Kings Oak Primary Learning Centre

Teacher updates

Home Learning for Week Commencing Monday 13th July 2020

Hello Year 2,

We hope you are all well this week and enjoying your time at home with your families. From this week on, Home-learning is changing a little bit because the teachers are spending much more time working in school with the children who are already back.

This doesn’t mean that we have forgotten you though and we want to make sure you have got lots of things to be getting on with until you can come back to school.

First of all we want you to start using the White Rose Maths website every day to keep on top of your maths work. You will also find the supporting Year 2 maths worksheets in the attachments. We have also planned some topic sessions around staying healthy and daily literacy tasks for you to get involved in.  Please continue to keep in touch with us to ask any questions, update us on your progress or just to keep in touch! 

Our contact email is: year2@kingoakplc.org.uk.  Any emails that you send will come directly to the Year 2 teachers (Miss Siddall and Miss Kelly). We have loved receiving messages and pictures from you all, showing us the amazing things that you have been involved in during the last couple of months.

You can also look at the  Oak Academy page for literacy activities and BBC bite size site for topic ideas.  These are excellent resources that have a variety of literacy and topic lessons for you to try.

 https://www.thenational.academy/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

We will still also continue to set weekly reading comprehensions and spellings for you to practise at home. Remember, as well as learning the spellings, you can also look up the definitions of the words and practice putting the words into clear sentences.

We will continue to keep our eye on the email and your posts on the Kings Oak Facebook page so keep letting us know what you have been up to, or even just email us a little note to say hello.

Stay safe everyone!

Miss Kelly and Miss Siddall

 Monday’s Work:

Literacy: We would like you to concentrate on your spelling today, in particular when spelling common exception words. Some of these words are really tricky as they can’t be sounded out easily. We would then like you to work really hard in applying these spellings to your writing later on in the week.

Activity: Complete 2 pages of the common exception word booklet. It is a long document but you can continue to work on it throughout the week and the summer holidays. Each page involves you practising spellings and then completing some sentence work using these spellings.

Phonics/ spelling:

Activity: Practise reading the special friends and given words (See Phonics Sheet 1 attached above – choose the level you feel suitable, see below for guidance). Then practise spelling the words.

Tricky phonics sheet 1 – we have gone through all set 2 sounds in the previous weeks home learning and so we are now starting on set 3 sounds.

Trickier Phonics sheet 1 – we have worked through all Set 3 sounds now. You can either revisit them by doing the Tricky sheet or move onto the Trickiest spelling sheet.

Trickiest Spelling Sheet 11 - If your child is a very confident reader and you feel they need more of a challenge.

Maths: This week you will be practising time and looking at measure – using the White Rose Maths portal. There is a learning tutorial (video modelling methods) to watch each day and then a supporting worksheet to complete. Follow the link to watch the video each day and the White Rose sheets are available in the attachments. Here’s the link to watch the tutorial:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

PE: Joe Wicks Workouts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w

Handwriting: Start working on the attached handwriting booklet. It’s quite a long document so continue to work on it throughout the week (15 min daily sessions are recommended).

Reading: Complete the attached Reading Comprehension on Captain Tom Moore. There are 3 worksheets with different levels; please choose the one in which you feel is most suitable for your child (see the stars at the bottom of each sheet in the pack):

1 star – Tricky version

2 stars – Trickier version

3 stars – Trickiest Version

Tuesday's Work:

Literacy: Have a go at the Year 2 grammar assessment. This will help your grown-ups to identify any key areas that you are not sure of. For example, you may have forgotten what an adverb is. This booklet will also help remind you of the learning that we practised at school.

Phonics/ Spellings: Practise reading and spelling yesterday’s spellings again. Can you cover the words up and practise spelling them without looking at the word?

Then trying putting some of the words into sentences.

Children working on the Trickiest sheet to put 3 of the words into sentences.

Maths: Use the White Rose link and watch today’s tutorial. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Then download and complete today’s Maths task sheet.

Topic: This week we are going to explore how we can stay healthy. Use the link below to reach the BBC Bitesize activity page about staying healthy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9yycdm/articles/zxvkd2p

There is a video to watch, an activity and a quiz to finish on the web page.

Activity: Create a poster to show how humans can stay healthy. Remember, there are lots of things that we can do as well as eating a healthy diet. The video will show you lots of ways in which we can stay healthy. There is a poster frame/ sheet attached that you can use to create your poster on.

                                             Wednesday's Work:

Literacy: Over the next few Literacy lessons, we would like you to write a letter to your new class teacher. To prepare for the letter, there is a worksheet that we would like you to complete first. By completing all the sections, you will have lots of key information to tell your new teacher.

Phonics/ Spellings: Practise reading the sounds and words on Phonics sheet 2. Again choose the tricky or trickier sheet depending on how confident your child is in reading and spelling the words.

Children who have been working on the Trickiest spellings – Put the remaining 3 words into sentences.

Maths: Use the White Rose link and watch today’s tutorial. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Then download and complete today’s Maths task sheet.

Topic: Today we are going to focus on what a healthy diet looks like and the types of food we should eat. Look through the Healthy Eating presentation and explore which food groups are good to eat and how often we should eat them.

Activity: Complete the attached worksheet and create a healthy meal plan for the day. Think carefully about the food choices you make and remember to include lot of fruit and vegetables on your meal plan.

Thursday's Work:

Literacy: Today you will be using the information you wrote yesterday to write your letter. I know that your new teachers will love reading them! There is a letter frame for you to use if you like.

Phonics/ Spelling: Practise reading and writing the sounds and words on phonics sheet 2 again. Can you cover the words and spell them accurately without looking at the word.

Can you think of 3 more words that contain the sounds on the sheet you are working on? Have a go at spelling the words you think of and get an adult to check them with you. Or you could even check them in a dictionary.

Children who have been working on the Trickiest spellings – can you find the definition of each word in a dictionary and write it down? If you don’t have a dictionary you could use an online one. See if you can spot any of the words in your reading books at home.

Maths: Use the White Rose link and watch today’s tutorial. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Then download and complete today’s Maths task sheet.

Reading: Complete today’s attached reading task on Superheroes and comics. There are 3 versions, please choose the one in which you feel is most suitable for your child (see the stars at the bottom of each sheet in the pack):

1 star – Tricky version

2 stars – Trickier version

3 stars – Trickiest Version

                                                                   Friday's Work:

Literacy: As this is the LAST literacy lesson that you will be completing as a Year 2 pupil, I would like you to write a paragraph on any memorable moments in Year 2. I know it seems so long ago when you was in our classes, but here is a list of some of the events and themes you could write about. If you do complete this task, it would be amazing if you could email these to us. It would be lovely to read your thoughts about the past year as we will miss you all so much!

• The friends that you spent time with
• Our Christmas production
• Building the Victorian houses
• Making masks using clay
• Using computers to create posters, fact files and power points
• Do you have a favourite class story? My favourites were, ‘Flat Stanley’ and ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark.’
• Making 3D structures in Maths using art straws
• Dressing up days

There is so much more I could list! It was an amazing year and I loved every moment.

Maths: Log onto Times Tables Rock stars. If you have any problems logging on, please email us.

Art: Draw a portrait of yourself (head and shoulders). You could use a mirror to help you. Think carefully about the shape of your faces, eyes, mouth and nose. 

Other useful websites/ resources:

White Rose daily Maths tutorials and worksheets

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Additional phonics info/web links/ activities:

There is a great website called Oxford Owl that has loads of resources around the sounds taught in set 1, 2 and 3. Scroll down the page and resources for each set can be found in order. There is also a link to free eBooks. The books are colour coded but do state on the front cover what set the book belongs to. Here is the link to this site:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/?utm

Great Reading Portal

I also wanted to share a great reading site with you, if you are looking for some new books to read. There is a great range of fiction and non- fiction books available and a fabulous section on dinosaurs! Each book appears on the screen for you to read but also has an audio option too. If you click on the information button at the side of the book, it gives the suitable age range. Each book also comes with a dictionary for any unusual words that children may be struggling to understand. They can type the word into the dictionary tool box and it gives a child friendly definition.

Homework to Download