Year 2: ‘My Learning Newsletter’

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PSHE

English

This week we are going to continue looking at the story of ‘The Elves and the Shoemakers’. Remember to access the pack, you need to visit the Talk 4 Writing section of our ‘Home Learning’ page on the website. You have a grammar task, a reading comprehension task and a story to write.

Maths

It is important that we continue to exercise our brains and work on our arithmetic, reasoning and have a little bit of fun carrying out maths around our homes. Don’t forget the methods we use for each operation. You may like try concrete first, then pictorial and finally abstract. Keep up the times tables on Times Table Rockstars!

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Our Lovely Children of Year Two,Another week without your smiling faces but a week where we were able to hear those special

voices. You are all coping so well and have been little superstars for your family. We are so proud of you all Year 2! You are blowing us away with what you have learnt and continue to learn during these challenging times. We can’t wait for you to share

with us the memories you have made.Keep believing in yourself like we, your teachers believe in you because you continue to inspire us everyday. We appreciate all that you’re doing. Continue to dream, love, wonder, inspire, nurture and listen, We miss you all very much. All our love, as always your teachers x x x We know that lots of you will be missing seeing your friends on the

yard, sharing your lunch with them in the dinner hall and having a little chat on the carpet. But it is certain that when we do all get back together again in school, you will be able to make the best memories with your friends! Imagine how fabulous it is going to be.

This week, we would like you to create a friendship recipe to help us all to remember what it takes to be the best possible friends that we can be!

You can complete your friendship recipe in chalk on the ground, as an iMovie, write it on paper or even type it on the computer.

Don’t forget you can send them to

yeartwo@st-aloysius.co.uk so we can have a look

at your masterpieces!

Maths Challenge One

Arithmetic

1. 58 + 29 =2. 78 - 45 =3. One half of 100 =4. 8 X 3 =5. 35 divided by 5 = 6. ____ + 34 = 687. 89 - 12 = 8. One quarter of 12 = 9. 9 X 2 =

10. 20 divided by 2 =

Problem solving and reasoning‘Multiplication/Division’

If a Brachiosaurus is 15m tall and the Stegosaurus is 3m tall how many Stegosaurus do you need to make the height of a

Brachiosaurus?

Maths in and around your home…

Collect 18 items from around your home and share them equally between 3 of your family members. How many will each person get?

Maths Challenge Two

Arithmetic

1. 34 + 7 =2. 15 + 10 = 3. 40 + 10 + 5 =4. _____ = 56 - 24 5. 9 X 4 = 6. One third of 21 = 7. 50 divided by 10 = 8. 55- 5 - 5 = 9. 3 X 3 =

10. 76 + 6 =

Problem solving and reasoning‘Subtraction’

Jayne did homework for 35 minutes. Lily did homework for 50 minutes. How many more minutes did Lily spend on her homework than Jayne?

Maths in and around your home...

Count how many steps it takes for you to walk from your front door to your kitchen. Take 5 away from your total. What is your answer?

Maths Challenge Three

Arithmetic

1. 56- 27 = 2. 4 + 5 + 11 = 3. 12 divided by 4 = 4. 7 x 3 = 5. 63 + ___ = 816. 3 x 5 =7. 18 divided by 3 = 8. 9 x 6 = 9. 58 + 10 + 10 =

10. 61 - 39 =

Problem solving and reasoning‘Addition’

Emily bought 15 pencils, 24 markers and 18 crayons. How many writing utensils did she buy altogether?

Maths in and around your home…

Count how many rectangle shapes you can see in your house and then add 3 to your total. How many is that altogether?

Literacy Activity - The Elves and The Shoemakers

When teaching literacy at St. Aloysius, we love to sometimes incorporate Talk for Writing within our teaching. Talk for Writing have been producing work booklets which you can find on our school website in the ‘Home Learning’ section and within ‘Year Two Home Learning’.. This week we are going to continue to work on activities based around ‘The Elves and the Shoemakers’. We are going to take some of the activities from the booklet, but if you do complete the work and require a few more activities, please visit our website and download the booklet.

Think About:

● Capital letters at the start of a sentence

● Full stops at the end of a sentence● Spellings of homophones● Commas in between two

adjectives.

Sentence DoctorsCan you help us to make these sentences better? They have a few

mistakes and we definitely need your help!

once upon a very long time ago, there lived a kind-hearted shoemaker and his wife

Little did they no but three little elves, clary, pepper and jas heard the shoemaker’s wife.

in the morning, the shoemaker and his wife were amazed to see the delightful little shoes on the workbench.

Literacy Activity Two - Reading Comprehension

Questions

1. What were the elves doing whilst working through the night?

2. Why did the couple want to thank the elves?

3. What did the elves do after hiding in the workshop?

4. Why do you think Clary, Pepper and Jas crept into the workshop?

5. How were the shoemaker and his wife going to return the kindness?

6. Why do you think their clothes were ragged and torn?

Literacy Activity Three - The Elves and the Shoemakers

My Writing ToolkitWe are going to think about creating a completely different version

of ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’. We are still going to stick to the theme of characters who help each

other out because we all understand how important this is!Have a little try of writing your very own ‘Helping Tale’.

Some character ideas:

We would love to read some of your stories. Once you have finished, you can send them to yeartwo@st-aloysius.co.uk

Beginning Introduce main characterDescribe where your character livesExplain why your character is about to go on a journey

Middle Describe where your main character meets a group of charactersExplain the problem that the group of characters haveDiscuss how your main character is going to plan a solution

End Explain how your main character helps the group of charactersDescribe how the character’s are feelingExplain what they do to celebrate

PSHE

Being a Good Friend RecipeWe know that lots of you may be missing your friends, but just imagine how exciting it will be when you get to see them and all of the wonderful

memories you will be able to make with them! This week, we thought it might be a good idea to write a ‘Being a Good Friend Recipe. You need to think about all of the different things which make you a good friend.

This is an example of how you could set it out, but if you have a better idea, we are more than happy to see your own version! We would love to see some of your completed recipes. You can design them however you like. It may be on the floor in chalk, an iMovie creation, a handwritten recipe or

even on the computer.

Being a Good Friend Recipe

Instructions:First, you must always listen to your friends because sometimes they will need to talk to you about their feelings.Next, you must mix in a cup of forgiveness because...

Time ConnectivesFirst,...Next,...Then,...

After that,...Finally,...

We would love to see your recipes

too!