebrate her birthday! We hope whatever you do this weekend will be lots of fun and bring a huge smile to you and your families faces.
Well done on completing another week of home learning. We miss you all lots. Love from all of the adults in Year 2 x
Thursday 30th April 2020
Hello Year 2 we hope you are all well and are staying safe. Gosh what a lot of rain we have had over the past two days, perfect for puddle splashing! We hope you have been enjoying measuring how much rain we have each day.
To warm up your bodies today please join in with Joe Wicks PE lessons at 9.00am on YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
If you aren’t ready for 9.00 am you can watch one of his previous days sessions on the same channel and join in with one of those.
Spellings of the day
old
cold
hold
told
Today we would like you to find a fun way to write your words today- you could use playdough, get blades of glass and lay them out into the letters, use stones from your garden, write them in sand or flour, get your cuddly toys or toy cars and get them to make the words by laying them down, use scrabble tiles or magnetic letters. Anything really that will help you to learn your spellings in a fun way!
Maths:
Learning Objective: I can use coins to make an amount
Please watch the video on this link:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zn4q7nb
Here is your warm up activity:
Making 10p 
At your stall at the jumble sale, everything is 10p.
- Can you think of 5 different ways to make 10p using coins?
- Using the money you made on Monday (or any coins you have in your house 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p) how many ways can you make 10p using your coins?
Please click on these links to find today’s main activity:
Now you have fully warmed up your maths brain please can you play the game Karate Cats Maths. Make sure you look out for the money questions for you to practise the skills you learnt today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw
Project work:
To start our project work off today watch this fabulous story called Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish by Michael Foreman.
Today we are going to be learning about recycling.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z9p9j6f
We would like you to look at the rubbish that you throw out in your house.
Do you help your adults at home to recycle?
How do you sort what goes in your recycling bin and what goes in your rubbish bin?
Have a little look at the items in your recycling bin if it is safe to do so (remember to check with your adult first). What materials are your recycling rubbish made out of?
Did you notice this symbol on some of your recycling rubbish? You may have seen this symbol before. Here is a video teaching you all about this symbol and about the 3 R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Today we would like you to create a poster that you can either display in your window or save for us to put up at school all about the 3 R’s- reduce, reuse, recycle.
You could include pictures of the things you can recycle at home, draw pictures of what you could do to reuse and what people can do to reduce their waste (such as bring reusable cups for take away drinks). Make it as colourful as you can to make people stop and want to look at your poster. Remember to make your writing clear so that everyone can read your important message. We would love to see your fabulous posters on our Facebook page so when your adult is free, please ask them if they could share your learning with us.
Reading:
Miss Bisley has found a super piece of text all about the weather in Winter. Please read it and answer the 8 questions to go with it.
We hope you have a wonderful day. Remember to record the weather on your weather chart and check your rain gauge. We are missing you all so much and are super proud of you. Remember to be kind and helpful to everyone in your house and smile as much as you can.
Wednesday 29th April 2020
Good morning everyone! We hope you had a wonderful day yesterday and that you enjoyed your home learning. As we said yesterday, please continue with the activities you haven’t had a chance to do yet. Please find below a few more in case you did get through them all.
To start today off please join in with the Cosmic Kids Yoga session. This is one of Mrs Lock’s and Noah’s favourite films at the moment!
Spellings of the day:
children
climb
most
only
Can you rainbow write these words? Can you create a funny sentence using these words?
This is the sentence that Alice in Holly class wrote using yesterday’s spellings. It is absolutely beautiful and we wanted to share it with you. Thank you Alice for your wonderful sentence.
Phonics:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /air/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /air/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster in the link below for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on Phonics Play to the phase 5 section, alternative spellings for the /air/ sound.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/airAltSpellings.html
Have a go at the phoneme spotter and then the word sort activity.
Maths:
If you have completed all of the activities from yesterday please spend 20 minutes on Times Tables Rock Stars and then play the game- Karate Cats Maths https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zf4sscw
When your adult has a spare half an hour today or over the next few days here are two maths puzzles for you to complete together.
Project Work:
Please fill in your weather chart for today and then we are going to be learning about clouds!
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE- It is super important that you do not look up directly into the sun. You could really damage your eyes. Please, please check with an adult first before completing this activity that it is safe to do so.
Activity:
Have you ever heard of people saying they can see shapes or animals in the sky? Sometimes the shape of clouds can remind you of familiar objects. Have a try when it is not sunny. Can you draw cloud shapes to look like a familiar object?
Try making up a short story about how the shape got there? If it was to come alive or you could talk to it what would it say? What would you ask it? What can it see from high up in the sky? Remember to ask an adult to help you with checking your spelling and make sure you use a good handwriting style that we have been using at school.
Tuesday 28th April 2020
Happy Tuesday to all of you in Year 2. We hope that you have woken up with a happy heart and a smile on your face. To start your day off with a bounce play this Jump Start Jonny video and bounce along with him.
Now that you have you have warmed your body up let’s get your brain going! We have lots of fun activities planned for you today. There is quite a few activities that we have put up today, we do not expect you to complete them all today, take your time today and tomorrow to complete them all. Tomorrow we will put up a couple of extra activities in case you do manage to complete all of these today.
Spellings of the day
find
mind
kind
behind
Can you practise writing these words in different colours? How about taking your book into each room in your house and writing out the words again without copying them? Make sure you mark them after! Here is a challenge for you, can you write one sentence with all 4 words in it!
SPAG activity:
A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Sometimes they also change the original word’s spelling. When adding a suffix you might have to double the last letter. For example when adding the suffix ‘ed‘ to the word ‘drop‘ you also double the p so it becomes ‘dropped‘.
Some suffixes have specific uses. Adding ‘ing’ can change a noun into a verb, e.g. ‘garden’ becomes ‘gardening‘. While ‘ed’ can make a verb into the past tense, e.g. ‘jump’ becomes ‘jumped‘.
Watch the video and then complete the quiz at the bottom of the page.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mxrwx/articles/zwgbcwx
Reading:
Today we have a comprehension activity for you. Please read the text A Storm is Brewing. There are 4 questions for you to answer after you have read it.
A storm is brewing text and questions
Maths:
We just wanted to let you know in advance that for maths tomorrow we have a challenge that in order to compete you will need an adults help. If your adult is super busy tomorrow save this activity for another day and instead go onto the Year 2 maths page on the blog and play some of the games on there as well as spending 20 minutes on Time Tables Rock Stars.
Warm up activity:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Click on the addition train and then select the game Up to 100 – 10 more
Then try the subtraction train and select Up to 100 – ten less
Learning objective: I can answer addition and subtraction word problems.
For today’s maths we have some addition and subtraction challenge cards for you to do.
Mrs Beazley has made a ‘draw it, plan it, do it, check it’ prompt sheet to help you to work the answers out.
Draw it, Plan it, Do it and Check it How can I answer the problems
Try this way of helping you work out a problem. We have used this strategy in school and we are sure you can use your own ideas and find a way of solving these problems… have a go and we look forward to see your maths creativity if you want to post it on Facebook. If the numbers are too high in the problems change the numbers to ones you are happier to work out.
challenge cards – the answers are on the last page of the document
Easier challenge cards- the answers are on the last page of the document
If you are finding these challenges too tricky here are two number line activities for you to do.
Project Work:
We have two activities for you today:
- Learning objective: I can sort words alphabetically.
Your first challenge today is to sort weather words alphabetically. Open the document below and put the words in alphabetical order. You can write the words in your book and decorate them with pictures that show the weather.
- Learning objective: I can write a weather report.
The second activity is to write up today’s weather report. Using your weather chart that you have filled in today, please can you write up today’s weather as a weather report.
Can you use any expanded noun phrases (gloriously, hot sunshine or sparkly, cold snow)?
How about trying some alliteration- remember alliteration is where the first letter of the words are the same- (whirling wind, sparkling snow).
What about challenging yourself to include a simile? (the wind is howling like a wolf)
You could ask an adult to film you reading your weather report and share it with your family, friends or even on our Facebook page. We would love to see them!
Monday 26th April 2020
Good morning lovely Year 2! We hope you had a fun weekend and managed to enjoy the sunshine.
The winners of the Time Tables Rock Stars Battle is ….. Lime class!
Well done Lime class you won with an amazing score of 5387!! Special mention to the following six children who were the three highest scorers in their class- Todd, Noah, Lilly from Lime class and Aimee, Lewis and Freddie from Holly class. Well done to everyone who took part in the battle, that is 1 all now for winning… I wonder who will win the next battle?
Each day this week we will be focusing on learning how to spell some of the Year 2 common exception words.
Spellings of the day:
door
floor
poor
because – remember this by saying-
Can you practise writing these words in different colours? How about putting them into sentences? Here is a challenge for you, can you write one sentence with all 4 words in it!
Project Work:
This week we are going to be learning about the environment. We will be beginning with weather. To start us off Mrs Beazley has found this fabulous book! It is in the same series of books as the Titanic book that we used in school recently.
To kick start our environment week we would love for you to begin keeping a weather diary. Each day we would like you to record the weather for your area. Here is a diary that you can print or you can record the symbols into your home learning book each day.
When you watch a weather forecast or you record the weather you will see they use symbols to represent the different weather.
Mrs Lock has just checked the weather forecast for the week in Southampton and it looks like rain is coming. If you follow this link you can see the weather forecast from the Met Office https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/forecast/gcp185f25#?date=2020-04-26
Here is an overview of this coming weeks weather for Southampton:
Although the sun has been lovely the past few weeks, we do really enjoy splashing in puddles too. Rain is great news for the gardens but also for our investigating this week. We would like you to set up a rain gauge so that you can measure how much it has rained throughout the day. To do this you may need an adult. Try having a go before asking your adult to help you, or if you have a brother or sister that can help ask them first. Mrs Lock has set one up in her garden, because she didn’t have a bottle she has used a jug and taped a ruler to the side of it. This maybe a way that you can make it yourself as we know your adults are super busy. Click here to see how you can make a rain gauge at home:
Once you have made your rain gauge you need to set a time each day to measure how much it has rained. Remember to check each day at the same time and then empty whatever is in it ready for the next day.
Explore this super website that has amazing facts about weather. Today please look at the rain section. http://www.weatherforkids.org/rain.html
In the enrichment activities that are also some more ways that you can record the weather each day if you fancy doing a bit more recording and investigating.
Maths:
For today’s maths activities you need to follow this link.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6tv382
Please watch the video and then have a go at the three money challenges. To do challenge 1 you could have a look around your house to see if you could find the coins you need or you could make your own using a the inside of a cereal box. Challenge 3 is lots of fun too.
Enrichment tasks: remember these are activities that you can try throughout the week.
- Switch it off– Take a look at all the electrical devices in your house. Are they all plugged in? Do they need to be plugged in? Create a poster to place around the house to help remind people to switch off electrical devices once they have finished with them.
- Weather reporter– Watch the weather report on T.V. How do they describe the weather? What do you notice about the map? Can you find Southampton on the map? Have they got symbols when they are talking about the weather? Pick a day that you would like to present as a weather reporter. Can you create some symbols to use when you are talking about the weather? Can you talk about the weather in your local area and maybe compare to another place in the UK? Here is a map for you to use to help you. United Kingdom map
- Wind experiment– you will need an adult to help you with this one. wind experiment
- Create a model using recycled materials in your house.
- Create a picture of you in your favourite type of weather. Think about what you would be wearing, what would you be doing? You can use anything to create this picture-pencils, paint, bits and pieces from around your house to make a collage, be creative!
Friday 24th April 2020
Good morning Year 2
We hope that you are all smiling and happy today. What another beautiful day it was yesterday, we hope that you had a fabulous day. Have you noticed how the plants and trees are changing and growing so much at the moment? We have loved seeing your smiling faces and all of your wonderful learning on Facebook this week, each picture has made us really smile. We all miss you so very much and are so proud of you.
Don’t forget that today at 10.30 Miss Turner is dancing LIVE on Facebook! We hope you will be tuned in to see her funky moves and join in having a Park Gate party in your own home, the Year 2 adults definitely will be!
Next week we will be learning all about weather and the environment.
To warm you up for next weeks learning watch this video on Newsround which shows this week’s environment news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51376710
Remember the Times Tables Rock Star Battle is still on until Sunday. When we checked last night Lime class were in the lead by almost 1000 points! Well done Lime class! Let’s see who wins after all of your fantastic battling over the next 3 days. We will let you know who has won on Monday morning.
English:
Today we would like you to finish off your amazing animal information page that you started yesterday. Please remember to go back through what you have written to check your spellings using the word mat in your home learning book. Also can you make your word choices any more exciting? You could use a thesaurus, if you have one at home, to help you with this.
If you have done all of that, please can you add a section describing similarities and differences between your chosen animal and another animal. For example Mrs Lock would write, the Okapi has a similar neck to a giraffe because it is long and slender however the giraffes neck is a lot longer and it doesn’t have brown stripy legs like an okapi.
Now it is time to present your learning to your family! You could even video call friends and other family too and teach them everything you have learnt this week. You should feel very proud of your learning. If you get the chance and your adult has a spare minute please can you ask them to take a photo and put it on the Facebook page for all of Year 2 to see?
Maths:
Learning objective: I can answer addition and subtraction questions.
Addition and subtraction Friday
Mrs Lock has created a video for you reminding you how to add and subtract using an unstructured number line.
Here is a video reminding you how you can use partitioning to help you add 2 digit numbers together.
Don’t forget you can also use the plan, draw, write, check method that we use in school to help you work out your answers.
Phonics:
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /ee/.
Today we are going to be looking at alternative spellings for the /ee/ sound. Have a look at the best guess poster in the link below for hints on how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Please follow the link on phonics play to the phase 5, alternative spellings for the /ee/ sound.
Have a go at the phoneme spotter and then the word sort activity.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/eeAltSpellings.html
Username: march20
Password: home
Thursday 23rd April 2020
Good morning to each and every one of you. The Year 2 adults have loved finding out about their animals. Did you know red pandas can eat around 20,000 delicious bamboo leaves in a day! Humboldt penguins can reach the speed of 20 to 30 miles per hour, and dive to a depth of 492 feet to find food! Badgers have stocky bodies with short legs that are suitable for digging. What is your most interesting fact about your animal?
Here is some of the information Mrs Beazley has found out about Red Pandas!
Here’s a little joke to get you started today:
Where do cows go on Saturday nights?
To the MOOO-vies!
English:
Today is the day… you are going to begin writing up your information leaflet, poster or fact-file which ever you have chosen to do. This activity is for today and tomorrow’s English learning- although tomorrow we are also going to do some editing, so take your time to make sure it is truly amazing.
Remember to include a heading (for example: Outstanding Okapi’s) and subheadings (such as Diet, Appearance).
You need to use the notes that you made yesterday and put these into sentences.
Remember to:
- Make sure your letters are snuggled together, the same height and have bumps and flicks.
- Use a range of punctuation– full stops, commas, question marks ? and exclamation marks !
- Use noun phrases (such as delicate, elongated tail) and exciting vocabulary choices. So instead of using the word long you could use: elongated, extensive or stretched.
- Use a range of conjunctions– and, because, but, so, or, when, if.
- Check it makes sense. Read it back using monkey ears.
Maths:
Please click the link below for today’s addition challenge.
Thursday dart board maths challenge.docx
Here are the answers for you to mark your work.
Answers for Thursday’s dart challenge
From today until Sunday evening at 6pm we have set another Times Tables Rock Stars battle between Holly class and Lime class. Holly class won the last battle so let’s see who wins it this time!
Good luck to each and every one of you.
Reading:
Today we would like you read a book on Bug Club and answer the questions by clicking the bug on each page. We have been looking at the answers you are typing in and you may spot a comment from us as well. Keep up the super reading.
Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Happy Wednesday everyone! We are super excited to see your home learning this week, we will put a comment on the main Facebook page so that you can pop photos of your learning on there when your adult has a moment free. We hope that you are enjoying it so far, we are certainly loving seeing all of your learning at home photos.
Look what we found yesterday on the Edinburgh Zoo website… they have live webcam footage of different animals! Sometimes you have to wait a little while for the animals to appear as they are not always exactly where the camera is pointed, but they do turn up so it is worth being patient. https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/
Also, follow this link to the BBC website which has some amazing videos teaching you all about animals. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv
This video is Mrs Lock’s favourite one on the page- it is about animals around the world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7p6n39
After watching this it inspired Mrs Lock to draw animals from around the world with Noah and place them on a large world map. It was lots of fun, maybe this is something you could try at home too?
English:
Learning Objective: I can label a picture.
Today please can you draw your chosen animal and then label it ready for when you present your animal to your family.
Can you write a caption under it using expanded noun phrases, similes, alliteration, suffixes? E.g. A scary brave lion has a powerful, deafening roar as loud as thunder.
Here is an example of a labelled picture Mrs Lock has done.
Maths:
Learning objective: I can solve a length problem.
Mrs Beazley says that if you stretch out your arms wide and you measure from the middle finger on your left hand to the middle finger on your right hand this is exactly how tall you are?
Is Mrs Beazley right?
To do this you need to investigate by measuring everyone in your house.
You will need to measure how tall they are from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet and then measure the distance between their hands when they are stretched out. If you have your friends telephone number you could ask an adult when they have time to call them and compare your findings. You could also put this on the Facebook page and see if you all come up with the same answer? I wonder if Mrs Beazley is right?
Reading:
Miss Bisley has set you one final challenge for the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Click here to see your learning for today.
Look what we found- this is a different version of the Three Billy Goats Gruff called The Three Billy Goats Fluff! It made us chuckle and we thought you would like it too.
Have a wonderful day Year 2. Remember to smile lots, have fun and follow the Park Gate Way.
Tuesday 21st April 2020
Hello Year 2!
What a glorious day it was yesterday, the sun was shining and the birds were singing. Have you been hearing more birds recently? For the first time for as long as Mrs Lock has lived in her house she had two Goldfinches visit! Noah was very excited to see them and wanted to feed them… Albie (Mrs Lock’s cheeky cat) on the other hand thought they looked very tasty! Don’t worry Year 2 the birds were too clever for Albie and they flew off before he got too close. What birds have been visiting your garden? This is a fabulous website to help you identify the birds in your garden. https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/facts-about-nature/
How did you do with the alphabetical challenge yesterday? It was quite tricky wasn’t it especially the letters U, X and Y!
Now for today… drum roll please year 2…
English:
We are very excited to announce that this week you are in charge!
You get to choose what animal you would like to learn about and then teach your family on Friday! Then you get to choose if you want to create an amazing fact-file, a fabulous leaflet or a phenomenal poster about your animal to help you teach your family.
Try and choose an animal that they may not know a lot about so you can amaze them with your knowledge. Mrs Lock is going to be learning about the okapi, Mrs Beazley has chosen the red panda, Mrs Nailer is researching Humboldt penguins, Mrs Short has chosen a chameleon, Ms Wall will be learning about flamingos, Miss Bisley wants to teach her family about meerkats and Mrs Fuller is excited to learn about badgers. What do you want to learn about?
Learning Objective: I can research an animal and make notes about them.
Today for your home learning you will be finding facts and creating notes under the following headings:
Appearance:
Habitat:
Diet:
Interesting Facts:
You may want to begin with asking your family what they would like to know about your chosen animal which will help to give you questions to research.
To help you research your animal you may want to use any books you have at home, or you could use the Internet- Longleat, Marwell Zoo and Edinburgh Zoo have amazing information pages about the different animals that live there.
This website is great for finding basic facts. https://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/browse
Or you could Google a question about your animal- for example: What do okapi’s eat?
Remember when you write your notes they are not full sentences just the key bits of information.
Mrs Lock has started to write her notes about an okapi.
Okapi
Appearance: 4 black and white striped legs similar to zebra
long sturdy neck
dark brown velvety fur on shoulders stomach, neck and head
elongated narrow tail
30-36 cm long blue tongue
The better your notes the more amazing your writing will be. Good Luck!
Maths:
Learning Objective: I can measure using a ruler or tape measure.
We were completely inspired by Andrew’s maths on Facebook and thought you would all like to have a go at this activity.
Today we would like you to make a ramp- this could be using your stairs and a piece of cardboard, a toy garage if you have one, or even using building blocks or a pile of books and a cereal box opened up.
You need to find 3 different objects that can roll down it (toilet roll tube, toy car, small ball- or even different sized cars if you have them).
We want you to predict how far each will go. Which object or toy do you think will go the furthest?
You need to measure how far they all go. Measure from the bottom of the ramp to see how far they travelled along the floor.
Andrew challenged himself by seeing which car was the fastest as well- he started to time each object from the top of the ramp and ended the timer when the object reached a certain point on the floor.
Is the fastest car the one that went the furthest distance?
Challenge:
What happens if you make your ramp higher? Does this change how far your cars or toys go?
Click on this link and move with Mr Pumpernickel to learn about length and height.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-length-height/zdrx92p
Reading:
Miss Bisley has written you some retrieval questions about the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Remember to use the Retrieval Viper for this- you need to find the words in the text to answer your questions.
Answers to Tuesday’s reading task
Monday 20th April 2020
Hello fabulous Year 2! We are all missing you so much and hope that you had a wonderful Easter with your family. We hope that you enjoyed the sunshine when it was out and had lots of fun. We are very excited to be starting your home learning again, we hope you are excited too. It was so lovely to see lots of your smiling faces on the Facebook page sharing your home learning that you have done so far and we can’t wait to share some more amazing challenges with you. Also Happy Birthday to Mrs Beazley today! We hope you have a lovely sun filled day.
Have you seen that Longleat are doing a virtual safari on their website? This is one of Mrs Lock’s favourite places to go with her family and she was super excited to see they are doing this online safari. We hope you enjoy watching it. This has inspired us to have an animal themed week this week!
If you click on this website below this will begin your animal exploration!
https://www.longleat.co.uk/news/longleat-launches-virtual-safari
English:
Here is an alphabetical challenge- this is one that has taken all the adult a long time to complete!
- To start you need to write out all the letters of the alphabet down the page.
- Now can you think of an animal that starts with each letter?
Super challenge: can you put these animals in alphabetical order?
Red panda Rhino Rabbit Raccoon Rat Ring-tailed lemur
Here are some possible answers for the A-Z challenge and the answers for the super challenge:
alphabetical order challenge answers
Maths:
Over the next three days we are going to be exploring measuring length. Today’s challenge is for you to find 5 objects from around your house and order them from the smallest to the largest.
Using a tape measure or ruler can you measure how long they are in centimetres? Remember we write this as cm.
What is the difference in size between the smallest and longest object? Can you show me how you worked this out in a number statement?
If you need a little reminder of how to measure using a tape measure or a ruler watch this video.
If you cannot find a ruler or a tape measure in your house try using objects that are all the same size- such as the small pieces of lego, blocks, pasta shapes- anything really as long as the objects are all the same size.
Reading:
Well done for reading so many books on Bug Club and answering so many questions! Mrs Beazley, Mrs Lock, Mrs Nailer and Miss Bisley have really been enjoying reading the answers to the questions that you type in. Remember we can see all the books you have read and the answers to your questions. Keep up the super reading.
Click below for today’s reading challenge using a story we know you love!
Animal Enrichment Tasks for the week:
These are just a few ideas of different activities for you to choose do over the next week. You do not need to do all of these just whichever ones you think you would enjoy- please feel free to share pictures of anything you have loved doing on the school Facebook page for us to see.
- Create a bookmark with animal facts on it to give to someone or use yourself.
- Sketch, paint or collage your favourite animal. You could turn this into a card that you could write for someone you miss.
- Can you learn how to Makaton sign 5 different animals? If you need a hand to learn these- Mr Tumble on CBeebies is great as is Singing Hands on YouTube.
- Create a mask: Using different materials from around the house, create a mask of your favourite animal. Think about the colours and shape. Can you add different textures to your mask?
- Animals around the world- Using a map, can you place animals around the world in different continents? How are their habitats different? Why?
- Create an animal using bits and pieces from your house- have a look in the recycling there are usually some fab bits for making models in there!
- Create a minibeast home outside in your garden. Think about what a minibeast would like in it and what they would need. Make it and then pop back in a few days time to see who has moved in!
- Have a go at this Cosmic Kids Yoga adventure.
Don’t forget to take photos and ask your adult when they are free to share your home learning with us on the school Facebook page.
Friday 3rd April 2020
Happy Friday Year 2 and well done for completing your second week of home learning. We hope you have been having lots of fun at home. Mrs Nailer has been re-reading a book she enjoyed as a child called ‘The Long Winter’. Ms Wall is enjoying reading ‘Hero on a Bicycle’ which looks like a fascinating book. For your last day of home learning before the Easter break we have some super exciting challenges for you, we really hope you enjoy doing them.
English:
Mrs Lock loves chickens, although she was secretly hoping they may have been dragon eggs! As you know Mrs Lock is reading ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. This is one of her favourite sections. It is when Hagrid’s dragon egg is about to hatch and he is excited to see that Harry, Ron and Hermoine are heading towards his hut just in time.
“It’s nearly out.” Hagrid ushered them inside.
The egg was lying on the table. There were deep cracks in it. Something was moving inside; a funny clicking noise was coming from it.
They all drew their chairs up to the table and watched with bated breath.
All at once there was a scraping noise and the egg split open. The baby dragon flopped onto the table. It wasn’t exactly pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled, black umbrella. Its spiny wings were huge compared to its skinny jet body, it had a long snout with wide nostrils, the stubs of horns and bulging, orange eyes.
It sneezed. A couple of sparks flew out of its snout.
“Isn’t he beautiful ?” Hagrid murmured. He reached out a hand to stroke the dragon’s head. It snapped at his fingers, showing pointed fangs.
“Bless him, look, he knows his mommy!” said Hagrid.
“Hagrid,” said Hermione, “how fast do Norwegian Ridgebacks grow, exactly?”
Today we would like you to design your own dragon! This can be using information you have previously read, films you have seen or just make your own one up. Could you create a fact file or a top trump card for your dragon. Don’t forget to draw your dragon too.
We would love to know:
What is your dragon called?
Can you describe its appearance? (what it looks like)
What is its habitat? (where does it live)
What is its diet? (what does it like to eat)
Does it have any special skills or powers?
How does it move?
Any other interesting facts?
We would love to see some of your dragons on the school facebook page. If your adult has a free minute you could ask them to please share it with us to see.
Maths:
Today we would like for you to find the different addition and subtraction number statements you can do using these numbers:
21, 34, 42, 56
Can you show your thinking using a bar model and an unstructured number line?
Reading:
Role on the wall
Using a character from a book that you are reading now or your favourite character from a different book please can you complete the role on the wall. You need to fill in the different sections about your chosen character remembering to give examples from the book to support why you think that.
Example of a completed role on the wall
Bug Club–
Well done to those of you who have read so many of the books you have been issued on Bug Club and completing lots of questions. We have noticed a few of you are near to the end on your current level. Before moving on to the next colour please can we ask that you read quite a few of the books again so that you can develop your fluency, story teller voice, expression and intonation. If you are confidently reading the books with very little stop starting and using a super story teller voice then move on to the next colour level.
Enrichment tasks– these are just a few ideas of different activities for you to choose do over the next couple of weeks. You do not need to do all of these just whichever ones you think you would enjoy- please feel free to share pictures of anything you have loved doing on the school Facebook page for us to see.
- Can you create a 3D model of your dragon using things from around your home?
- What other animals come from an egg? Can you research this and find out a really interesting fact?
- If you have and Lego at home there is a 30 day Lego challenge.
4. On a Tuesday and Thursday morning at 10am there are online drawing lessons with the author and illustrator Rob Biddulph on his Facebook page. All the information is on his website and he even has some draw along videos you can watch on there! They are amazing. Miss Bisley really recommends this website and has enjoyed drawing along with Rob.
http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
5. Can you go out into your garden and use resources that you find (pebbles, grass, leaves, petals, sticks etc) to create a spring picture- can you share it on the school Facebook page?
We hope you and your families have a Happy Easter and stay safe. We are so very proud of you all, you have worked so very hard this term and we know you will continue to make us proud over the next couple of weeks. We really look forward to seeing all of your amazing dragons, enrichment activities and all the fun you are having at home on the school Facebook page. Also don’t forget there are lots of activities and games to do in the Year 2 maths, phonics and spellings pages. 🙂
Thursday 2nd April 2020
Hello Year 2 we hope you are all well. Thank you everyone who has shared their learning on Facebook yesterday. We loved reading your super work and seeing your amazing images. It was such a lovely sunny day yesterday that all of the adults in Year 2 did their daily reading outside. Mrs Beazley is reading about maps at the moment. Mrs Lock is re reading her favourite series of books, Harry Potter, she is on the first book at the moment. Mrs Fuller is reading a book called ‘Jog On’ it looks very interesting. Mrs Short is reading a book called ‘Only Time Will Tell’ and she is really enjoying it. Why don’t you have a go at doing your daily read outside in your garden today? Have you been managing to do any of Joe Wicks’s PE sessions in the morning? They are great aren’t they.
English:
So much has happened since yesterday’s hatching, we have had another chick! Look at this super video.
Challenge:
How do you think the chicks will change as they grow?
How long do you think it will take for the chick to become an adult chicken?
Phonics:
Today we are going to be looking at different ways the sound /ai/ can be written. Have a look at the best guess poster in the link below for hints of how the sound can be written and where to find it in a word.
Learning objective: I can identify different ways to write /ai/.
Can you choose a book from your house and write down all the /ai/ sounds you can find. Challenge can you sort them into the different ways of spelling /ai/ ?
Maths:
Today we are learning about odd and even numbers. Watch this video first and then have a go at the challenge in the document below.
Clear here for your challenge:
Have you seen the blog on the main page about Bug Club rewards? Do go and read it and learn about all the reward zones! Keep up the super reading and learning, you are doing so well. All of the Year 2 team are so very proud of you and missing you all lots. Stay safe and have a great day filled with fun, laughter and happiness.
Wednesday 1st April 2020
English:
Thank you so much for your predictions and questions about the eggs I found. Can I firstly say… wow your handwriting is AMAZING!!!! What fabulous bumps and flicks, you must have been practising. Freddie I loved your pictures of all the things that you can do with an egg. Also a great question, but I am afraid I do not have chickens. Thank you Alice, because of your clever thinking I have managed to save the eggs from a fox. I didn’t think about that last night! Todd I thought your ideas were super, as I do not have a chicken I used my old incubator and do you know what has happened… the eggs have begun to hatch!
Here is a video for you to watch and an activity to do afterwards.
Learning objective: I can use the past tense.
Challenge: I can use a conjunction- and, because, so, but, if
Whilst you watch the video can you write down some words to describe what you can see and what you can hear? What words best describe the noise that the chick made? What emotions did you feel watching the video?
Can you now write about what you have just watched to share with someone? You could read it to them over the phone. Remember they haven’t seen it so will need lots of detail.
Remember to:
- Write in the past tense.
- Use conjunctions (and, because, so, but, if) to help add more detail.
- Describe what you saw, heard and how you felt.
- Use your monkey ears- check it makes sense, you have spelt key words correctly – use your word mat at the front of your blue book to check your spellings.
Maths
Mrs Beazley’s dog Chewy has set you some fraction problems.
Please follow this link to watch a video about fractions before you answer the questions below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3rbg82/articles/zq2yfrd
fractions answers and helpful hints
If you are still finding this a little tricky watch the videos on this website, they are very helpful in explaining. They also have extra challenges if you fancy a little extra learning!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Reading:
We hope you are enjoying reading with Bug Club.
After reading one of your Bug Club books we have selected for you or a book from your house please can you answer these questions:
- What was your favourite part of the book and why?
- Does this book remind you of another similar book? How is it similar?
- After reading your book, what would you like to know more about? What would you like to ask the author or one of the characters in the book?
Harold!
In school we have been using an excellent resource called SCARF and this is where we met Harold! If you go on to the blog home page there is a link for you to do some fantastic Harold based activities to help you whilst you are at home. Share this with an adult at home, I think they would love to hear all about Harold.
Have a fabulous day and remember an adult can share pictures of you working or just having fun on the school Facebook page. We have loved seeing the photos so far.
Tuesday 31st March 2020
Happy Tuesday Year 2. We hope that you had a great day yesterday. Mrs Lock is super sorry that the link for Past Tense Penguin didn’t work, she hopes you managed to find it on google. How are you doing with the Time table Rock Stars challenge? We wonder which class will win? Don’t forget the competition closes today at 5pm. May the best class win!
English
You will never guess what has happened in Mrs Lock’s house! Last night she heard a large crashing noise outside in the garden (she thought it was Albie being a pest). She ran downstairs and this is what she found…
We need your help to work out what they are? Today your challenge is to predict what you think will happen to these eggs? What are they? Where have they come from? Please remember to explain why you think that using the word because.
Your objective today is: I can use the word because to explain my prediction.
Challenge: I can write a question.
Can you think of a question to ask about the eggs? Don’t forget to start with a question word (Who, what , where, when, why, how) and end with a question mark.
Please can you also draw what you would think will happen to the eggs or where they have come from.
If you have drawn a picture and written your ideas feel free to upload it to the Park Gate Facebook page, Mrs Lock would love to know what you thought it may be.
Maths:
Please click on the task below to find a red, amber and green challenge for fractions. We have included the answers as well so you can mark your work after. Remember all we ask if you try your best, you are doing so well we are super proud of you all.
If you are a little unsure about how to recognise and find a third please follow this link and watch the videos on week2.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Monday 30th March 2020
Good morning to all of Year 2. We hope that you and your families had a lovely weekend. Have you seen that Park Gate Primary School now have a Facebook page? If you ask your adult (when they have a free moment) to log in and show you, you can see Mrs McCarthy reading you a story! Also Mrs Chapman has a special message on their saying you can use that page to share some photos of your super learning and photos of all the fun that you are having at home for us to see. We can’t wait to see your pictures. We have seen a few of you on there already. It looks like you have been very busy.
Are you ready for another week of exciting learning activities? Remember to have a go by yourself first at everything, trying your very best then if you are still super stuck ask your adult if they can help you when they are free to.
English
Today for your English challenge we would like you to practise using the past tense. Remember we use past tense when we are talking about something that has happened.
Here are the rules for adding -ed to remind you.
Can you go onto phonics play and play past tense penguin. You need to decide what needs to happen to the ending of the word when you change it into the past tense.
Sorry everyone for some reason the link is not working- please go to phonics play website- under the phase 6 section you will find the past tense penguin game. So sorry for the inconvenience.
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Once you have done this please can you re write these 3 sentences fixing the 7 muddles.
Your learning objective is: I can write in the past tense.
- This morning I walk downstairs and founded a bowl of delicious porridge so I eated it all up.
- Yesterday I go out into my garden and I plant a handful of tiny seeds.
- When I got dresed morning I put my slippers on but I forget to put my snuggly socks on first.
Here are the answers so you can mark it yourself.
I can write in the past tense answers
Maths:
On Times Table Rockstars you have been set a competition- Holly Class against Lime Class.
You will compete for your class against the other class in your year group.
The competition will run from 9am today and will end at 5pm (17:00) on Tuesday 31st March 2020 (tomorrow)
The class with the most correct answers altogether over the 2 days will be the champions.
Big Prizes: The winning class in each year group will also receive rewards on their TTRS shop.
There will also be a prize for everyone in the class with the most correct answers in the whole school!
Have fun playing! May the best class win!
Reading:
We have looked through and seen which books you have read and the amount of questions you have answered. We can see most of you have read at least 2 books last week, we hope you enjoyed them.
Keep up the super reading. Mrs Beazley and Mrs Lock have added some new books for you to enjoy on Bug Club. Remember your log in is inside your home reading record.
Friday 27th March
All of the Year 2 team would like to thank you for having a go at the tasks this week. We hope you are enjoying your learning. Remember you know far more than you first think…keep at it and be proud of all of your achievements.
We thought you would like to see a little of what we have been up to. The first picture is Mrs Lock’s cat Albie sleeping on a chair. Holly class all know that Albie is a very cheeky cat who likes to get up to mischief (mainly by stealing things!). You will be pleased to know he has been making good choices this week and has been enjoying the sunshine.
The lovely black cat with the white feet is Flash, Mrs Fuller’s cat. He is such a handsome chap I am sure you will all agree. He has been enjoying strokes this week from Mrs Fuller and listening to the radio.
Miss Bisley has created this fabulous rainbow whilst she has been having lots of cuddles with her dogs.
Mrs Short and her son Dexter made this awesome rainbow cake today. It looks absolutel
y delicious. We are all super impressed with the decorations.
Also we had to share this photo of Chilli, this cool dude is fully embracing rainbow colours! He is utterly magnificent. Chilli lives with Mrs Short and her family, we will ask Mrs Short for more updates on Chilli as I am sure you will agree he is pretty amazing!
English
Look who appeared in Mrs Beazley’s garden today! I wonder who they are? Where have they come from?
Write a description of your imaginary Rainbow Garden
Today we would like you to use your rainbow thinking from yesterday to create a slightly longer paragraph of writing. Look at the link above that has lots of word idea and pictures to help you and write a description of a Rainbow Magical Garden.
We would like you to have ago at spelling while thinking about your sounds and key spellings. In the Year 2 Phonics folder we have put your best guess posters and common exception word card, these may help. Remember to check the handwriting information below from previous days.
If you are feeling creative why don’t you draw, paint or even make your own imaginary garden? What would live in it? What would grow in it? Be as creative as you like.
Maths
Today we would like you to work on Timestable Rockstars and see if you feel more confident. Next week we will have a red, amber green challenge for fractions. If you want to start thinking about what you know about halves, quarters and thirds, have a go at sorting your toys or objects into these fractions.
Have a good weekend. Mrs Beazley has got some tidying to do .. have you got to tidy your bedroom???
Thursday 26th March
Good morning to everyone in Lime class and Holly Class. We hope that you had a wonderful day yesterday filled with love, laughter, sunshine and lots of fun! The weather has been so beautiful over the past few days. Did anyone join in with the Cosmic kids yoga? It was fantastic, Mrs Lock really enjoyed being all the parts of the Harry Potter story!
We have been busy today creating our rainbows for our magical window displays. We thought you would like to see some of them, we will save the rest to share with you tomorrow.
Here are Mrs Lock’s and her little boy Noah’s rainbows. Noah was very excited to use the felt tips.
Ms Wall and her son Alfie made this amazing rainbow for their window. The colours are beautiful.
Mrs Beazley and her dog Chewy were having a look to see if they could do the Joe Wicks 10 minute workout tomorrow. They are very excited to give it a go in the morning.
Maths and English activities today are to be carried on from yesterday’s learning.
If you fancy having a go at a 3D shape game we have found 2 more fun ones to try
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjv39j6/articles/zgqpk2p
This link will take you to a game where you have to shoot the correct shape- try both the 3D shapes and the 2D shapes. What is the highest score you can get?
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/shapes_shoot.htm
English:
Here is a sound mat that you may find helpful when writing. We have also put it on the Year 2 spelling page so it is easier to find for you. It is like the one we have in school that you use when writing.
Also here is a sound mat that you may find helpful too. This one can also be found on the Year 2 phonics page.
Don’t forget to login to Bug Club and read a fab book. On each page you will see a little picture of a bug just like this one. Click on it to answer a question about what you have just read. This will earn you coins which means you get fab rewards. Mrs Beazley, Miss Bisley, Mrs Lock and Mrs Nailer are really impressed with how many questions you are answering correctly. Keep up with your super reading, it looks like lots more ticks for your reading stars.
We hope you have a fantastic day, remember to have lots of fun and follow the Park Gate Way.
Wednesday 25th March
We hope that you are enjoying your time at home with your family and are finding the home learning activities interesting. We have some maths and English activities for you to do today and tomorrow, so feel free to take your time and enjoy your challenges. We are excited to see your English work. To start your day why don’t you do a Cosmic Kids yoga session? We are going to have a go at this one today if you fancy joining us.
English Activities for Wednesday and Thursday 
English activities for Wednesday and Thursday
Please click on the document above to see your activities.
Maths Activities for Wednesday and Thursday
3 D shape Wednesday and Thursday
Please click on the document above to see your activities.
This is a game Mrs Lock really likes. She thinks Level 3 would be perfect for you 🙂
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
Phonics activities.
Can you go on to phonics play website and play past tense penguin on phase 6.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/pastTensePenguin.html
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Tuesday 24th March
Good Morning Year 2 🙂 We hope you had a great day yesterday. Thank you to all of those children who have read and answered some quiz questions from Bug Club. It is great to switch our computers on and see how many of you have opened a book and taking the quiz challenges. They are tricky!! Take your time with your reading and enjoy each book. Remember you can collect coins and use the drawing tools. If you make a muddle with a question, read the page again and have another go at the question.
Take your time with the tasks we set you and have fun with any of your own learning projects. All of the Year 2 team are thinking of you. Hopefully we can load some videos soon to say hello in person
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We hope that you have a super day and manage to get some sunshine and fresh air in your garden. See you if you can do the Park Gate 10 in your garden- keep moving in any way possible for 10 minutes. Don’t forget you can start your day with Joe Wicks at 9am on You Tube.
English Activity
Can you match the words to the correct contraction?
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can’t |
I will |
doesn’t |
I’ll |
he’s |
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does not |
cannot |
they are |
he is |
they’re |
Can you write 4 sentences with a contraction in it?
Reading– can you read for at least 10 minutes today just like we do in school. This could be a reading book from school, a Bug Club book, a comic or a book from home. Can you then write a review in your reading record? What did you like best about what you have read? What was your favourite part?
Handwriting-
Can you tell your adult at home about brave monkey, scared monkey? Can you teach them how to write the letters in the jumper family? h, b, r, n, m, p
Can you lay on your tummy like we do at school and practise writing these letters? Can you make up a funny word using these letters?
Follow this link to see videos to remind you how to write each letter.
https://rpsrbh2018.wordpress.com/phonics-kinetic-letters/
Maths Activity:
Please complete the shape questions in your blue book. 
Have a go at the game Hit the Button- can you try the number bonds game?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
We hope you have enjoyed your weekend at home and are ready to begin your home Learning Adventure!! Try and do your best and have a go at many tasks on your own if your parents are busy. We understand it is a tricky time. We only ask you to do what is possible.
Monday 23rd March
For your first day we would like you to get out your blue home learning book.
English activity
Find 5 spellings you are unsure of from the spelling list and reading list at the beginning of your book and learn them. Try using lots of different colours to write the words. Put them in sentences.
Explore Bug Club Books. your log in is in your home learning reading record book. Try clicking on the bug in the book and answer the questions to earn coins to unlock treats.
Maths Activity
Try the money question. I can use different coins to pay for the same amount. Can you find the least amount of coins or the most amount of coins. ( Leave the shape activity for the next day)
Time Table Rockstars
Have a go at the tables that we have given you
History Tasks for over the week
Try the 2 history tasks in your blue book. this will complete our Titanic project. If you have a costume ready how about wearing it whilst you complete your history tasks and be that character for the day. If you don’t have one try being a historian and find out about your family history.
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