Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 20th 2020

PhonicsMonday – the ay phoneme. Play the Odd and Bob game on the Phonics Bloom website.https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5Tuesday – How many words can you think of with the ay phoneme – remember there are several different ways to spell this phoneme [ay, ai, a, ae, a-e, ei] Hunt around the house to see if you can find anything with the ay phoneme in its name.Wednesday – Create a crossword or word search with some of the ay words you came up with yesterdayThursday – Play bingo with someone else at home using a selection of the ay words you have used this weekFriday – Practice spelling five of the Y1 & 2 common exception words [attached]

EnglishOn Thursday it is St George’s Day so this week for your English we would like you to think about dragons.Monday – Design your own dragon. Label your picture with adjectives & nouns – for example; long sharp golden talons.Tuesday – Write a description of your dragon using some of the vocabulary you labelled your picture with yesterday.Wednesday – Write the opening of a dragon adventure story.Thursday – Continuing writing your dragon adventure story from yesterday.Friday – Check through your story and use a coloured pen/pencil to correct 8 spellings from the common exception list [attached] and add any full stops and capital letters you may have missed. Read your story to someone at home or perhaps you could phone a friend or grandparent and read it to them.

ReadingLog onto Oxford Owls - www.oxfordowl.co.uk into your web browser and click on the pink ‘My class login’ logo in the top right hand corner. Enter the details below and then follow the on screen instructions to choose a book. You can choose books by age or type. There are several different books about dragons in the e books to link in with your writing. If you type ‘dragons’ into the search button it will come up with a selection of books for you to choose from.Try to read a fiction and a non-fiction book this week.Log in details:Cuckoos – Username: cuckoos2 Password: bird Swallows – Username: swallows2 Password: birdWoodpeckers – Username: woodpeckers2 Password: bird

MathsLog onto the White Rose Maths link for this week’s activities [April 20th] https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/This gives you a daily lesson including a teaching video and worksheets. When it says “pause here” on the daily video, you will be ready to do the questions on the downloadable sheets.If you do not have access to a printer, you could use real objects such as coins, toys, pasta shapes, pebbles to practise the questions. You could also draw them onto paper.

In addition to the White Rose here are a couple of other fun ideas to try this week:Using the hundred square, which came home in the packs, play Guess my number.

One player chooses a number [do not tell the other player!] The other player has to ask questions to find out what their number is. For example; Is it

more than 10? Does it have 3 ones in it? Is it between 25 and 50?On April 21st it is the Queen’s 94th birthday. How many different ways can you make 94? You can add, subtract, multiply or divide.

Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 20th 2020

ScienceWhat do plants need to grow?Watch the clip https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/zxxsyrd

Which plants can you find in your garden or out on a walk?

Do you have access to seeds? Have a go at planting a seed and watch it grow. Here are some ideas for growing plants… https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/learning-toolkit-blog/germinate-seeds-and-watch-them-sprout-windowsill.html

Creative Curriculum IdeasFind a picture of a plant. Cut it in half. Glue it onto a piece of paper. Now have a go at drawing the other half of the plant to make it symmetrical.

Use junk materials such as egg boxes, cereal boxes, kitchen rolls to make plants and label the parts of the plant.

Make a birthday card for Captain Tom who turns 100 on April 30th.

Find out why we celebrate St George’s Day [23rd April] Make a shield or flag to celebrate.

Health & WellbeingHave a go at Andy’s Wild workouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06tmmvz/andys-wild-workouts

Help to prepare one of the meals at home this week.

Random Act of Kindness. Aim to do one thing for someone different in your house each day.

Year 2 Home LearningWeek beginning April 20th 2020