Year 2

Welcome to Year Two

 

 

Adults in Year Two

Class Teacher- Miss Dance

Teaching assistants - Mrs F (Monday-Tuesday) and  Mrs Martin (Wednesday-Friday)

 

 

Please see below for a list of useful websites and activities that cover what we have learned so far. 

Work will be set on Purple Mash and Timestable Rockstars, work will also be uploaded via the website for the children to complete. 

Thank you for your co-operation and understanding.  Until we all meet again, keep safe and healthy.  I will miss you.

 

Miss Dance

 

Friday, 27th March 2020

Thank you all for the wonderful emails and messages Year Two. I have loved reading and replying to them, remember you can also upload your work on our class blog. I have enjoyed reading your spring poems and I was blown away by your rainbow posters. I am so proud to be your teacher and I have missed seeing your faces everyday. I hope you enjoy the work that I have set for you next week (30th March 2020).  Please keep the emails and messages coming, they brighten up my day!

Remember be safe.

Miss Dance xx

 

Home Learning- Week Beginning 30th March 2020

 

Maths-

We have already covered fractions but this is a great opportunity to embed your knowledge.

Start with lesson 6 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ 

Remember to take your learning outside too, here are some ideas to get outside in your garden (not a park).

• Practise counting in 2s, 5s, 3s and 10s.
• Write a shopping list and add up how many items and add up the cost of some items.
• Write the numbers 20-50 in words and digits.
• Identify shapes around your home/garden
• Look in different rooms and go on a number hunt. How many items can you find that have numbers on them? What is the largest number you can find? What is the smallest number you can find?
• Chalk a large hundred square and practise forming your numbers

 

English

You do not have to do all of the activities below, you can upload what you do on our class blog or email me some pictures.

Remember not to rush your work!

• Write your own version of The Little Red Hen, you can change the setting and the characters. I would like you to make a front cover for your book and a blurb. Remember that you need to include subordination, co-ordination and a range of punctuation.
• Write an Acrostic Easter poem.
• Make hot cross buns- Explain to the children that many Christians eat hot cross buns at Easter to remind them of the Easter story.

  With adult assistance, children to bake hot cross buns!

  Hot cross buns recipe:

Ingredients/equipment

1 tablespoon dried yeast

¼ cup caster sugar

1 cup (250mL) warm milk

4 cups plain flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon all spice

60g butter, chopped

½ cup currants

½ cup sultanas

½ cup (125mL) warm water

1 egg, lightly beaten

 

Mixing bowl

Cling film

Square tin

Piping bag/sandwich bag

Wire rack

 

1- Place yeast, sugar and milk in a small bowl, whisk until yeast dissolves.

2- Cover with plastic wrap, stand in a warm place for 10 minutes.

3- Sift flour, cinnamon and all spice into a large bowl and rub in butter.

4- Stir in yeast mixture, currants, sultanas, egg and water.

​​​​​​​5- Cover with plastic wrap and stand in a warm place for 1 hour or until mixture has doubled in size.

6- Grease a deep square tin with butter.

7- Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.

8- Divide dough into 16 pieces, form into balls and place in the tin.

9- Stand in warm place for 20 minutes or until dough has doubled in size.

10- Preheat oven to 180°C.

11- To prepare flour paste, combine flour and sugar in a bowl; gradually blend in enough water to form a thick smooth paste.

12- Spoon paste into a piping bag with a small plain tube or use a snap lock (sandwich) bag and cut off a tiny corner.

13- Pipe crosses onto buns, four long lines vertically and then horizontally across each row of buns.

14- Bake for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 160°C for about 20 minutes.

15- Turn onto a wire rack and allow buns to cool.

• Write a set of instructions on how to make the hot cross buns (without looking at Miss Dance's)

 

Other activities 

• Make a papier mâché egg and decorate it with pictures, symbols and words that represent the Christian meaning of Easter.

• Draw a map of one of the rooms in your house. What symbols could you have? Where will you place items? Has your map got a key?
• Fruit and vegetables​- Draw pictures of fruit and vegetables in your home. Label the fruit and vegetables and place in alphabetical order. 
• Look at the work ​of the artist: Lynn Flavell. How does she represent fruit and vegetables? Can you create a piece of artwork in the style of Lynn Flavell.
• Seasons:​ Ask your child how many seasons we have. Can they name them? Ask them to look outside their window and see if they can name the season we are in at the moment. What can they see? Can they see any flowers? Or new buds? Can they draw a picture of what they can see using different materials?   

 

 

 

 

Useful websites/ Ideas

 

Outside Learning and fun activities to do with your child

https://themuddypuddleteacher.co.uk/ 

https://www.orchardtoys.com/dept/things-to-do_d0127.htm?fbclid=IwAR1FaFONuAG9ORsyPVDcjCp79bJWH0FHcULJb8pxkzVEdE2gc8G3Ep33pVI 

Play board games together as a family 

 

Phonics 

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/ 

RWI Phonics lessons at home everyday 

Speed Sounds Set 1 – 9.30 am (GMT)
Speed Sounds Set 2 – 10.00 am
Speed Sounds Set 3 – 10.30 am

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR1EAElBedXJvv7jjqc8eTFK_o479i7_t6KDE-bvK8NAESONaivZvWqjjMU 

 

 

English, Reading and SPaG

 

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen- fee audible books

https://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling - common exception words

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk - username: march20  password: home 

http://www.spellingframe.co.uk - click on year 2 and you can find activities and games for the spelling rules 

 

Maths

There are a range of activities that I have set on Purple Mash for children to complete

https://ttrockstars.com 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit the button 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2

https://primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html 

https://primarygames.co.uk/pg2/powerlines/powerlines1.html 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=Buy2itemsv4 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10  

 

P.E 

Foundation/KS1 dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388Q44ReOWE

Kids Zumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w

Kids Zumba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymigWt5TOV8

Whole school 5 minute moves from the body coach for schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0_1QBQ8Syk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7CX0_7sLTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJXQT4gowg

Family cardio workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5if4cjO5nxo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Star of the week

 

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Dojo Winner

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

                           

                              

Week Beginning 

Core Subject Information

 

 

 

 Reading Certificates

 

 

 

Outdoor Learning

Please note we will be using the outdoor areas regularly this year to enhance our learning. Please can you send old shoes or wellies in with your children along with a suitable coat. This way regardless of the weather we can all get outside.

 

 

                       Homework

 

Spellings and Maths: 

 

 Week beginning 

Spelling rule-

 

 

 

Book Reviews

This term we are reading a range of Roald Dahl books

 

"I loved the book The Twits because the description made me get an image in my head" Lola

 

"I liked this book (The Twits) because the pictures were amazing" Riley

 

"I want to read this book (Fantastic Mr Fox) to my brother because it would make him laugh" Freyja

 

"The description of the three farmers in Fantastic Mr Fox made us all laugh in class, it was gross!" William T