Class 2
Remote Learning Monday 1st June 2020
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Hello! Welcome to Summer Term 2! A huge thank you to Miss Hemingway for doing such a fabulous job with the Y2 blog in the last week. It was great to know that everything was in safe hands! I tried to relax, but you know I’m not that great at it! We managed to get a lovely picnic in the Dales, right next to a river and away from anyone else. The boys loved having a paddle and it was the first time they’d been in the car for 8 weeks. We also walked 10km along Black Hill, which was amazing. I've dabbled into a bit of soap making using the left over grain from the brewery and I have to say it's pretty good! I thought you might like to know how the veg patch is coming along – well everything is still alive and I’ve even eaten some of the salad leaves and radishes, which were delicious! Here are some pics...
As you know, we are opening up school this week, which means it’s all change again. About this time last year, we were making plans for me to move from Y5 to Y2 and now I find myself teaching Y1! How life changes, but we always have to look for the rainbows. I will still be doing my Y2 blogs everyday but I won’t be able to answer emails as quickly as I have been doing, so please bear with me. I’m working on a ‘cloning’ potion, but I haven’t been successful yet! So keep up all the fabulous work and keep sending in your photos.
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.
Geography
Maths
LO: Solve logic and shape puzzles.
- 17 + 4 = ? + 15
- 20 – 7 =
- Double 6
- 5 x 10 =
- Write 19 in words.
- Name the 3D shape:
Have a look at this picture:
The four bears are going to sit at this table for a birthday tea. Your task is to sit them in the correct places according to these clues…
- The blue bear sits opposite the green bear.
- The yellow bear sits on the left of the blue bear.
- The red bear wants lemonade to drink.
Now have a go at these puzzles too…
English
Here are this week’s spellings:
charge
large
fringe
barge
gentle
gem
giant
giraffe
energy
badge
ledge
bridge
splodge
fudge
As usual you will find them on Spelling Shed and the transcript for Spelling Planet is here to download.
This half term’s topic in ‘A Land Down Under’. What does ‘down under’ mean?
It means Australia! Why do you think we say ‘down under’?
Can you remember the word 'indigenous'. We used the term when we looked at Christopher Columbus and his journey to America. He met the indigenous people of America – the people that were there first, originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; the native people. Do you know who the indigenous people of Australia are? Can you find out?
This is the book that we are going to read from in the first few weeks of this half term. Do you know what a billabong is, have you heard the word before? A billabong is an Australian noun that describes a stagnant pond or waterhole. The book is called Stories from the Billabong, here is the introduction, please read this with your adult:
It mentions the word ‘Dreamtime’. This is something very sacred to the indigenous people of Australia. I'd like you to find out about 'Dreamtime' today by doing a little research. You might want to have a look at this video to help you: Dreamtime video.
Geography
LO: To recognise Australia's territories and states
Do know where the country Australia is? Have a look through these slides about Australia, and discuss the questions on there.
Can you print off this puzzle, cut it out and remake? It will help you to remember the names of the territories. Now have a go at this challenge:
I hope you enjoy your first day back. I know it's always a little bit difficult to get back into a routine, but if you can make a great start today, I'm sure the rest of the week will be a breeze. Stay safe my lovelies!
Mrs B xx
Friday Gallery
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What the most fabulous week I have had with all of you! Thank you so much for all of your hard work, I think you need to give a big thank you to everyone at home for helping you out! It is half term next week so we will not be posting any blogs but please do keep letting us know what you are doing!
Have a marvelous half term, a good rest but most importantly, stay safe!
Miss H xx
Fun activities
Art
Literacy
Maths
Remote Learning Friday 22nd May 2020
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Top of the morning to you, my lovelies! IT IS FRIDAY!
I can’t believe that a week has flown by already! It has been a pleasure to take over the year two blog this week, I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have! I thought I would leave you with a few quotes from my new favourite book which was given to me by a very special person …
Who joined in the World Record breaking art lesson yesterday? I know I did and loved it!
Here are the drawings that Isabel, Mrs Barker, my Mum, Grandma and me all drew!
Isabel
Mrs Barker
My Mum, Grandma and me
If you missed it, here is the link to the lesson so you can catch up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSUN5vR4QZY
Here's the suggested timetable for today:
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:
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Break – If you have a pet, try taking a funny picture of it and we could make a funny pet wall on the blog to make people smile?
Creative Friday
Maths;
Lo: Solve a maths investigation
- 59 + 14 =
- 83 - 37 =
- 4 + 93 + 6 =
- 56 ÷ 4 =
- Write Twenty-one in digits.
- Partition 916 into 100s, 10s and 1s.
Here is your puzzle for the day:
Literacy;
You have really been enjoying researching your sea creature for our non-chronological report! Today is going to be your chance to write your non-chronological report up! You need to remember the following:
You can add in images if you feel it would add to your report. I can’t wait to see what they all look like here is the start of Jackson’s …
Creative Friday;
I’m not normally with you for creative Friday so I am very excited! I thought as something a little different, we would do some more photography. Here are three activities for you to get your teeth into. Choose one or all, it is up to you!
Activity one
Take a walk around your house and garden if you can, use a tablet, smartphone or digital camera to take photos from a Bird’s Eye View (from above the object), and Worm’s Eye View (from the bottom of the object, looking up) and by zooming in on just one part of your subject. Here are my examples that I took:
Bird's Eye View
Worm's Eye View
Don’t forget to focus the camera by touching the screen where the object is. After the walk, choose the best photos for each angle, and delete the others.
You might want to edit your photos for the best effect by cropping them. If you are using a tablet or smart phone, you should be able to do this by tapping on the photo and pressing edit or a little image of a pencil. You could ask a grown up to help you with this.
Activity two
Forced perspective is a technique that creates an optical illusion go make an object appear further away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography.
These are made by having an object close to the camera lens to make it look bigger and something further away to make it look smaller. There is no editing involved.
Here is one I attempted when I visited the Tower of Pisa last Easter …
What do you think? Now, think of a creative scene with an object or second (or third) person and set up your photograph.
If you don’t have access to a digital camera, you could draw what your idea would have been. Good luck and happy snapping!
Activity three
I would like you to have a go at recreating a famous painting through photography.
Firstly, you need to choose a famous painting that you would like to recreate. Here are some examples of paintings you may choose …
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Johannes Vermeer
Mona Lisa – Leonardo Da Vinci
American Gothic – Grant Wood
The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí
The Artists Garden at Giverny - Claude Monet
The Son of Man – Réne Magritte
Irises – Vincent Van Gough
Then, spend some time trying to create the relevant props you need. You might be able to use things from around your house (as long as you have your grown- ups permission!) or you might want to make them out of paper. Next, take a photo of your recreated painting using either a digital camera or a smartphone. Here are some examples of recreated paintings that I found on Google …
Here is a recipe that never fails for us, a lemon cake which is one of my favourites! We got the recipe from my Auntie and you can make it as a traybake, as a round double layer cake or as buns …
Simple Lemon Traybake
225g baking spread
225g caster sugar
275g self-raising flour
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
4tbsp milk
Lemon essence (or a flavour of your choosing)
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Sieve in the flour and mix
- Add the eggs, one at a time and mix until smooth
- Add the baking powder and milk
- This is the point to add the flavouring
- Place in a baking tin you have chosen
- Bake for 20-25 minutes
You can then add any toppings you like, this is my Auntie’s favourite topping which you add after it has come out of the oven …
100g sugar
Juice of 1 or 2 lemons
- Mix sugar and lemon juice
- Pour over the cake and leave to cool
Here is a little something from me to say thank you and we miss you!
Keep the emails and pictures coming! I will use any work and images that have come in up to dinnertime today for the Friday gallery!
Miss H x
Remote Learning Thursday 21st May 2020
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Good morning to everyone!
What a beautiful day we had yesterday with the weather, I do hope it continues today! My partner, James, was getting a little fed up and lonely at our house on his own so bought the Old Trafford football ground to build. We thought it would take him a couple of weeks but it only took him a couple of days, so as an early birthday present, I decided to get him some second-hand Lego from Ebay. He has now constructed Tower Bridge, he even had to construct the little red bus and yellow taxi! It took him four days in total, he would have finished it sooner but decided to spread the experience of building it out! Here are the masterpieces …
What have you been constructing at home? Let me know!
As part of a PE challenge set by Amelia, I had to do each yoga pose for 25 seconds. Why don’t you have a try with and let you know how you got on?
Here's the suggested timetable for today:
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 – If you have a pet, try taking a funny picture of it and we could make a funny pet wall on the blog to make people smile?
PE
Computing
Science
I thought for today, because it is nearly half-term, we could have a bit of a different science lesson. Here are 44 engineering and science challenges from the engineers at Dyson and I thought that you could choose some, which appeal to you, to do today! Are you going to choose the underwater volcano? Or will it be the boat powered by a chemical reaction? Let us know which you choose. How exciting this is going to be!
PSHE
Have you written on our Padlet yet? It is looking amazing! Please do keep adding to it as it is making me and everyone else smile! Already written on it? Please add more as you will always make someone smile!
Here is what it looks like so far …
PE
Thank you to those of you who have already sent me challenges! I would like you to keep sending them in! Here is a reminder of what to do …
I would like you to create some activities for me to do at home. Use everything that we have learned so far. This includes dance, gymnastics, netball, cricket, games, orienteering and anything else that you have been up to! I promise that I will do each activity that is given to me across the week and send evidence of me taking part! Have fun and good luck (I don’t know if that is for you or me?!) …
Computing
On Purplemash, we are going to carry on looking at coding and consolidating your knowledge of coding! I have set three 2Dos for you to complete on PurpleMash. There are videos at the start of each challenge which explains each task. If you click the hint button, it will show you how to code each object. Any problem, just let me know. Good luck!
Snail Race
Guard the Castle
Superheroes
If it is as sunny today, please do make sure you are being safe and of course, enjoying yourself! Keep in touch!
Miss H
Fancy some World Record breaking art?
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Isabel, in our class, pointed this out to me and I had to pass it along ...
Like many of us, you may have been enjoying Rob Biddulph’s brilliant Draw with Rob draw along videos, which have amassed a huge online following and now been watched over 2 million times on YouTube.
On May 21st, Rob is going to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Biggest Art Lesson.
Rob will be live on YouTube at 4.00pm (BST) but in order for the attempt to meet Guinness World Records’ criteria we need participants – young and old – to register for the free lesson at www.artworldrecords.
The attempt will also help to raise money for those most impacted by COVID-19. Participants can donate what they can and companies have also begun to pledge financial support. These donations will go towards high impact charities to counter the impact of COVID-19, including stopping the disease’s spread, providing immediate relief to those most impacted and preventing future pandemics.
#ArtWorldRecords #
Miss H