Year 2 Home Learning – Week 1 (w.b. 23.3.20)

Welcome to the first week of home learning!

This weeks resources can be found here.

ReadingShare a book of your choice daily, practise a mixture of silent reading and reading aloud (please use the Guided Reading Questions sheets to support discussion).
Complete a ’60 Second Read’ sheet daily. These activities are designed to assess and encourage fluency. Give your child support to answer questions if required. A guidance sheet is available with this week’s resources.
Independently complete a comprehension task daily. Please go through the answers with your child. Many comprehension tasks have 1, 2, or 3 stars to indicate level of challenge. Please use your judgement to choose the appropriate level.
WritingAll written work should be of a high standard. Please refer to the ‘Every Time We Write’ poster.

While we’re all at home aliens have invaded the school!
Task 1: Learning Objective: To write a persuasive letter.
Write a persuasive letter to the aliens asking them to look after our classrooms whilst we are away. See this link to how to write a successful persuasive letter.
Task 2: Learning Objective: To write a wanted poster using descriptive language. We haven’t been able to photograph the aliens but we need to create a wanted poster to alert the Henleaze public! Here is what we know…
1. they leave a slimy trail wherever they go;
2. they smell faintly of mint and sausages;
3. they leave behind sparkly scales when they squeeze through doorways;
4. we’ve heard late 1980s power-ballads blasting from the building.
Please use this template if you would like to! Remember to use lots of exciting adjective and some conjunctions to extend your sentences.
Task 3: Learning Objective: Write a clear and cohesive set of instructions. To lure the aliens out, create your own tempting recipe. What do you think the aliens might like to eat? Create an ingredients list based on foods you have at home. Remember to include the weight needed in grams. Your method should be numbered and include plenty of imperative (bossy) verbs. Here is an example.
MathsEvery Day: Please count in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s daily. Try counting forwards and backwards from any number within these times tables. Practise doubles up to double 12 and use these to solve problems, e.g. 16 – __ = 8. Practise number bonds to 20 in addition and subtraction number sentences.
Task 1: Learning Objective: To be familiar with coins. To make a given amount. To give change. Set up a shop. Role play using money, giving change, reading price tags and giving the correct amount of money using different coins. Please use real money if possible.
Task 2: Learning Objective: To read the time in intervals of 5 minutes. Helpful video to help revise what we have been learning so far: RE video.
Practise telling the time in intervals of 5 minutes. Discuss what time of day you do different things i.e. what time do you have lunch? Have a go at this time game
Task 3: Learning Objective: To understand how fractions can be used to split a whole number into halves and quarters. Practise sharing a number of objects in half and then quarters. Practise writing these as a fraction i.e. ½ of 6 = 3. Useful information here
PEWe recommend daily physical activity of physical and mental wellbeing. Yoga: follow your own routines with your child, if you practice yoga yourself, or use Cosmic Kids on Youtube. Fitness: Try some of the Change for Life ‘shake up’ games found here. Skills: Quick reactions! With a partner standing with object (something bouncy if possible) held out at shoulder height: from up to 3m react quickly to catch ball dropped by partner.
At 9am each day ‘The Body Coach’ will be providing a 30 minute PE session on YouTube. Please see the advert at the bottom of the page.
PSHEHealthy Me! Help make a healthy plate of lunch considering a balanced. Talk about the main food groups and foods we should limit. More information can be found here.
RETalk about what we have learnt so far this term, where our focus has been on Christianity. Please see this week’s resources.
ArtUsing resources you have at home (paint, collage things etc.) create some artwork representing one of the invading aliens. Refer to your wanted poster for how the alien should look. You may want to emulate the work of a famous artist like Pablo Picasso.
Henleaze Infant School © 2024