Year 2 Home Based Learning Grid – Week 5 Please complete 1 English box, 1 Maths box and 1 Other activity box from the grid each day. Share your work from each activity with your teacher on Seesaw.Do NOT touch the Subscribe button on any of the videos.

MessagesPE - KEEPING HEALTHY

MeditationWatch the video below

BE THE POND – to help you feel calm and understand your

feelings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5K3pP2IUQ

STORY TIME WITH MRS SHEEHAN

Go to our class weebly to find Story Time with Mrs Sheehan. There will be a

new story each week with an activity to

complete.Happy reading!

TEACHER MARKING & FEEDBACK

Your teachers read all your work and keep a list of all work completed. We will comment on your Maths and English tasks. Please make sure your check these comments for your feedback. We will ‘like’ / acknowledge all the other tasks you complete.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIESRemember to check out the

optional activities on the Weebly.

STATE LIBRARY OF NSWMany fun activities are

available from the following website

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/learning-home

Feast Day of St Mary MacKillop

Read the story of St Mary MacKillop below and write a

prayer to her.Share your prayer with your

family.

Creative Thinking Challenge! (A message from Mrs Parry)

This challenge is optional and great for extending our capable learners. Students can respond in any way they like, write, draw, paint, sculpt, video, voice memo, Power-Point/slides, puppet shows, storybook, song, advert- any creative idea is welcome!If you complete the challenge, email your answer to Mrs Parry kerrie.parry@dbb.catholic.edu.au. There will be a winner each week for K-2 and 3-6 whose work will be published on FB!

This week’s challenge: Ten paintings have just been discovered missing from the Australian National Gallery. How could they have gone missing?

Book Week 2021Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds

Look out for messages, information, activities, and stories from Mrs Sheehan about this year’s Book Week. We are still having a Dress - Up day. We will wear our Book Week costumes in our class Zoom meeting in Week 7, (this is Week 5) so start preparing your costume.You may have read a book where the setting was in the future, or from the olden days, long, long, ago, or even from an imaginary place in another world. Think of a character from this book that you could come dressed as.

YEAR 2 - ZOOM MEETINGSYou have 3 Zoom meetings each week.

There are 2 whole class Zoom meetings – one on Monday and one on Friday at 10am.

You also have 1 Reading Group (RG) Zoom meeting each week.

Your parents have received an email with your reading group time and name – just as the timetable below.

Remember: All Zoom meetings have the same meeting code and password.

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

9:00 am Flying Foxes RG

9:45 am Bandicoots RG Cockatoos RG

10:00 amYear 2

Zoom MeetingYear 2

Zoom Meeting

10:15 am Dingos RG Echidnas RG

11:30 am Goannas RG Hammerheads RG

12:15 Alligators RG

Read the story above of St Mary MacKillop. Say a prayer to Mary thanking her for

her life of service and ask her to help you do what you can to help serve others too.

English

*Teacher Feedback*WRITING

Crabbing at Night

Read the story below. You might need Mum or Dad to

read it with you.

Have you ever been crabbing?

Have you ever done some fun things at night-time?

Comprehension

Once you have read the story, answer the 4 comprehension questions. Write your answers in your book. You do not need to photocopy the page.

Story Writing

Write your own story about a time when you did something fun and adventurous at night.

GRAMMAR – Past Tense

‘Tense’ is a word we use to describe when something is happening.

We can have:Present tense – something is happening NOWPast tense – something has ALREADY happenedFuture tense – something WILL happen later.

When we are talking about when things happen, we are usually using VERBS.

Watch the following video then write out the sentences from the worksheet below in your book. You do not need to photocopy the page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hLS3Go_Hjk

Don’t be tricked!!The VERBs are written in present tense and you need to change them to past tense.

SPELLING

Phonics – nt, nd, nk, mp, st endings

Final consonant blends

Watch the video below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1rmuOxGE8

After watching the video:

1. Write out the spelling words from the grid below into your book.

2. Complete 3 of your favourite activities.

READING ACTIVITY

Read for at least 15-20 minutes each day. You may choose from Wushka or a book from home.

Complete an activity from the Reading Choice Boards A or B below on your favourite book or chapter.

For example:

PUNCTUATION & HANDWRITING

1. PunctuationComplete the two boxes (9&10) on the punctuation worksheet below showing sentences that need editing.

Re-write these sentences correctly in your book. You do not need to photocopy the page.Make sure you are practising your best handwriting.

Hint: Look at the teacher clues at the bottom of each box to tell you what you are looking for.

2. Handwriting

Maths

Daily Warm Up: Choose a game from your Maths and Me at Home booklet. You can find this on our school Weebly Maths page.*TEACHER FEEDBACK*

2D Shape

Video – 2D song “Come and meet the 2D shapes”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIidcCw92gRemember shapes can have:

straight sides, curved edges, vertices (corners)

Some shape names are:

- circle- oval- triangle- square- rectangle- rhombus- kite- pentagon- hexagon- octogon

1.Complete the worksheet below. Use the names above to help you.

2.List the different shapes you can

2D Shape

TangramsWatch the video below on Tangrams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbh1gkr0-Qc

Cut out the Tangram from the worksheet below and create some designs.

Can you trace around your designs and draw a picture.

Take a photo of your favourite designs.

There are some templates below to get you started. You don’t need to photocopy them, just try and make the shape.

Subtraction

Roll 2, 3 or 4 dice to make your numbers: choose one below

Make a 2 digit number and subtract 9orMake a 3 digit number and subtract 99orMake a 4 digit number and subtract 499.

Play this game 5 times.

Use a number-line or your measuring tape to check / work out your answer.

What tricks or strategies did you use?What is the most efficient way to find the answer?

Did you round to the nearest 10 / 100 or 1000?

Record your work in your book.

Number Arrays

Lego BricksParents: This is an open-ended task. This means there are many possible answers. If you do not have lego, you can use something else. I am going to arrange my lego bricks into different arrays.

I need to put 6 lego bricks in each row. How many rows might I have?

What might the arrays look like?

How many lego bricks might I have all together?

What number sentences can you write to match your arrays?

Make 5 different arrays and label them.Take a photo of your arrays.This is one example:

Number Problem

Teddies at the RestaurantParents: This is an open-ended task. This means there are many possible answers.Choose your number:

12, 18, 24 or 48

12/18/24 or 48 teddies sat down at a restaurant.

The tables were only shaped like a square or triangle or hexagon.

How many teddies sat at each table? What shape was each table?

Draw how your teddies are seated. Write how many are at each table and how many there are altogether. Label your drawing.

Can you repeat this task with a different number from above.

see in your home. Eg. The window is a square. The door is a rectangle.

(Take a photo of the items) Eg. 4 rows of 6 = 24 4 x 6 = 24

Other

RELIGION – Old Testament

My Family Tree

The Lord said:

‘Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many

descendants as that’. Abram put his trust in the Lord

and the Lord was pleased.”

Genesis 15:5-6.

Your descendants and your ancestors are the family

members / relatives, who have belonged to your family long

before you were born. You have as many ancestors as

there are stars in the sky. Just like Abraham.

Complete the family tree worksheet below naming your ancestors. (or you can draw it

in your book) Think about them and thank

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Celebrating other people’s success.

Watch the video below that talks about jealousy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ti-qYKlSp8

Team TrialsGood friends celebrate when other people have success, have nice things happen to them or win awards. Sometimes it’s hard not to feel jealous and want those things too. We can still try hard to be the best person we can. We need to remember to be a good friend to others and be happy for them when nice things happen.

1.Read the comic story below.

2.Complete the question page. You do not need to photocopy the page.

3.Write your answers in your

SCIENCE

Rain, Rain*Watch the video on the Weebly with Mrs Coram*Think about your experiences with rain, such as walking or driving in the rain, splashing in puddles, wearing a raincoat or using an umbrella or living in a drought.

You are going to conduct an experiment to see what water does when it falls on different surfaces (like rain).

CHECK WITH AN ADULT FIRST1.Fill a water bottle, cup, container or watering can with water. 2.Go outside and slowly pour some water onto different surfaces.3.Observe what happens to the water.Does it soak into the surface?Does it leave a puddle?Does it run off to somewhere else?Suggested surfaces:grass, dirt, concrete, tiles, wood, pebbles, sand, brick.

GEOGRAPHY

Beaches in the Past

This activity is to be completed on SEESAW.

Look at the photos of beaches from the past.

Think about the human and natural features in each image.

What are things/issues that affect the beach?

Fill out the worksheet template on Seesaw. Use the word banks at the bottom of the pages to help you.

ART

Nature Art Painting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY49eNceLBo

Watch the youtube video showing 8 different techniques to create an artwork of a nature scene.

You will need paint and some household supplies.

If you do not have these things at home, don’t worry, you can make up your own art activity and take a photo of it to show us on Seesaw.

God for them. book. 4.Complete the worksheet:‘Rain, rain’ You do not need to photocopy the page. Write your answers in your book.

Continue with yourRELIGION ART COMPETTION

For Years 2 and 3

PUNCTUATION

Story Writing

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TangramCut out the tangram to create some

pictures. See the following pictures to give you

some ideas.