Eaton Primary School Home Learning Planner

Year Group: 2 Week Beginning: 20th July 2020

English Maths Topic

Monday Lesson 1: approx. length 1 hour Learning objective: To write a letter to my future teacher. This week’s spelling rule: Common exception words: most only both old cold gold told every great break steak pretty Handwriting focus (10 mins): Joining high frequency words the and said you

Watch the end of the teacher video on

Class Dojo.

Task 1: Today we are going to write a letter to your new teacher, whether that is Miss Hughes (2C) or Mrs Major and Mrs Heritage (2T). Your first job is to think about what things you would like your new teacher to know about you and any questions you may have for her.

Lesson 1: approx. length 1 hour Problem Solving Week!

Task 1:

Check these number sentences.

Are they correct or incorrect?

If they are incorrect can you correct them.

Task 2, 3 and Extension: Now watch the teacher video on Class Dojo.

Task 2, 3 and Extension activities are attached below.

Link to problem: https://nrich.maths.org/2404

Computing lesson Learning Objective:

To design your own robot.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have looked at

algorithms, programming and debugging. Today we

are going to try designing! Do you have the

imagination to draw an amazing robot design?

Task 1:

Think of a task or job that a robot could do to help

you or your family or the planet.

What would your robot be able to do and why?

Remember: Your robot could do any task or job you

can think of!

Task 2:

Draw your robot!

What does it look like?

What colour is it?

What special parts will it need to do its job?

What else can the robot do?

Can it speak?

Task 3:

Name and label your robot. Making sure you don’t

forget any of its important features!

Extension:

Create a poster to advertise your robot! Make sure

you design a poster with the buyer of the robot in

mind.

Remember to include:

Now watch the teacher video on Class Dojo. Task 2: Now it is time to write our thoughts into a letter! Make sure you use the layout shown in the video and include all the key features of a letter. Attached is a word mat with key words and phrases you may want to use!

Name

A picture

Price

Why should they buy it?

Tuesday Lesson 2: approx. length 1 hour Learning objective: To write positive traits about myself. Please practise our weekly spellings every day. Handwriting focus (10 mins): Joining high frequency words they she is are

Watch the end of the teacher video on

Class Dojo.

Task 1: Play the kindness game with your family! Sit in a circle and give your family compliments e.g. “Miss Tilley, I like that you are a kind friend.” Keep going until you have lots of kind things to say about yourself! Now watch the teacher video on Class Dojo. Task 2: Now we are going to write down wonderful things about ourselves! Attached is a template you might want to use, or you could create your own poster. You could draw a picture of

Lesson 2: approx. length 1 hour Problem Solving Week!

Task 1:

Task 2, 3 and Extension:

Now watch the teacher video on Class Dojo.

Task 2, 3 and Extension activities are attached below.

RE lesson Learning objective: To describe a place of worship. Task 1: Choose a place of worship to research. It may be somewhere local to you such as Norwich Cathedral, or you may want to use books or the internet to research a different place of worship. Task 2: Now complete the attached task, writing down everything you’ve found out about your place of worship. Task 3: Draw a picture of the outside of your place of worship and include labels.

yourself in the middle and write lots of positive words and phrases that describe you! I know you will all have lots!

Wednesday Lesson 3: approx. length 1 hour Learning objective: To plan my dream day at school. Wordsearch Wednesday! (See attachment) Handwriting focus (10 mins): Joining high frequency words had my her what

Task 1: Discuss with your adult or sibling what you would love to do during a dream day at school! It can be as silly as you like – maybe you will dance with dinosaurs in a PE lesson? Learn football skills with Ronaldo? Create a story map to note down your ideas so that you don’t forget them! Task 2: Use the time word mat (attached) to start each paragraph so you have a variety of sentence starters. Now write about your dream day at school!

Lesson 3: approx. length 1 hour Problem Solving Week!

Task 1:

Task 2, 3 and Extension:

Task 2, 3 and Extension activities are attached below.

Sort the Street Link: https://nrich.maths.org/5157 Domino Sorting Link: https://nrich.maths.org/4940

Art lesson Learning objective: To explore different sketching activities.

Task 1:

Using a pencil, felt tip or colouring pencil in both

hands, draw at the same time.

Can you create a picture?

Can you create a detail picture with animals?

Task 2:

Using a pencil, draw a picture without taking your

pencil off the paper. This is called a continuous line

drawing.

How is it different from your normal pictures?

What do you like about the picture you created?

What do you dislike?

Task 3:

Using a ruler, draw a picture created only by

straight lines.

What can you create?

What can’t you create and why?

Task 4:

Using your non-dominant hand (the hand you don’t

hold your pencil with when writing) sketch a self-

portrait. Remember to look at yourself carefully in

the mirror before you start and include all your

features.

Extension:

Which activity did you like the most? & Why?

Thursday Lesson 4: approx. length 1 hour Learning objective: To write about my favourite time in year 2. Please test your spellings today and let Miss Tilley/Collins know what your score was! Handwriting focus (10 mins): Joining high frequency words there out this have

Task 1: Discuss all of the lovely activities and things we learned about in year 2 with your grown up. Here is a reminder for you… In Autumn we learned about dungeons and dragons and we:

Made clay plant pots

Grew cress in different places

Created a chant to intimidate an enemy

Built a castle from different materials

Wrote instructions for how to look after a dragon

Wrote a non-chronological report about the parts of a castle

Made our own working catapults

In Spring our topic was Around the World in 12 Weeks and we:

Lesson 4: approx. length 1 hour Problem Solving Week!

Task 1:

Task 2, 3 and Extension: Task 2, 3 and Extension activities are attached below. Three Way Mix Up Link: https://nrich.maths.org/177 City of Towers Link: https://nrich.maths.org/183

History lesson Learning objective: To create a ‘lockdown’ time capsule. Task 1: Discuss everything you have done since lockdown with your grown up. What are your favourite memories? Picnics in the garden, walks around your village, movie nights etc. Task 2: The time during the Corona virus is one that will be remembered for years to come. Create a time capsule to help you remember some of the good bits you had with your family and friends! You could either write your memories on pieces of paper and put in a jar and bury in the garden, or write them on the piece of paper attached.

Learned all about Amelia Earhart and Christopher Columbus

Wrote a persuasive piece on who we thought was more significant

Made a timeline of navigation equipment (compass, satnav etc.)

Task 2: Now write about your favourite part or parts of year 2. Make sure to include conjunctions to extend your sentences.

Friday PE lesson (FB) Learning objective: To create shapes. Shapes In Crazy Places Let's recap our gymnastic skills. It is hard to believe that when our school closed back in March we were in the middle of our gymnastics topic. I would like you to try and remember the shapes we have learned. Once you have remembered them, I would like you to perform your shape somewhere a little different to the carpet of your living room. The crazier the better. I will post a video on Wednesday to show you some of the crazy places I found. Don't forget to send me some photos! I can't wait to see some of the crazy places you find to perform your shapes.

English Monday – task 1

English Tuesday – task 2

Wordsearch Wednesday

English Wednesday – task 2

Monday – Problem Solving Week!

Task 2: Link: https://nrich.maths.org/2404

Task 3: How tall would the Robot Monster be that was made from the three bits left over after you had made the tallest and the shortest robots?

How many Robot Monsters, which are all different heights, can you make with the nine pieces (all with one head, one body and one set of legs)?

What if you could only make a robot using odd numbered pieces. How tall would it be? How many possibilities can you make?

What if you could only make a robot using even numbered lengths. How tall would it be? How many possibilities can you make?

I am 20cm tall. What parts could I be made of?

Extension: Solve this Riddle. I am 17cm tall. I have two ears, 4 buttons on my tummy and wheels for legs. What parts am I made of? Can you create your own riddle?

Tuesday – Problem Solving Week!

Task 2: Can you find all of the possibilities?

Extension: What Could It Be? In the calculation below, the box represents a missing digit:

What could go in the box? What would the total be each time? Which is the highest/lowest total? Which totals are odd/even? Are there different ways of getting to the same total?

Task 3: Link: https://nrich.maths.org/6343

Wednesday – Problem Solving Week!

Task 2: Sort the Street Link: https://nrich.maths.org/5157 - What is the same about these houses? - What is different? - How could you sort/group them?

Task 3: Domino Sorting Link: https://nrich.maths.org/4940

How can you sort them?

Can you make a pattern? Can find you different ways of sorting the dominoes?

Extension: Domino Sorting Can you sort the dominoes into just 2 groups? Are there any dominoes that you have left over and don’t fit into the 2 groups? Can you put the dominoes into pairs where they add up to 5? How many pairs can you make? Which dominoes are left? Can the dominoes be paired in any different ways so that each pair still adds to 5? Which dominoes are left over now? Are there any dominoes which are always left over? Can you explain why?

Thursday – Problem Solving Week!

Task 2: Three Way Mix Up Link: https://nrich.maths.org/177

Jack has 3 blue tiles, 3 green tiles and 3 red tiles. He put them together like this to make a square. He made the rule that you could not put two tiles of the same colour beside each other. - Can you find another way to do it? - Can you find ALL the ways to do it? - How many ways have you found?

Task 3: City of Towers Link: https://nrich.maths.org/183 In a certain city houses had to be built in a particular way.

There had to be two rooms on the ground floor and all other rooms had to be built on top of these.

Families were allowed to build just one room for each person living in the house.

So a house for two people would look like this:

But a house for three people could look like one of these:

There are some families of five people. What might their homes look like?

There are some families of seven people. What might their homes look like?

There are some families of 11 people. What might their homes look like? How many different ways can they build their houses?

Extension:

RE – task 2

History – task 2