Good morning everyone!
I hope you all have had a lovely weekend and have managed to keep yourselves busy. Most importantly, I have you have been really good for your parents or carers during at home.
Just a little reminder, I update work for Year 2 every Monday with a new Home Learning Project. These projects contain several tasks for reading, writing, spelling and maths. They also contain other additional tasks linked to the week’s theme. As well as this, I always include additional tasks related to RE, Science, Geography, PE and other areas as appropriate. The intention is for you to do at least one of these tasks per day for each area of the curriculum where possible. So, at least one reading task, at least one writing task, at least one spelling task and at least one maths task per day. This ensures that children’s learning level is maintained as much as possible during the school closures. If you want to do more than one then this is fantastic and I highly encourage it. However, if you are only doing one, please try to do something additional to simply using the online learning sites, such as Sumdog, Education City, TTRockstars, etc, as these are intended to be additional learning, not in replacement of it.
Just a reminder to those parents who have not yet registered for Class Dojo that it is a very important tool for keeping in touch with you during this time so I highly recommend you sign up to this to avoid missing anything.
This week’s Home Learning Project is up and running with plenty of tasks for you to complete at home and follows the theme of Environment.
Please do keep using the daily lessons on both the Year 2 page of White Rose Maths and also those available on the Oak National Academy. I cannot stress enough just how fantastic these are and now we are in week 5 of home learning, the focus is beginning to shift from revision to ensuring new content is being learnt.
Please also check out Fr Jim’s children’s pages on our church website (https://www.olablackpool.org/children-s-page). Not only are there some fantastic videos but Fr Jim will answer any of your questions if you email them to him. He has also included a little challenge linked to what we had been learning in Year 2 before we broke up, identifying objects and their symbolism/meaning used in church. The challenge involves finding the heart logos on Fr Jim’s children’s pages, clicking the picture and watching the videos carefully. Can you find them all? Can you draw a picture of them and write a brief explanation of each? Lots of them we will already know, Year 2!
I have also attached some RE work to complete on the story of the Good Samaritan, as well as a set of work to complete on Pentecost which is quickly approaching.
Finally check our ‘general’ section of our school website to access daily prayers which you can do at home with your child.
Here are some links to the learning documents you will need for this week:
Spelling - Adding the -ed suffix
Last but not least, here is our gallery of Learners of the Week:
Have a lovely week and stay safe. We miss you all very much,
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Mrs Debowska
