ARCHIVE – Learning at home – Year 2- 2019-20

Lesson One Lesson One questions Lesson Two Lesson Two questions Lesson Three Lesson Three questions Lesson Four Lesson Four questions All video links for the week

Maths

This week we would like you to try and consolidate your learning in measures for Year 2. We have set you challenges linked to some of our measures curriculum over the past few weeks, but we would like you to work through these lessons so you are prepared for your journey into Key Stage 2. The lessons are taken from White Rose maths that we have used a bit over our time at home. You need to watch the video, then complete the challenge to match that video. We have put the video links all on one page too to guide you. If you need any support, just let us know on Showbie and we will help you. We hope you enjoy these lessons over the week!

As some extra maths that you might want to continue to over the summer holidays we have found these booklets that you will like! Enjoy your Summer themed maths learning!

Summer maths booklet Summer maths challenges

Reading

This week, we would really like you to reflect on the books that you have read in Year 2 and create a list of your favourite books of the year. We would like you to share your favourite books from Year 2 with us in a creative way. Here are some ideas:

• A poster with the title of your books plus a picture
• A tree – the branches of the tree might by your favourite books with pictures on the leaves
• A blue sky with your favourite books floating on the clouds.

We would like to print your favourite books list and have it in our new Year 2 classroom for the new Year 2 to read throughout the year. We hope you rise to the challenge and send us your lists on Showbie!

Staying safe in the sun reading challenge

We know lots of you enjoy these reading challenges each week. This week would like you to complete this one all about sun safety. It will prepare you for your summer holidays and you will be able to teach other people how to stay safe in the sun.

We have shared this with you on Showbie, but we would like you to try and take on the summer reading challenge this summer. We hope you enjoy reading lots of books over the summer! Myself and Mrs LB can’t wait to switch off for a bit and enjoy a good book!

Here is the link to the summer reading challenge:

Summer reading challenge

Writing

For your writing challenge this week, we would like you to write a letter to your future self. The letter starts by asking you a few questions that will help you in writing your letter. Really think about what you have enjoyed in Key Stage 1, and what you are looking forward to as you move into Key Stage 2. We are looking forward to reading your letters. You can keep your letters safe and get them out at the end of Year 6 to see what you wrote, and if anything is as you predicted!

Challenge 1

Write a letter to your future self

When you have written your letter, here are some other activities that you might like to complete that will provide memories of your time in Year 2! Please share some with us on Showbie as we would love to know what your highlights have been!

Spreading your wings to Year 3 Year book from Year 2 My memories from Year 2

My memories

Science

In Science we would like you to complete one of your favourite Science experiments from Year 2. Take a look at the pictures below and decide which lesson you liked the most. You can write about why it was your favourite or do the experiment again at your house…

You can choose from:

Science Week with Mrs Talbot
Learning about electricity and making a simple circuit
Going on a light source hunt around your environment
Sound and Hearing experiment. Remember when Mrs LB and Mrs Lowe asked you to listen to the sounds and you had to guess what the sound was from behind the screen?
Visiting the badger sett – can you find out some more information on badgers?
Glitter!! Use some hand lotion/cream and ask an adult for some glitter. Remember the glitter was supposed to be germs…
Exercise class. We got out hearts racing with an exercise class outside
Matching animals to their young (Dumbo style)!

Have fun Year 2! Send us your memories or your own versions of the Science lessons above.

Art

This week, we would like you to create a scrap book or a collage of all your memories from Year 2. You will need to collect materials, photos and maybe use some of your home learning to create your piece of art.

We want you to be as creative as you can, and also use your scrap book or collage as a keep safe for your future. We won’t forget 2020!

You might want to repeat the activity with some memories from your time at home. We have started to do this in the Hemming and LB house and its something we will enjoy looking back on in the future.

You might also like to try out designing a class of 2020 shirt! When you get to Year 6 you will get your own hoodie, but for leaving Key Stage 1, how about designing your own T- Shirt?

Here is the link to design your own T- Shirt:

Design a T- Shirt Class of 2020

Music

This week we thought it was a great opportunity to create your own song or poem about your memories from Year 2.
We would like you to use all your skills that you have learnt in music over the year and see what you can produce! If you can add an instrument or dance to your song, that’s going to be even more spectacular!

Send your memory songs/poems to us on Showbie!

Here is some musical note paper that you might like to use for your memory song or poem –

Musical note paper

SPAG

Your final SPAG challenges this week are some of your favourite activities! We have found two word searches that link to our theme this week! We hope you enjoy completing them!

Friendship word search Sports day word search

We want to say a big Thank You for all your hard work and dedication to your home learning. You have all worked incredibly hard in such uncertain times, and we are proud of every one of you. We are sad that we haven’t been able to finish the year with you, but we have so many happy memories from our time together this year and in Year 1.

We hope you all have a wonderful summer and stay safe. We are looking forward to seeing you all on the playground in September! Make sure you come and chat to us as we really will miss teaching you next year.

Take care and God Bless,

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxxxx

Week 15 – W/C 29th June 2020

Hello Year 2,

We hope you all had a great week learning about Oceans and the Titanic. It has been great to see all your amazing learning this week, and the effort you put in. You are all superstars!

It was lovely to see so many of you start the week off watching our assembly that we shared. We really liked Hollie’s idea of adding a Headteacher award into her assembly! You gave out some great prizes too Hollie!

We were blown away by Maddie’s poem for the NHS. It moved us and reminded us how amazing the NHS really is. If you want to read her poem, head over to our shout out page to read it.

Evie was on fire again with her home learning. Her prologue for the Wizards of Once books was fantastic. It was great to see her high level of writing she is producing at home is the same as she shows us at school. Mrs Hodgson is going to be amazed when she steps foot in Year 3! We are really glad you have enjoyed this series of books. Keep up the amazing work Evie.

It was lovely to see Ava taking part in the big sing with her brother. You looked like you had lots of fun singing and dancing away! You singing and dancing queen Ava!

It has been great to see how hard Harry Mc has been working in his key worker group. He has blasted through lots of work this week and worked so hard! You are making us really proud Harry!

This week, in the Hemming house we have enjoyed going back to visit our local farm. We had a great time spotting all the animals and feeding them from a distance too. We also visited our local donkey sanctuary in the sunshine yesterday! We have been doing a bit more cooking in our house, and we will be working on a vegan brownie this week linked to your home leaning! Hugo tried Olives for the first time! He seemed to quite like them! We are looking forward to seeing what you get up too this week. It really is the highlight of our day seeing what you get up to at home, and all the great learning you do!

We are continuing to take requests for the themes that you would like your learning to be based on! This week, we are going to be learning about Mrs Hemming’s and Mrs LB’s favourite food – chocolate! We all need a bit of chocolate in our lives, so we hope you enjoy all the chocolate activities this week.

There is also a new home learning grid this week and an active learning grid. Please dip in and out of all the activities over the next couple of weeks. This is the last one that you will have in Year 2! You have all worked incredibly hard with all your home learning grids, and myself and Mrs LB are super proud of everything you have achieved. We hope you enjoy the challenges that we have set on the grids and enjoy making the most of your last few weeks in Year 2.

We hope you have a great week learning about chocolate. We are looking forward to seeing all your adventures and continuing on your amazing home learning journey.

We have no Wednesday challenges for the next few weeks, so put your thinking hats on and send us your ideas on Showbie!

We are missing you all so much, and even if we aren’t together, you are always in our thoughts and prayers. We hope you all stay safe and well this week.

Take care,
Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxx

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling! We miss you all so much!

P.S. We hope you enjoy our Happy Compilation!

RE

To kick start your RE learning this week, we would like you to watch this assembly. We liked that so many of you got involved with our kindness assembly last week. We hope you enjoy this week’s assembly. Maybe you could turn it into a mini collective worship like we do at school!

Here is the assembly –

Can you guess why Mrs Hemming chose this assembly? We hope you have a sing at the top of your voices throughout this assembly!

Roll up for another week of learning a Bible story. The Bible stories you are learning have really valuable lessons, and they will prepare you for your faith journey into Key Stage 2. This week we would like you to read this Bible story. You can find the story in your Bibles at home or on the internet.

Our Bible story this week – Moses

Your task –

When you completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

Here are some resources to help you:

This week, we would like your second RE challenge to link to the two topics we have learnt about over the past few weeks. We thought it was a nice time, to take some time to reflect and create a prayer. We would like your prayer to thank God for the wonderful world that he has given us. Could you ask God to help keep our families and friends safe? Could you ask God to help us in our transition into a new class?

We are looking forward to hearing your prayers. Maybe you could say your prayer in your prayer corner that you set up for your home learning challenge a few weeks go?

Prayer template

PE

This week we would like you to create a Charlie and the Chocolate factory active game in your house or garden. See if you can create clues on sweets to find in your game. Maybe the clues could have some tricky exercises on them like – do 20 press ups!!

We are looking forward to seeing the games that you come up with! We will be trying out a few in the Hemming house!

We have also updated your active learning grid. Please check out the new active learning grid on the start of our Year 2 learning at home page.

We would like you to continue to look at and use #ThisisPE

There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Roald Dahl Challenge Cards

Maths/DT

For Maths this week, we would like you to bake your favourite chocolate treat! This could be a cake, some buns, tray bake or even chocolate muffins. Whatever you fancy!

As this is a Maths task, we would like you to measure out the ingredients of your chocolate treat and write them down. This task is all about measuring, weighing and getting your ingredients just right.

Send us some pictures of your yummy chocolate treats with a list of which ingredients you have used.

Maths Challenge cards

We have found some great Roald Dahl challenge cards, with lots of fun Maths tasks on them. Take a look!

Continue to check out the Bitesize website for fun activities.

Reading

This week, we would like you to take control of your own reading this week. We would like you to use the reading around the subject to find out about a topic you are interested in. We will take a look at all the completed reading around the subject sheets and see if we can fit in some learning in our last weeks in Year 2 about what topics you are interested in.

When you have read around the subject, fill out your reading around the subject paper!

Mary Berry chocolate cake recipie

How about trying this reading comprehension about saving our world from plastic? It’s something we feel passionately about, and maybe after reading you could plan and design a plastic free wrapper for a new sweet or chocolate bar?

End plastic pollution

Also, how about reading a recipe this week and baking a yummy chocolate cake? In the Hemming house, before we became vegan, we use to make this cake a lot! Can you send us lots of pictures on Showbie of you reading a recipe and baking chocolate goods this week?

We would like you to read this weeks First News and try out the challenges that support the newspaper. We hope you enjoy reading it this week!
Here is the newspaper for this week and the activities that we would like you to complete! Let us know how you get on, and share some of the headlines with us on Showbie!

First News- Week 15 Newspaper First News questions

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

Character templates Writing paper Comparing the book to the film

Writing

This week we would like your writing challenges to link to Chocolate! We are really excited by some of these challenges, and we can’t wait to see you get your teeth stuck into the challenges!
You could watch the video of Charlie and the Chocolate factory before you start your writing challenges this week! Or if you feel like a super hard challenge, you could get someone in your family to do some shared reading of Charlie and the Chocolate factory story!

Here are our writing challenges this week! Have a go, and have fun learning about sweets and chocolate!

Challenge 1

Poem template

When you have written your poem, we would like you to have a go at describing the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate factory. We want you to use lots of adjectives to describe each character!

Challenge 2

Here are all the characters for you to read and explore! Happy writing!

History

Over the week your history learning is linked to chocolate! We would like you to learn about the history of chocolate. We hope you can find lots of great research about chocolate and share some interesting facts with us.

Here is your first challenge

Challenge 1 –

Here are the resources that you might need to help you in your challenge! We hope you have fun and rise to the challenge!

Where does chocolate come from matching cards History of chocolate timeline

After you have completed your timeline we would then like you to research the life of Roald Dahl. Can you order his books in release date? Can you write a biography of his life?

Writing paper

Music

This week we would like you to continue with the music lesson that we shared with you last week. It would be great to see some home-made instruments this week too! We would love to see videos of you on Showbie taking part in some of these lessons!

Under the sea music lessons

Here are some ideas that you might like to try for a homemade instrument –

Shaker Guitar Drums

We would like you to recreate a scene from the story of Charlie and the Chocolate factory film/book. You will need to write out your song lyrics and decide which props you might need.

Here is one of our favourite scenes from the story!

We are looking forward to seeing your new versions of Charlie and the Chocolate factory!

Send your music videos to on Showbie!

Science

Who loves chocolate? Me and Mrs Hemming LOVE chocolate. All different kinds – you name it, we like it!

Can you complete this Science experiment on melting chocolate in your hand? Follow the instructions and let us know what happens!

Chocolate Experiment

Challenge

Can you melt different types of chocolate in a sauce pan and see which one melts the quickest? Milk, white or dark chocolate? Please ask an adult to help you with this!

Predict what you think might happen.
Time each one and write down your findings.
Was your prediction correct?

Send us some pictures of your Science work.

James Dyson Challenges

Fancy completing some small experiments at home? There are some wonderful ideas for Science and Design Technology activities from the James Dyson Foundation. The engineers at Dyson, who make vacuum cleaners, have created these challenge cards. Take a look and remember to ask an adult to help you…

What punctuation is needed? Conjunctions Contractions

You could try the dancing raisins experiment on page 39 or cleaning pennies on page 20. Have fun!

Art

Challenge 1

We know how wonderful and wacky Mr Wonka’s sweets are from Charlie and the Chocolate factory, so can you create your own sweets and complete this worksheet to give us some more information on your creation?

Draw your sweet first in the box and then complete the design worksheet. If you are feeling creative, you could design lots of sweets and send us a picture of your favourite designs.

Sweet Design

Challenge 2

Can you design a sweet wrapper?

Wrapper Design

Challenge 3

I found this wonderful picture of Willy Wonka on a watercolour background. Can you design something similar?

The colours have been painted and the black images have been cut out. What can you create in Art this week? We look forward to seeing your wonderful work on Showbie.

PSHE

Do you know the character Veruca Salt from the original film of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? She is quite bossy and rather spoilt, always demanding things from her Dad in the film. Take a look…

Veruca Salt is described as a bad egg. What do you think??

Can you think of reasons as to why you are a good egg? Use the worksheet below to write down your ideas, it could be that you help at home, complete any chores you may have, or you are nice to your siblings or friends.

Please send your eggs to us on Showbie.

Good Egg

SPAG

This week we would like you complete this word search challenge! You might like to do it as one of your first activities before you do any of the other curriculum areas!

Word search

We would also like you to try out these challenges. They will help you consolidate some of your learning from Year 2 and get you ready for new challenges as you move into Year 3!

MFL

This week, we would like you all to complete our Wednesday challenge! This is going to get you researching 5 different languages!
We would like you to write you thank you in your five different languages and share them with us on Showbie!

Here is a recap of your Wednesday challenge –

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxxx

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 14 – W/C 22nd June 2020

Ola Year 2,

We hope you are all keeping safe and well and you have enjoyed Week 13 of home learning! It has been such a long time since we saw you, and we are missing you all so much. Remember, if you need anything we are always here for a chat. It makes our days seeing all the great learning you are doing at home, and we are proud of everything that you have achieved so far.

First, we would like to give a big shout out to all the Dads out there and wish them a happy Father’s Day. We hope you had a nice day celebrating together at home.

This week, myself and Mrs LB have been busy in school with the children we are teaching. We think about you lots through the day, and we miss having you in the classroom. This week, I finally took Hugo and Wilf to the shoe shop! We were desperate to get our feet measured and choose some new shoes!! It felt really strange going in the shop, but we stayed safe and successfully got some new shoes!

We hope you had a great week learning about rainforests. We have really enjoyed receiving your work and the effort you have put in. Here are a few highlights from the week!

Rufus was first up on Monday to share some great facts about rainforest animals. It was great to see your super handwriting and writing. You are a real superstar home learning.

Hollie has done some outstanding home learning this week. She never fails to amaze us in her home learning. She produced some wonderful art work using water and tissue. It was so effective!

Emily has made so much progress in her math’s learning during her time at home. We have loved receiving all her Maths work, and seeing her work with larger numbers. You are becoming a super mathematician Emily.

We really enjoyed seeing Ava, Maddie and Orla reunited for their zoom ballet session this week! What a great idea to keep your lessons going, and see your friends at the same time! It looked like lots of fun!

This week, Alexandra wrote a super postcard to her cousins from Antarctica after watching the BBC Bitesize lesson. It was great to see all the things she had learnt about Antarctica and applied it in her postcard. You are a super star writer Alex!

We want to do an extra special shout out to Hollie, Maddie, Erika, William and Joseph. Every week, they log onto the website and complete so many of the tasks we set, to such a high standard. You are doing such a great job at home, and you make us proud to have you in our class. We never expect children to complete all the activities, as there are so many to choose. We would just like you to dip in and out of them as you need. Everything you are all doing at home is fantastic, and we couldn’t be prouder!

We are continuing to take requests for the themes that you would like your learning to be based on! This week, we are going to be continuing work on explorers but this week it will be linked to Oceans and seas!

We hope you have a great week, putting on your explorer hats and heading off under the Ocean. We are looking forward to seeing all your adventures and continuing on your amazing home learning journey.

We need some more Wednesday challenges for the next few weeks, so put your thinking hats on and send us your ideas on Showbie!

We are missing you all so much, and even if we aren’t together, you are always in our thoughts and prayers. We hope you stay safe and well this week.

Take care,

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxx

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling! We miss you all so much!

P.S. We hope you enjoy our Happy Compilation!

RE

To kick start your RE learning this week, we would like you to watch this assembly. It has a very special person in it, delivering a very important message. We have been amazed by the kindness that you have shared throughout your time at home, and after watching the assembly, we would like you to reflect on how you can continue to share your kindness with others and also look after your own wellbeing. Please share your thoughts with us on Showbie, and any questions or worries you have. We are here to help and look after you.

Here is the assembly-

This week we are continuing with learning our Bible stories. This week we would like you to read this Bible story. You can find the story in your Bibles at home or on the internet. You can also watch out for my video of the story during the week!

Our Bible story this week – Feeding the Five Thousand

Your task –

When you completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

Here are some resources to help you:

Feeding the five thousand- story sequencing Characters for your story retell Feeding the five thousand writing paper Word mat

This week, we would like your second RE challenge to link to the two topics we have learnt about last week and this week. We thought it was a nice time, to take some time to reflect and create a prayer. We would like your prayer to thank God for the wonderful world that he has given us. Can you make links to rainforests and oceans? Could you ask God to help keep our families and friends safe?

We are looking forward to hearing your prayers. Maybe you could say your prayer in your prayer corner that you set up for your home learning challenge a few weeks go?

Prayer template

PE

This week we would like you to re-create the PE game we play at school called sharks and islands, but in your house or garden! You will need to think about what you are going to use as your islands as you won’t have mats at home. See if you can move around like different animals that live under the sea! Jump quickly onto your islands and don’t let the sharks get you!

Please share your sharks and island games with is on Showbie!

We will be trying out the game in the Hemming house! Watch this space to see what we use as Islands!

This week, I have enjoyed listening to some of the Oak Academy assemblies. This one was the first assembly after the half term holidays, but it has some great exercises on it, and also one of my sporting heroes Beth Tweddle. She has some great messages for you in her interview so we thought you might like to watch her assembly. There are some great gymnasts in Year 2, so we hope she is a role model to you all too!

We would like you to continue to look at and use #ThisisPE

There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Small to Large – Order the fish

Maths

We have found some great Maths worksheets for you to try linked to our topic of Oceans. Below you will find ordering numbers, filling in the missing numbers, addition and subtraction and another i-spy game.

Click on the buttons to choose some Maths tasks, enjoy!

Addition

Counting in fives

Find, Colour and Count

Missing Numbers

Ordering Numbers – Fish

I-Spy

Checklist for I-Spy

Continue to check out the Bitesize website for fun activities.

Reading

This week, we would like you to kick start your reading by reading around the subject of the Titanic. Use the websites that we shared in your writing challenge, or see if you can find some of your own books about the Titanic.

When you have read around the subject, fill out your reading around the subject paper!

Titanic reading challenge

How about trying this reading comprehension about the Titanic? You could start of with an easy one and then get onto the harder challenge!

We would like you to read this weeks First News and try out the challenges that support the newspaper. We hope you enjoy reading it this week!
Here is the newspaper for this week and the activities that we would like you to complete! Let us know how you get on, and share some of the headlines with us on Showbie!

First News Newspaper Week 14 First News quiz First news puzzle First News reading challenge

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

National Geographic- Titanic information Titanic facts Cool facts about the Titanic

Writing

This week we would like your writing challenge to have a history link. Your writing this week is all linked to the Titanic. Before you complete your writing challenge, we would like you to research the Titanic first!

Here are some great websites for you to explore to help you learn about the history of the Titanic.

Challenge

We would like you to use all your writing skills that you have learnt this year. Blow us away with your amazing writing. Here are some resources that might be helpful for you when you write your recount! Enjoy being back in history on the Titanic!

Titanic example recount Recount writing frame Research questions for the Titanic

When you have written your recount, you can complete some of the other challenges below about the Titanic. We hope you enjoy this writing challenge this week! It’s one of our favourite topics!

Titanic word search Titanic word mat to support writing Titanic paper Titanic order of events Titanic fact cards Retell the story of the Titanic

Geography

Over the week your Geography learning is linked to Oceans and Seas. We enjoyed starting this topic in school, and we hope you enjoy building on the work we have done in class about oceans and seas in these home learning challenges.

This week we would like you to complete this challenge! Please send us your work on Showbie, and if you have any questions, we are happy to help!

Challenge

Here are the resources that you might need to help you in your challenge!

Label the 5 Oceans

After you have located the Oceans around the world, we have found these activities that you might like to complete to help you build your knowledge of life under the Ocean and why Oceans are so important.

We would also like you to look out for some great videos of what it is like under the Ocean, and send them to us on Showbie!

Under the sea reading challenge Crack the code Layers of the Ocean challenge

Music

This week we would love to see some of you getting involved in playing a musical instrument, singing a song and dancing away! We enjoyed seeing Maddie, Orla and Ava continuing to learn their dance skills on zoom! Is there anyone else learning a skill still during your time at home?

If we were in school, we would use some of these resources to learn about the different strands of the music curriculum. We would like you to explore some of the lessons at home and imagine you are at the seaside and under the sea! We would love to see videos of you on Showbie taking part in some of these lessons!

Under the sea music lessons

How about making a homemade instrument to use in your music lessons this week? We had a go in the Hemming house last week at making a shaker! Mrs Hemming didn’t secure the rice well enough, but we had lots of fun shaking it to our favorite song at the moment- Under the Sea! We have read the book and watched the film a few times this week! Perfect timing for this week’s learning theme!

Here are some ideas that you might like to try for a homemade instrument –

Shaker Guitar Drums

DT

Fancy taking on a challenge? Can you make a boat, just like the Titanic? You will need some cardboard, some toilet roll tubes, some paint or colouring pens/pencils and some glue/sellotape.

This website is interesting, it takes you through the steps on how to make a boat using cardboard. I love it!

Can you make a raft using sticks/twigs/bits of wood you might find on your travels? Take a look at these pictures and see if you can create your own. Have fun!

Science

The titanic famously sank on the 14th April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. This Science activity models how an iceberg sits in the ocean and explains one of the reasons why the iceberg that collided with the Titanic; wasn’t spotted until it was sadly too late.

Use the website below to make an iceberg in your own home.

Make an Iceberg

James Dyson Challenges

Fancy completing some small experiments at home? There are some wonderful ideas for Science and Design Technology activities from the James Dyson Foundation. The engineers at Dyson, who make vacuum cleaners, have created these challenge cards. Take a look and remember to ask an adult to help you…

Portuguese actvities Portuguese phrases HFW in Portuguese

You could try the dancing raisins experiment on page 39 or cleaning pennies on page 20. Have fun!

Art

We know lots of you have enjoyed watching online videos/tutorials on how to draw certain objects. These websites are great fun and even Year 6 have given these a try too.

Try having a go at drawing waves from the oceans using this video…

Or, how about learning how to draw a cartoon whale.

Send us your amazing art work on Showbie. We can’t wait to see your creations!

PSHE

World Ocean Day: 8th June 2020

Mrs LB worked with Year 6 last week and they were also doing work on oceans. I completed this task with them on how to reduce ocean plastic pollution.

Lots of plastic and rubbish often gets dumped in our oceans, this often has an impact on the sea life and ocean animals. Take a look at how you can help.

The Premier League has partnered up with Sky Ocean Rescue to bring you these fun resources. Let’s celebrate our planet and think about how making simple changes can have a positive impact on the local and global environment, helping to prevent further ocean plastic pollution.

There is a short film to watch first, then an activity sheet and a pledge to finish off the lesson. Click on the link below to go straight to the page you need:

Website

SPAG

Over the next two weeks we would like you to have a go at this booklet. It has a variety of activities covering the things we have learnt in Year 1 and Year 2. You can dip in and out of the activities, and if you need any support, let us know on Showbie and we are happy to help you.

Summer SPAG activities

Have a go this Titanic SPAG activity. Can you put the words in alphabetical order?

Titanic word ordering

We would also like you to try out correcting some of these spellings that are regularly spelt wrong in Year 2! Use a dictionary to help you!

Correct the spelling

MFL

This week we would like you to continue learn some Portuguese! We have found this website that we would like you to explore!

We are looking forward to hearing about the new words and phrases you have learnt this week! Send us a message on Showbie in Portuguese!

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 13 – W/C 15th June 2020

Hi Year 2,

Although it has been back to our ‘new’ normal this week, we have missed you all lots and still enjoy seeing what you have been up to on Showbie and helping you with some of your home learning challenges.

We hope you had a great week learning about Yorkshire and holidays. We have really enjoyed receiving your work and seeing all the places you have visited in Yorkshire! Shout out to Carlo and Maddie who guessed all the places that Mr and Mrs Hemming had been to! You superstars!

Maddie, Hollie, Jack, Alfred and Erika took on the challenge to make Yorkshire Puddings! They looked delicious and Miss Milli most definitely has her work out to beat you in making Yorkshire Puddings! Thank you for sharing your pictures with us! Maybe next week you can make a full roast dinner?!

It was great to hear that Dexter read the whole of The Twits this week. Super book choice and we are proud of your dedication to reading during our time away from school. Keep up the amazing reading Dexter!

We loved receiving a picture of Ava reading in her fantastic tent that she put up in the kitchen for her brother, Jack’s birthday. We hope you have continued to enjoy reading in there throughout the week! We wish we had a tent in our kitchen to read in!

This week we were blow away with the range and effort that Evie put into all her work. She is working at the same standard as she does with us in school and we are so proud of her. She wrote a thoughtful letter to her Auntie about her wedding, we really enjoyed reading it. We are sure you will have a great time at the wedding next year! It will be extra special! It was great to hear that she has now finished reading all three Wizards of Once books and she has really enjoyed them all. We are looking forward to seeing some of your writing using your imagination from the books. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication this week Evie, you are an outstanding learner!

We have enjoyed seeing some of your postcards this week! It was great to see Joseph R sending a postcard to his friend Rufus. It had wonderful pictures on it and super handwriting. Another example of how hard you are working at home Joseph. Keep it up, you are such a fantastic home learner!

We are continuing to take requests for the themes that you would like your learning to be based on! This week, we are going to be doing some of William’s ideas! He wanted to learn about famous explorers. We know you learnt about a few explorers at the start of the year with Mrs Talbot, so we have done a bit of a twist on it and we are asking you to be explorers in the Rainforest! We would love you to send us some research on any famous explorers that you know about throughout the week.

We hope you have a great week, putting on your explorer hats and heading off into the Rainforest. We are looking forward to seeing all your adventures and continuing on your amazing home learning journey.

We are missing you all so much, and even if we aren’t together, you are always in our thoughts and prayers. We hope you stay safe and well this week.

Have a great week Year 2!

Take care, and God bless you all.

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxx

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling! We miss you all so much!

P.S. We hope you enjoy our Happy Compilation!

RE

We have been amazed by how many of you are completing our RE challenge and enjoying learning lots of Bible stories. Your work is outstanding, and we hope you take all your home learning with you as you move onto new RE challenges in Year 3! We have continued with learning a bible story this week, we hope you enjoy it!

This week we would like you to read this Bible story. You can find the story in your Bibles at home or on the internet. You can also watch out for my video of the story during the week!

Our Bible story this week – The Prodigal Son

Your task –

When you completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

Here are some resources to help you:

Writing paper The Prodigal Son puppets Word mat Ordering the story- use first The Prodigal Son colouring sheets

This week, if we were together in school, our lesson would have been linked to the lesson about the Holy Spirit appearing to the disciples, and how they went out into the world and spread the Good News about Jesus.

If you didn’t complete last weeks RE lesson do that one first before this week’s lesson.

Holy Spirit video.

When you have completed it, have a go at this challenge! You will need to think about Good News that you have had and present it in a newspaper. This will be a nice activity, to try and think of happy times during the uncertain times we are living in right now. We would like you to try and make links to some Good News stories from the Bible.

Newspaper template

When you have completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

PE

This week we would like you to create a rainforest obstacle course! We would like you to create your own rainforest animals and obstacles that you might find in the rainforest. You might need to do your Geography homework before you complete this task. You could also use this week’s task to start thinking about the task Miss Milli has sent about creating your own class game for sports day on her newsletter!

In the Hemming house, our obstacle course will involve logs, leaves and we might even squirt a rainforest animal along the way!

Please share your obstacle courses with us on Showbie!

This morning, we did a bit of exercise after our Sunday big breakfast! We looked at all the animals that lived in the rainforest. Mrs Hemming hid them around the front room and we tried to find them! We are going to continue the activity throughout the week on our daily exercise and also in our garden. We will post pictures on Showbie later in the week! We hope you enjoy learning about the animals in the rainforest, and get active whilst you learn!

Find the rainforest animal-1

Find the rainforest animal-2

Find the rainforest animal-3

Find the rainforest animal-4

Use these animals to help you in your obstacle course!

Rainforest animals Rainforest masks

We would like you to continue to look at and use #ThisisPE

There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Maths

Take a look at these cool rainforest worksheets for Maths this week.

Checklist of Animals

I Spy and Count

Rainforest Subtraction

Even though this activity is not linked to rainforests, we thought it was a great idea. Practise working with coins and money in this fun, interactive way…

Ask an adult to set up a baking tray with some amounts in. Use coins to make the amounts you see. You can start off with simple, easy amounts and then change the amounts to give yourself a harder challenge.

Continue to check out the Bitesize website for fun activities.

National Geographic website

Reading

This week, we would like you to kick start your reading by reading around the subject of Rainforests. If you have access to National Geographic magazines, these are great for information on rainforests. Here is the link to their website if you wanted to have a look at it-

When you have read around the subject, fill out your reading around the subject paper!

Rainforest reading challenge

How about trying this reading comprehension about rainforests? You could start of with an easy one and then get onto the harder challenge!

This week we have subscribed to First News so you can access some of the newspapers that we read together in class. It also comes with some reading questions and challenges. You may need some help to read the newspaper, but its such a great resource and it will prepare you for your lessons in Key Stage 2!

Here is the newspaper for this week and the activities that we would like you to complete! Let us know how you get on, and share some of the headlines with us on Showbie!

First News Newspaper Mystery First News cards First News reading challenges First News puzzles

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

Inside the rainforest video

Writing

This week we would like your writing to link Rainforests. Before you complete your writing challenge, we would like you to research rainforests and what it would be like to be in the rainforest!
Here is a great video that shows you what its like in the Rainforest! There are some technical words used that will be great for your Geography challenge this week! It will also help you with your second writing challenge this week too!

Check out this video too to step inside the rainforest and meet some of the animals that live there!

Animals inside the rainforest video

Challenge 1-

We would like you to use all your writing skills that you have learnt this year. Blow us away with your amazing writing. Here are some resources that might be helpful for you when you write your diary! Enjoy being rainforest explorer’s this week!

Diary writing paper Rainforest senses word mat Sketch what you can see in the rainforest sheet

Whilst I was planning some of your work this week, Hugo enjoyed looking at some of the rainforest videos that we have shared with you. He was interested in the animals and we have printed of some rainforest animal pictures for our own home learning! Today, on our daily adventures, he thought the woods looked like the rainforest! So, we went on an adventure through the rainforest! Can you see what animals he spotted? One of the animals he thinks he saw would not be found in the rainforest! We wonder if you can spot which one? Maybe you could find some places on your daily exercise that look like the rainforest? Have fun exploring!

Here are the videos-

Rainforest adventure 1

Rainforest adventure 2

Rainforest adventure 3

After you have written your diary from the rainforest. We would like you to create a poster to tell us why the rainforests are so important. Think about what their job is, and why we should try and stop deforestation! We will give out a virtual reward for the best poster!

Deforestation word mat Rainforest key words for writing challenges

We hope you enjoy your writing activities on rainforests this week. We are looking forward to seeing your diaries and posters!

Geography

Over the week your Geography work is linked to rainforests. It’s such a wonderful topic, and it will prepare you for your learning as you move into Year 3!
This week we would like you to complete these challenges! Please send us your work on Showbie, and if you have any questions, we are happy to help!

Challenge 1

Here are the resources that you might need to help you in your challenge! We hope you have fun and rise to the challenge!

Rainforests around the world map Blank world map

Challenge 2

Here is the animal fact file for you to complete for this challenge-

Rainforest animals fact file

After you have completed these two challenges, we have found some nice activities that you might like to complete that will let you explore the rainforest! Your job is to be an explorer in the rainforest and we hope these activities help you on your rainforest adventures! Happy trekking!

Rainforest wordsearch Sort the rainforest animals Rainforest writing paper

DT

For Design Technology this week, we have a great challenge for you! How about making a rainforest in a bottle?

For this task you should ask an adult to help you. You will need:

A plastic bottle or glass container.
Some soil.
Little rocks or stones.
Some plants.

Please don’t go out and buy anything in particular, use what you have in your house or garden. It doesn’t have to be perfect, get creative with what you can find in your environment.

Use this website link and follow the instructions:Youtube: Rainforest in a Bottle

We can’t wait to see your rainforests in a bottle. Please send us your creations on Showbie!

Science

For Science this week we would like you to use this great website – STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Save our home – Orangutans

On the link it will take you to a great website, telling you all about rainforests and why some rainforests are being destroyed. Many animals live in rainforests, including these amazing orangutans.

Many of the orangutans face losing their homes if all the trees are cut down in the Indonesian rainforest.

Your task –

Research the orangutans and find out some information about them.
Create a poster to persuade people to save the rainforests for the orangutans.
Use persuasive language.
Include some pictures on your poster.

Use this link for a poster template: Save our home – poster

Rainforests are truly amazing. Check out these videos to show you what life is like in the rainforest: Website

This website has a little rainforest quiz at the end of it: Rainforest Quiz

James Dyson Challenges

Fancy completing some small experiments at home? There are some wonderful ideas for Science and Design Technology activities from the James Dyson Foundation. The engineers at Dyson, who make vacuum cleaners, have created these challenge cards. Take a look and remember to ask an adult to help you…

Spooky Spellings game Adjective Detective game

You could try the dancing raisins experiment on page 39 or cleaning pennies on page 20. Have fun!

Art

One of the most famous rainforest artists is Henri Rousseau, he was born in France over 170 years ago. He is famous for his creative paintings on animals and rainforests. Take a look…

Can you draw or paint a picture like Henry Rousseau? Maybe you could draw your own version of a rainforest and send your creations to us on Showbie. We look forward to seeing your amazing Artwork Year 2!

PSHE

At St Joseph’s we pride ourselves on living simply and carefully whenever we can. Can you complete a Rainforest Promise?

Think of a special way you could help to save the rainforests and use this leaf template to write your promise. You might want to research this on an iPad or computer to find out about the different ways you could help.

It could be something simple like researching rainforests or looking after the world around you. Or, recycling more waste objects or telling your friends and family about things they can do to help.

Rainforest Promise

SPAG

Over the next two weeks we would like you to have a go at this booklet. It has a variety of activities covering the things we have learnt in Year 1 and Year 2. You can dip in and out of the activities, and if you need any support, let us know on Showbie and we are happy to help you.

Summer SPAG activities

When you have completed your challenges, we would like you to have a go at these SPAG games!

MFL

This week we would like you to learn some Portuguese! We have found this website that we would like you to explore!

Portuguese actvities Portuguese phrases HFW in Portuguese

We are looking forward to hearing about the new words and phrases you have learnt this week! Send us a message on Showbie in Portuguese!

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 12 – W/C 8th June 2020

Thank you for your hard work and outstanding home learning on Castles last week. It was lovely to talk to you all again this week and share some of your half term holiday activities.

Hollie, your treat box to Ava was out of this world! You really have become a super baker during your time at home! You also blew us away by your computer skills on creating a story about a castles, knights, princesses and dragons! It was such a great story with all the sprites and settings. You have been a super learner this week Hollie, you should be really proud!

Erika, has yet again blasted her way through the challenges this week! Her quality of work is out of this world and she has sent us lots of great facts and research about castles.

This week, Archie got straight onto Mathletics as soon a it was set! He is on fire with his Maths! He also made a wonderful raft out of lollipop sticks and a super colourful sun catcher for his bedroom. He also got a fantastic microscope for his birthday and he has started to examine objects under it. This week, he shared pictures of looking at a fly underneath it! He couldn’t believe how hairy they are, even on the end of their wings! We are looking forward to seeing what other objects you explore under your microscope. A great learning week for you Archie, well done!

Alfred rose to the challenge and created some tricky math’s word problems this week! They were tricky, and we liked how he used football as his stimulus! You have been on fire this week Alfred with all your Maths and Art work! Keep up the super work!

We were blown away by how quickly Charlotte has learnt her times over the past week! She has a super book, and this has really helped her learn all her times tables! She also worked hard on her Pentecost work in the sunshine!

During the week, it was great to see that William and Harry MC went out to explore Spofforth castle and do some field work for their history challenge. It was great to see their pictures, and see them exploring the grounds! Harry even took his own sword and shield to the castle for a bit of role play! Thank you for getting so involved with your history learning this week.

On Thursday, we were so happy to receive some wonderful work from Hollie about how no matter what colour our skin is, we should treat everyone equally. She did a fantastic experiment where she cracked a brown egg and a white egg, and she found that even though they are different on the outside, their inside is the same. She is going to spread the message to all her friends and family, and we think that is a very important and special thing to do in the world we live in. We are really proud of Hollie for doing this work, and we hope she inspires you to do some work about treating everyone equally and people from other cultures.

On Friday, we received a wonderful work package from Harry H on Showbie, it was filled with so many tasks and worksheets he had completed from our home learning tasks and website work. This included his Maths work, a brilliant castle from DT and some wonderful videos of his football training – thank you for sharing all of your great work this week Harry.

We are continuing to take requests for the themes that you would like you’re learning to be based on! This week, we are going to be doing some of Maddie’s ideas! We were really pleased with her request to learn about holiday destinations and Yorkshire in particular! Yorkshire is such a wonderful place, and we should be proud to live in such a fantastic place. So, this week, you will see some of our activities are linked to Yorkshire and holidays. We are sure we are all dreaming of a summer holiday, so let’s get adventurous this week and explore some wonderful places!

Here are a few pictures of me through the years in some of Mr and Mrs Hemming’s favorite Yorkshire beauty spots! Can you name all the places in the pictures? Send your answers to us on Showbie and we will see if you are right! We would love to see some of your pictures from places you have visited in Yorkshire too!

Have a great week Year 2!

Take care, and God bless you all

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB xxx

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling! We miss you all so much!

P.S. We hope you enjoy our Happy Compilation!!

RE

This week we would like you to read this Bible story. You can find the story in your Bibles at home or on the internet. Please look out for our version of the story on Showbie over the week!
Our Bible story this week – The Good Samaritan

Your task –

Here are some resources to help you:

The Good Samaritan story The Good Samaritan Reading challenge Key word mat to support your writing Role play masks Paper to use for your recount

When you have completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

Our RE topic, if we were in school would be about the birth of the Church. We will have a look at some activities over the half term to support you in this topic. This week, our lesson would have been about the moment that the disciples received the Holy Spirit and spread the Good news. This leads on from our learning about Pentecost last week. So, if you didn’t get chance to complete that challenge, please look back at last weeks RE Pentecost work and have a go!

When you have completed it, have a go at this challenge! You will need to imagine you are in the room when the Holy Spirit came upon you. Watch this video to help you.

Holy Spirit video

Here are some resources to help you with your objective:

Holy Spirit paper

PE

Your first activity this week is to create your own Tour De Wetherby track in your garden or out on your daily exercise. To complete this activity, you need to follow the following steps:

• Plan your rest routes on the route
• Add a landmark to pass through (if in your garden you can make a landmark out of recycled materials)
• Choose your mode of transport (bike, scooter, walk, run, skip etc)
• Record the time it takes on each lap
• Send pictures to us on Showbie to let us know how you get on

Here is a template to help you plan your route –

Tour De Wetherby planning sheet

We would like you to continue to look at and use #ThisisPE

There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

2D Shape Sorting 3D Shape Sorting Activity Colour by 3D Shapes

Maths

For Maths this week we would like you to go on a shape hunt around your house, your garden, maybe even your street – please ask an adult to help you.

Check out these pictures of 2D and 3D shapes before you begin.

Then use one of these worksheets to complete your shape hunt…

2D Shape Hunt

3D Shape Hunt

If you finish try out these shape sorting worksheets.

Extra challenge: Can you take some pictures of shapes you can see in your house in lovely Yorkshire? I have taken some pictures of objects from the LB living room, take a look. Can you spot the sphere, cube, cylinder and cuboid?

Reading

We would like you to start this week off by reading about Yorkshire and it’s landmarks. You can use a selection of books, websites, magazines or maybe some free online books.
When you have read around the subject, fill out your reading around the subject paper!

Yorkshire Coast Yorkshire coast information Yorkshire Dales

Here are some websites that you can use to help you with your research on Yorkshire!

How about trying this reading comprehension about the Tour De Yorkshire? You could start of with an easy one and then get onto the harder challenge!

Tour De Yorkshire Reading challenge

Another great way to use your reading skills is to read a recipe! If you remember, Miss Milli shared her picture on the shout out page of her home-made Yorkshire Puddings? So how about taking on the challenge and seeing if you can make Yorkshire Puddings as good as Miss Milli!

Here is a recipe for you to try:

Yorkshire Pudding recipie

Please share your own recipes with us as we are always looking for new ideas on making Yorkshire Puddings! Send pictures of you making Yorkshire puddings and we will share them with Miss Milli! Happy reading and baking!

Also, one of my favorite books that I can read over and over again is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. She was a very famous author from Yorkshire, as were her sisters. We like to read the children’s version in our house as it teaches us about colours and the Yorkshire landscape. Howarth is one of Mrs Hemming’s favorite places, and it’s also on my list to visit very soon. Maybe you could do some research about the Brontes? Or check out this book if you can:

I was inspired by Emilia’s reading den this week. So, we decided to make our own reading den inspired by the North mountain in Frozen! We hope you can find some great places to read this week!

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

Labelling Counties English Counties

Writing

This week we would like your writing to link to holidays and Yorkshire! Before you complete your writing challenge, we would like you to research the variety of holiday destinations that you can go to in Yorkshire. We are so lucky to have some beautiful locations close to us, we are sure some of you have been to a few, and we are looking forward to hearing about your experiences.

Here is a great website that helps you explore some of our wonderful Yorkshire destinations. Have a look, you could maybe take some notes about the different places or create a spider diagram.

Yorkshire Coast

We would like you to use all your writing skills that you have learnt this year. Blow us away with your amazing writing! Here are some resources that might be helpful for you when you write your postcard! Enjoy being explorer’s this week!

Postcard Template Postcard Template 2 Pictures from the Tour De Yorkshire Yorkshire Flag

After you have written a postcard from a place in Yorkshire, maybe you could choose a holiday destination of your choice, or the favorite holiday you have been on and send it to us on Showbie!

We are looking forward to receiving your postcards this week!

Geography

This week, our theme lends its self to looking at maps and a locating Counties around England. We also thought it would be nice to choose a Yorkshire seaside coastal area and do some research about it.

Have a look these challenges and see how you get on! The locating counties is tricky, but we know you are all up for a challenge!

Challenge 1

Here are the resources that you might need to help you in your challenge! We hope you have fun and rise to the challenge!

Your next challenge is to study one of our favorite Yorkshire coast seaside resorts! It has one of my favorite fish and chip shops (Magpie Café) and I love the views from Whitby Abbey. We would like you to research what it is like in Whitby. When you have explored the features of Whitby, we would like you to compare it to what it’s like in Wetherby.
Your challenge:

Challenge 2

Here are a few resources to help you with your Whitby challenge:

Whitby writing paper Whitby fact cards Whitby wordsearch Pictures of Whitby Whitby challenge cards Map of Whitby Features of Whitby with answers Can you locate Whitby?

We hope you have fun learning about Whitby! If you have ever been to Whitby we would love to see your pictures! It’s on the top of my list for visiting when it’s possible!

DT

For Design Technology this week, we would like you to make your own flag. This is the Yorkshire flag…

Maybe you could design your own Yorkshire flag – think of your favourite objects and add them onto your flag in some way. You could make a traditional flag like this one…

Or, you could use resources from nature or from equipment in your house. Take a look at this one as an idea. Enjoy!

Science

We are famous for our British weather and we know in Yorkshire how quickly the weather can change, one minute it can be raining, hail stoning and then sunny the next!

Can you complete one of these weather charts? There are a few to choose from:

5 Day Weather Chart

My Weather Diary

Weather Report

Extra challenge: If you want to get creative, you could make a wind chime to hang in your garden. Send us your work and creations on Showbie.

Fancy completing some small experiments at home? There are some wonderful ideas for Science and Design Technology activities from the James Dyson Foundation. The engineers at Dyson, who make vacuum cleaners, have created these challenge cards. Take a look and remember to ask an adult to help you…

You could try the dancing raisins experiment on page 39 or cleaning pennies on page 20. Have fun!

Art

For Art this week we would like you to draw, paint or collage your favourite place in Yorkshire. The LB’s favourite place is where we live, in York!

I have had a go at drawing some of the pictures above…take a look.

Think of your favourite place in Yorkshire, complete your picture by sketching, painting or by collage and then send it to us on Showbie. Have fun little artists!

SPAG

For your SPAG challenge this week, we have found a selection of challenges that cover everything that we have learnt in Year 2 this year. Have a try and see how you find them. You could hide the challenges around your house and garden and turn your learning into an active game! Something we like to do when we are together at school!

SPAG Challenge cards

When you have completed your challenges, we would like you to try out some contraction spellings. We had started to work on these before we left school, so we hope you can remember how to create contractions!

Contraction activity

MFL

This week we would like you to continue to learn some Spanish. We have found a fun website that has a selection of stories and poems that are in Spanish. Have a look and explore some of the activities:

Spanish stories

Also, we have found a selection of Spanish words that you can print off and learn at home. You could phone someone in your family, or one of your friends and share some of your new Spanish words with them!

Spanish words

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 11 – W/C 1st June 2020

Welcome back Year 2 to Summer Term 2! We hope you all had a wonderful half term and enjoyed a break in the sunshine.

In the Hemming house, we took advantage of the sunshine and had lots of adventures outdoors! We decided to take a trip to Kirkstall Abbey which was nice and quiet and our boys had lots of fun exploring the ruins. We also ordered a new paddling pool which has stayed up in our garden all week! We have all enjoyed a splash in it over the week! This week we also enjoyed lots of family cooking and baking, and creating leaf men which was Hugo’s home learning! We would love to see what you got up to in the half term holiday! Send us your holiday updates on Showbie!

We would like to start by saying a BIG thank you to all of you for your hard work and dedication last half term! Although we have been apart from school, we have enjoyed sharing your learning at home journey with you, and we are so proud of all your achievements. We have 7 weeks left in Year 2, and we are looking forward to seeing you grow and reach your end of year goals in our care. We will be here for you over the next 7 weeks, and if you need anything at all, you know where we are!

Before half term, you blew us away with the effort that you put into PHSE week. You took the time to reflect, and shared some of your wonderful activities with us and here are just a few of our highlights!

We enjoyed reading Carlo’s recipe and seeing his outstanding writing. He is making so much progress in his writing and we can’t wait to see it in real life!

Erika blasted her way through all the online learning for our PHSE week. She blew us a way with her retell of Jonah and the Whale, it was lovely to hear her retelling the story and making the props to tell the story! Thank you for sharing all your amazing work with us Erika!

Orla really thought about the message of being kind last week. She shared with us lots of different things she did throughout the week to shed kindness to her family. We really liked that you phoned your grandad to check he was ok, and also hoovered the living room! You can have a job here any time to help with our house work! Thank you for being so kind to everyone, this such a lovely quality to have.

We also enjoyed reading Rufus’s Lockdown diary this week about what he has been getting up too! Sounds like you have been having a great time in your time at home, and also super handwriting too!

It was also lovely to see that Maddie continued with some of our Olympic work this week. She wrote to Laura Weightman to help her with her newspaper report. Laura said she might write to you all! So, watch this space! Here is a picture of her to inspire some of you to do more research and work on the Olympics….

Last week, we asked you to think about topics that you would like to learn about over the next half term. We have had a few ideas come in so far, keep them coming in as we have 7 weeks this half term! This week, our learning is based on Carlo’s ideas! He wants to learn about Castles, knights and Lego! So, we hope you all enjoy some of these activities at home!

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

P.S. We hope you enjoy our Happy Compilation!!

RE

This week we would like you to read a new Bible story. You can find the story in your Bibles at home or on the internet.
Our Bible story this week – Jesus Calms the storm

Your task –

When you have completed your task please share it with us on Showbie!

Puppets for your story Journal writing template Jesuus calms the storm- story sequencing

We would also like you to take some time to think about the importance of Pentecost and what it means to you as a family. As we can’t be together in class to talk about and experience the significance of Pentecost, you can watch Canon Nunan on the St Joseph’s Church website deliver his Mass.

Here are a few resources that you might like to complete this week to celebrate and learn about Pentecost. If you do the story sequencing first, this will help you with the other activities.

Pentecost story ordering Pentecost- unscramble the words Make a windmill Wordsearch Pentecost Reading challenge

PE

Your first challenge this week is to get creative in your garden or on your daily exercise! We would like you to create a maze! You will need to get creative with the resources you use! When you have completed the maze, we would like you to choose someone in your family and take on the role of a knight and dragon and get navigate your way around your maze! We look forward to hearing about you getting lost in your mazes!

Create a maze challenge

This week we would like you to continue to be as active as you can be. Hopefully the weather will be nice and you can spend time in your garden keeping your bodies and minds fit and healthy. Please check out our new active grid to complete some of the activities!

We would like you to continue to look at and use #ThisisPE

There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Maths

For Maths this week, we thought you could write some Maths word problems based on our topic for a friend or someone in your house to solve. E.g. The queen had 20 cakes and the king ate 14. How many were left? 20 – 14 =

Maybe you could complete some using column addition?

The dragon laid 17 eggs one month and 12 the next. How many eggs did she lay in total?

We have written some multiplication word problems, take a look below. Can you solve these and then make your own?

Maths Word Problems

Please check out the BBC Bitesize website for daily lessons and challenges.

Reading

We would like you to start this week off by reading around the subject of castles. You can use a selection of books, or maybe some free online books.
When you have read around the subject, fill out your reading around the subject paper!

Oxford Owls The Booktrust Readon- free online books

How about trying this reading comprehension about castles? You could start of with an easy one and then get onto the harder challenge! It will help you with your writing and History challenge this week!

Castle reading challenge

This week, we would like you to try a variety of new books. As libraries are closed, we have researched a few places that are offering online books for free. Have a try at some of these websites over the next few weeks. Let us know how you find them, and send some of your book recommendations in to us so we can share them with Year 2!

Here are a few websites for you to try-

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

This week’s recommendations –
Emily recommends – The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Erika recommends – The Twits by Roald Dahl
Joseph R recommends – The Minpins by Roald Dahl

Windsor castle tour Edinburgh Castle tour Blarney Castle tour Spofforth Castle information

Writing

This week we would like your writing to link Castles! Before you do any writing, we would like you to make sure you have done your reading around the subject on castles. Explore lots of websites, or find free online books and see what you can find!

When you have researched Castles, we would like you to have a go at this challenge:

Use all your writing skills that you have learnt this year. Blow us away with your amazing writing. Here are some resources that might be helpful for you when you write your story! Enjoy being authors this week!

Story planner How to write a good story Descrptive words Conjunctions Writing paper

History

This week your History challenges are linked to Castles. Before you complete the activities, we would like you to take a look at these websites where you can take a virtual tour of their castle! Also, if you live near Spofforth you could take a walk there and explore the ruins! It’s a great spot and you will find out lots about the history of castles!

Here are some virtual castle tours you might like to try –

When you have explored the castles, we would like you to have a go at these activities! We hope you enjoy learning about castles!

We would like you to present your research on castles in an interesting way. Here are some ideas that you might like to try:
• Leaflet advertising a castle
• Create a non-fiction book on castles
• Spider diagram
• Cartoon strip

Please share all your super work with us on Showbie! We are looking forward to seeing you dive into your learning about castles!

Leaflet template Label a Knight Label a Castle Writing paper Facts about Castles Design your own castle Castles and Knights Key words

DT

Can you make some turrets out of toilet rolls or with some objects you can find at home? Take a look at some of these pictures for inspiration. Please send us your pictures on Showbie. If you want to build a whole castle out of objects you have at home, go for it!

Science

Fancy completing some small experiments at home? There are some wonderful ideas for Science and Design Technology activities from the James Dyson Foundation. The engineers at Dyson, who make vacuum cleaners, have created these challenge cards. Take a look and remember to ask an adult to help you…

How to draw a castle How to draw the Disney castle

You could try the dancing raisins experiment on page 39 or cleaning pennies on page 20. Have fun!

Art

For Art this week we would like you to draw or paint a picture of:

A castle,
Some kings or queens,
A princess or a prince,
Or all of the above.

Take a look at this website, it shows you how to draw a medieval castle:

Draw a Castle

There are some great colouring sheets for castles too. Check these out.

Coat of Arms

Colouring Sheets

Today in the Hemming house we have been trying to do your home learning! We started the morning by building a castle out of bricks, then we looked for a video tutorial on how to draw a castle! Here are our first attempts! Please have a go and see if you can create your own castle! Our castle is new home for Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk as that’s our story of the week! Share your creations with us on Showbie! Happy building and drawing!

Here are the videos we used-

SPAG

This week, we would like you to use everything you have learnt over the last half term on your common exception words and complete these challenges:

SPAG challenges

Can you put any of the words you learn into sentences thinking about your writing targets?

MFL

This week we will be learning some Spanish in the Hemming house! We like this video as a starting point! Try it and see what you think! Send us some of your Spanish words on Showbie!

Supermovers- Learning Spanish

It will keep you active as you learn too! Something we love to do in Year 2!

Music

Could you be a court jester? Maybe you could perform tricks or create some fun, interesting music to entertain the king and his court in their castle. Entertain us with your tricks on Showbie.

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 9 – W/C 18th May 2020

To start, we thought we would send you a picture of a very happy time for Mrs LB and Mrs Hemming. Our picture on Showbie is a special one, a few years ago we completed a Midnight Walk for St Gemma’s Hospice with Mrs Duggan and Mrs Hughes. We had our faces painted with butterflies and we walked miles during the night to raise money for a very special charity. At the end of the walk we picked up our medals. This picture reminds us of a very happy time!

It has been lovely to speak to you all this week on the phone and find out what you have been up too. We are missing you all so much, and we think you are all doing an amazing job at home with your home learning.

First, we would like to say a big Happy Birthday to Archie and Joseph R! They both celebrated their Lockdown birthdays this week. Archie enjoyed playing on his new bike and Joseph had the most wonderful chocolate cake made by his brothers! We hope you both had great birthdays!

We really enjoyed all your VE day work. Joseph R shared a fantastic word presentation of how he celebrated the day. Your baking looked fantastic again Joseph!

Casper produced the most amazing questions to Mrs LB’s brother. We are so impressed about the thought you put into your questions and we are glad you enjoyed reading Matthew’s responses. This really kept us smiling this week.

Please continue to look at our shout out page to see all the fantastic work you are doing at home, and to check out your friends work!

PSHE Themed Week

This week our theme is going to look a little bit different. We are going to be thinking about looking after our bodies this week and doing a variety of activities to help us keep our bodies and minds healthy. We hope you enjoy this week and we are looking forward to hearing about how you have found this week.

Here is something extra special to mark the beginning of our themed week.

: A special message from all the staff at St Joseph’s!

Throughout the week we would like you to take some time to check out the new Social, Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) page, which includes a broad range of fun and interesting activities and offers resources to help children deal with situations they find stressful, how to regulate their feelings and build resilience.

We would also like you to ask your children to look at this Virtues calendar.
This provides a month worth of opportunities/ ideas to build children’s virtues such as character, resilience, gratitude and neighbourliness. The ideas are simple, doable and encourage us to be kind on ourselves and others at this difficult time.

Calendar

Please ask children to choose 5 from the menu – which is one each day and they might like to choose the same or different ones to their siblings.

We would like you to start the week off by having a look at these 5-minute activity cards. We would like you to choose a few a day and find 5 minutes to yourself to complete a challenge.

5 minute activities

Try to complete the activity in a different place each day!

These are also lovely ideas that you might like to use during the week. We will be trying out a few of the ideas! We have enjoyed starting a play list already and we will keep adding to it over the week. We hope you can enjoy some of the activities as a family. Share any of your ideas and activities with us on Showbie!

This week, some of the activities may get your children asking questions about some of their emotions and ask different questions that you might be surprised to hear. If you would like any support or guidance, or your child would like a chat with myself or Mrs LB, drop us a message on Showbie and we are more than happy to help.

We are really looking forward to this week, and taking some time to think about keeping our bodies and brains healthy.

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

E-Safety

This week please remind your child of the “STOP, BLOCK, TELL” message that you shared with your child when we started learning at home.

Here were the key top tips we learned for staying safe online:

Keep your personal information safe and private (don’t share it with anyone).

People online are not always who they say they are (don’t become friends with someone online that you haven’t met before in real life and never meet up with anyone you speak to online).

Ask before you share – think carefully about the photos you post on the internet. You need to have permission before you post photos of other people online.

Think carefully about the words you use on the internet.

If you see something you feel uncomfortable with, STOP, BLOCK AND TELL!

Always speak to a trusted adult.

Year 2 – Can you make an E-Safety poster and display it somewhere in your home? You could make this on a computer if you have one at home, with some pens, pencils and some paper, or be creative and use any tools or equipment you may have at home. We will look forward to seeing your posters on Showbie.

RE

This week we would like you to continue to use some of our Mary resources to help you in your prayers at home and remembering our Lady this month.
We would like you to continue to take some time to pray using your Rosary, maybe you could make a new prayer area in your house to help you with your quiet prayer and reflection time.

You can use this video below to help you revisit the Rosary, I have enjoyed watching the video to support me in using the Rosary, hope it helps you too.
Here are some nice resources that you might like to use during the month of May, remembering our Mary, mother of God.

Praying the Rosary

Here are some nice resources that you might like to use during the month of May, remembering our Mary, mother of God.

When I think of Mary- wonder activity Mary wordsearch Mary stained glass window Mary- altar colouring page Our lady prayer book

: Credit:Twinkl

We would also like you to try some of these activities. We are enjoying some of them in our house and hope you can enjoy them too. Keeps our minds and bodies fit and healthy!

Over the next few weeks our RE learning is going to focus on learning a variety of Bible stories. We would like you to read the story in your Bibles at home or looking at Youtube videos of the story. When you have read the story, we would like you to complete our activities. We hope you enjoy learning different bible stories over the next few weeks. Please check out on Showbie, me reading Jonah and the Whale this week!

Story sequencing

Puppet show

When you have completed your work, share it with us on Showbie!

Gratitude

This week, as a family we would like you to have a think about how you can add new ways to be grateful for the things around us. In these uncertain times, its sometimes hard to forget about the positive things in our lives but it’s nice to take a step back and say thank you. In the Hemming house this is something we have really tried to focus on over the past few weeks. Before bed, after our prayer we all try and say one thing we are thankful for in the day. It has taken a bit of practise, but it’s now such a lovely part of the day and something we all look forward too.

Here are some other ideas that you might like to add in your houses over the next week –
• Thankful jar
• Gratitude journal
• Making a collage of all the things you are grateful for
• Sending a thank you post card to someone
• Send thankful hearts to people

Photography Challenge

This week we would like you to take on our photography challenge. Whilst you are in your house, garden or on your daily exercise we would like you to take pictures of things that make you happy or things that you are grateful for. We would like you to share your photos with us on Showbie so you can brighten up our days next week too. We have added a few top tips on how to take a good photo below! Check out the YouTube video before you get snapping!

Here are some of our pictures that we have taken over the week that have made us smile and feel grateful for everything that we have. We will share pictures with you throughout the week too to keep you all smiling! Happy snapping!

How to use the rule of 3rds in taking photos Photo tips for children

PE

This week we would like you to continue to be as active as you can be. Hopefully the weather will be nice and you can spend time in your garden keeping your bodies and minds fit and healthy. Lots of our activities this week can be done outside so have a try and see how you get on.

We would like you to check out Mr Cooper’s message to you this week. He has some great challenges for you to do. Myself and Mrs LB will be attempting his challenges too! Let’s see who is the most successful!

Super Mr Cooper active story

This week, we would like you to take some time to do some Cosmic Yoga this week. Yoga is a great activity to refocus your bodies and have some time to yourself. I like to do it on a morning before the children wake up, it’s a great start to the day. William tried a bit of Cosmic Yoga last week so he inspired us to share the activity again for you all.

Cosmic Kids Yoga

You can also carry on your mini Olympics task this week to keep you all fit and healthy. Maddie sent us some fantastic Olympic events at the start of the week and had all her family joining in! We are looking forward to seeing more of you taking on your own mini Olympics this week. Here is a reminder of the task –

For your mini Olympics you will need to create the following things –
• team name
• team flag
• time table of events
• score sheets
• medals
• music – can you create your own Olympic sound track?

You may want to add other things to your mini Olympics! The above are just some ideas.

Here is Mrs Hemming and Hugo trying out some Olympic challenges! No laughing please!

Mrs H daily exercise

Daily exercise with Mrs H

We look forward to hearing about your mini Olympics at home! Please share your pictures and ideas with us on Showbie!

We would really like you to start trying out these new resources that will help you with your physical activity linked to the National Curriculum. There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Emoji multiplication Emoji addition and subtraction

Maths

This week our maths challenge is all about getting outside and working on some of the maths skills we have been learning over the year in Year 2.
The first thing we would like you to try this week is these active maths outdoor activities –

Taking maths outside

When you have completed the outdoor challenges have a go at these Emoij maths questions. It involves using your colouring skills too so hope you enjoy some peace and quiet and switch off into maths emoji land!

We have been blown away by how hard you are all working on your times tables at home. These are really important skills that you will need throughout your life.
We will up the challenge, at the request of a few of you on the phone this week and see if you can learn your eight times table! This is really hard but I’m sure you are up for the challenge!

Don’t worry if you don’t want to do this, please just work on your 3x and 4x times tables. Its best to work hard and know the division facts for each time table before moving on to the harder times tables. Try and get active outside whilst you are learning your times tables. Ellie-Mae, learnt her four times table on her trampoline was our favourite this week!

Here are some resources to help you –

8 times table booklet

We would like you to go on Mathletics at least 3 times this week. We will add new tasks linked to our challenges.

Please check out the BBC Bitesize website for daily lessons and challenges.

T-Rex 5 minute read Dinosaur Egg Reading

Reading

This week we feel that reading is such an important part of keeping your brain busy and active. It’s been so lovely to hear that so many of you are enjoying new books and taking on challenges to read books that are harder than when you left us a few weeks ago. This makes us so happy and we are really proud of you all.

This week we would like you to think of a new place to read one of your favourite books. We really liked Joe CH den this week, a perfect spot for reading a book! Myself and Mrs LB will be looking for new places to read books to the boys. We will share our ideas with you on Showbie throughout the week.

We would like you to have a go at some of these 5 minute reads to this week. We hope you enjoy doing them.

After speaking to lots of you on the phone this week, many of you are enjoying reading Roald Dahl books. We would really like you to try this quiz and see how you get on!

Roald Dahl Quiz

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

This week’s recommendations –

Joseph R recommends – The Minpins by Roald Dahl
Erika recommends – The Twits by Roald Dahl
Jack recommends – War Boy by Michael Foreman
William recommends – The Snail and the Whale – Julia Donaldson

Writing

Last week we really enjoyed reading some of your newspaper articles about the London Olympics. This week we would like you to use the skills you learnt last week during writing your newspaper articles and transfer them to this week’s task.

This week we would like you to be journalists. We would like you to research happy news that is around in the world right now. When you have researched some happy news, we would like you to report the news on one of our templates. Last week in school with the key worker children we tried this activity. Here is a picture of ours so you can have some inspiration for yours:

Newspaper template 1 Newspaper planning support

We would also like you to do a weekly journal thinking about how you are feeling each day and what you have been doing. This is personal to you and you don’t have to share it with anyone. In the Hemming house we have been doing a daily dairy and its really helped us reflect on the day and think about our feelings. We hope you enjoy this activity too.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

History

This week we would like you to start to think about the history you are making right now during these times away from school. We have found two activities that will help you think about yourself in the future and we would also like you to try some of our time capsule work.

You can adapt the activities to your choice! Maybe you could put your favourite piece of music on while you are completing these tasks?

Time Capsule activity Letter to my future self

DT

This week we would like you to get your hands active and enjoy some playdough play. Playdough is a great activity where your brain can switch off and you can get creative! Shelby inspired us for this activity after talking to her about what she has enjoyed doing at home over the past few weeks!

We have linked our challenges to London, but feel free to make anything you want out of playdough. You could even check out one of my favourite activities, taking you back to your Reception days – dough disco!

GFL playdough mat Olympic playdough mat Playdough recipie Dough Disco

Science

This week we would like you to explore your gardens or different habitats on your daily exercise and see what creatures you can find. When you have found different creatures and habitats, we would like you to create a poster to tell us all about what you have found.

Then, we would like you to have a go at making a mini beast bug hotel! This will keep you super busy, and it will also help you enjoy been outdoors and keeping your minds and bodies super healthy!

Mini beast hotel activity

Art

This week we have found some mindfulness colouring that we thought you might like to try. I have done a lot of this before bed as it’s a nice way to switch off from the world. It’s also nice to listen to music, or go out in the garden and listen to the birds whilst you are colouring.

Have a go at these ones – we hope you enjoy this activity!

Key worker colouring Words of encouragement colouring

How about drawing five things that make you happy?
Here is a template to help you:

Draw 5 things that make you happy

Have fun being artists!

SPAG

Can you play this game to work on your spellings this week?

Common Exception words game

Can you put any of the words you learn into sentences thinking about your writing targets?

Try out this SPAG mat this week –

Spag mat 5

MFL

It has been nice to hear that so many of you are enjoying learning about the world you live in and other people’s cultures. This week we have had a look for some videos that can help you learn a variety of things in French, including birds, bugs and beasts which links to our science this week.

French website

Keep us posted on how you find the activities! We would love to hear some of you speaking in a different language!

Music

Music is such a wonderful activity to do and enjoy and we hope you have all had chance to listen to music and create your own music over the past few weeks.
It has been great to hear Shelby and Harry McStay have been working really hard on learning to play the piano over the past few weeks. We would love to hear from anyone else who is enjoying learning to play a musical instrument.

This week we would like you to put on a piece of music, find a quiet spot and have a go at these cards. We hope you enjoy them and you can share them with the rest of your family too!

Mindfulness cards

Then we would like you to create your own relaxing sound track. Choose a selection of relaxing songs, write them down and then play them on repeat while you are doing your activities this week.

We would also like you to put on your favourite songs and just DANCE! This is the best way to forget about everything and keep fit at the same time! Here are a few of our favourite songs that you might like to try! We are looking forward to hearing about your song choices this week!

George Ezra-shotgun Pharrell- Happy

Remember to share all your fantastic work with us on Showbie this week.

We hope you have a great PSHE week.

Keep smiling, we miss you all so much and hopefully we will be reunited soon!

Have a great week Year 2!

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 8 – W/C 11th May 2020

Thank you for your fantastic effort in your home learning this week. We are really proud of the effort you are putting into the challenges we set.

This week we were really impressed by Maddie’s robot Lucy. She took on the challenge to create a robot using things around her house and she did a great job! We hope you don’t loose too much treasure inside her!

Also, this week we really enjoyed seeing Jack create a circuit using hot wires and practicing Morse Code. Such a great idea and one that could inspire others to try at home.

This week Carlo has really wowed us with his amazing handwriting, He is working really hard on joining his letters and fantastic spellings. We are so proud of him and can’t wait to see him showing off his writing skills when we are back together.

It was also great to see the progress Joseph CH is making in his writing and spelling. He sent us a great write up of the smoothies he has been making and his science experiment! Keep up the super writing and sharing it with us!

At the start of the week, Erika blew us away with her outstanding Great Fire of London house. Her plan was so detailed, and her final design was brilliant. Hopefully it stays in one piece and doesn’t go up in flames like in the GFL!

Alfred was the first person to send us a picture of his Picasso picture. It was such a great copy of one his pictures! You are a super artist Alfred!
It was great to hear that two of our children have learnt a new skill this week.

We really enjoyed watching Alex learn to ride her bike without stabilisers. We are so proud of all your hard work and dedication learning this skill. William also learnt how to play the Yo-Yo. Its such a tricky skill and he has learnt it so well. Thank you for sharing your Yo-Yo skills with us William!

This week our theme continues to be linked to London but we are taking the route of the London Olympics through History!

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

A big hello from us!

We have both been very busy doing some of the English and Maths tasks from the website. Take a look!

Mrs LB has been working with Isaac to paint some symmetrical butteflies…

…and Mrs Hemming and Hugo have been recreating their favourite book cover of The Gruffalo!

E-Safety

This week please remind your child of the “STOP, BLOCK, TELL” message that you shared with your child when we started learning at home.

Here were the key top tips we learned for staying safe online:

Keep your personal information safe and private (don’t share it with anyone).

People online are not always who they say they are (don’t become friends with someone online that you haven’t met before in real life and never meet up with anyone you speak to online).

Ask before you share – think carefully about the photos you post on the internet. You need to have permission before you post photos of other people online.

Think carefully about the words you use on the internet.

If you see something you feel uncomfortable with, STOP, BLOCK AND TELL!

Always speak to a trusted adult.

Year 2 – Can you make an E-Safety poster and display it somewhere in your home? You could make this on a computer if you have one at home, with some pens, pencils and some paper, or be creative and use any tools or equipment you may have at home. We will look forward to seeing your posters on Showbie.

RE

May is an important time for us as Catholics as we celebrate Mary, our blessed lady and how important she is to us. We would like you to take some time to pray using your Rosary, maybe you could make a new prayer area in your house to help you with your quiet prayer and reflection time. You can use this video below to help you revisit the Rosary, I have enjoyed watching the video to support me in using the Rosary, hope it helps you too.

Praying the Rosary

Here are some nice resources that you might like to use during the month of May, remembering our Mary, mother of God.

When I think of Mary- wonder activity Mary wordsearch Mary stained glass window Mary- altar colouring page Our lady prayer book

: Credit:Twinkl

We would also like you to try some of these activities. We are enjoying some of them in our house and hope you can enjoy them too. Keeps our minds and bodies fit and healthy!

This week we would also like you to continue work on the Holy Spirit and how Jesus sent the Holy Spirit after he had gone back to Heaven.
Re read the slides below to help you understand what the Holy Spirit is. When you have had a read and spoken to your family about the Holy Spirit, have a go at this challenge. We would like you to imagine you were one of the 12 disciples as you write your letter to Jesus.

Your task –

When you have completed your poster please share it with us on Showbie!

PE

This week our learning focus is the London Olympics. As you go through your learning during the week we would like you to start creating your own mini Olympics that you can have with your family. You could extend the mini Olympic task to your extended family through video links!

For your mini Olympics you will need to create the following things –
• team name
• team flag
• time table of events
• score sheets
• medals
• music – can you create your own Olympic sound track?

You may want to add other things to your mini Olympics! The above are just some ideas.

We look forward to hearing about your mini Olympics at home! Please share your pictures and ideas with us on Showbie!

We would really like you to start trying out these new resources that will help you with your physical activity linked to the National Curriculum. There are some fantastic ideas, and lots of the activities use equipment that you can find around the house. We hope you have fun trying out some new activities! We will be trying some out in our houses too!

#ThisIsPE

Lines of symmetry questions

Maths

This week your maths learning is all about Symmetry! When we were researching the London Olympics, we enjoyed looking at the variety of flags from all the countries that enter teams into the Olympics. Some of these have good examples of symmetry. Also, it’s a great activity to spot objects around your house and garden that have lines of symmetry.

As you are looking at lines of symmetry, you might want to revisit the properties of 2D and 3D shapes too!

Here is your challenge for this week –

Please use all the resources to help you with your work on symmetry this week.
We are looking forward to seeing your butterflies and flags this week!

Shading symmetry

Creating a symetrical butterfly Flags of the world

After you have explored symmetry in 2D shapes we would like you to revisit your learning on 3D shapes. Have a look at their properties. When you have looked again at 3D shapes, can you create your own 3D Olympic stadium? Think back to the houses we made for the elephants and the shapes you used!

We would like you to go on Mathletics at least 3 times this week. We will add new tasks linked to our challenges.

Please check out the BBC Bitesize website for daily lessons and challenges.

Reading

This week your first reading challenge is to recreate your favorite book’s front cover! You can be as creative as you like! I have had a go at recreating one of our family favorites at the moment! We didn’t quite make it to the wood but we did the best we could! We are looking forward to seeing your book cover creations! Here is mine to start you off!

Can you to do some more reading around the subject? We have really enjoyed reading some of the books you have been reading for your research! This week we would like you to research the History of the London Olympics!

Newspaper template 1 Newspaper planning support

We would also like you to have a go at this guided reading activity about the London Olympics. If there is any vocabulary you don’t understand, write it down and use a dictionary to find out the meaning. You could create your own worthy word wall like we have in our classroom.

Olympics Guided Reading

Also, this week we would like you to try out this Roald Dahl quiz! Lots of you have been sharing your Roald Dahl book reviews with us and we are so glad you are reading lots of his books! Such great stories! Hope you enjoy this challenge!

Roald Dahl quiz

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

This week’s recommendations –

Emily recommends – The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Erika recommends – The Twits by Roald Dahl
Jack recommends – War Boy by Michael Foreman
William recommends – The Snail and the Whale – Julia Donaldson

Writing

This week your writing challenge links to the London Olympics. Before you complete your writing activity, make sure you have done some reading around the subject of the Olympics and also completed your reading challenge this week.

Your writing activity focus is writing a newspaper article about the London Olympics. We would like you to apply all the skills that you have learnt over the year and wow us in your newspaper report. Remember to write in the past tense and use some of the resources below to help you in your writing. You could choose any of the London Olympics to create your newspaper report on!

We hope you enjoy writing your newspaper report! The more detail the better!

History

This week we would like you to learn about the history of the London Olympic games.
You can use the internet and also all the resources below to support you in your history challenge this week.

When you have researched the history of Olympics, we would like you to present your information in any form you would like. Here are some options for you to choose from:
• report
• Non-Fiction book
• poster
• diary entry

History of the Olympics information

Olympics ComparisonV2

London 2012 olympics- Quiz for after research on 2012 Olympics

DT

This week we would like you to create your own Olympic medal. We would like you to be as creative as you can with resources that you have at home. We have added a template of a medal below to help you. Please share any of your medals with us on Showbie! You could use your medals for your own mini Olympics in the week.

Medal design

Make your own Olympic torch

Science

This week we would like you to do some research on forces and magnets. Some of the sports in the Olympics relay on forces! Some a bit complex for Year 2 but we thought you might like to have a go at some forces and magnets activities that prepare you for your learning in Year 3! Have a look at the information below and do some of your own research on what forces and magnets are.

Share your findings about forces and magnets with us on Showbie.

Push and Pull activity

Magnet game

Art

This week can we are making links to all the countries that enter the Olympic games. If you have any paint at home, we would love you to paint a selection of flags that represent different counties that have entered the London Olympics. If you don’t have paint, you could collect materials to create a collage flag or use colouring pencils for your flag. We would like you to choose counties that you don’t know much about so you can research them before creating your flag!

Have fun being artists!

SPAG

Can you play this game to work on your spellings this week?

Common exception words game

Can you put any of the words you learn into sentences thinking about your writing targets?

Try out this SPAG mat this week-

SPAG mat

MFL

This week we would like you to make links to another language based on the flags you have created.

We would like you to tell us how many counties entered the 2012 Olympic games?

Then we would like you to then choose one country and find out the following in that countries language –
• Numbers to 10
• Days of the week
• Months of the year

We would like you to present your information in a poster or if you are feeling brave, you could record yourself speaking in another language and share it with us on Showbie! We are looking forward to hearing about the variety of languages you can speak over the week!

Music

This week our music challenge links to the London Olympics. When you are researching the London Olympics, we would like you to have a look at the selection of songs that were chosen for the opening ceremonies. Are there any similarities between the music played in 1908, 1948 and 2012 Olympics?

When you have researched the music that was used throughout the Olympic games, we would like you to listen to these two songs taken from the 2012 Olympic games.

Land of Hope and Glory

Chariots of Fire

Whilst you are listening to the music, we would like you to identify the different types of instruments that are used to produce the music.

We want you to be inspired by these two pieces of music so you can add music to your own mini Olympics! You are more than welcome to use these pieces of music if you like them!
This challenge takes me back to my primary school days! We made tee-shirts as well to compete in our own mini Olympics! You could create a team shirt!

We hope you have lots of fun this week completing your challenges linked to the London Olympics!

Remember to share all your fantastic work with us on Showbie!

Have a great week Year 2!

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 7 W/C 4th May 2020

Thank you for your fantastic effort in your home learning this week. We are really proud of the effort you are putting into the challenges we set.

This week we were blown away by Alfred’s Volcano! Super eruption you made too! A fantastic model of Big Ben too! Hope you can share your models with all your friends.

There have been some yummy baked goods sent to us on Showbie! Maddie’s unicorn buns looked fantastic, Niamh’s crispy buns made my mouth water, William’s banana bread looked fab (even though he said he didn’t like it), Hollie has been sharing lots of her baking over the past few weeks! Hope she delivers us some when we are back to school, as all her cooking looks fab! Also, Joseph’s chocolate cake for his brother’s birthday and Harry’s Orange drizzle cake looked like show stoppers on the Great British bake off! This week we want you to continue cooking and baking so keep sharing your baking skills with us! And make sure you share them with the FOSJ! See the picture in the maths learning at home section!

We are really impressed with the standard of writing you are producing at home. This week Dexter’s and Erika’s stories really stood out for great handwriting, use of conjunctions and a variety of punctuation. Also, Casper’s coal mining recount was outstanding! Fantastic writing using a pen for the first time! Thank you, Maddie, for you super story about being lost in London that you typed on the computer. This gave us the inspiration for our learning challenges this week- Paddington Bear! Keep up the amazing writing at home Year 2!
Also, a big thank you to Orla, who took on the challenge of raising money for Martin House. She has been doing laps of her garden every day and has already raised £55! Keep up the amazing work Orla, we are really proud of you!

This week our theme is London but it’s through the adventures of Paddington Bear! We hope you enjoy the new challenges!

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

VE Day: 75 Years

This Friday we going to be celebrating VE day (Victory in Europe day). This is such an important celebration for us, and although we are not in school celebrating, we would like you to try out some activities at home- at a safe distance!
Before you try out some activities, have a look at these resources so you can learn a bit more about VE day.

Some of these resources we set you as a challenge on Showbie and its great to see some of you have already started our VE activities. Please continue to share your VE activities with us on Showbie!

Here are some ideas you might like to try over the week-
• Create some VE bunting and decorate your house and garden (see Showbie and attached information)
• Plan a garden party to celebrate VE day- create a British menu and make your food. This links to our maths learning this week too. You could also ration the food like in World War 2
• Write a newspaper report imagining you were back in 1945 celebrating the end of the war (this will give you a head start into next week’s newspaper writing challenge)
• Listen to some music from 1945- we started this at school before we left. You could compare it to the music you listen to today! Check out the Vera Lynn song which is fitting to our situation in Lockdown right now!

We hope you have a great week planning your VE celebrations and enjoy the very special day on Friday too! We are looking forward to seeing all your celebrations!

Here are the links and activities to support you in your VE celebrations this week-

Information about VE day More information about VE day Great British Bunting British Legion Resources Vera Lynn Video

RE

We hope you had fun exploring your RE learning challenges last week. We would like you to continue thinking about different ways you can support Martin House as well as our new RE challenge this week. This week we would like you to start thinking about Jesus sending the Holy Spirit after he had gone back to Heaven. The Holy Spirit is a hard thing to learn about and understand so we would like you to use this activity as a wonder activity like we do in class.

Have a read of the slides below to explain what the Holy Spirit is. When you have had a read and spoken to your family about the Holy Spirit, have a go at this challenge –

Your task –

When you have competed your poster please share it with us on Showbie!

Martin House

Unfortunately we couldn’t complete our fundraising campaign for Martin House, but we will hopefully be able to do something in the future for them. In the mean time, maybe you could complete a few tasks linked to Martin House.

You could:

Write a letter to a child or a family who use Martin House – ask them how they are.
Draw a happy picture to make someone smile.
Complete your own fundraising – run around the your garden, complete a challenge, do something you find tricky.
Create a product and try and sell it your parents, family or friends. Think Dragons Den!

Click here for letter template.

This week we will continue to work on our measuring skills with our cooking and baking at home. When you have completed a recipe, we would love you to share it with the Friends of Saint Josephs so we can start to create a cook book. Have a look at the picture below for some more information. Please send all your amazing recipes and pictures to fosj@outlook.com

While you are baking, we would like you to continue to use some of the measuring vocabulary. We would like you to read the scales while measuring out your ingredients, write out the recipes, write the measurements using grams (g) Kilograms (Kg) liters (l) milliliters (ml).

In the Hemming house this week we have a lot of cooking and baking to do as we are having a Gruffalo tea party for Hugo’s birthday next week! If you would like to copy some of the things we are making here they are –

We are looking forward to seeing your creations and how you got on with using different measurements.

Can you repeat the activity with another recipe?

Here are some websites that we use a lot for baking! Hope you find some exciting recipes! Please share any other good recipes with us- we like new ideas and recipes!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-baking

Whilst you are cooking at home and preparing food, please take a look at this PowerPoint which was shared with your children before we broke up from school. It helps them think about making healthy food choices and having a balanced diet. It also teaches the children about food waste. Some of the things in the powerpoint make links to some of our learning from our Science lessons over the past half term.

Learning at home Food Preparation and Food waste

This week we would also like you to work on your four times table this week. Have a try at playing some times tables games and also creating your own games to help you learn your four times table.

4 Times Tables – Question Booklet

Watch this video on classroom secrets to help you learn your 4 times tables.

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/4-times-table-video-tutorial/

We would like you to go on Mathletics at least 3 times this week. We will add new tasks linked to our challenges.

Also, if you can, have a play on these games to support you with reading scales:

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/scales/mass/

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Reading_Scales/Default.asp?Level=1

Here are some activities you might like to try too!

Reading scales- Sheet 2 Reading scales- Sheet 3 Measuring in the Kitchen- sheet 1

Reading

Over the week we would like you to read the following text. It’s an extract from the story of Paddington Bear.
We would like you to read the story over the week. The story also links to your writing challenge this week.
When you have read the story, can you pick out some vocabulary that you liked and write a list? You could use this vocabulary in your own story this week!

A Bear Called Paddington- Story to read

We would also like you to check out this poem! It’s a fun poem about London. When you have read the poem, see if you can answer our questions about the poem on the sheet below.

Magic London Bus Guided reading questions Magic London Bus Poem

We would like you to continue to read a selection of books over the week. Please add any book reviews to Showbie so we can share recommendations to everyone in Year 2.

Book Review 1 Book review 2

We would also like you to continue reading lots of books over the week. We really enjoy hearing about the variety of books that you are all reading. Please continue to add book reviews to Showbie so we can share good books between Year 2.

This week’s recommendations –
Harry recommends- Tom Gates books series of books
Evie recommends- Wizards of Once series of books
Alex recommends- The Secret Garden- Ladybird classics

How about listening to a new story this week? Choose a new place in your house or garden to enjoy a story. Share some of your reading spots with us on Showbie.

https://www.audible.co.uk/cat/Children/Ages-5-7-Audiobooks/535877031?ref=a_cat_Child_c1_subCat_4&pf_rd_p=c57d8418-2990-4e6e-92b3-7f42ebbd0566&pf_rd_r=MK8S32HZ19BBE516XHNS

Writing

This week your writing challenge links to your reading this week. We have chosen a text that we would like you to enjoy reading this week. The story we would like you to read is Paddington Bear. Maybe when you have enjoyed reading the story, you could create your own lockdown movie afternoon and watch Paddington 2!

Your writing activity focus is writing a story writing. We would like you to apply all the skills that you have learn over the year and wow is in a story set in London. We would like you to use the story of Paddington Bear to help you gather ideas for your story. You could choose a different animal to come to London and explore the city. Or it could be a made-up creature. We are looking to see lots of adjectives, conjunctions and a variety of punctuation in your stories. It would be great to see some paragraphs in your stories too!

We hope your stories are even better than Paddington 1 and 2! We are looking forward to reading your stories, and we hope you enjoy writing a story this week!

Use our writing a good story guide and story maps to help you plan out your story.

How to write a good story

Story Maps Story Maps

Geography

This week we would like you to learn about a different country and compare it to England.
We would like you to learn all about the country of Peru (Paddington’s home).
You could use a variety of books and the internet to research Peru. We have also attached a PowerPoint to help you gather some information and a template to use for your brochure.

When you have researched Peru, we would like you to create a travel brochure to encourage people to visit Peru. In your brochure can you add-
• Bright pictures
• A map of Peru
• Grabbing vocabulary
• Facts about Peru
• Climate in Peru
• How to get to Peru
• Attractions in Peru
• Famous landmarks

We really want you to imagine you are Paddington Bear and tell us why Peru is such an amazing place!

Use these resources to help you write your travel brochure!

Travel Brochure-1 Peru Travel Brochure

DT

This week can you make one of these London landmarks? All you need us a printer, scissors and some glue! Hope you have fun making the models!

Here are the templates you might like to use foe your DT project this week!

Trafalgar-Square-Lion London-Undergound-Paper-Model London-Phone-Box-Paper- Model London-Eye-Paper-Model London-Bus-Paper-Model

Please share your planning and making pictures with us, as well as your final house model! We are looking forward to seeing all your London houses on Showbie!

Science

This week we would like you to do some research about the sun and making shadows. Have a look at the information below and do some of your own research on how to make shadows. Can you create different animal shadows too?

Share your findings about shadows with us on Showbie.

After you have completed your shadow experiment, we would like you to research why we have day and night. Complete the sheet below with your findings!

Why we have day and night

Art

This week can we are making links to a Spanish artist. We would like you to research Picasso.
When you have researched him, we would like you to recreate some of his art work!

Have a look at our pictures below and some facts we have found!

Pablo Picasso- facts

Have fun being artists!

SPAG

Lots of you have enjoyed completing some of the SPAG mats we have shared. Here a few more. Also there is a London wordsearch for you to try out this week!

Mat 2 London word search-

SPAG Mat 1

Can you play this game to work on your spellings this week?

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/year-2-spelling-game-1/

Spanish

As Paddington bear came from Peru we would like you to try out some Spanish vocabulary this week

How about learning how to count to 10 in Spanish?

Check out this picture to help you –

Spanish numbers

See if you can challenge yourself and find these words in Spanish
• sandwich
• mum
• dad
• England
• Adventure

You could find some weather words in Spanish too and compare them to the French words you found last week!

Please share your new Spanish words with us on Showbie!

Music

Over the next few weeks, we would love to take on a challenge as a class!

We would like you to create your own version of Sing a Rainbow! You need to try and collect materials that match the rainbow colors too to add to your song.
If you can, we would love to hear some of you playing instruments and making your instruments to add to the song!
Maybe some of you could work together and share videos of you doing a color each?

We are looking forward to hearing what you come up with! The IPAD and IPhone have some great apps for making short videos if you are feeling adventurous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtpjBzPMeY

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 6: W/C 27th April 2020

We hope you enjoyed all your London activities last week. We have enjoyed looking at your sketches of London Landmarks. There has been some fantastic telling the time this week and creating London Underground time tables. Feel free to continue with some of the activities next week and continue to share your work with us on Showbie.

This week we have set challenges linked to the Great Fire of London. We hope you enjoy your new challenges!

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

RE

We hope you had fun exploring the start of our RE topic last week. This week we are moving on to learning about when Jesus appeared to his disciples. We would like you to put yourself in the shoes of the disciples and think about the emotions they would have had at the time.
This is the task we would like you to complete –

Your task –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzMo_fysxbI

Watch this video to help you with your RE learning objective this week. Start the video at one minute!

When you have competed your script please share it with us on Showbie! We would love to see pictures and videos of your drama too!

You could also write a letter to other Christians to spread the message of Jesus appearing to the disciples.

Martin House

Unfortunately we couldn’t complete our fundraising campaign for Martin House, but we will hopefully be able to do something in the future for them. In the mean time, maybe you could complete a few tasks linked to Martin House.

You could:

Write a letter to a child or a family who use Martin House – ask them how they are.
Draw a happy picture to make someone smile.
Complete your own fundraising – run around the your garden, complete a challenge, do something you find tricky.
Create a product and try and sell it your parents, family or friends. Think Dragons Den!

Write a Letter

Martin House Hospice - Wikipedia

Maths

This week our math’s activity links to the Great Fire of London. We would like you to have a go at the following activity. Let us know how you get on by sharing your work on Showbie!

As the Great Fire started in a baker’s shop, we would like you to use your math’s measuring skills this week to do some baking! Hopefully not setting fire to your house though!!
While you are baking, we would like you to use some of the measuring vocabulary. We would like you to read the scales while measuring out your ingredients, write out the recipes, write the measurements using grams (g) Kilograms (Kg) liters (l) milliliters (ml).

We know there is a shortage of some ingredients you might need for baking, so we will leave what you want to bake in your bakers shop up to you. In the Hemming house we are going to be working on vegan scones and cakes preparing for a special birthday in our house!

We are looking forward to seeing your creations and how you got on with using different measurements.

Can you repeat the activity with another recipe?

Here are some websites that we use a lot for baking! Hope you find some exciting recipes! Please share any other good recipes with us- we like new ideas and recipes!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-baking

https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/kids-baking

We would also like to try this measures game to help you compare objects and use our calculation skills. Maybe you could measure some objects around your house and garden?

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/year-2-four-operations-with-lengths/

We would like you to go on Mathletics at least 3 times this week. We will add new tasks linked to our challenges.

Also, if you can, have a play on these games to support you with reading scales:

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/scales/mass/

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Reading_Scales/Default.asp?Level=1

Here are some activities you might like to try too!

Reading scales- Sheet 2 Reading scales- Sheet 3 Measuring in the Kitchen- sheet 1

Reading

Can you start the week by reading around the subject – The Great Fire of London? Think about the book or source of information that you are going to choose.

Below is a sheet that we would like you to record your information on.

Guided Reading activity- GFL

Here are some Great Fire of London reading tasks that you might like to complete. We hope you like them. They will also support you in gathering information for your Writing and History challenge. They are set at different levels, have a look and choose the one you think your child can access as independently as they can.

If you have signed up for the free resources on classroom secrets. We have found this reading activity that you might like to try.

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/history-year-2-reading-comprehension-londons-on-fire/

We would like you to continue to read a selection of books over the week. Please add any book reviews to Showbie so we can share recommendations to everyone in Year 2.

Book Review 1 Book review 2

How about listening to a new story this week? Choose a new place in your house or garden to enjoy a story. Share some of your reading spots with us on Showbie.

https://www.audible.co.uk/cat/Children/Ages-5-7-Audiobooks/535877031?ref=a_cat_Child_c1_subCat_4&pf_rd_p=c57d8418-2990-4e6e-92b3-7f42ebbd0566&pf_rd_r=MK8S32HZ19BBE516XHNS

Writing

This week your writing challenge links to our London topic. We hope you enjoyed the challenge last week we enjoyed reading some of your poems.

Your writing activity focus is all about writing in the past tense. When we write in the past tense, it means something has already happened and we need to be careful with the endings on some of our words.

Your task this week is to write a recount all about what happened during the Great Fire of London. This task requires you to do some research about the Great Fire of London. This will be linked to your reading task this week.

In your writing you need to think carefully about the tense you use. When you have finished your recount, we would like you to underline the words written in the past tense.

You can use these resources to help you on your past tense this week. We hope you enjoy the activities!

Past Tense sheet challenge 1 Past Tense Poster

History

Your challenge this week is to research the history of the Great Fire of London. Have a look in books and on the internet to find out some interesting facts about what happened during the Great Fire of London.

You can present your information in any way you like, but here are a few ideas!
• Time line of events
• Fact file on each of the events
• A newspaper article
• A diary entry
• A poster with detailed labels

Were there any famous landmarks destroyed in the Great Fire of London?

Here are some pictures of the Great Fire of London. You could use them to help you in your History work this week. Use the information slides to help you too!

DT

This week we would like to create a model house from the great fire of London. Before you make the house, you will need to research the type of houses and think about the variety of materials you will need to build your house.

Materials you might use:
• Cereal boxes
• Milk cartoons
• Other food boxes
• Coloring pencils/paints
• Paper straws
• Natural material from your garden
• Materials from around your house.

It may take you more than a week to build your house. We will keep the challenge on for two weeks so you can take your time and research London houses during the Great Fire of London and gather your materials.

Remember to use our skills from class to make your house – Plan, Do and Review!

Please share your planning and making pictures with us, as well as your final house model! We are looking forward to seeing all your London houses on Showbie!

Science

Our science topic over the next few weeks will be about Earth and its seasons.

This week we would like you to do some research about the different weathers that we have in the UK. We would like you to use your season wheels from last week and add different weather for each season onto your wheel.

As, during Lockdown there has been lots of love and happiness spread through rainbows, and some of you have made the most fantastic rainbows at home, we thought it would be great to do some learning about rainbows, linking it to our weather topic in Year 2.

Have a look at the information below and then complete these objectives! Have fun learning all about rainbows and being scientists!

Rainbow experiment –

How to grow a rainbow

Geography

Linked to Science – can you keep a diary of the weather over the next few weeks?

5 Day Weather Diary

My Weather Diary

SPAG

Lots of you have enjoyed completing some of the SPAG mats we have shared. Here a few more.

Mat 4 Mat 5 Mat 6

This week how about checking this game out to help you with your spellings? Its from classroom secrets! Please see on Showbie how to sign up if you would like an account.

https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/resource/common-exception-words-set-1-year-2/

French

This week how about learning some of our different weathers in French? See if you can find out the words in French for-
• Rain
• Sunshine
• Snow
• Rainbow

Please share your new French words with us on Showbie!

Music

Over the next few weeks, we would love to take on a challenge as a class!

We would like you to create your own version of Sing a Rainbow! You need to try and collect materials that match the rainbow colors too to add to your song.
If you can, we would love to hear some of you playing instruments and making your instruments to add to the song!
Maybe some of you could work together and share videos of you doing a color each?

We are looking forward to hearing what you come up with! The IPAD and IPhone have some great apps for making short videos if you are feeling adventurous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtpjBzPMeY

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z7s22sg/year-2-lessons/1

Week 5: W/C 20th April 2020

We hope you have all had a nice Easter break and enjoyed making new memories as a family.

This week we have set challenges linked to some of the objectives we would have been doing at school. We hope you have fun completing the activities.

As well as our challenges, we have also had a look at the BBC bitesize lessons. They are great so have a go at some of the lessons this week and see how you get on. Here is the link to help you get onto the website!

If you have any questions, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Have a great week Year 2! Stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

RE

Our new RE topic this half term is Eastertide. Our RE learning will be linked to the lessons that we would have been doing in school.

This week, we would like you to have a go at completing this learning objective-

Have a look at these slides to help you with your writing.

Can you tell us what your Easter traditions are? How did you celebrate Easter this year? Share your pictures and writing with us on Showbie!

Also this week we would like you to have a think about a different religion. Before we left school, we were starting to think about Leeds and its diversity. So, this week we would like you to research another religion.

Your task –

Maths

This week our Maths activity links to our London topic. We would like you to have a go at the following activity. Let us know how you get on by sharing your work on Showbie!

Can you repeat the activity with another train on a different London Underground line?

Telling the Time- 5 minute intervals

We would like you to go on Mathletics at least 3 times this week. We will add new tasks linked to our challenges.

Also, if you can, have a play on these games to support you with telling the time!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/on_time_game1.htm

Reading

Can you start the week by reading around the subject – London? Think about the book or source of information that you are going to choose.

Below is a sheet that we would like you to record your information on.

Book Review 1 Book review 2

We would like you to continue to read a selection of books over the week. Please add any book reviews to Showbie so we can share recommendations to everyone in Year 2.

How about listening to a new story this week? Choose a new place in your house or garden to enjoy a story. Share some of your reading spots with us on Showbie.

https://www.audible.co.uk/cat/Children/Ages-5-7-Audiobooks/535877031?ref=a_cat_Child_c1_subCat_4&pf_rd_p=c57d8418-2990-4e6e-92b3-7f42ebbd0566&pf_rd_r=MK8S32HZ19BBE516XHNS

Writing

This week your writing task links to our follow-on topic to the underground – London.
Your writing activity this week is to write a poem that tells us some information about the London Underground. Before you start your poem, see if you can do some reading around the subject of the London Underground. You could present your research in note form.

We would like you to be creative in your poems. Think about the different types of poems we did before we left school – acrostic, shape, rhyming.

Use these resources to help you in your writing –

Conjunction mat Adjective word mat

History

Your challenge this week is to research the history of the Royal family. Have a look in books and on the internet to find out some interesting facts about the Royal family.
Think about the different kings and Queens that we have had over the centuries.

You can present your information in any way you like, but here are a few ideas!
• Time line of Kings and Queens
• Fact file on the monarchy
• A newspaper article dated in a previous century
• A diary entry

Art

This week we would like you to research a variety of London landmarks. Look on the internet or in books to see what the famous London landmarks are.

If you get time, you could do another landmark and create your own London Landmark scene.

Science

Our science topic over the next few weeks will be about Earth and its seasons.

This week we would like you to research the four seasons and complete the following activities –

Use this resource to help you with your science learning objectives.

Four Seasons wheel

Here are the science experiments from last week. We will leave them here so you can continue to conduct them at home! Keep sharing your experiments and results with us on Showbie!

British Science Week 2020

Rainbow-Colour-Mixing-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Science Experiment Lava Lamp Lava Lamp

Fizzy-Colours-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Cornflour-Slime-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

SPAG

Lots of you have enjoyed completing some of the SPAG mats we have shared. Here a few more.

Mat 1 Mat 2 Mat 3

Also attached is the spelling list that we have added to Showbie as well. They are extra spellings that you can work on alongside Spelling Shed. Try and go on spelling hunts around your house and apply your spellings in creative ways!

We have found this calendar to help your minds stay healthy. Its one for you to share with your family and friends. Hope you find it useful.

Here is a great website which has some lovely ideas to do as a family and spreading kindness. You can print the resources of too. Hope you find them useful!

https://www.archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk/yla-at-home

Other challenges

We will keep looking out for great active and fun challenges that you can enjoy at home.
Take pictures of yourself doing some of the challenges, but most importantly have fun and enjoy the moment!

Here are a few new challenges that you could try! Also some new websites for you to try!

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/cooking-with-kids-gingerbread-mice

https://www.familydaystriedandtested.com/free-virtual-tours-of-world-museums-educational-sites-galleries-for-children/

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

Roll a Dice Easter Bunny Colouring Page

Week 4: W/C 13th April 2020

Please find lots of activities, worksheets and documents to support your learning in Year 2.

Easter Holidays

Over the next week we would like you to continue with these activities and the home learning grid.

We hope you are all having a nice Easter break and enjoying some family time. Take care, stay safe and keep smiling!

Mrs Hemming and Mrs LB

Our expectations over the Easter holidays are –
• Go on Spelling Shed and Mathletics every few days – we will be updating it every couple of days and checking in to see where you are all up to.
• Read every day – it can be any type of media of your choice
• Complete the activities on the new Learning at home grid (you have two weeks to do all of the activities)

If you get time, check out the other curriculum areas for this week and do some of our activities! Share any of your learning on Showbie, we love to see what you have been up too!

We don’t expect you to be working every day, and as we said to you on the phone, it’s finding the time that works best for you and your child and there is not set amount of time expected from us as teachers. It’s the quality of time that you can find where you can get the most out of your child.

We want you to enjoy been outside as much as you can and look after yourselves.

If you have any questions, or want any further work to support your child, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break!

RE

You can still access some of our RE Easter activities from last week.

We would really like you to write a letter, postcard or send Father John a picture this week. He will really apricate that you have him in your thought and prayers.

Also, you could create your own prayer to think about people around the world and in our community who are struggling at this unusual time.

Maths

Over Easter we would still like you to access the White Rose Maths resources. Also we have added some Year 2 Easter Maths activities for you to complete at home.

Sats Survival Easter Revision Maths Activity Booklet

Easter Addition and Subtraction Secret Message Activity Sheet

White Rose Maths Hub

This is the website so you can check out the home learning- https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

They are also doing a daily live Maths session where some of the experts are there to support you if you need help with the questions. We really recommend you check these out at some point each week. If you need any support, ask us on Showbie and we will do our best to help you.

Reading

Over the Easter holidays we would love you to share pictures of your child reading in as many different places as possible. Maybe you could make a den in the house or garden, a tunnel, read up a tree or read in a sand pit. We will leave it up to you to decide. We are looking forward to seeing your pictures, and the most adventurous place you can read!

We are looking forward to hearing about the books you have been reading at home, and also adding all your reading at home to our Walk of Fame reading challenge when we are back to school.

If you would like some new resources to read, we recommend this audio list to explore. We have also added a recommended reading list on the reading at home folder on Showbie. It is also below for you to access.

https://stories.audible.com/discovery

Writing

Here are some writing activities linked to Easter. We hope you enjoy using them.

Easter Comic strip

Easter Story Word Search

Creating an Easter story book

It would be great to see some of your dairy entries over the Easter holidays. Please share them with us on Showbie.

Also, it would be great if you could write a card, postcard or send some of your super Easter work to Fr John. I’m sure he would love to hear from you and see some of your fantastic home learning.

Here is the address to send your work to:

Westgate,
LS22 6LL
Wetherby

Bear Hunt Challenge

We would like you to continue to go on a bear hunt over the Easter holidays. Please send us pictures of your bears. Maybe you could have tea party with your bears. One of our children sent a fantastic tea party picture with her bears. Such a great idea! Enjoy the sunshine in your garden and have a teddy bears picnic!

Mindfulness

Maybe you could try a few mindfulness worksheets in between your work. Mindfulness is great for feeling calm in your surrounding environment. Have a go:

Mindfulness – Assorted Worksheets

Mindfulness – Jungle Animals

Geography

A great Geography idea that you could do at home is to create a world map. Inside the world map you could learn what hope is in each countries language and add it to your map. Below is an example of what yours might look like.

Art

How about trying out these Easter crafts! It would be great if you could make an Easter card for someone in your family, maybe send and Easter card to a relative or someone in your community that may need a smile right now.

Here are the Easter cards we are making in the Hemming house hold currently! We choose these as we are missing seeing all the new life around on our adventures! Happy Easter card making!

Here are some of the Easter challenges that we would like you to try over the next two weeks!

Easter Egg colouring

Easter Story puppets- create a puppet show

Create an Easter stained glass window – Copy

Science

In Year 2 we all love a great science experiment. As we are missing some of our science lessons in school, we thought you might like to try your own experiments at home. Before you conduct your experiment, can you make a prediction about what you think might happen. Then after your experiment can you evaluate what you did? Would you make any changes? Tell us whether your prediction was right!

Please upload pictures of your science at home to Showbie! We are excited to see how they go!

Enjoy being scientists!

British Science Week 2020

Rainbow-Colour-Mixing-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Science Experiment Lava Lamp Lava Lamp

Fizzy-Colours-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Cornflour-Slime-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

SPAG

Lots of you have enjoyed completing some of the SPAG mats we have shared. Here a few more.

Mat 1

Mat 2

Mat 3

Also attached is the spelling list that we have added to Showbie as well. They are extra spellings that you can work on alongside Spelling Shed. Try and go on spelling hunts around your house and apply your spellings in creative ways!

We have found this calendar to help your minds stay healthy. Its one for you to share with your family and friends. Hope you find it useful.

Here is a great website which has some lovely ideas to do as a family and spreading kindness. You can print the resources of too. Hope you find them useful!

https://www.archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk/yla-at-home

Here are some more active lessons that you can try at home and also out on your adventures! You can upload any pictures of you completing our active challenges to Showbie! We will be trying these challenges too!

The Path to Tokyo 2020 Active Homework (1)

Thornbridge Outdoors – Active Homework 2020 (1)

MOVE MORE SCHOOL ACTIVITY DOCUMENT_KS1_1119_digital

Greenacre-Sports-Partnership-Activity-Booklet

Other challenges

We will keep looking out for great active and fun challenges that you can enjoy at home.
Take pictures of yourself doing some of the challenges, but most importantly have fun and enjoy the moment!

Here are a few new challenges that you could try! Also some new websites for you to try!

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/cooking-with-kids-gingerbread-mice

https://www.familydaystriedandtested.com/free-virtual-tours-of-world-museums-educational-sites-galleries-for-children/

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

Easter Story cards to order

Week 3: W/C 6th April 2020

Please find lots of activities, worksheets and documents to support your learning in Year 2.

Easter Holidays

As it is the Easter holidays, and after talking to you all over the past few days we have decided to reduce the amount of work on the learning at home page over the Easter holidays.

Our expectations over the Easter holidays are –
• Go on Spelling Shed and Mathletics every few days – we will be updating it every couple of days and checking in to see where you are all up to.
• Read every day – it can be any type of media of your choice
• Access and complete the Holy week activities as a family
• Work on Easter crafts and the work sheets provided
• Complete the activities on the new Learning at home grid (you have two weeks to do all of the activities)

We don’t expect you to be working every day, and as we said to you on the phone, it’s finding the time that works best for you and your child and there is not set amount of time expected from us as teachers. It’s the quality of time that you can find where you can get the most out of your child.

We want you to enjoy been outside as much as you can and look after yourselves.

If you have any questions, or want any further work to support your child, please drop us a message on Showbie and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter break!

RE

Holy Week

This is a lovely at home Holy week plan for families. We will be using it at home to help us through a very different Holy week this year!

Holy Week – At home resource for families

Below are a few activities, but feel free to think of your own ideas and share them with us on Showbie.
Things you might like to try –
• Retell the Easter story using the picture cards provided
• Create a comic strip of the Easter Story
• Cut out/create your own Easter story puppets and put on a show to retell the story
• Complete our Easter story word search
• Design your own Easter Egg
• Make an Easter garden
• Create your own Easter prayer

Easter Story Word Search

Easter Story Matching cards

Please find a resource for families to use during Holy Week. There are several pages for you to look at over the Easter period.

Holy Week

Maths

Over Easter we would still like you to access the White Rose Maths resources. Also we have added some Year 2 Easter Maths activities for you to complete at home.

Roll a Dice Easter Bunny Colouring Page

Sats Survival Easter Revision Maths Activity Booklet

Easter Addition and Subtraction Secret Message Activity Sheet

White Rose Maths Hub

This is the website so you can check out the home learning- https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

They are also doing a daily live Maths session where some of the experts are there to support you if you need help with the questions. We really recommend you check these out at some point each week. If you need any support, ask us on Showbie and we will do our best to help you.

Reading

Over the Easter holidays we would love you to share pictures of your child reading in as many different places as possible. Maybe you could make a den in the house or garden, a tunnel, read up a tree or read in a sand pit. We will leave it up to you to decide. We are looking forward to seeing your pictures, and the most adventurous place you can read!

We are looking forward to hearing about the books you have been reading at home, and also adding all your reading at home to our Walk of Fame reading challenge when we are back to school.

If you would like some new resources to read, we recommend this audio list to explore. We have also added a recommended reading list on the reading at home folder on Showbie. It is also below for you to access.

https://stories.audible.com/discovery

Writing

Here are some writing activities linked to Easter. We hope you enjoy using them.

Easter Comic strip

Easter Story Word Search

Creating an Easter story book

It would be great to see some of your dairy entries over the Easter holidays. Please share them with us on Showbie.

Also, it would be great if you could write a card, postcard or send some of your super Easter work to Fr John. I’m sure he would love to hear from you and see some of your fantastic home learning.

Here is the address to send your work to:

Westgate,
LS22 6LL
Wetherby

Bear Hunt Challenge

We would like you to continue to go on a bear hunt over the Easter holidays. Please send us pictures of your bears. Maybe you could have tea party with your bears. One of our children sent a fantastic tea party picture with her bears. Such a great idea! Enjoy the sunshine in your garden and have a teddy bears picnic!

Mindfulness

Maybe you could try a few mindfulness worksheets in between your work. Mindfulness is great for feeling calm in your surrounding environment. Have a go:

Mindfulness – Assorted Worksheets

Mindfulness – Jungle Animals

Geography

A great Geography idea that you could do at home is to create a world map. Inside the world map you could learn what hope is in each countries language and add it to your map. Below is an example of what yours might look like.

Art

How about trying out these Easter crafts! It would be great if you could make an Easter card for someone in your family, maybe send and Easter card to a relative or someone in your community that may need a smile right now.

Here are the Easter cards we are making in the Hemming house hold currently! We choose these as we are missing seeing all the new life around on our adventures! Happy Easter card making!

Here are some of the Easter challenges that we would like you to try over the next two weeks!

Easter Egg colouring

Easter Story puppets- create a puppet show

Create an Easter stained glass window – Copy

Science

In Year 2 we all love a great science experiment. As we are missing some of our science lessons in school, we thought you might like to try your own experiments at home. Before you conduct your experiment, can you make a prediction about what you think might happen. Then after your experiment can you evaluate what you did? Would you make any changes? Tell us whether your prediction was right!

Please upload pictures of your science at home to Showbie! We are excited to see how they go!

Enjoy being scientists!

British Science Week 2020

Rainbow-Colour-Mixing-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Science Experiment Lava Lamp Lava Lamp

Fizzy-Colours-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

Cornflour-Slime-Awe-and-Wonder-Science-Activity

SPAG

Lots of you have enjoyed completing some of the SPAG mats we have shared. Here a few more.

Mat 1

Mat 2

Mat 3

Also attached is the spelling list that we have added to Showbie as well. They are extra spellings that you can work on alongside Spelling Shed. Try and go on spelling hunts around your house and apply your spellings in creative ways!

We have found this calendar to help your minds stay healthy. Its one for you to share with your family and friends. Hope you find it useful.

Here is a great website which has some lovely ideas to do as a family and spreading kindness. You can print the resources of too. Hope you find them useful!

https://www.archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk/yla-at-home

Here are some more active lessons that you can try at home and also out on your adventures! You can upload any pictures of you completing our active challenges to Showbie! We will be trying these challenges too!

The Path to Tokyo 2020 Active Homework (1)

Thornbridge Outdoors – Active Homework 2020 (1)

MOVE MORE SCHOOL ACTIVITY DOCUMENT_KS1_1119_digital

Greenacre-Sports-Partnership-Activity-Booklet

Other challenges

We will keep looking out for great active and fun challenges that you can enjoy at home.
Take pictures of yourself doing some of the challenges, but most importantly have fun and enjoy the moment!

Here are a few new challenges that you could try! Also some new websites for you to try!

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/cooking-with-kids-gingerbread-mice

https://www.familydaystriedandtested.com/free-virtual-tours-of-world-museums-educational-sites-galleries-for-children/

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw

Week 2: W/C 30th March

Please find lots of activities, worksheets and documents to support your learning in Year 2.

Holy Week

Please find a resource for families to use during Holy Week. There are several pages for you to look at over the Easter period.

Holy Week

Maths

If you would like to use some of the resources that we use in class, White Rose Maths hub has released daily maths problems and also videos to support the teaching of the maths topic at home. The White Rose maths resources are fantastic so we hope you can use some in your home learning.

This is the website so you can check out the home learning- https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

They are also doing a daily live maths session where some of the experts are there to support you if you need help with the questions. We really recommend you check these out at some point each week. If you need any support, ask us on Showbie and we will do our best to help you.

Reading Challenges

Over the next few weeks we will be adding some reading challenges here and we will also share them on Showbie. We have set up a new folder on Showbie that is called Reading at home. This folder will focus on our reading challenges and also a place for you to share your book reviews and any pictures of you reading at home.

It is really important that you continue to read at home. It could be a book (Fiction or Non-Fiction), magazines, newspapers, menus, online books, comics etc.

We are looking forward to hearing about the books you have been reading at home, and also adding all your reading at home to our Walk of Fame reading challenge when we are back to school.

Have a listen to some of these stories and poems from one of our favourite authors. Let us know on Showbie which story or poem was your favourite!.

Bear Hunt Challenge

Over the next few weeks, we would like you to try and go on a Bear hunt. Have a look at the attached challenge and have fun completing it! Any pictures or work from your bear hunt, please add them to Showbie for us to see! Happy bear hunting!

Bear Hunt Challenge

Practise papers

Why don’t you have a go at some of these papers? We have included a few Maths, Spag and Reading papers for you to try.

Ronald the Rhino – Reading Paper

Ladybirds – Reading Paper

A Monster Surprise – Reading Paper

Reading Booklet Paper 2

Reading Answer Booklet Paper 2

Mindfulness

Maybe you could try a few mindfulness worksheets in between your work. Mindfulness is great for feeling calm in your surrounding environment. Have a go:

Mindfulness – Assorted Worksheets

Mindfulness – Jungle Animals

Art

As we go through the next few weeks, if we come across any nice art ideas, we will add them here for you to try.

Today in our house we have been learning how to draw! As you know from our lessons at school, I need a bit of help with my drawing! So, I researched places to help me with my drawing skills. I came across this website, and we have had lots of fun as a family drawing some of the characters today!
Check the website out and the youtube videos! Maybe you could create your own story using some of the characters you draw!

http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rob+biddulph+drawing

Have fun being illustrators and authors! We can compare pictures when we are back to school!

Another idea that you can try in your gardens. All you need is chalk and masking tape. See how creative you can be with the patterns you make. We are looking forward to seeing your creations. Please share your art work with us on Showbie!

Can you make an Elmer elephant out of a milk bottle?

RE

Over the coming weeks it would be great if you could focus on some RE learning. We are approaching a very important time for us as Catholics, and where possible it would be nice if you could spend some time reflecting on what Jesus did for us.

This is a lovely at home Holy week plan for families. We will be using it at home to help us through a very different Holy week this year!

Holy Week- an at home resource for familes

Below are a few activities, but feel free to think of your own ideas and share them with us on Showbie.

Things you might like to try –
• Retell the Easter story using the picture cards provided
• Create a comic strip of the Easter Story
• Cut out/create your own Easter story puppets and put on a show to retell the story
• Complete our Easter story word search
• Design your own Easter Egg
• Make an Easter garden
• Create your own Easter prayer

Create an Easter stained glass window Creating an Easter story book Easter Comic strip Easter Egg colouring Easter ga rden- craft ideas Easter Story cards to order Easter Story Matching cards Easter Story puppets- create a puppet show Easter Story Word Search Hot Cross bun recipe

Also, there are a few places where you can watch mass through live streaming. Here is one that we have been using at home where we can- Leeds Cathedral

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-xVdN6rMCG0sSgxk8Rulow

Science

This week how about trying out some science all about plants? There are a few maths links in this science work too. If you open the page, there are also video links and options for learning without a printer. Hope you enjoy this work! Anything you do, share it with us on Showbie and we will take a look!

Science and maths plants work- BBC interactive learning

SPAG

Here are the SPAG sheets that we shared on Showbie yesterday. If you don’t have a printer, you could copy some of the questions out, or out some of the words into sentences focusing on your writing target. Hope you find the activities useful!

Mat 1 Mat 2 Mat 3 Mat 4 Mat 5 Mat 6

We have found this calendar to help your minds stay healthy. Its one for you to share with your family and friends. Hope you find it useful.

Here is a great website which has some lovely ideas to do as a family and spreading kindness. You can print the resources of too. Hope you find them useful!

https://www.archbishopofyorkyouthtrust.co.uk/yla-at-home

Here are some more active lessons that you can try at home and also out on your adventures! You can upload any pictures of you completing our active challenges to Showbie! We will be trying these challenges too!

The Path to Tokyo 2020 Active Homework (1)

Thornbridge Outdoors – Active Homework 2020 (1)

MOVE MORE SCHOOL ACTIVITY DOCUMENT_KS1_1119_digital

Greenacre-Sports-Partnership-Activity-Booklet

Other challenges

We will keep looking out for great active and fun challenges that you can enjoy at home.
Take pictures of yourself doing some of the challenges, but most importantly have fun and enjoy the moment!

Here are a few new challenges that you could try! Also some new websites for you to try!

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/books-for-children/cooking-with-kids-gingerbread-mice

https://www.familydaystriedandtested.com/free-virtual-tours-of-world-museums-educational-sites-galleries-for-children/

Here are a few free websites that we are currently trying out! Hope they are helpful to you too!

Useful Links

If you are feeling curious you could check out these websites…

SPAG: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkxxsbk

Science – from plants, animals to the human body. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82

Phonics – Try out some of these fun Phonics games! https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

Also, Twinkl are currently allowing parents to sign up for free to access some fantastic resources. These resources will support your child in all their curriculum areas. Please sign up and explore the resources at your leisure!

Week 1: W/C 23rd March

Below are activities, worksheets and documents to support your learning during your first week of learning at home. Remember to upload any work you complete to Showbie!

Maths

Here are some Maths activities covering what we have learnt so far this year. Hope they are helpful!

New challenges – Adding objects- using money Halving money Money Word problems- challenge Which coins would you use