Good morning all! I hope you all had a lovely weekend enjoying this unprecedented amount of sunshine we’re having.
Exciting news: we have lots of new learning resources/websites available for learning from this week! Please have a look at them as they are much more related to the types of lessons which will happen at school. Don’t feel overwhelmed, just have a look and see which ones you feel most comfortable with.
First off is White Rose Maths Online (https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ ) There are plenty of fantastic Maths resources linked to the work we do on mastery in school. I know we are in the summer term now, but DON’T look at that yet, instead, have a go at Week 1 (where lesson 1 is titled ‘Make Equal Parts’) as it is focuses upon fractions which we would have been doing in class around about now. Each lesson has a video, worksheet (which can be done on plain paper if you, like myself, don’t have access to a printer) and a copy of the answers to check your work. There is 1 lesson to do everyday and will give you that little bit more structure!
Next, are some Pie Corbett resources (see attachment at the bottom). We are hoping these will be released regularly as they are FANTASTIC and help you at home to maintain and develop your child’s literacy, reading and writing skills all in one package! Take a look at the document and see if you can give it a go. :)
As well as this, the Government have launched their brand new online learning platform Oak National Academy (https://www.thenational.academy/) This has been planned as a streamlined home learning experience with a variety of English, Maths and Foundation Subject lessons being delivered via video by real teachers. Please do check it out - although I must stipulate: lots of the work on here, especially in the Foundation Subject area, is not really linked to the topics we are learning about so take heed of this.
This week’s Learning Project is all about animals. I have included 2 reading documents as always to read at home so PLEASE PLEASE keep reading as much as possible. I cannot stress the importance of this enough. Read anything you can - books, websites, magazines, comics, posters, anything you can!
Also, in the Home Learning Project document are links to videos I have made. There is one for this week’s spellings to learn but there is also a video of me reading out the spellings from last week so you can have a go at taking the spelling test like we would in class. There are plenty of links and activities in the Home Learning Project so take your time when reading through it.
Home Learning Documents for this week:
Week 4’s Home Learning Project
Dangerous Animals Information Text
Year 2 Talk For Writing Literacy Work
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Stop Barking Reading and Comprehension
Spelling - Dots and Dashes - With this week’s spellings to learn
Maths Problems of the Day Week 3
Science - Our Cress Has Finally Grown! Check out this worksheet with pictures and tell me what has happened to the different temperatures.
Finally, here are some general Read Write Inc Spelling Resources:
The set 1, 2 and 3 sounds to practise at home.
Green Words (to sound out then learn by sight) set 1 (this a powerpoint file)
Green Words set 2
Green Words set 3
Red words (words with unusual spelling patterns which make it hard to sound out - just learn this by sight!)
And… last but by no means least, here is our Learners of the Week Gallery!
Be good, stay safe and love each other, Year 2. We miss each and everyone of you so much.
Lots of love,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Debowska.
