Post on 23-Mar-2022
Year 2 Home learning for w/c Monday 11th May
Maths
Here are your 5 fluency activities for the week. Try and do one every day and then mark
them in a coloured pen. Give yourself a smiley face if you did a good job with them
Day 1
Practise your 2,5 and 10 times tables in your favourite way. Maybe a game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables or some songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yf3xgE8wMc 2 times table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyDZ7f1RfE 5 times table
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJug1WlYJs 10 times table
Day 2 – Practise adding and subtracting multiples of 10. The splat square will warm your
brain in: https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html
Day 3 – Practise your speedy addition and subtraction of 1 digit from 2
digitshttps://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Now do your fluency task, be careful to read the operation – are they all the same?
Day 4 – Use your times tables for division, so have another practise of your 2,5 and 10
times tables and then play the Fact Family game. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-
facts/number-fact-families
Day 5 – Recap your doubling and halving skills.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=dartboarddoublesandhalves
Now try climbing up the mountain – start at the bottom!
If you want to do more maths then try the online lessons from BBC Bitesize:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-and-p3-lessons/1
These are also on the Red Button on your telly.
Stretch that brain with these challenges, there are 4 for you this week - answers below.
(you know the rules – no peeking!)
Spelling
You can either practise the spellings onto a piece of paper and have a go putting them into
sentences or you can print the spelling pages out which are at the end of this document.
The zh sound spelt with an s: treasure, television, usual, pleasure
The sh sound spelt with ti: station, patience, position, mention
The ar sound spelt with a: fast, father, path, last
Common Year 2 words: friends, across, really, baby
Have a look at these games and websites:
https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html for watching short story videos or generating
writing ideas
https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb for spelling games (also an app)
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/?s=activity&fwp_post_types=activities&fwp_school_year_cate
gories=year-2 Year 2 games and activities
Don’t forget board games too such as Scrabble, Boggle or Quickword which might be lurking
in the back of a cupboard!
PE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers for some learning and activity at the same time
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga online yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzZ7Ecql-sg football skills
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html PE with Joe Wicks
English
Day 1
Watch David Attenborough narrate a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGus6bmgGU
Then watch footage of a baby snake coming out of an egg without any commentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4UR7Jm6zU
Have a go at writing your own simple narration for the snake hatching out. A narration is
the talking that is in the background often spoken by presenters such as David
Attenborough or Chris Packham. No speech marks are needed for this, just a continuous
narration.
Attempt to write in the present tense, as it is happening.
You could then play the clip and read out your narration at the same time.
Day 2
Look at the film trailer for James and the Giant Peach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4lIMZXKd0g
How do they encourage you to watch the movie … any movie!
Design a poster for your favourite movie to encourage people to go and watch it.
Day 3
James Henry Trotter and his friends are trying to get to New York. If you have finished the
book, then you will know if they make it or not. Find an image of a building in New York and
have a go at drawing it? Remember that when you are drawing a building it is ok to use a
ruler to get those lines nice and straight. If you are feeling very adventurous you could try
and draw the New York skyline.
Day 4
Complete the word search. If you can’t print this out don’t worry, just have a go at making
your own word search.
Science
We will be comparing plants found in familiar habitats with unfamiliar habitats using different factors such as water, light and temperature.
Do you think a plant could germinate if the sun stopped shining? Jimmy has bought a cactus from Tapps Garden Centre and he thinks he can plant it in his back garden in Baldock. Can you write a leaflet or poster explaining how Jimmy should look after his cactus at home. You will need to explain what his cactus needs to survive and you could also include how it is adapted to live in desert habitats and not in an English back garden. (fold a piece of A5 in half to make a small leaflet.) Big Question
Could an oak tree grow in the desert? If not, why not? Geography How does the geographical satellite image of Baldock differ from that of Kampong Ayer?
If you can get Google maps on your laptop or tablet, have a close look at Baldock and then
Kampong Ayer.
Can you find (on both maps)
A school
A supermarket
A river
A park
A police station
A river
A house
If you zoom in close enough you can see roads and walkways. See if you can find your
house in Baldock or wherever you live and then find a house that you would like to live in, in
Kampong Ayer.
DT
Carry on making your garden in a box. In school this would be a 2-week project. Add some
flowers which you can make with anything but very simply by drawing and cutting them out.
Can you attach them to your garden so that they are 3D? Experiment with different
methods.
Spelling
Lesson 1
Spelling of the ‘zh’ sound. It is made with the letter s.
Read Write Write
treasure
television
usual
pleasure
Can you put 2 of these words into a sentence? It can be as
silly as you like.
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Lesson 2
Alternative spelling of the ‘sh’ sound. It can also be made
with ti.
Read Write Write
station
patience
position
mention
Can you put 2 of these words into a sentence? It can be as
silly as you like.
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Lesson 3
Alternative spelling of the ‘ar’ sound. It can also be made
with a.
Read Write Write
fast
father
path
last
Can you put 2 of these words into a sentence? It can be as
silly as you like.
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Lesson 4
Year 2 common words
Read Write Write
friends
across
really
baby
Can you put 2 of these words into a sentence? It can be
as silly as you like.
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
__
Extra activities
Use conjunctions to make these sentences more interesting. since and yet because but until however I can’t go swimming __________I have forgotten my swimming trunks.
I’d like to go to the park ________ my mum won’t let me. The old woman wanted to feed her dog ______ there was nothing in the cupboard. I bought some sweets ________ I ate them on the way home. The teacher was late ________ her car broke down. I went to the cinema __________ I really wanted to stay at home. I couldn’t go out _________ my dad came home.
It’s been raining _________ this morning.
I haven’t eaten my dinner ______ because it is too hot.