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Home Learning for week beginning Monday 1st June
Good morning Wombats,
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics or grammar activity each day, one maths activity each day and one Science activity for this week.
English
Task 1
Get a response pen (we use green at school but any colour is fine). Reread the beginning of the story that you wrote last week.
- Underline the best sentence in your opening.
- Explain to your grownup why it is good (have you used alliteration, it has a conjunction, it has ideas that were in Cottonwool Colin etc).
- Ask your grownup to be your response partner and use a different colour. Ask them to underline one sentence that they think you could make even better and ask them to explain why.
Make the improvements suggested by your grownup and discuss what will come next in your story (look at the plan you made last week to help you).
Task 2
Reread my plan of a new story like Cottonwool Colin.
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Bubble wrap Barbara |
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Characters |
Barbara (beaver) Her family – mother, father and brothers and sisters (all bigger than she is). Grandma |
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Beginning Who are the family? Who is protected and why? Where does the character go? |
Barbara is the smallest in her family and wants to explore. Father says it is too dangerous. Grandma says to wrap her in bubble wrap so they do. |
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Middle What happens first to put the character in danger? Then, after, next |
Live by the sea so if she falls off cliff, she is safe. Boy kicks thinking she’s a football. Seagull pecks Chased by dog |
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End Finally… What happens when the character gets home? How do they feel? What is the result? |
Finally back home and out of breath. Mother worries but she explains everything that happened She is still safe. She is now allowed out in the big wide world. |
Here is the next part of my story following my plan.
At last, she was free and she rolled out to smell the sweet sea air from the windy cliff-top. She felt the happiest she had ever been and so grown up until… A huge gust of wind blew her to the edge and WEEEEEEE, SPLAT! She had toppled over the edge and ended up surrounded by the golden sands of the beach. Luckily, she was safe. Then, she heard footsteps. A young, excited boy came closer to investigate the mystery item he could see, hidden like treasure.
What time connectives have I used?
Here are some more examples of time connectives. Which ones will you use in the next part of your story? Make a note of them in the middle section of your plan.
Now it is your turn to write the middle section of your story, use the words below to help you make interesting vocabulary choices.
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Verbs chased rolled toppled dived dodged slalomed hopped hid skipped heard |
Adverbs quickly carefully energetically dangerously speedily unhappily frantically horrifically |
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Emotions scared horrified amazed shocked terrified |
Conjunctions because so but when yet |
Once you have finished the middle of your story, reread it and check your own work. Can you spot and correct any of your own mistakes?
Look back at your plan again and tell the ending of your story to a grownup ready for tomorrow.
Task 3
Read back through the beginning and middle of my story, we need to do this to make sure that the ending makes sense and follows on from what I have already written. I am going to use the middle part of my story to link to the ending.
Have a look below at my ending.
Finally, Barbara was home after a difficult day. She breathed a sigh of relief. Her father ran straight up to her, extremely grateful she was safe. She explained to him that everything that could have happened did…
She had been to the beach, flung into the ocean for a swim, pecked at by a seagull and chased away by a dog yet she was still OK.
Dad and the rest of the family were so happy she was unharmed. Barbara felt big and brave like her siblings and grinned showing all of her pearly teeth. From then on, Dad allowed Barbara to go out and explore with her brothers, sisters and friends in the big wide world because he knew she could look after herself… even without being swaddled in bubble wrap.
Can you spot where the middle links to the end? Discuss it with a grownup.
What do you think is successful about my ending?
Are there any ideas that you could use in your writing? (choose two or three ideas that you want to include in your ending like a particular conjunction, a sentence starter, an adverb or some powerful vocabulary and make a note of them on your plan).
Write the end of your story, use conjunctions to extend some of your sentences and make sure you follow the structure of the original story.
When you have finished, use a different coloured pen, read through your story and make any changes to any mistakes that you spot.
Task 4
Read through the whole of your story to check that it makes sense. Put a wiggly line under any parts that you think you can make even better!
Go through the checklist below with your story, make the changes independently to make your story as good as it can be before you read it to a grownup.
- Check capital letters and full stops to mark sentences
- Check capital letters for names
- Improve two adjectives
- Add two adverbs
- Add a conjunction: because, so
- Check spellings
- Show how a character feels
- Improve a section of the story by adding an exclamatory sentence (Starts with ‘What’ or ‘How’ and ends with ‘!’).
Task 5
Create a front cover for the story you have written and write a blurb for the back cover. Remember a blurb is a summary of your story without giving too much away!
Reading
Complete one reading comprehension each day this week, it’s a little while since we’ve done them and I don’t want you to get rusty because you are so good at these! Click on the links below. You can read the text on screen and write your answers on a piece of paper if that is easier.
Reading Comprehensions (they also have the answers so your grownups can check them afterwards).
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 7
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Grammar
If you are a phonics and spelling wizard, revise your grammar knowledge instead and complete one of these Grammar Hammer checks each day, you know how to do these as we do them in school each week but you might need to explain them to your grownups!
https://www.irkvalley.manchester.sch.uk/year-2-grammar-hammer-tests/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 7
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
The links to the worksheets for each lesson are below or you could write the answers on some paper.
Maths Questions to go with each lesson
Science
Design and make your own bug hotel! Find out about the variety of bug hotels that can be made using the link below.
https://www.inspirationgreen.com/insect-habitats.html
Watch the PowerPoint below to help you design your own bug hotel and then make your design! Put it in your garden and see which creatures come to visit!
Bug Hotel PowerPoint
I hope you have a lovely week! Post some pictures of your bug hotels when you have finished them on our class blog page, I would love to see them!
Love as always
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Home Learning for week beginning Monday 25th May
Good morning my cute, furry wombats,
I have planted my bean in my garden, I hope it will grow well, I can’t wait till I get some beans on it!
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics or grammar activity each day, one maths activity each day and two Science activities for this week (one of them is art based).
English
Task 1
Watch the Cottonwool Colin video again if you need to or use the story map you made last week to remind you of the story. Click on the link below.
https://harrowgate-hill-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/cottonwool-colin
Look at the planning template below. Complete it thinking about what each box would contain if this were a plan for Cottonwool Colin.
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Beginning Who are the family? Who is protected and why? Where does the character go? |
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Middle What happens first to put the character in danger? Then, after, next |
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End Finally… What happens when the character gets home? How do they feel? What is the result? |
We are going to invent and plan a new story but our new stories will follow the same pattern but we will be changing some details like type of animal and setting.
Task 2
Have a look at my plan for a new story like Cottonwool Colin but I have changed some details to make my own story.
| Title | Bubble wrap Barbara |
| Characters |
Barbara (beaver) Her family – mother, father and brothers and sisters (all bigger than she is). Grandma |
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Beginning Who are the family? Who is protected and why? Where does the character go? |
Barbara is the smallest in her family and wants to explore. Father says it is too dangerous. Grandma says to wrap her in bubble wrap so they do. |
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Middle What happens first to put the character in danger? Then, after, next |
Live by the sea so if she falls off cliff, she is safe. Boy kicks thinking she’s a football. Seagull pecks Chased by dog |
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End Finally… What happens when the character gets home? How do they feel? What is the result? |
Finally back home and out of breath. Mother worries but she explains everything that happened She is still safe. She is not allowed out in the big wide world. |
Discuss with a grownup what has been changed. Explain how my new story still follows a very similar story to Cottonwool Colin.
Have a look at this table below. You can use it to help you, if you need to, for ideas about the main character, settings and problems but I’m sure you will have some brilliant ideas of your own to!
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Main Animal |
Setting |
Chased by |
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Think about how will they be protected? What will there name be? |
Think about what dangers are in this place? |
Think about What other things could happen? ( For example, Tossed about in the waves, owls swoop down, flattened by a boat)
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Make a planning sheet like the one below and plan the changes you are going to make to your story like the one that I did about Barbara.
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Title |
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Characters |
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Beginning Who are the family? Who is protected and why? Where does the character go? |
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Middle What happens first to put the character in danger? Then, after, next |
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End Finally… What happens when the character gets home? How do they feel? What is the result? |
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Once your plan is finished, use your plan to talk through the story to yourself to make sure that you are happy with it, add any details to your plan if you need to and then tell your story to a grownup using your plan to help you. How was your plan useful?
Task 3
Read the story of The Gruffalo here.
https://www.slideshare.net/hybo/the-gruffalo-16325928
Read it again and this time write down all the things that were seen, heard and felt by both the mouse and the Gruffalo. What ideas can you take? Add them to your story plan.
Task 4
Get a dice and have a look at the table below, complete the activity that matches the number your dice lands on, make sure you have your plan in front of you.
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Tell your partner the names of your characters. |
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Tell your partner the opening sentence of your story. |
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Tell your partner three time connectives you will use in the middle of your story. |
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Tell your partner four adjectives to describe the setting. |
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Explain what you changed in your story (compared to the original) using the conjunction ‘but’. |
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Tell your partner the ending to your story using your plan. |
Task 5
Today we are just going to write the beginning of our story. Look at your plan to see which point you need to write up to.
Listen to the original story of Cottonwool Colin again here.
https://harrowgate-hill-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/cottonwool-colin
How did Jeanne Willis, the author, start the story? What ideas from that can you use? Look at her use of alliteration. You can remind yourself of what alliteration is here by watching a video clip if you have forgotten.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh8c47h
Think of three adjectives of your own using alliteration like Jeanne Willis did (she used big, bold and bouncy)to describe your animals and make a note of that on your plan.
Look at my opening to see how I have used ideas from Cottonwool Colin and my own plan together to write the beginning of my story.
Bubble wrap Barbara
Once there were a family of brave beavers. For beavers, they were happy, huge and hairy except for Barbara because she was the smallest beaver in the bunch. Dad always worried that she would get hurt and she was not allowed to go outside on her own. One day, Grandma said Barbara should be wrapped in bubble wrap to keep her safe so that is what they did. Barbara was wrapped up. Nothing could hurt her. If she fell, she would bouncy straight back up and she would not cut her knee. If she fell in the water, she should float. It was a perfect plan and off she went.
Your turn now! Write the opening of your story, following your plan, use different kinds of sentences, conjunctions, adjectives and expanded noun phrases. What powerful vocabulary can you include?
Reading Challenge
Did you complete all the hexagons on the Reading for Pleasure challenge last week? If not, I’ll leave it on here so you can finish it.
I would love to see pictures on the blog of your special reading den!
Reading
Click on the website below (it’s a different website this week!) and choose one book to read from these books each day. When you have finished each book, complete a quiz on it on Accelerated Reader.
You don’t need to log in, just click start reading.
You can read with a grown up if you need or have the book read to you on the website.
You can use the search bar at the top to find the title of the book.
The Accelerated Reader quiz code is underneath each book just type that into our Accelerated Reader as normal.
Accelerated Reader website
https://ukhosted18.renlearn.co.uk/6701828/
Your log in for Accelerated Reader is the same as the one you use at school.
AR Quiz Number 232680
AR Quiz Number 232685
AR Quiz Number 235918
AR Quiz Number 235359
AR Quiz Number 232681
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 6
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Grammar
If you are a phonics and spelling wizard, revise your grammar knowledge instead and complete one of these Grammar Hammer checks each day, you know how to do these as we do them in school each week but you might need to explain them to your grownups!
https://www.irkvalley.manchester.sch.uk/year-2-grammar-hammer-tests/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 6
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
The links to the worksheets for each lesson are at the bottom of this week’s page or you could write the answers on some paper.
Problems to Solve for extra challenge!
Science (with a bit of art)
Use the link below to learn how to make your own insect using natural materials (collect these before you do the activity when you go out for a walk, run or bike ride)! Show me what you have made on our class blog!
Use the links below with a grownup to find a about lots of different life cycles.
https://www.wwt.org.uk/uploads/documents/2020-05-15/wwt-the-circle-of-life-session-plan-5-7years.pdf
Have a lovely week!
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
White Rose Maths Worksheets for this week.
Home Learning for week beginning Monday 18th May
Grownups if you need anything extra for children to help with home learning here is my school email address, email me directly and I will help if I can, I miss seeing you all in the playground!
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
rroberts@harrowgatehillpri.darlington.sch.uk
Good morning my little wombats,
How is your bean doing? This is what mine looks like now!
What does yours look like? Post a picture of it on our class blog so we can all see! Thanks Emily, Willow-Rae, Brooke, Robert and Ryan for posting pictures of yours.
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics or grammar activity each day, one maths activity each day and just one Science activity for the week but remember to look after your beans!
English
Task 1
- Think inside your head today! What is your very most favourite book? Do not tell anyone! Get 3 post it notes or 3 pieces of paper and write a clue about your favourite book on each piece. Give one clue to your brother/sister or grownup, can they guess your book? Give them each clue in turn if they need it to help them guess.
- Explain to your grownup why you like that story, remember to use the word because to justify your answer. Explain to your grownup what is the problem in your favourite story, what is the thing that goes wrong.
What do you predict this book will be about? What can you see? What do you think the setting is? What clues are there as to what this book will be about? Who are the characters?
Write two questions that you would like to know the answer to when we read this book.
Task 2
Listen to me read the story here.
https://harrowgate-hill-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/cottonwool-colin
Draw a story map to show the main events of the story. This will be important later.
Task 3
- Listen to me read the story again and complete a chart like this one about the story.
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What I liked about the story.
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What I disliked about the story. |
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Questions about the story that I would like answered.
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2. Write your own blurb for the book (you might need to explain to your grownups what a blurb is!).
Compare it to the blurb on the back of the book (scroll to the bottom of this week’s work to see it when you’ve finished).
Questions to answer
Would you have chosen this book based only on the front cover?
Would you change your mind now you’ve read the blurb?
The purpose of a blurb is to tell us a little bit about what the story is about without giving too much away so that we want to read the book for ourselves.
Task 4
Look at the pictures below. What story could these pictures be about?
Use these pictures to help you summarise this story, tell your summary to a grownup. What information did you decide was important? I challenge you to retell the story in 30 seconds (get a grownup to time you)!
Why could you not fit it all in?
Sometimes we need to summarise a story or an event and when we do this, we just provide the key (most important) information.
Listen to Cotton Wool Colin again and use bullet points to make a note of the main events.
Discuss with a grownup and decide what the five most important events are in the story. You must include these five events in a summary of the story.
Use this to help you.
Sentence starters you could use
One winters day,
After that,
Whilst running,
Scared and cold,
Conjunctions (words that join sentences together) you could use
because so but yet except
Questions to think about when you are writing your summary
Where did the story begin?
How did the story progress?
How was Colin feeling?
How did he escape?
How was the problem resolved?
Task 5
Make up a story with your family!
Start the story by looking at the pictures below.
Each person takes it in turns to say the next sentence in the story (have lots of goes each if there are only a few of you). The story you are telling must have a clear beginning, middle and end, the aim of the game is to create a complete story by the end.
When you have finished, discuss how you knew what to say next and how well the story flowed. What could you have done to make the story better? How did you know what to include to make the story work? Did you use ideas from other stories that you know? You will need the knowledge from this week to continue this work next week J.
Reading
Reading Challenge
Can you complete all the hexagons on this Reading for Pleasure challenge this week?
I would love to see pictures on the blog of your special reading den! (I have put a link below to help you make a mini book)
https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/activities/make-a-miniature-book
Click on the website below and choose one book to read from these books each day. When you have finished each book, complete a quiz on it on Accelerated Reader.
You can read with a grownup if you need to or have the book read to you on the website.
https://www.getepic.com/app/search
I have seen some of you doing some fantastic reading on Epic! Keep up the great work 
Our class log in is
lpq4333
If you use this, you will see your name, click on it and you will see the books that I have suggested for you or you can use the search bar at the top to find the title of the book.
The Accelerated Reader quiz code is underneath each book just type that into our Accelerated Reader as normal.
Accelerated Reader website
https://ukhosted18.renlearn.co.uk/6701828/
Your log in for Accelerated Reader is the same as the one you use at school.
AR Quiz Number 233628
AR Quiz Number 233677
AR Quiz Number 233637
AR Quiz Number 233675
AR Quiz Number 233684
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 5
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Grammar
If you are a phonics and spelling wizard, revise your grammar knowledge instead and complete one of these Grammar Hammer checks each day, you know how to do these as we do them in school each week but you might need to explain them to your grownups!
https://www.irkvalley.manchester.sch.uk/year-2-grammar-hammer-tests/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 5
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
The links to the worksheets for each lesson are at the bottom of this week’s page or you could write the answers on some paper.
Problems to Solve and maths games to play
Try out some of these maths games to using resources easy to find at home!
Shut the Box
A game for two players
Noah
Starfish Spotting
Lots of Lollies
Stike it out
A game for two players
Dotty six
For two players
Science
It's our last week looking at our beans as they are probably ready to be planted in a pot or in your garden!
Print off this Bean Diary or you can use it to create your own! Complete page 4, put the date, write a paragraph to explain what has happened to your bean since last week and include a detailed labelled drawing of what it looks like now. Take careful measurements using a ruler accurately to measure how tall the stem is, how long the main root is (if you can) and how long and wide the leaves are. This is important scientific data that needs recording carefully.
The Blurb from Cottonwool Colin
Colin was the delicate one in the family. His mother molly-coddled him. But, finally, Colin was allowed into the world. Sometimes he got scared, sometimes he got hurt. But ohhhhhh… it was worth it!
Maths Worksheets for this week's White Rose Maths Home Learning
Home Learning for week beginning Monday 11th May
Grownups if you need anything extra for children to help with home learning here is my school email address, email me directly and I will help if I can, I miss seeing you all in the playground!
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
rroberts@harrowgatehillpri.darlington.sch.uk
Good morning my cute, furry wombats,
How is your bean doing? This is what mine looks like now!
There are plenty of strong roots now and the leaves have just started to grow. What does yours look like? Post a picture of it on our class blog so we can all see! Thanks Emily, Willow-Rae, Brooke and Robert for posting pictures of yours.
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics activity each day, one maths activity each day and just one Science activity for the week but remember to look after your beans!
English
Task 1
Remind yourself of the features of a letter. Use the picture below to help you.
Jim received this letter from the giant that we looked at last week.
What might Jim want to write in a letter back to the giant?
Jim
The Cottage
Fairyland
AB23 4CD
Dear Giant,
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Jim
Task 2
In the original story the Giant often says ‘’Fee –fi-fo-fum’’ Create your own giant sayings using different consonants and –um rhyming words! E.g. ‘’ Hee-hi-ho-hum, I want food in my tum!’’ Come up with a few different ideas of your own and decide which is your favourite because you will need it later!
Task 3
What if Jack didn’t climb the beanstalk, what if Jim didn’t climb the beanstalk, what if it was a new character instead!
Draw a new character for the story ___________ and the Beanstalk. Write expanded noun phrases around the picture to describe your character.
Use this link to remind yourself of what expanded noun phrases are if you need to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z3nfw6f
Task 4
Change other nouns in the original story to create a plan for a new story.
| Original | My Version |
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Jack
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Beanstalk and Castle
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Giant
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Golden Goose/money/golden harp
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Task 5
Using your plan from yesterday, write your new version of Jack and the Beanstalk. What will your title be? Post it on the class blog when you are finished so we can all see (you might want to include illustrations to!).
Reading
Click on the website below and choose one book to read from these books each day. When you have finished each book, complete a quiz on it on Accelerated Reader.
You can read with a grown up if you need to or have the book read to you on the website.
https://www.getepic.com/app/search
Our class log in is
lpq4333
If you use this, you will see your name, click on it and you will see the books that I have suggested for you or you can
use the search bar at the top to find the title of the book.
The Accelerated Reader quiz code is underneath each book just type that into our Accelerated Reader as normal.
Accelerated Reader website
https://ukhosted18.renlearn.co.uk/6701828/
Your log in for Accelerated Reader is the same as the one you use at school.
AR Quiz Number 233635
AR Quiz Number 213166
AR Quiz Number 213168
AR Quiz Number 213165
AR Quiz Number 213169
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 4
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 4
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Use the website below to get extra practice after you have watched each lesson. There is one each day that matches the videos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
For those of you who would like to stretch your mathematical thinking a little bit more, have a go at some of these reasoning pictures!
Science
Print off this Bean Diary or you can use it to create your own! Complete page 3, put the date, write a paragraph to explain what has happened to your bean since last week and include a drawing or a photograph of what it looks like now.
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Home Learning for week beginning Monday 4th May
Good morning my cute, furry wombats,
How are you all doing? How is your bean doing? This is what mine looks like now!
It's quite hard to see but it has one very long root that is about 5cm long! From that very long root are growing four more shorter roots near the top of the long root that are about 1 cm long. I have been remembering to water it but some days it has not needed any water as the paper towel was still wet enough.
What does yours look like now? Post a picture of it on our class blog so we can all see!
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week (apart from Friday because that is a special bank holiday to celebrate 75 years since the end of the Second World War, you can find out more about it here https://www.mrtdoeshistory.com/ve-day-key-stage-1). So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics activity each day, one maths activity each day and just one Science activity for the week and remember to look after your beans!
English
Task 1
Did you know that there are lots of different versions of Jack and the Beanstalk? I have found this version! I talked about some of the other versions on our blog page if you want to go and have a look.
Questions to answer
- What is the title of this book?
- Which characters can you see on the front cover?
- Who might the little boy be?
- What might the boy be doing?
- What sort of book might it be?
- Who is the author?
- Who is the illustrator?
- Who might like this book?
Task 2
Watch and listen to me reading the story here!
https://harrowgate-hill-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/jim-and-the-beanstalk
How is it similar to Jack and the Beanstalk? How is it different?
Record your answers in a table like this one.
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Story |
Jack and the Beanstalk
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Jim and the Beanstalk
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Characters |
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Setting |
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Plot |
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Task 3
What is at the start and end of a question?
Write down every question word you hear in this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_RfP46xUw
Which question words are tricky to spell? Can you spell them all correctly? Ask someone at home to test you!
What is Jim thinking in this illustration from the story? Can you punctuate his questions correctly?
What questions might the giant be asking here? Can you make sure that you punctuate your questions correctly?
Task 4
Oh No! The giant wrote this letter to Jim in the story!
Please can you be the teacher and correct it for me!
Reading
Click on the website below and choose one book to read from these other versions of Jack and the Beanstalk each day. When you have finished each book, complete a quiz on it on Accelerated Reader.
You can read with a grown up if you need to. Choose two other books that you would also like to read from this website this week.
https://www.getepic.com/app/search
Our class log in is
lpq4333
If you use this, you will see your name, click on it and you will see the books that I have suggested for you or you can use the search bar at the top to find the title of the book.
The Accelerated Reader quiz number is underneath each book just type that into our Accelerated Reader as normal.
Accelerated Reader website
https://ukhosted18.renlearn.co.uk/6701828/
Your log in for Accelerated Reader is the same as the one you use at school.
No quiz for this book but an interesting version of the story!
AR Quiz Number 212649
AR Quiz Number 224357
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 3
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 3
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Science
Carry on with the bean dairy that we started least week. Complete page 2, put the date, write a paragraph to explain what has happened to your bean since last week and include a detailed drawing or a photograph of what it looks like now. The link is here if you need it again.
Something Different
If you are looking for a different kind of activity that you can do with your family, try this out and let me know how you get on!
https://escapefromhouse.wordpress.com/
I hope you have a lovely week!
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Home Learning Week Beginning Monday 27th April
Good morning, I hope you have had a lovely weekend, please see the home learning tasks for this week below.
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Did you get something in the post yet? I did and I followed the instructions in the letter, this is what mine looks like!
What does yours look like? Post a picture of it on our class blog so we can all see!
Try your very best to complete one activity each day from each section again this week. So one piece of English, reading every day, one phonics activity each day, one maths activity each day and just one Science activity for the week but remember to look after your beans!
English
Task 1
Look carefully at the picture above
Answer these questions in full sentences, remember your finger spaces, capital letters and full stops, use your common exception word mat to help you with any spellings that you need.
- Has the giant seen Jack?
- How do you think Jack is feeling at this moment?
- Would you rather be the giant of Jack? Why?
- Would you rather be a giant in a land of humans or a human in a land of giants?
- What/who else lives in the land of giants?
- Why do giants live apart from humans?
Task 2
Draw a picture of a room in the giant’s house, draw Jack in the room as well so that we can see how big the giant’s things are.
Task 3
Story Starter!
Use the story map that you drew last week to help you complete the story I have started!
Jack had been climbing for most of the morning. Step after slippery step, he had made his way up to the top of the beanstalk. Several times, when the wind picked up, he had feared he might lose his footing and fall to his death. He had dared to look down on one occasion, seeing that his house was the size of an ant far below.
Now that he had finally reached his goal and clambered up to the land of the giants, Jack had no idea what to do next.
‘FEE, FI, FO, FUM…” a voice as loud as a foghorn boomed out from high above him. Jack took a deep breath...
Task 4
‘Big’ and ‘small’ are adjectives to describe the giant and Jack. Can you think of synonyms (words that have the same or similar meaning) for ‘big’ and ‘small’? You could use this thesaurus to help you make a list!
Can you write a sentence to describe Jack and the giant, using some of your synonyms?
Task 5
I asked Mr Roberts to write some sentences about Jack and the beanstalk, but they are not very good! Can you help him by improving them?
1.Jack climbed the beanstalk.
2.The giant stood at the top.
3.Jack was scared.
4.The giant was really big.
Reading
Click on the link below and choose one book to read from here each day or choose another book that you have at home that you would like to read.
Phonics
Username is: login
Password is: homelearning
Complete one activity each day from week 2
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Maths
Complete one lesson each day from Summer Term Week 2
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Science
Print off this Bean Diary or you can use it to create your own!
Complete page 1 Planting the Bean Seed
I hope you have a lovely week!
xxx
Comments on Class Blog Page
Hello my lovelies!,
If someone has commented on a blog post that you have written, you won't be able to see that comment straight away as all posts and comments need to be approved first so it might be a short while before it appears on the page. Keep checking back, it will appear as soon as possible :)
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Class Blog Page
A couple of people are not sure how to access the class blog and add posts. Follow these instructions to help you :)
1. Go to our school website.
2. Click on Children.
3. Click on Home Learning.
4. Scroll down to Class Blogs at the bottom of the page and click it, that will take you to the class blog pages.
5. Click on menu in the top left corner.
6. Click log in.
7. Change the class to the class you are in using the drop down box.
8. Type your user name and password in the boxes.
9. Click create post on the top left.
10. Add a title so we know what your post is about.
11. Write your post in the box.
12. Click on the blue create button underneath the box you are typing in and your blog post is done!
13. If you want to comment on someone else's post, click on the title of their post and you will be able to type in the comment box.
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Home Learning Activities for week beginning Monday 20th April
Try to complete one activity from each section each day
English
Go to the video centre on our school website and watch me read a version of Jack and the Beanstalk :) I hope you enjoy it! Do you have a copy of Jack and the Beanstalk at home? If you do, find it and read it, how is your version of the story similar to mine? How is it different? Write three paragraphs to explain your ideas fully.
Paragraph 1
These stories are the same because...
Paragraph 2
These stories are different because...
Paragraph 3
The story I like best is... because....
If you don't have a copy of the book, watch this version of Jack and the Beanstalk and use this instead to complete the task. Click on the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-home/zff42sg
Watch the BBC story again and use the cards in this link. Cut them up and put the events of the story in the right order.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/jack/pdf/jack_sequencing.pdf
Draw a story map of my version of Jack and the Beanstalk (go back and watch it again and pause it if you need to) and then use your story map to retell the story to someone in your house, include as much detail as you can! Do you remember the story map we drew when we read Rapunzel? Here is an example to remind you of how to draw one. Keep this safe, you will need it next week!
Try your very best to read every day, it's super important!
There are lots of new reading links to help you find your next great book on the English section of our school website.
Phonics
Complete one of these phonic activities each day, there is advice on here about phonics for your grownups as well.
https://monsterphonics.com/home-learning-in-the-covid-19-lockdown/year-2-home-learning/
Maths
Complete one of these maths lessons each day.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Play on Hit the Button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Work on your number bonds, halves, doubles and times tables especially 2's, 5's and 10's.
Finally, this week you need to watch for the postman coming to your house, have they got something for you?
Love
Mrs Roberts
xxx
Hello my cute, furry wombats, I miss you and hope that I can see you soon.
Do you remember that we were reading this story before our school closed?
You can listen to it again on Youtube if you click on this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU
Watch this beautiful meerkat film called 'Catch It!' and complete some tasks about it so you can still work on your writing while we are apart. Click on the link below.
https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/catch-it-ks1-activity-pack
Don't forget to work on your reading comprehension, I know how awesome you are at this and I don't want you to get rusty when I am not around. Click on the link below to keep your knowledge all shiny and sparkling!
https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/stage-2-reading-packs
Don't let your maths get rusty either as we haven't covered everything yet, use these each day to help you learn, there is lots of advice and support here for your grown ups to, if they need it ( this is what we use in school) :)
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Our next topic is about plants, follow this link to get ahead in your knowledge about this important part of the science curriculum.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tp-sc-027-planit-science-year-2-plants-unit-home-learning-tasks
Try your very best to read every day, it is super important!
Click on the link below to access loads of free books online. You can still quiz at home because I have set this up for you, (but you might need to type in the title if you don't have the quiz number) follow the link I sent to your grownups on parentmail.
Lots of love as always my little flumps
Mrs Roberts
xxx