St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 2 Home Learning - 18th January 2021
Date: 17th Jan 2021 @ 10:12am
We hope you all had a lovely weekend.
We were so excited to see all your wonderful work on Seesaw last week – you should be very proud of all the amazing work you have done so far, keep it up Year 2! We are sure that you will have another fantastic week of home learning. Let’s get going!
Please complete the work this week as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, and your presentation.
Also, well done to the 27 children that managed to have a go on Sumdog last week. Sumdog is a great way to quickly consolidate any learning done in school or at home. Please make sure you have a go at the challenges set for this week.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Keep active with Joe Wicks every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9am.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Have a go at drawing some cute animals, learning step by step how to draw them.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dEvA1is6-0_yuei9iCdEw
Premier League Stars have come up with some great videos to stay fit and healthy – they are for the whole family.
https://plprimarystars.com/home-learning/the-premier-league-bbc
We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.
You should have received an email inviting you to join your child’s account on Seesaw – please check your junk mail if you have not received this. Through Seesaw, you will be able to upload work which has been completed at home and we will be able to give feedback. You will only see your child’s work and all feedback given will be private to your account. We are looking forward to seeing the super learning which has been completed at home.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Write, or draw pictures, from anything you’ve read! Big writing and pictures are even more fun. For example, use an old roll of wallpaper to make a treasure map with clues from the stories you’ve read together.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 5’s – Can you count forwards to 60? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 100?
5 Times Tables – Listen to this 5 times table song: 5 times table song
Play hit the button and select 5 times tables – hit the button
Can you write out all your 5 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal.
This week we will be doing a re-cap on addition and subtraction. We have already covered this area in class so children should be able to use certain strategies like; drawing tens and ones, partitioning numbers or drawing number lines to help you work out the answers. We will also cover some new areas of addition and subtraction too.
Can I practise my number bonds?
Today we are going to look at practising our number bonds.
We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Addition and subtraction
Spellings – adverbs with the suffix -ly
English
Please see attached document for the English lesson. We are continuing to focus on dragons and we have an exciting picture for you to write about today.
Please complete the work this week as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, and your presentation.
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 adverbs using the suffix -ly.
Adverbs
An adverb is simply a word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word).
• He ate his breakfast quickly.
The word 'quickly' is an adverb as it tells us how he ate (the verb) his breakfast.
Where to place adverbs?
Adverbs can come before or after a verb.
• He 'quickly' ate his lunch.
• He ate his lunch 'quickly'.
Let Johnny and Inel get you up and moving, while you learn about adjectives and adverbs. Through a song and routine, children will learn how to write better stories using adjectives and adverbs.
Watch this introduction to adverbs on BBC bitesize and have a go at the games – BBC bitesize - adverbs
Please see attached PowerPoint presentation and worksheet for you to have a go at.
Science
Talk to an adult about 'Waterproof materials'. Explain that, if a material does not absorb water, it is said to be waterproof. How many waterproof materials can you think of? Ask if they know what makes a material waterproof and write their answers and theories down.
Waterproof Investigation
1. Choose a piece of plain paper.
2. Drop water onto it. Keep the droplets on just one side of the paper.
3. Watch the droplets. Do they get absorbed into the paper or do the droplets sit on top?
3. Rub wax (a wax crayon) onto the dry side of the paper.
4. Drop water onto the waxy side.
5. Watch the droplets carefully. What do they do? Is it different to the side with no wax?
Mr Ingram and Miss Bennison love to read books in the park but we worry that they can get wet in the rain. Could you make a cover for our books? Give them time to explore making paper waterproof with wax crayons. The Nikwax weblink gives instructions about how to make a waterproof book cover and this challenge could be a homework activity.
Additional activities – Art
Create some dragon art. See the attached document with ideas.
We can’t wait to see what you get up to this week!
Year 2 team