Today is Phonics, English, Maths and Computing. A busy day! Let’s get to it…
Phonics
We are continuing to look at the alternative ‘or’ graphemes. Read through the text and find all of the graphemes. You can also think of your own words too.
You are making equal groups today. This is a recap lesson but it may be something you missed in Year 1 as well. Watch the video and then have a go at the task. Remember you can ask us questions on Zoom and Seesaw if you need any help with anything.
Today, we are looking at alliteration. What is alliteration I heard you ask?
Mrs Saveall has planned a game to play tomorrow on Zoom to give you some extra help with understanding alliteration.
Have a look at the worksheet for today and read some of the examples of sentences that use alliteration. Your challenge is to write sentences about minibeasts with alliteration. For example: Lazy ladybird lying on a leaf.
We are looking at algorithms again today. Last week you had a go at instructing someone to complete a task. Today, we’d like you to write an algorithm that instructs someone to make a jam sandwich. You might want to make the sandwich first and make quick notes on what you did. Use time adverbials (first, then, next, after that…) to help order your steps. I wonder if you can test a family member to see if your algorithms work?
Good morning Year 2. We hope you had a brilliant weekend and enjoyed time in the snow. We are doing Phonics, Maths, English and Science today. Science includes going for a walk so hopefully the weather is okay to be able to do that at some point today.
Phonics
We are looking at the alternative spellings for the /ar/ phoneme. Sort the words into the correct column after reading them and deciding which spelling is used for the /ar/ phoneme.
Miss Fretton will do a lesson on zoom this morning to get you ready for your phonics task.
We will discuss this a little more on the zoom call but today we are looking a little more at equal groups. We will be moving onto adding equal groups. Watch the video and be ready to go through the worksheet on zoom.
English
We are looking at bridges this week across our afternoon lessons. We start off with a story involving a bridge. ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ is a story involving problem solving in order to cross a bridge. We will use this story in our English lessons this week so we want you to read the story and answer the questions linked to it. There will be videos in the week to explain more.
In Science this week, we are looking at everyday materials and investigating how and why materials are used for certain objects. For example, a fence can be made of wood but can also be made of metal. Why? What properties does wood have that are different to metal? Which is better? We want you to go for a walk, either today or at some point this week, and find everyday objects and write down which material it is made out of. For example, if you see a fence, you would write down fence (draw it) and then write down the material that the fence is made out of. We will explain this more on zoom tomorrow.
Good morning Year 2. It is spelling, Maths, English and then we want you to cook a meal off your Castle Menu today.
Spelling
We are looking at the next set of high frequency words today. You have 2 sets. It is look, cover, write and check first and then using them correctly in sentences.
We are making equal groups today. Remember, on Tuesday you were looking at making equal groups, but these groups would have only been 2s, 5s and 10s. Now we are looking at different numbers in our groups.
Have a look at the video below to get you warmed up and then we will discuss the task on zoom this morning.
We are bringing our adjectives, sentences and commas altogether and creating a descriptive piece of writing today. Have a look at the video below of my modelling my writing.
We want you get baking or cooking this afternoon. Could you cook tonight’s dinner? Remember, it needs to fit for a King or Queen! We look forward to seeing your creations on seesaw!
Good morning Year 2. It is spelling, Maths, English and PSHE today.
Spelling
For today, we are going to be looking at the next set of High Frequency Words (HFW). We’d like you to look, cover, write and check and then use them correctly in the sentences below the grid. If you’d like more of a challenge, you can think of your own sentences as well.
We are moving into the Year 2 work now (remember the start of the week was a recap of Year 1 objectives). We are recognising equal groups still but they will be a little trickier. We will go through this in the zoom but I have attached the video below to help you too.
English
You will need to use the adjectives and sentences you wrote in yesterday’s task to help you with today’s English lesson. We would like you to use commas in your sentences to separate your adjectives. This will allow you to use more than one adjective in your sentences to make it more interesting and engaging for your reader. I have modelled this in the video below and explained why we use commas and how they can help improve our writing.
We want you to have a think about what it takes to be a good team player. What skills do you need? Why is it important to be a good team player? What would happen if someone wasn’t a good team player?
Choose an activity of your choice that you and your family can do together – make sure it involves teamwork. When completing this task, think how people are working together. Think about how the activity could have been different. Could it have gone more successfully? Why?
Good morning. Today’s learning is spelling, English, Maths and RE. We also have a video from Miss Fretton reminding us about our handwriting. Although most of you are still presenting your work beautifully, some of you are forgetting our expectations on handwriting. We understand it’s hard to write neatly when writing on blank paper, but if you are sat down at a table, using a pen or pencil (not a colouring pencil or coloured pen) with both feet flat on the floor, then there’s no reason why we can’t try to improve our handwriting for today’s learning.
Phonics
In Phonics today, we are looking at the alternative /igh/ graphemes. Look at the pictures and decide which word you would need to write to match them. Be careful, the word must match the grapheme at the top of each column. We will explain this more in our zoom.
We are now going to look at making arrays in Maths.
An array in maths is an arrangement of objects, numbers or pictures in columns or rows. The purpose of an array is to help us understand multiplication (and division).
Here’s an example of 2 arrays that show us 6 x 4 and 4 x 6.
In English, we would like you to think of as many adjectives as you can (no less than 15) to describe Warwick Castle.
I have written 3 adjectives on the sheet but I know you can use better, more powerful adjectives than those 3. We will share some adjectives on our zoom call today to give you a start.
We are going to be looking at ‘The Lords Prayer’ today in RE. Here is a video explaining what each part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ to help us understand.
We would like you to explain what The Lord’s Prayer is (and what it means) and then choose one part of The Lord’s Prayer and draw what you think it may look like. We will explain and show this more on zoom this morning.
For today’s learning, we are going to do Phonics, Maths, English and Art.
Phonics
Miss Fretton will do another phonics activity/lesson with you on zoom in the morning. This lesson will lead into the activity ready to download below. You will need to sort the words by the grapheme used to make the /ow/ sound.
Today we are going to be adding equal amounts. Yesterday, you were identifying and making equal groups. Today, you are going to be using these equal groups and add them together. Watch the video below before starting your task.
English
I hope you have read the information on Warwick Castle yesterday and answered the questions linked to this text. The text you read was lots of information in one piece of writing. Today. we’d like you to organise this writing in a simpler format: a fact file. Fact files give lots of organised information on one thing. That could be a person, a place or in this example, a castle. Today, you are going to write your own fact file on Warwick Castle (using the information text to help). Watch the video below of me writing my fact file.
Kings and Queens have had their portraits painted for thousands of year. They always asked the painters to make them look a lot better than they actually did. Sometimes, if the portrait wasn’t right or the monarch wasn’t happy with it, the artist may have been punished quite severely!
Your job in Art today is to look at the portraits of the Kings and Queens and have a go at drawing your own portrait as a King or Queen.
Good morning Year 2. I cannot believe it is the 1st of February! For today’s lerning, we have got phonics, Maths, English and History.
Phonics
We are looking at the /ow/ phoneme today. Did you know there is more than one grapheme that can make the /ow/ sound? I wonder if you can think which grapheme can also make the /ow/ sound? Mr Thorne has got some examples to help you before working on our phoneme spotter for today.
There is a shorter video today as the lesson is a recap lesson from what you may already know or have learnt in year 1. We sometimes need to recap our learning before we can move on (as it would have been a long time since you would have learnt this). We are looking at making equal groups. We need to know what the word ‘equal’ means and why it is helpful when we are counting to have equal groups.
In English today, you are going to be reading all about a very famous British castle – Warwick Castle. There’s so much history within Warwick castle and it’s grounds. It’s a fantastic place to visit (when we are allowed). There are some questions to answer after reading it. Make sure you do read this text as you will be using it on Tuesday as well for your task.
We are preparing a Castle menu for the King and Queen of the Castle. Kings and Queens wouldn’t have eaten the chocolate, ice cream and crisps that we have today. They would have had meat (pork, peacock, pheasant…), fish, cheese, bread and some vegetables. They certainly wouldn’t have eaten using knife and fork either. It would have had to have been food they could eat with their hands. Think about meals we could eat with our hands – do you think Kings and Queens had that type of food back then?
Here is an example of a menu for a Medieval banquet (meal):
There are 6 courses – Kings and Queens would sit down at 11am and would sometimes be there for 4 hours eating all of this amazing food prepared for them.
Course 1 – A stag, a chicken and veal. 3 types of meat to choose from for their first meal.
Course 2 – 2 huge meat pies filled with 7 different types of meat.
Course 3 – Deer, pig, sturgeon, goat, goslings, chickens and herons to choose from all cooked in different ways…
You will start to realise that the Kings, Queens, Lords and Ladies really enjoyed meat.
Your job is to create a 3 course meal (Starter, Main and Dessert) for a King and Queen. Remember to include:
Lots of meat in each course (maybe not in dessert though).
A choice of meats for each course (Kings and Queens wouldn’t have liked to be told what they should eat – they would like a choice).
Their food would always have a rich, fruity sauce to go with it.
Share your menu with us on seesaw so we can see what your Kings and Queens will be feasting on.
You might want to choose a course that you and an adult could have a go at cooking together? Maybe your dessert could be a fruit salad or your main course could be a pie? That will be our extra challenge on Friday afternoon for you have a go at cooking (if adults are available to supervise and of course have the ingredients for you…?)
You’ve done brilliantly this week Year 2. 1 more day to go until the weekend. Today, we are doing spelling, Maths and English.
Spelling
There are 3 tasks today for spelling. They will all be explained on our zoom’; however, we are still looking at gn and kn making the /n/ sound in words. We would like you spot the gn and kn words, then write the correct grapheme (either gn or kn) to complete the words on task 2 and 3.
You have practise yesterday with finding the difference. This will help you with finding change. When you go shopping and you buy something that is £4 and you pay with a £5 note, you will get change. Watch this video to help you with the task.
You have some questions to consider, some sentences to punctuate and some writing to complete. I have modelled some writing for you to help with your writing task.
Here are some people and size adjectives that might help you with your writing. You can also use the words we came up with together on zoom this morning.
Remember, if you don’t know what these words mean or you’re not sure, you can: ask an adult; look them up in a dictionary; ask your smart speaker; OR use the clues in the word to help work out what it means. For example, the word ‘minuscule’ when it is read sounds like the word ‘mini’. Would minuscule mean big or small?
It is spelling, Maths, English and Science today. There is a teaching video for Maths and for Science for you to watch to help with your tasks.
Spelling
We are looking at the ‘gn’ spelling pattern today. As well ‘kn’ making the /n/ sound, ‘gn’ also makes the /n/ sound. Read the words and decide which one is spelt correct and then choose the correct word to complete the sentences for the second part of the task.
We are looking at finding the difference between amounts of money today. There is a 10 minute video for you to watch to help you understand today’s learning but we will also discuss this on our zoom call as well.
In English it is another task with some more common exception words. It’s look, cover, write, check and then writing sentences using the words. Remember we want these spelt correctly when using them sentences AND written neatly.
We are looking at food chains again today and focusing on producers, consumers and predators. I have posted a video with more information on what each of these are and what their roles are within a food chain.
After learning about the roles producers, consumers and predators play in food chains, we want you to complete this task.
Label each picture producer, consumer or predator to make the food chain correct. Then, write what is happening in each food chain. For example, in my powerpoint, the grass is eaten by the cow and then the cow is eaten by the human.
It’s spelling, Maths, English and Geography today. Let’s do this!
Maths
Maths is continuing to look at money. Today, you are going to add up totals, linking your learning to shopping. When you go shopping, you need to know if you have enough money to buy the things you want. For example, if I go to the supermarket and I have £20, I need to be able to add up what I am buying to make sure I have enough money.
There are 3 different activities for spelling today. We are looking at kn- spelling patterns. The first activity is to circle the correct spelling for each word. Each word is written on a knight’s shield. Circle the shield that has the correct spelling.
Then, using the correct spelling of the words, can you write some sentences?
The 3rd task is to find the meaning/definition of the selected words. You can use a dictionary, google, alexa OR you could ask adults if you are unsure.
In Year 2, we need to learn a collection of words that go against our phonics spelling rules. For example, after. We know the /a/ phoneme BUT sometimes, when the letter ‘a’ is in a word, it can sound like /ar/. These are called common exception words. They are common words that are exceptions to the spelling rules. Words that we just need to know and learn have to read and spell them.
Your task today is to complete a look, cover, write, check activity and then use some of those words to write sentences (spelling those words correctly).
I have uploaded 2 maps of the UK (United Kingdom). One map is blank and the other map has some key cities labelled on it. We want you to use these maps to locate and label some famous UK Castles. There is an information sheet to help you.
Read the information.
Use the labelled UK map to find the city the castle is located in.
Label the castle onto the blank UK map.
At the end of this task, you should have a UK map with famous UK Castles labelled in the correct places.
As an extra challenge, you could research other UK Castles and add them onto your map. You may need some adult help when researching these castles.