GREAT WOOD HOME LEARNING RECOMMENDATIONS YEAR2 11TH-15THMAY2020
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Great Wood Home Learning Recommendations
Year 2 11th - 15th May 2020
Hello 2S and 2H,
Well done on your hard work and thank you for all the pictures you sent in to us last week. It was brilliant to see so many children trying their best to complete home learning and putting in
100% effort. We still seem to be blessed with beautiful weather and we hope you’re all managing to enjoy time outdoors. This week we have tried to create plenty of variation and have
included a Design and Technology challenge, art activity and a music activity to take part in. We hope you enjoy these projects.
We hope the children enjoy seeing what their friends had been up to last week. Please remember to send any pictures through by Thursday if you would like them to be included next week.
We’d particularly love to see your home-made board games and your portraits of people you miss in lockdown matched to a song.
Maths
We have included in the timetable daily activities to practise maths skills which have been taught already at school. This week will be focusing on
shape! This is a super fun and usually “hands on” topic but don’t worry if you don’t have shape toys at home! We have included as many online
games as we could find. Shapes can be found all over the home so to finish the week off, why not go on a ‘shape hunt’? On IXL look for the ‘skills
recommended by your teacher’ section (changed on Sunday). We suggest you spend 10 minutes here and there practising these skills at home, to
keep up your child’s interest in the challenges. For each skill, we would like the children to aim for a score of 70-90. Also, go to diagnostic and “step
into the arena” to get quiz questions on a variety of topics but please tell them to click ‘I don’t know yet’ rather than helping your child along if they
are struggling with a question.. IXL is meant to be completed by the children independently and will make questions easier if questions are
answered incorrectly.
❏ IXL
❏ Maths interactive games by year group. A small file to download for each game (free) https://garyhall.org.uk/primary-maths-resources.php
Reading and Phonics
★ Reading: Try to keep reading for pleasure as much as you can at home. Keep that brain muscle sharp by reading a variety of things each day. This could be fiction, non-fiction,
recipes, instructions, magazines, subtitles on your TV or suitable websites.
★ Listening to audiobooks: An absolutely fantastic resource is https://stories.audible.com/discovery. This is usually quite expensive, but they have made all their children’s books free
for the entirety of lockdown. It also means that children can enjoy stories together and listen at the same time. A lovely thing to do whilst drawing or making Lego models etc.
★ Phonics: To keep up word reading skills, the website we would recommend is phonics play. The children are used to all of the games as we use this website a lot at school so know
how to use the site independently once logged in. In year 2 we aim to consolidate and practise spelling and reading of all sounds so any activity on the website is suitable.
PE and Keeping Active
The beautiful weather has returned and long may it continue! We hope that you are still enjoying some fresh air or keep physically active from your homes. It is super important to keep the
body active especially when spending so much time at home. These are our recommendations for daily exercise (or perhaps even more than once daily!)
● Joe Wicks
● Cosmic Yoga
● Strictly Come Dancing video tutorials
● Andy Wild’s workouts
● Go Noodle
Dinosaurs Topic
Did you enjoy learning about Mary Anning and what dinosaurs ate? We have heard back from lots of you who were very excited about it! We would recommend these child friendly
websites if your child wants to do research and find out more. DKfind out https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/search/dinosaur/ and Britannica School (foundation level)
https://register.britannica.co.uk/Lancashire_Virtual_School/ (school ID is lvschool to login).
Just another quick reminder to use this timetable in a way that best suits your family’s needs, there is no expectation for you to complete every single activity! All Maths and English we have
set for home learning intends to embed and reinforce prior learning rather than introduce new concepts and skills to children. We will pick up where we left off when we are finally back in
school. Feel free to explore the websites we have directed you to such as IXL, espresso and BBC bitesize but be mindful we may direct you to other activities at a later date.
Stay safe and keep washing those hands!!
Miss Smith and Miss Heys
Essential login details for this week:
Espresso discovery IXL Phonics play Independent
education Use your child’s login: march20 activities
login: student18441 personal login details password: home (children can
password: greatwood sent in email. complete
without help)
If you are accessing highlighted in
espresso from google this colour
please see search term
to find activity on plan.D Spelling, punctuation and English Maths Science, Topic, Art etc.
a grammar Theme this week: Theme this week: Shape!
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o stories about Horrid Henry: vertices T-Rex! We’d love to see how you get on following the
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choose
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flute
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boot
y chew How is Henry feeling about the dance class? rue
June Why doesn’t he want to go? Lesson includes:
threw What would he rather be doing? Introductory quiz, video, online worksheet (go
school What do you think about Madame Tutu? back to the video if need be), quiz
Investigate this spelling rule What does Madame Tutu think of Henry’s dancing?
plus a game!
IXL Skills (level c)
https://new.phonicsplay.co.
uk/resources/phase/5/alt- Support by watching the opening of the animated Activities N.1, N.2, N.3, N.4, N.7
spellings-oo version of the same story up to 3:08 mins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5aTgH1vCE0&s Optional sorting shapes game:
bean afe=true (Please help your child pick suitable sorting
street criteria: some are not Year 2 level - select from
scream Writing Activity: LEFT hand side of options when entering the
feet
Pretend you are Henry and write in role. Write a game)
monkey
silly letter to Mum and Dad, pleading with them to stop https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource
equal taking you to the dance classes. /75/shapes_sort_carroll#
Discuss all the reasons you could include in the letter,
Investigate this spelling rule e.g. you’d rather learn karate, Madame Tutu
plus a game! screeches at you, your friends at school will laugh
https://new.phonicsplay.co.
when they see you as a raindrop, etc. Use your
uk/resources/phase/5/alt-
spellings-ee discussion to help write your letter. You might want
to use the introductory sentence and sentence
cry starters below to help you:
smiled Dear Mum and Dad,
pie I’m writing this letter to convince you that dance
child classes are not for me! First of all, … Another reason
try
… Also, … Finally, … Please say you’ll think about it!
tie
high Love Henry
Check all sentences for spelling and punctuation
Investigate this spelling rule together
plus a game!
https://new.phonicsplay.co.
uk/resources/phase/5/alt-
spellings-ighD Spelling, punctuation and English Maths Science, Topic, Art etc.
a grammar Theme this week: Theme this week: Shape!
y Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
T Recap different ways to spell Read together the opening extract from Horrid To describe and create shape patterns MUSIC - People we love described by music
u ‘u’ Video. Henry’s Birthday Party from the collection Fearsome
e https://central.espresso.co.u Four: https://www.thenational.academy/year- ://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/watch-this-do-this-
s k/espresso/primary_uk/subj https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/8218/Hor 2/maths/to-describe-and-create-shape-patterns- weekly-activities/zjy3382
d ect/module/video/item1146 rid-Henrys-Fearsome-Four-by-Francesca-Simon.html year-2-wk2-1
a 10/grade1/module63429/in Discuss – Lesson includes: Follow this BBC ten pieces activity to explore how we can
y dex.html How is Henry feeling about his birthday? Introductory quiz, video, online worksheet (go “draw” people we love by making music.
How are his Mum and Dad feeling about his back to the video if need be), qui The children learn about how the composer Elgar wrote
Sorting by spelling quiz (u) birthday? different kinds of music to describe people he loved - even
https://central.espresso.co.u Why are they feeling differently to Henry? IXL Skills (level c) his dog!
k/espresso/primary_uk/subj Support by watching the opening of the animated Activities T.1, T.2, T.3, T.4, T.5 T.6, T.7
ect/module/activity/item82 version of the same story up to 3:01 mins where The video takes you through how the music sounds
3707/grade1/module63429/ Henry hands out his invitations. Optional shape patterns game: different when it is about the different people in his life.
index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8g_KNzHVs&s https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and- The narrator helps with understanding this!
afe=true sequencing/shape-patterns
Writing Activity: There is a lot of music and ideas in the video so it might be
Spelling quiz (u) Design and write an invitation to Henry’s birthday Try making tessellations with this game (good for worth watching once for enjoyment first then watching a
https://central.espresso.co.u party at Laser Zap. If you have some, look at party if you don’t have shape toys at home to play second time, pausing it the second time to discuss the
k/espresso/primary_uk/subj invitations you have received in the past for ideas. with): different pieces of music they hear!
ect/module/activity/item83 You will need to include: https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-
5653/grade1/module63429/ To:___ Please come to my birthday party! On (date): Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Tessellation- The second video is an activity which is just brilliant! Draw a
index.html At (time): Location (where): Special requirements: Creator/ picture of someone you are missing during lockdown.
(e.g. fancy dress, swimming costume, Henry may This is quite a mindful and thoughtful activity.
IXL Skills (Level D) even be so rude as to ask for a huge present!) Please Making shape games (create a picture using You could listen to more Elgar music whilst having a go at
E.13 reply to: shapes) the portrait!
Remember to include capital letters at the start of https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNLvcBmoqo
peoples’ names, days of the week, months of the attern-blocks
Wordsearch game (click on year, places, etc. Decorate your invitation to make it The children will almost definitely need help to think of a
which sound you would like as attractive as possible. piece of music that reminds them of that person. If you’d
to focus on) like some ideas of more classical composers to listen to,
http://www.ictgames.com/ you could try these (just search their name on YouTube or
mobilePage/phonicFinder/in Spotify)
dex.html Einaudi (calm), Debussy (relaxing piano), Mozart (loud and
strong), Beethoven (dramatic), John Williams (film
composer) , Hans Zimmer (lion king composer)D Spelling, punctuation and English Maths Science, Topic, Art etc.
a grammar Theme this week: Theme this week: Shape!
y Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
W Recap different ways to spell Return to the theme of Henry’s birthday party from To name and describe 3D shapes DT challenge: Design your own board game (Wednesday
e ‘ee’ Video. yesterday. Talk about how a birthday party takes a and Thursday)
d https://central.espresso.co.u lot of preparation and planning! Today, you are going https://www.thenational.academy/year-
n k/espresso/primary_uk/subj to help Henry’s family with the planning and make 2/maths/to-name-and-describe-3-d-shapes-year- This might sound like a big challenge but it could be so
e ect/module/video/item1100 some lists. Re-watch the animated version here, up 2-wk1-4 much fun! It doesn’t have to be very complicated to make it
s 08/grade1/module63429/in to 3:36 mins: work.
d dex.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8g_KNzHVs&s Lesson includes: ● You will need to make a basic track to follow (any
a Sorting by spelling quiz (ee) afe=true Introductory quiz, video, online worksheet (go shape on a piece of paper will do. This could be
y https://central.espresso.co.u Writing Activity: back to the video if need be), qui an activity in itself!)
k/espresso/primary_uk/subj Imagine you are Henry’s Mum. Write a list of all the ● Will you make a spinner or use a dice?
ect/module/activity/item82 party food Mum would like to buy. Continue to add IXL Skills (level c) ● Will you make playing pieces or use a toy such as
3149/grade1/module63429/ more items than those mentioned in the clip. Now Activities O.1, O.2, O.3, O.4, O.5, 0.6 Lego for pieces? Or will each player need a set of
index.html imagine that you are Henry. Write a list of all the one colour?
Spelling quiz (ee) party food that Henry would like to buy. Add some Optional “Oxford Owl” Game ● Will you have forfeits or rewards for landing in
https://central.espresso.co.u more items to this list too! https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/24 certain places (like snakes and ladders) or
k/espresso/primary_uk/subj Remember to use commas to separate all the items 459.html perhaps you’re trying to just get around the
ect/module/activity/item83 on your list! Later on, (5:10 mins) Dad says, ‘I know board fastest?
4786/grade1/module63429/ lots of good games.’ Make a list of all the party Sorting 3D shapes online game: ● Will you include a set of cards with your quiz?
index.html games that could be played at Henry’s party. Talk https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activit These could include quiz questions you make up
about how Henry might spoil each one. Watch to the y20 on it OR you could pick out challenges like “do 5
IXL Skills (Level D) end of the story. Imagine you are either Henry or star jumps” on the cards. Be as creative as you
E.10 Henry’s Mum. Write some sentences listing all the like!
reasons why you think Henry should or shouldn’t See attachment for homemade board game ideas.
Wordsearch game (click on have a birthday party next year.
which sound you would like Check all sentences for spelling and punctuation
to focus on) together.
http://www.ictgames.com/
mobilePage/phonicFinder/in
dex.htmlD Spelling, punctuation and English Maths Science, Topic, Art etc.
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T Recap different ways to spell Read together the opening extract from Horrid To identify 2D shapes on the surfaces of 3D Enjoy finishing and playing your board game!
h the ‘ie’ sound with Monday’s Henry Robs the Bank from the Tricky Tricks shapes
u activity again. Collection:
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uk/resources/phase/5/alt- 2/maths/to-identify-2-d-shapes-on-the-surfaces-
s rrid-Henrys-Tricky-Tricks-by-Francesca-Simon.html
spellings-igh of-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-5
d Discuss the game Gotcha that Horrid Henry and Lesson includes:
a IXL Skills (Level D) Moody Margaret are playing. Does Gotcha remind Introductory quiz, video, online worksheet (go
y E.11 you of any board games you like to play? What are back to the video if need be), quiz
the similarities or differences? It sounds like Henry
Wordsearch game (click on likes to cheat! Do any of your family members cheat
when playing board games?! Whilst we have been in IXL Skills (level c)
which sound you would like
lockdown and socially distancing, you may have been Activities O.7, O.8,
to focus on)
http://www.ictgames.com/ playing some board games with your family. Use the
mobilePage/phonicFinder/in opportunity to dig out some old favourites and play
dex.html again! Talk about your favourites and why. Do you
have a board game that you think Henry would like
Practise your spelling words to play? Your challenge is to introduce Henry to a
in a sentence. board game and write a review. You would need to
CHALLENGE: include: - name of the game - number of players - a
basic summary of how to play - why the game is one
Can you make a sentence of your favourites and why you think Henry would
which includes a word with like it - a star rating.
an ‘ee’, ‘ew’ and ‘ie’ sounds?
E.g. The child had to choose
which ice-cream he wanted.D Spelling, punctuation and English Maths Science, Topic, Art etc.
a grammar Theme this week: Theme this week: Shape!
y Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
F Read together the opening extract from Horrid To compare and sort 2D and 3D shapes Dinosaur Top Trumps game
r Home spelling challenge Henry Peeks at Peter’s Diary from Horrid Henry and Attached to this week’s email is a top trumps game on
i with your family. the Football Fiend: https://www.thenational.academy/year- dinosaurs. If you are lucky enough to have a printer, you
d flute https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/1093/Hor 2/maths/to-compare-and-sort-2-d-and-3-d- could print them off and play the game. This could give you
a chew rid-Henry-and-the-Football-Fiend-by-Francesca- shapes-year-2-wk2-2 inspiration to make your own dinosaur top trump game.
y June Simon.html You could use the attached blank template to make your
school
Discuss why people choose to write a diary – i) to Lesson includes: own Dinosaur Top Trump Cards (or could easily create
street
scream retell key events that have happened to them that Introductory quiz, video, online worksheet (go these free-hand if you don’t have a printer). Please feel free
monkey day and ii) to make comments on these events or talk back to the video if need be), quiz to edit the categories!!
silly about their thoughts and feelings. Re-read Perfect Gather the information needed using the following
smiled Peter’s diary entries on pp10-11 of the extract. Ask IXL Skills (level c) websites:
pie whether these are good diary entries or not. How Activities O.9, O.10 https://register.britannica.co.uk/Lancashire_Virtual_S
try could they be improved? chool/ (school ID is lvschool to login).
high
Writing Activity: Imagine you are Perfect Peter. Your Sorting 3D shapes online game:
challenge is to rewrite the diary entry for one of the https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activit https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/search/dinosaur/
days. You could imagine that you are writing the y20
entry after one of Henry’s troublesome antics that You can easily find the rules online but the basics are:
you’ve read about this week. Remember to i) retell 1. Shuffle the cards and deal them out equally
the key events from the day and ii) make some (players must only look at their top card)
comments, or write about your thoughts or feelings
2. The dealer reads out a category e.g. size 2m.
in response to what happened. Check all sentences
3. The other players read out the same
for spelling and punctuation together.
category.
4. The one with the best or highest card wins
and collects all the top cards and puts them
to the back of their pile.
5. It is then the winner’s turn to choose the
next category.
6. The aim is to collect the most cards!You can also read
