Week beginning 20th April 2020 – Year 2

Complete these activities over this week. You can complete them in any order you wish! These activities are based on the book ‘The Curious Garden’ by Peter Brown. The task pages are in the same order as the lesson table.You can find a video version of the book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SHmN-wXykU Please, please with a cherry on top, email me any lovely work that you have completed. I miss you and would love to see your creations! chloe.murphy@oasislongmeadow.org

Subject ActivityReading My Grandad the Gardener

See text below.Read text and answer comprehension questions.

Maths FractionsFor our Maths learning we will be using White Rose Hub home learning pack. Click on the link below to watch the video lessons and then complete the activities included in your pack.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ This week can you please do:Lesson 3 – Find a half Lesson 4 – Recognise a quarter Lesson 3 – Find a quarter

SPAG (Spelling and Grammar)

Adverbs with the ‘ly’ suffix An adverb can describe a verb (a doing word) and tells you how something is happening or being done. Liam tiptoed up the staircase carefully. Tiptoed = verb (doing word)Carefully = adverb (how)Complete the sentences using an adverb from the word bank of think of your own.

Writing

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Setting the scene In the story, Liam explores an old railway track and discovers the beginnings of a garden growing. Look at the images of the old, unused fair ground that has been taken over by growing plants and imagine you are

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there. Write the opening of a story that takes place here. (You can write a whole story if you like. I would love to read it!)Use lots of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe the setting of where the story takes places. Remember to use a comma in between two adjectives e.g. Underneath the twisted, gnarled vines of the redwood tree, were the once colourful seats of a merry go round that had been forgotten about by everyone in the land.

Challenge: Can you include an adverb to describe how something is happening? E.g. Liam pulled back the vines cautiously and was thrilled to see the switches and controls that would bring the merry go round to life!

Everyday Maths

Recognising Coins Ask a grown up if you can look at some real coins, or use the sheet in your pack. Can you recognise the different amounts? Look at the shapes and patterns on each coin to help you remember them. You could;

Use paper and crayons to do coin rubbings Make pretend money and set up a shop or café in your house for people to come and buy things from you Think about how many of one coin would be equal to another amount e.g. how many 2p coins would be equal to

one 10p coin?Topic Record Breaking Plants!

Research record breaking plants. What can you find out? What is the strangest new learning you can find?Here are some ideas to research;

The old plant The biggest plant The smelliest plant The prettiest / ugliest plant The most dangerous plant!

You can use the following videos and websites to help or research safely with a grown up. https://www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone/plant-profiles - find out about a monkey puzzle, or a red hot cat’s tail!https://www.funfactsabout.net/plant-facts/ https://factrepublic.com/50-weird-and-interesting-facts-about-plants/

You can choose how to present your information, or you can create a game of Plant Top Trumps using the activity in your pack.

Art / D.T Paint, draw or create a miniature model in your own garden, a map of the curious garden that Liam found on the train tracks. You can use the images of secret gardens to help you.

Challenge: You could even create a map of the secret, over grown fair ground that you have written about in your English!

My Grandad the Gardener: Questions

1. What word tells you Grandad enjoys gardening very much? …………………………………………………

2. Two words tell you that Grandad spends a lot of time in his garden. What are they? ………………………… ……………………….

3. What word means putting seeds in the ground? …………………………………………………

4. Copy down a word that means going to see somebody in their home. …………………………………………………

5. What word tells you that Grandad is happy? …………………………………………………

6, A small tool used for digging and weeding is mentioned. What is it? …………………………………………………

7. Find and write down another word that means start. …………………………………………………

8. What word tells you that the flowers have a sweet smell? …………………………………………………

9. What word is used to tell you what sound bees make? …………………………………………………

10. What word tells you that spending a day in the garden is great? …………………………………………………

Maths – Lesson 3 Find a half

Maths – Lesson 4 Recognise a quarter

Maths – Lesson 5 Find a quarter

The Curious Garden – Adverbs

Liam splashed …………………………….. through the puddles on his walk.

He climbed the dark stair way to the train track …………………………….. .

The garden began to spread …………………………….. over the train tracks.

Snow fell …………………………….. on the garden and Liam was unable to visit. …………………………….. Liam watched the flowers bloom.

*Challenge: Listen carefully to the story again. Can you spot any adverb sentences used by Peter Brown?

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