If your child is required to isolate or is unable to attend school for an extended period of time, please call the office on 0121 675 3573 and arrange a telephone meeting with Mrs Sheehan, Mrs Driver or Miss Langford to discuss your child’s learning.
This page will be used to provide learning resources to those who are unable to attend school as a result of illness, isolation or any other reason. Furthermore, the materials found on this page may be used by any child who is keen to extend their learning at home.
If you’d like to share your work, you can send it to year2@hillstone.org.uk . Alternatively, we’d be happy to take a look at it on your return to school.
The math’s lessons below will run alongside this week’s learning in school.
Monday
Subtraction – crossing a ten
Click here for today’s lesson. Don’t worry when the video refers to a worksheet. Your task for today is below.
Click here for a subtraction game. Play the game for as long as needed to apply the skills learnt in today’s video. Scroll down to ‘Addition and Subtraction’ and then select the ‘Column Subtraction’ game
Tuesday
Mixed addition and subtraction
Click here for today’s lesson.
Click here for today’s task. Choose 10 calculations to solve using the column method – 5 addition sentences and 5 subtraction sentences would be great. Challenge yourself!
Wednesday
Money – value of coins
Click here to watch, and join in with, the first Oak Academy lesson on the value of coins. Use a pencil and paper to record your work from the investigation tasks.
Thursday
Money – value of coins
Click here to watch, and join in with, the first Oak Academy lesson on the value of coins. Use a pencil and paper to record your work from the investigation tasks.
Click here if you’d like to explore a second task on the value of coins. Complete one of the sheets (but feel free to do them all!)
Friday
Arithmetic
Click on the image below to play the game. Play for as long as you’d long with the aim of becoming super speedy when adding and subtracting a 10! Once you have clicked on the link, scroll down and select the ‘Depthcharger’ game.
Spend ten minutes each day on Times Table Rock Stars
We often play these games in school and the children love to challenge themselves! Can they beat their previous score? Can they complete the game more quickly? Timers at the ready!
Select the multiplication games
Join in with the speed sounds lesson for your Read Write Inc group by clicking the links below. In your Read Write Inc group you will be learning either Set 2 or Set 3 sounds. Follow the links for the right set each day.
Monday
In English this week, the class are looking at this short film. We think that some people may believe that this is the way clouds are formed! Watch the film more than once and use the story mountain and the pictures to put the events in the right order. By each picture on the story mountain write a short sentence to describe what has happened.
Tuesday
Watch the video of Cloudy Lesson again. Answer the questions on the sheet. We want to know what your opinion is of the story, so there really aren’t any right or wrong answers to the questions.
Wednesday
Watch the video of Cloudy Lesson again. Try writing the story in your own words. You can use your story mountain from Monday to help or you can pause the video after each event to write about it. Use the questions and answers from Tuesday’s lesson to help you with some of your writing.
Thursday
In class this week we are going to be looking at both of these books. They are by the same author – Sam Usher, and he did the illustrations too!
After watching both videos see if you can watch again and read and follow the text.
Fill in this table where you can compare the two stories and let us know which one is your favourite and why?
Friday
These are the Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Key words. You can print them out for this activity. Use this link to access a spinner. It has our phonemes on it. Click the spinner to choose a phoneme. Make a list of the words in the lists with this phoneme. Repeat 6 times.
Carry on with your daily reading by choosing a book (at the right stage for your child) from the Oxford Owl library. You need to register on the home page of the website, but this is free! Click here for your own virtual library…
Click here to see a range of ideas for questions you can ask your child about the text they are reading.
And finally, keep up with your spellings using https://spellingframe.co.uk/
In the table below, you will see all our key word spellings and the lists for them. To access one of these lists, you just need to click on ‘ Enter Word List Code’ and enter the code.
Topic Lessons
Weather
This week, we’d like you to keep a diary of the weather!
You can make your own, or use the Weather Diary example. You don’t have to print this, you can work on paper if you need to. We’d also like you to create your own key for the weather each day so think carefully about the symbols you use.
We’re also going to explore another property of everyday materials. This week we will be exploring materials that are opaque, transparent and translucent. Watch this video for more information. Can you find any objects that transparent, opaque and translucent in your house?
For this week’s art lesson, we’d like you to find some natural objects in your garden and create a picture in the style of Andy Goldsworthy,
We also have two P.E. sessions a week. Click here to choose from the activities coach has set up on the P.E. page.
Join in with our meditation session for this week by watching the video on the left.
Click here to visit Mr Farr’s music page and complete one of the activities.