Year 2 Home Learning w/c 22/6/2020

Additional Areas of

Learning for Year 2 Spelling:

Use a coloured pen or pencil to correct any of the wrong spellings in the extract from The Wizard of Oz.

Hint: you’re going to be checking your Y1 and Y2 Common Exception Words, how to use –ed for past tense verbs

and any of the homophones that you’ve been learning about.

Reading

On Monday we’ll be reading and uploading Chapter 7 of The Wizard of Oz. On Wednesday we’ll be reading and

uploading some information about hot air balloons. On Friday we’ll be uploading one of us reading Chapter 8 of The

Wizard of Oz. We’ve shared further down some of the background information that your child might need for

some of the vocabulary.

Keep reading your own books or ebooks as well, as much as you possibly can (four times a week is ideal). Remember

that Oxford Owls are allowing access to all of their reading books for free at the moment, you just need to

register via their website: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Subject Learning

Objective

Activity & Teaching Points Key

Vocabulary

Resources

Maths Add and

Subtract

Ones

Click on the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and scroll all the way down to Summer

Term Week 3. Then, scroll back up to Lesson 4 – ‘Add and Subtract Ones’ and watch the tutorial video.

From this point you can access the activity sheets and the answers.

The direct link for the activity is: https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Y2-

Lesson-4-Add-and-subtract-1s.pdf

The direct link for the answers is: https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Y2-

Lesson-4-Answers-Add-and-subtract-1s.pdf

One more

One less

More than

Less than

How many

Difference

Equals

Is the same

as…

Web link

Any

practical

resources

that could

help e.g.

make your

own Base

10 by

cutting

‘sticks’ and

‘squares’

out of

paper /

card.

Hundred

square (can

your child

make their

own?)

Number

line (again,

your child

could make

their own).

Subject Activity & Teaching Points

Writing Writing a Letter to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry

Activity: you are going to pretend that you’re Dorothy and you’ll write a letter to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, telling them that you are trying to get home. You practised

writing a letter last term when you wrote a letter from Toto to her friend in Italy.

Here is your letter writing toolkit:

Perfect handwriting (including joining strokes).

Capitals in all the right places.

Spaces between every word.

Correct punctuation.

Super spellings (your grown-ups will give you your Common Exception Words mat and when you’ve finished, they can have a look and write down any spellings that

you’ve got wrong and then you can go back through your work and edit it).

Address at the top,

Dear …

Start your message on a new line.

Follow the structure as with your Toto letter, including starting each section on a new line.

Think about everything that’s happened so far in the story that you (Dorothy) has experienced and you’ll want to tell all of this to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, so they can

understand where you’ve been and also how you’re trying to get home. You might want to listen to all the videos of the story being read first, but here’s a recap too:

Chapter 1: The Cyclone – it took you and Toto your dog to Oz and you killed the Wicked Witch of the East by mistake. You ended up with some new silvery shoes.

Chapter 2: A Scarecrow, A Tinman and a Lion – you set off walking along the yellow brick road and met your new friends. The scarecrow didn’t have a brain, the tin man

was all rusty and couldn’t move so you oiled his joints but he didn’t have a heart. The lion was scary at first but then you found out he didn’t have any courage.

Chapter 3: A Dangerous Journey – you all set off into a forest across a ditch and you had to make a bridge. You came across a tiger monster but escaped it. After that

you arrived at a river and you had to make a raft to get across but you were swept away. Luckily the lion pulled you ashore. After that you went through a field of poppies

but they made you so sleepy until your friends, the tinman and the scarecrow, carried you out of the poppy field to fresh air and you recovered.

Chapter 4: Emerald City – you came upon a vast, sparkling green city and you had to wear green glasses when you were allowed to enter it. Inside, a booming voice from a

giant head said that he was a wizard and you asked him to send you back to Kansas but the giant head told you to kill the Wicked Witch of the West first.

Chapter 5: The Wicked Witch – as you approached her, she spotted you with her one eye and blew her whistle to tell her wolves to tear you to shreds. The tinman

chopped at the wolves until they were all dead. The witch blew her whistle again and the crows came to peck at them but the scarecrow got rid of them. This made the

witch furious so she sent a swarm of bees but the scarecrow scattered straw over you and Toto to protect you. Then, the witch unleashed some magic monkeys and they

harmed your friends but not you and you noticed her looking at your sparkly shoes. You tried to move but tripped over something and your shoes fell off so the witch

grabbed one. This made you so angry that you threw a pail of water on her and it made her melt away!

Chapter 6: The Wizard’s Trick – The witch’s slaves repaired your friends and so you all set off back to the Emerald City, helped by the magic monkeys. This time the

wizard wasn’t a giant head, but a small old man who told you that he wasn’t really a wizard but that he’d arrived at the Emerald City in a hot air balloon and everyone thought

he must be magic.

So you’re hoping now that now you’re back in the Emerald City you can be helped by the wizard to get home, maybe in his hot air balloon.

Subject Learning

Objective

Activity & Teaching Points Key

Vocabulary

Resources

Topic Comparing

conditions

to grow a

plant.

Have a look through the information further down and follow the instructions for your comparative test

that you started in Week 2. You need to measure the plants that might be growing in any of your 4 pots

and record your results. Complete the boxes shown on the sheet headed ‘Activity 1 – Plant Growth

Results’ with drawings and information about what conditions you gave that plant and what has happened.

When you’ve done this, you can carry on with the rest of the information and watch this clip:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078lxf/clips

and watch this clip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/ztjd7ty

There are some more clips on the BBC website that you could watch, such as this one about how a cactus

survives: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0128ym1

This link takes you to a selection of clips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078lxf/clips

Dessication = the complete removal of water from something. There are some fascinating plants in the

world, like the Selaginella Lepidophylla, or Resurrection Plant, that can survive almost complete desiccation

and still spring back to life when put in water. See if you can find out about any other weird and wonderful

plants from around the world.

Activity 2: Cress seed experiment set up.

Alternative activity if you can’t get any cress seeds (or you may wish to do this one anyway):

Comparative

test,

compare,

prediction,

germinate,

grow.

Cress

seeds

Small

plastic

dishes /

trays

Cotton wool

or kitchen

roll

Subject Learning

Objective

Activity & Teaching Points Key

Vocabulary

Resources

Creative Making

Character

Puppets to

Retell a

Story

Using the story of The Wizard of Oz as your prompt, think of a way that you could make some puppets for each of the characters so

that you can retell the story.

You could draw the characters and cut them out – that would be an easy way to make your puppets. You could attach lollipop sticks if you

have them. Here are a couple of pictures from pinterest, but there are plenty of different ways in which you could make your puppets.

You might even want to make a background for your story telling. We’re really excited to see what you will come up with for this activity

– let your imagination run riot!

Mindful-

ness Sound meditation – to fuel curiosity

Snuggle down somewhere safe, close your eyes and listen to all the sounds around you. What can you hear? The clink of coffee cups,

snippets of conversation, sounds from nature? Get curious and feel the buzz of life around you.

The Wizard of Oz Chapter 7 – Oz’s Rewards

Vocabulary

summon: to demand that

someone is there.

As sharp as a pin – this is a

simile which means that someone

is a quick thinker and is very

smart.

racked (his brains) = to make a

great effort to think about or

remember something.

The Wizard of Oz Chapter 8 – Home Again

Vocabulary

glistening (eyes): watery eyes

that are nearly crying.

familiar: well known

Topic

1 2

3 Now complete the sheet further down headed Activity 1 – Plant Growth Test Results.

4 5

5 6

7 8

9

Topic – Activity 1 – Plant Growth Test Results

Spelling

Use a coloured pen or pencil to correct any of these spellings.

Hint: you’re going to be checking your Common Exception Words, how to use –ed for past tense

verbs and any of the homophones that you’ve been learning about.

Dorothy livd on a lonely farm in Kansas, whith oanly her Uncle

Henry, her Aunt Em and her litul dog Toto for company. One

day, as they played outside, the sky grew dark … Then the

wind whippt up with a chilling moan. “Their’s a cyclone

coming,” called her Uncle Henry. “Quick, intwo the cellar!”

In a panic, Toto ran too hide under her bed. Dorothy dashd

after him, as the wind shrieked and the whole house shook.

Whith a mighty wrench, the cyclone whirled the house intoo

the sky. Dorothy shivered whith terror. “Wot will happen

two us?” she whispered.

There hows saild through the sky for owrs …Suddenly, whith a

sickening jolt, thai landud. Dorothy lookt outside and write

their were sum litul men whith pointy hats.