Class 2
Monday 22nd June 2020
admin on: Class 2
Good morning my lovely Year 2 class, how was your weekend? It was a real mixed bag with the weather but we managed to get a lovely walk on the canal between Marsden and Slaithwaite, topped off with fish and chips, which is always a treat! We also had movie night and watched the new Dr Doolittle.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is on today or try ‘Saved by the Bell’ on Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Geography
Maths
LO: Place 2-digit numbers on a number line.
- 67 + 13 = ?
- Partition 5 in 3 different ways.
- 65 - 17 = ?
- 30 ÷ 10 =
- What number is 5 more than 65?
- Make £1.20 with 3 coins
Look at this number line with numbers from 0–100 (it would be useful if you could print it out or redraw in your book).
Where should we mark 47? What number might it be useful to place on the line to help?
Where is 27 on this line? What number might it be useful to place on the line to help? And where is 25 (or 30) on the line…? Try these: where is 70 on this line? Is it nearer 50 or 100? Now mark on all multiples of 10.
If you have more people at home, get one person to have a piece of paper with ‘0’ written on it, and another person with 100 written on a piece of paper (alternatively you could blu-tac the numbers to the wall). So if you are standing well apart from one another – you’ve now got a human number line!
Write a two digit number on another piece of paper and stand where you think this number might be between 0 and 100. Keep going with new numbers.
English
Here are this week’s spellings:
try
tried
copy
copied
reply
replied
hurry
hurried
As usual you will find them on Spelling Shed and the transcript for Spelling Planet is here to download.
Today we are going to read another story from Stories from the Billabong by James Vance Marshall and Francis Firebrace. Our story this week is called ‘The Lizard-Man and the Creation of Uluru’.
Read the story with your adult, discuss your thoughts about it. Today I’d like you to find out more about Uluru using the Internet and perhaps some books at home. I know many of you have Australian connections or know people who have visited the country – perhaps they can help you with your research?
Whilst you read about Uluru and learn all about it, can you find out the answers to these questions:
- What did Uluru used to be called?
- What is the circumference of the rock?
- When do scientists think it was formed?
- In our story, Aboriginals thinks the rock was created by Lizard-man, but what do other Aboriginals think?
- When did the ownership of the rock return to the Aboriginal people?
- Can you climb Uluru?
Geography
LO: To explore what Christmas is like in Australia compared to the UK.
We may have celebrated the longest day yesterday, but today we’re going to think ahead to Christmas and see how Australians celebrate this tradition. Take a look at this week’s presentation and then try this sorting activity:
Check back here tomorrow for a special guest blogger on the Year 2 blog! Stay safe and enjoy your day!
Mrs B xx
Friday's Gallery
admin on: Class 2
I love putting Friday's gallery together, it really feels like a celebration of the week. You are all still fantastic and producing some amazing pieces of work, I'm so proud to be your teacher. How many bugs can you spot in this week's photos? There's been a lot of work about animals and some soggy walks too! Enjoy the weekend my lovelies and I'll see you back here on Monday! Mrs B xx
Remote Learning Friday 19th June 2020
admin on: Class 2
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you are keeping dry in this weather! I hope you’ve had a good week. It’s been lovely to see a few Year 2 children in the keyworker bubble and I even spotted Florence while she was out for a walk. Don’t forget, I’m thinking about you all, all the time and miss you greatly.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Go Noodle (I’m loving all the NTV guided dances) or Andy’s Wild Workouts
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Creative Friday
Maths
LO: Tell the time using digital and analogue to the nearest 5 minutes.
- 35 add 17 = ?
- Which number is odd? 92, 94, 96, 98, 99?
- 72 minus 20 = ?
- Half of 22
- What number is 9 more than 45?
- Make 90p with 3 coins
Have a look at this ‘Analogue clock’. This shows what we call analogue time. Can you remember that when the minute (long) hand is in the pink it is a ‘past’ time and when it is in the blue it is a ‘to’ time.
Have a play around with this online clock.
Can you set the clock to 6:15. What the analogue time is this?
Did you say ‘quarter past six’.
Repeat with 6:30. How would we say this analogue time?
Did you say ‘half past 6’.
Set the clock to 5:45. Do we say ‘45 minutes past 5’? What would we say?
Get your adult to test your time skills by choosing different digital times and working out how we say those times in analogue.
Here is a time pairs game – you can play like a traditional memory game or if you want to match the pairs and stick them in your books you can do:
English
How did you get on with your comic strip story? Here’s the template again if you need it. Today I’d like you to complete the next three parts of the story. Remember you can use speech bubbles to help tell the story and more detail in your sentences underneath. The next three parts are:
The birds asked Platypus to join them.
Platypus decided to stay on his own.
All the animals agreed with Platypus’ decision.
Here is Tatham’s to give you some inspiration:
I look forward to reading yours!
Creative Friday
Here are the rain stick instructions from last week. I’m guessing that so many of you made one and that’s why we’re having all the rain at the moment!
https://www.bakerross.co.uk/craft-ideas/kids/aboriginal-rain-stick/
They use a kitchen roll tube, but you could use a crisp tube or cocoa tin. They fill the tube with rice, but you can use dried beans or lentils. You can listen to a real rain stick here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRrri6bTDCw Does yours sound the same?
I’ve been following an artist called Tracey English on Pinterest. She makes collage pictures from paper – paper that she has coloured herself, or scraps of wrapping paper and even newspaper. Here are a few examples of her work…
Why don’t you have a go at creating your own collage of an Australian animal?
Have a fantastic day and send me all your photos by lunchtime to ensure you appear in this week’s gallery.
Mrs B x
Remote Learning Thursday 18th June 2020
admin on: Class 2
A BIG hello and good morning to you all!
I thought that I would share this with you today, my partner, James has been a key worker throughout these troubled times. He is a line painter, keeping our roads safe. This week he was asked to do something little different and special. He was asked to paint something for our wonderful NHS, here it what he did …
Apparently, the rainbow was like a jigsaw! Have you seen any random acts of kindness lately?
Here's the suggested timetable:
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20mins (remember to record your reading in your reading record)
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing guiding a PE lesson at 9am (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ)
Don’t forget GoNoodle:
Science
PSHE
Break – Why not do or make something to make someone smile? Your very own random act of kindness!
PE
Computing
Science
This half term, we are going to be looking at living things and their habitats. We are going to focus on microhabitats. We have been learning about the different habitats where living things make their homes.
Some of these habitats are very big, like a woodland. Some habitats are very small; we call these microhabitats. A large habitat contains many microhabitats. A microhabitat can be as small as a fallen branch or the space under a stone.
Here is a PowerPoint all about microhabitats and minibeasts we find in them.
I would like you to go on a search in your local environment and find two microhabitats. Have a look in the microhabitats and complete a survey to see which minibeast you can find in there? Here is an example of a table you could create to collect the results:
Can you create a pictogram of your results? Which minibeast did you find most of? Which minibeast did you find least of?
PSHE
In the news at the moment, there are many conversations about something called Black Lives Matter. This is following an incident in Minneapolis with George Floyd and the subject of racism. Here is a clip from Blue Peter explaining what racism is and why it is important to discuss this issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLBDsVREaI
It is our duty to treat everyone with the same amount of respect no matter the colour of their skin, their belief or where they come from. The book you have been looking at with Mrs B sends a great message out about being an individual. Here is a paragraph of it which I know you have looked at already:
Can you create a song which displays how brilliant we are at treating everyone equally? We would love to hear it!
PE
In PE we are going to carry on with Paralympic sports!
Today, I would like you to have a go at sitting volleyball. Teams aim to hit a ball over a net and land it within the opposition’s court. Can you use something to create a net like a blanket and hit a ball over it to someone on the other side. You must do this while you are staying sat down. Good luck! Here is a video of sitting volleyball at the Paralympics in London 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpAnbVrEiE
Computing
You are really getting into making your compositions! This week I would like you to make another composition but adding in your own sounds under the tab “My sounds”. Good luck!
Have a wonderful day and remember to keep smiling!
Miss H xx
Remote Learning Wednesday 17th June 2020
admin on: Class 2
Good morning Class 2! I hope that you are OK today. Thank you for sending me your lovely Platypus paragraphs, they really are wonderful and I know Miss H was really impressed with them too. She loves the message that the Platypus is sending and will do some PSHE work on the theme tomorrow. So we had time to do our standing long jumps yesterday - have a look at them here:
Who do you think is the winner?!
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
R.E.
Maths
LO: Find halves, thirds, and quarters of amounts.
- 73 add 11 = ?
- Which number is odd? 6, 17, 28, 16, 40?
- 45 minus 25 = ?
- Half of 18
- What number is 5 more than 67?
- Make 70p with 4 coins
Look at this number sentence:
1/2 of □ = □
Think, and then discuss with your adult what numbers complete this number sentence.
Look at this: 1/2 of 5 = 10. Now you be the teacher. Is this correct?
Repeat with 1/4 of □ = □, and share your ideas. Have you noticed how the number in the first box is 4 times the number in the second box?
Look at this: 1/3 of 12 = 6. Now you be the teacher again. Is this correct?
Now write your own numbers to accurately fill the boxes:
1/3 of □ = □.
Have a look at these fraction problems:
Now have a go at this build a fraction game:
English
Can you retell the story of ‘Why Platypus is such a special creature’? See if you can talk it through with your adult without forgetting any of the main parts. If you need to look back at the story to help you, then do. If you think back to question 8 from yesterday, you’ll see the main 6 parts of the story.
Today I’d like to start to rewrite the story in comic strip form. You can download a template here. It has 6 main boxes for your illustration to each of the 6 parts. You could use speech bubbles with the characters in your drawings and then write about the scene underneath. Try to make your sentences exciting, with different starts. Only do three parts today (The Creator made the Mammals, the Fish and the Birds, The Mammals asked Platypus to join them, The fish asked the Platypus to join them) and we’ll finish the rest on Friday.
R.E.
LO: What are the stories about Jesus healing and caring for people?
What do you already know about the life of Jesus. What did he do? What did he say? Who did he spend time with? What did he teach us about how to live our lives?
Have a look at this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uupg0V-17NU
This is the same story here:
Feeding the 5000 – Matthew 14:14-21; Mark 6:33-44; John 6:1-14
A large group of people followed Jesus into the mountains. Jesus taught them all day. When the sun started to set, the disciples realised that the people had not eaten and could not easily return to the city to get food. Jesus asked Philip where they could buy food. Philip said that even if they had a store to buy food from, they did not have enough money for all the people. But Jesus already knew what He was going to do.
Jesus then asked if anyone had food that they could share. Another disciple, Andrew, brought a boy’s lunch to Jesus. It had five loaves of bread and two fish. Jesus took the bread and fish and prayed over them. He then gave the food to his disciples who started passing it out to the people.
Amazingly, as they handed out the food they still had more left. They continued to give out the food until all the people had eaten all they wanted. When they gathered the unused food back together they had 12 baskets of bread left!
After reading the story and watching the clip, discuss these questions:
- Why were they there listening to Jesus?
- What was the journey like on the way there?
- Which words describe the actions of Jesus?
- Imagine you are the boy with the loaves of bread. What would you say to Jesus when you gave him the bread? What do you think Jesus would say to you?
- Imagine that you are one of the people picking up the scraps that were left over. How would you feel when you realised there had been enough food for everyone?
I hope you have a wonderful day! Keep smiling!
Mrs B x