Year 2 Home Learning - 11th February 2021

Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 2:52pm

Thursday 11^th February

Good morning.

Well done on another brilliant day of learning – remember it is Fabulous Friday tomorrow so let’s work really hard and have a more relaxing day tomorrow.

Don't forget to practise our dance for our big performance. Today is the last day for you to upload the 10 second dance video to SeeSaw. Please try to post it before 12 today so we can put all the videos together – Good Luck!

You can find the video on the gallery section of the class blog or click the link here.

Have a go at this breathing exercise before you start your learning today. Breathing in different ways is a great way for us to feel calm and relaxed before we start our learning.

Here are your Thursday facts to start your day:

• Koalas sleep for 20 hours a day.
• Great white sharks can be found throughout the world’s oceans, mostly in cool waters close to the coast.
• Rays protect themselves with venomous spines or barbs in their tail.

 

 

Reading

It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.

 

Reading challenge - Draw and label a character or a setting from a description in the book.

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

Counting

Is Joseph correct or incorrect?

Explain how you know.

Give your own statement about counting in threes and ask a parent or sibling to work out if it is correct or incorrect.

Number facts – Subtraction bonds

Write out all your subtraction bonds from 10. Now write all your subtraction bonds from 100. Compare the 2 sets of numbers. Do you notice a pattern?

Times Tables

3 Times Tables – Listen to this 3 times table song: 3 times table song

Play hit the button and select 3 times tables – hit the button

Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 3 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10

Can you write out all your 3 times tables up to 12, in your home learning journal?

 

Can I sort 2D shapes?

Today’s Maths lesson can be found on Seesaw. Please watch the video carefully pausing to attempt certain tasks when prompted by the teacher.

 

Once you have watched the video, have a go at the worksheet attached.

 

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Shape  

Spellings – Nouns with the suffix -ness

 

English

Please see the attached English lesson for more details.

 

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

This week we will be looking at changing adjectives to nouns by adding the suffix -ness.

 

-ness is one of a number of noun suffixes. It is used to make nouns from adjectives, although not every adjective can be modified in this way. Here are some common adjectives whose noun forms are made by adding -ness:

 

But remember, some are trickier!

When the word ends in a consonant and a y, we need to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ then add –ness

 

 

Please note - Not all adjectives can be made into nouns using "-ness." Typically, if an adjective is in its -er or -est form, "-ness" cannot be added: higher and highest cannot become higherness or highestness.

 

Use the nouns below to write your own sentences:

happiness

darkness

weakness

illness

 

RE

This week we are starting a new topic in RE – Sacrament.

In this lesson we are going to explore different ways to say thank you.

 

Share this story together:

Mrs. Hegarty had taught in St Mary’s School for thirty-seven years. Everyone loved her. She was very kind and sometimes quite strict, but no-one minded because she was very fair and really loved the children. Now she was retiring. Everyone wanted to say goodbye and thank you.

On her retirement day, there was a special thanksgiving Eucharist in the church with all the children, parents and teachers. There were special prayers for Mrs. Hegarty, and her favourite hymns. Afterwards, everyone crowded into the hall and there were lots of speeches. Father Atkins told a story about when he had been a little boy in school and Mrs. Hegarty had taught him. Everyone laughed. He said he owed her a lot and gave her a bouquet of roses, her favourite flowers. One of the mums reminded everyone how Mrs. Hegarty had made St Mary’s into a really good school. The parents gave her a camera because she was going to learn photography. Peter, from Year 6, made a speech wishing her happiness and because she likes bird-watching, the children gave her a pair of binoculars.

Mrs. Hegarty was sad to say goodbye. She thanked everyone for their kind and thoughtful gifts and explained that as she used each one, she would think of all the children, parents and staff. She said she would read through all her cards when she got home. She thanked everyone who had prepared the Mass and the party. It was a happy day. Everyone was pleased to say thank you to someone who had done so much to help other people.

 

Q Why was Mrs. Hegarty thanked?

Q How did different people say thank you to her?

Q How do you think Mrs. Hegarty felt?

Q Which way would you choose to say thank you?

 

Activity

To complete the task in the attached documents called 'Thank You' worksheet.

 

Additional Art Activities

Please see the attached ideas.

 

We are very excited for Fabulous Friday tomorrow.

 

Year 2 team.

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