Home/School Learning Activities – Year 2 – Week beginning 20/4/20

Reading Week 1

Daily ReadingRead your school library book or a book from home.

Write your own blurb for the book you are currently reading. A blurb is a short description of a book and is usually found on the back. It lets the reader know what the book will be about.

Think about when the book is set, main characters, what the problem might be…

Daily ReadingRead your school library book or a book from home.

Prediction master! Can you make a prediction in the story you are reading? What do you think will happen next and why? Tell an adult.

Daily ReadingRead your school library book or a book from home.

Make a list of as many adjectives as you can from a chapter of the book you are reading – if your book doesn’t have chapters just select a page. You can write them down in your book or speak them out to an adult. Remember: Adjectives describe nouns

The angry giant climbed the tall beanstalk.

In the sentence above, the adjectives ‘angry’ and ‘tall’ are used to describe the nouns ‘giant’ and ‘beanstalk’

Daily ReadingRead your school library book or a book from home.

Dear author… write a letter to the author of the book you are reading. Tell them your opinion of their book and ask them any questions that you would want answering about the book or about what it is like to be an author.

Dear J.K. Rowling,

I have really enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series of books. I love how it is set in a world of wizards. Did you always plan to write more than one book?

Harry Potter is such a wonderful character – did you base him on anybody that you know?

Daily ReadingRead your school library book or a book from home.

Design a cover for a book you have read. You could do the cover of the book you wrote the blurb for earlier in the week.

Think about the characters, setting, the style of the writing, adding the author’s name…

Writing Week 1

Linked to summer topic – Land Ahoy! Pirates

Research and BiographyWith an adult, read through the Famous Pirates power point. You’ll learn some interesting facts on 3 pirates: Blackbeard, William Kidd and Anne Bonny.

Pick one of the pirates that most interests you and write about them (This is called a biography). You can get more information about Blackbeard by listening to this song on CBBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-song-blackbeards-song

AdjectivesDraw and colour one of the pirates (William Kidd or Anne Bonny) and use adjectives to describe them. Write the adjectives around the image.

Some adjectives that I would use based on reading the Famous Pirates power point: evil, angry, famous, flamboyant – this is a really tricky word but it describes the style and confidence of someone – remember, pirates wore very stylish clothes!

Adjectives and NounsWrite sentences to describe what you can see in the picture below. This image is also on the Year 2 home learning page. Use your senses and think about what you can see, hear, taste, touch, and smell.

The pirate stood on the warm beach.The blue sea swayed gently.The tall parrot sang a song.

The wind whipped waves rocked the boat.

Creative WritingWrite a creative short story about the pirate ship below. It can be anything that you want. Think about: where the ship is, how long the ship has been there, does the ship belong to anyone? Is there anybody on board the ship or is it empty? It might even contain gold or treasure.

The old ship had been there for 100 long years. From where I was standing, it looked empty. It was very quiet. The only sound was the whistling wind. As I got closer I could see the sails blowing gently in the wind.

Pirate NounsNeatly write out each sentence and underline the nouns in each sentence.

The mean and nasty pirate was standing on the old rotten ship.

The ugly looking pirate was standing on the scary wooden ship.

The nasty old pirate was standing quietly on the huge ship.

The pirate’s pesky and colourful parrot squawked loudly.

The ship crashed loudly over the waves.

The broken ship crashed into the monstrous rocks.

Challenge: Can you spot any adverbs? Remember, an adverb describes a verb (action word). The pirate sat quietly. Quietly is the adverb and describes how the pirate sat.

Home/School Learning Activities – Year 2 – Week beginning 20/4/20MathsWeek 1

Lesson 1: Make Equal PartsFor maths this week, please use the White Rose Maths resources via the below link. Even though it’s now the summer, please just start at week 1. Each week has 5 daily activities – watch the video, look at and answer the work sheet, and most importantly check answers using the answer sheet – remember, don’t worry if you make mistakes – this is how you learn!

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

Note: You can download and print booklets or simply answer questions verbally with an adult.

Lesson 2: Recognise a Half Lesson 3: Find a Half Lesson 4: Recognise a Quarter Lesson 5: Find a Quarter

Afternoon Activities

Religious Education – PentecostFocus – Passing on Messages

Christians believe that the Spirit of God is active in each person and, in some special way, in the community of believers, which is the Church. It is the work of the Spirit to enable people to hear God’s message and to live Jesus’ way of service.

Task: Think about the importance of messages. With an adult, talk about what might be the best way to pass on different types of message? A birthday invitation to a friend, the birth of a baby, a school football match has been cancelled, school closure…

Write about a time when you had to pass on a message for someone.

Topic: Land Ahoy! PiratesWith an adult, read through the power point on the school home learning page for Year 2: Pirate Ships. This power point contains all of the information and some brilliant photographs. Then, carefully draw a pirate ship and neatly colour and label the different parts.

Challenge: Give your ship and name, for example: The Jolly Roger

Religious Education – PentecostFocus – Jesus is Risen

Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb where Jesus had been laid. They found the stone covering the tomb had been rolled away, so they went in; but they did not find the body of Jesus. They stood there puzzled, when suddenly two men in bright shining clothes stood by them. Full of fear, the women bowed down to the ground, as the men said, “The Lord Jesus is not here; he has been raised from the dead, he is alive.” The women gave this message to the 11 disciples.

Task: Use a ruler to draw a cross and add a crown of flowers to show Jesus has Risen. Add colour and detail. Above your image, add the title: Jesus has Risen in bold letters.

Topic: Land Ahoy! Pirates

Draw and label a pirate using the following: eye patch, beard, peg leg, parrot, cutlass (sword), hook, pistol, hat, jewellery, flamboyant clothes.

ScienceAnimals including humans. Look at the Keeping Clean power point and read through it with an adult. It’s all about the importance of keeping clean! This is really important to prevent the spread of germs and viruses.

Task: Design a child friendly hand sanitizer product. Give your brand a name too!

Time Table Rock Stars!

Do you want to be time table Rockstar?

Then test yourself each day (for 15 minutes at least) with multiplication and division questions.

Tip 1: Remember all your good work on multiplication and division fact families.Tip 2: Use your time table grid to help you get the answers.

Code.org If you fancy doing some coding, then log on to code.org and work through course B and then Course C. Remember, do not skip lessons, use the hints or ask an adult…