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!)

ANSWERS – I hope you didn’t peep

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.