Year 2 week beginning 4th January

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.

Hello and welcome to year 2’s virtual school! Please feel free to explore the resources available here to either further support your child’s learning at home or as a remote learning tool if your child is required to isolate. You will find learning for both English and maths that runs alongside what we are teaching in school for this first half term, as well as some information about our current topic. Please do call the school on the number above if you would like to discuss your child’s home learning; we are happy to signpost you to what we feel would benefit your individual child the most.

Good news! We now have a place where you can send your work to us. When you finish a lesson, please take a photograph of it and submit it here. Make sure your name is written on the work clearly. We look forward to seeing what you have done!

Spring 1 Week beginning 3rd January

Please click on the link above for the Oak National academy lessons on length. Focus on lessons 1-5 for the week beginning 4th January. The best way to explore this unit of work is to get practical! Have a go at measuring objects around your home in centimetres. If you don’t have a ruler, you can create your own unit of measure using whatever you can find at home. How many forks long is your sofa? How many fingertips high is your bed?

The video below has a lot of ideas for measuring at home without a ruler.

White Rose Maths also have a series of lessons that support our current learning in school. Click on the image above and scroll down to ‘Summer Term – Week 2 – w/c27th April.’ Complete lessons 1 – 4.

And finally, the links below will take you to a selection of arithmetic based games. 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!

This week’s activities are about homophones and reading some information about our new topic, The Best of Britain.

Activity 1. Read these information pages about the U.K. There are some tricky words in here, so you might want to make a list of them and ask an adult to help you read them and explain them. Many of the words are the names of places, you can tell they are names because they start with capital letters.

Activity 2. Read the pairs of sentences about the U.K and decide which one of them is true. Write the true sentences down on paper. Remember to refer back to the reading from hte previous lesson to get your answers.

Activity 3. Watch the PowerPoint on homophones. Can you think of any other pairs of homophones after watching the PowerPoint?

Activity 4. Look at the sheet on homophones. Can you put the correct homophone into the sentences? Choose 4 sentences to write out in your neatest handwriting.

You could also practise these phonic activities by clicking on the links from BBC Bitesize. Try a different one each day. Follow the arrow at the end of the video to do a quick activity.

What are homophones? (Three activities)

What are the days of the week? This fits well with your spelling list.

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 the link below 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.

Key words	Spelling lists	Words in each list
Reception	23787 23788 22789	a I is no go me you we to the my your for said was

Key words	Spelling lists	Words in each list
Year 1	23793 23794 23797 23798 23799 23800	are ask be by come do friend full has he here his house love of once one our pull push put says school she so some there they today were where will
Year 2	23802 23803 23805 23806 23808 23809 23810 23811	after again any beautiful behind both break busy child children Christmas climb clothes cold could door even every everybody eye father find floor gold great half hold hour improve kind many mind money most move old parent people plant poor pretty prove should sugar sure told water whole wild would

Lots of activities then load (and it is possible to see a simple word list showing the words within that spelling list), and children can access all the ones with the ‘FREE’ badge on them.  You do not need to register or sign up

This half term we are beginning our ‘Best of Britain’ topic. We will be looking at maps of the world and locating the UK. We are also going to be finding out lots of facts about Queen Elizabeth II. Below are the activities that you can complete at home to support you with your learning this week.

Map work

Follow this link to view a map of the world. This website allows you to magnify the different countries on the map so that you can see it better. You do not need to purchase the map, just view it online. Can you find the following:

The UK?

A country that is bigger than the UK?

A country that is smaller than the UK?

The 5 oceans that you learnt about year one?

A country that you have never heard of before?

A country that is an interesting shape? What shape is it?

I found a country that is shaped like a boot? Can you find the name of this country?

Map work based on your local area

Follow this link to Google Maps.  Ask your grown up for your postcode and search for your street. What different places can you spot on the map that are near to your home. You may find different primary schools, parks, shops etc. Make a list of the different places that you find! When you go on your daily walk, see if you can find the places that you spotted on the map! You could make a tick sheet to mark off the places that you find.