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Year 2 Activities Week Beginning 4.5.20Literacy (please remember to use a ruler to rule lines for all writing activities)Reading Challenge: Try a reading challenge every day and give a treat /prize when your child finishes all 5 challenges. Have fun reading!# Read a book to a family member.# Record yourself reading a book and listen to it.# Read a book that makes you laugh.# Read a book outside.# Read a book about friends.Listen carefully to the story – Mrs. Honey’s Hat –YouTube Talk about this story with your child and then ask questions to develop comprehension and talking and listening skills. For eg: What did Mrs. Honey do on Monday? Where did she go on Wednesday and what happened to her hat? Can you name 5 items that were on Mrs. Honey’s hat at the start of the story? etc Tigers & Monkeys - Use the worksheet ‘Unjumble sentences.’ Have a look at the first sentence and see if your child can read this jumbled sentence. Discuss which word should go at the beginning and the end of the sentence. How do we know? Complete work in your Literacy book rather than on the sheet. Please write title ‘Mrs. Honey’s hat’ and short date at the top. Underneath this copy the WALT from the sheet and then write out the sentences in the correct order. NB: Monkeys are only required to unjumble the first 3 sentences. Complete your work by drawing and colouring Mrs. Honey wearing her wonderful hat. [Use front cover of book to help you.]Bears – Find worksheet with 2 jumbled sentences. Have a look at the first sentence and see if your child can read this jumbled sentence. Discuss which word should go at the beginning and the end of the sentence. How do we know? Complete work into your Literacy book. Please write title ‘Mrs. Honey’s hat’ and short date at the top. Cut out these sentences and stick them in the right order in your book. Complete your work by drawing and colouring Mrs. Honey wearing her wonderful hat. [Use front cover of book to help you.]Tigers & Monkeys – Listen to the story again and complete worksheet WALT answer questions in a sentence. Ask your child these questions first orally and allow your child time to tell you their answer in a full sentence. Proceed to then do the written work in your book. Remember that a full sentence is required with capital letters and full stops in the appropriate place. For eg: Q: Where did Mrs. Honey take her grandson? A: Mrs. Honey took her grandson to the park. NB Monkeys complete in your book the answers to 3 questions.Bears Focus on keywords at / get / down What sound do they begin with? Write these words out on pieces of paper or make with magnetic letters. Complete worksheets entitled ‘Sight word sentences’ which you can find in your Literacy folder.Online keyword activity – Tigers ‘Jack Hartmann Sight Words List 1-5’[You could do one list per day] Monkeys ‘Jack Hartmann Sight Words List 1-2’[Cover these two lists during the week] Bears ‘Jack Hartmann Sight Words List 1’ & ‘Popcorn Words Sight Words Song Jack Hartmann.’ Continue to revise keywords by making use of your word box, word walls, keyword sheets and keyword games found in Y2 Resources folder. Keyword Challenge: At the end of the week you might like to ask your child to read keywords displayed on the screen using ‘The Fry Sight Word Review Jack Hartmann List 1-25’ online. Take a note of any keywords that your child does not know and focus on these words the following week. Only continue to a second review if your child is confident at reading all of the words. Type in ‘The Fry Sight Word Review Jack Hartmann List 26-50.’ Each review covers 25 words and you can continue as many as you like as long as your child is able to read the words. List 51-75 / List 76-100 / List 101- 125 / List 126-150 / List 151-175 / List 176-200. How many of these Fry Sight Words do they know? At the back of their Literacy book write the number and date it.Begin to work on ‘My Rainbow Journal’ found in Literacy folder. Complete front cover and sheet entitled ‘7 interesting facts about me.’Practise letter formation in your book – lowercase letters v, w, k – write one line for each letter. Can you think of words beginning with each letter? Draw/colour a picture for each one and label it. Useful apps available from the app store to aid letter formation and phonics: Hairy letters / Blobbe writeSpellings – learn spellings for week commencing 4.5.20 and complete test at the back of your book.Numeracy [Explore marks.co.uk for counting, ordering, sequencing, money, shapes and pattern]Tigers & Monkeys – Sing along 2/3 times to ‘The big numbers song – YouTube.’ Oral count to 50 on your own. Practise your rhythm counting forwards and backwards to 50 [clap, slap, click, click] Can you start at 30 and hop until you count to 50? Set out number cards 1-50 randomly on the table. Explore the number that comes after / before a given number. Can you find me the number that comes after 42? Can you find me the number that comes before 40? Repeat with different numbers. Using number cards put them in order from 1-50. Use these cards if needed to help you write your numbers up to 50 into your Numeracy book. Choose one of the worksheets ‘Missing Numbers to 50’ and copy and complete in your book. Can Mum write sets of 5 random numbers in your book using the numbers from 10 -50 for you to order them from smallest to largest. Eg: 29 15 37 43 31 Play Game Zoo First to 50 with a family member to finish your number work.Bears – Sing along 2/3 times to ‘Number song 1 to 20 for children- Counting numbers The Singing Walrus.’ Oral count to 17 on your own. Practise your rhythm counting forwards and backwards to 17 [clap, slap, click, click] Can you start at 10 and hop until you count to 17? Set out number cards 1-20 randomly on the table. Explore the number that comes after / before a given number. Can you find me the number that comes after 16? Can you find me the number that comes before 10? Repeat with different numbers. Using number cards put them in order from 1-20. Complete Number 17 worksheet. Play Game Zoo First to 20 with a family member to finish your number work.Google ‘youtube BBC Schools Numbertime time’ and then click on ‘BBC Schools Numbertime; Time telling the time YouTube’ to watch a programme that revises o’clock and half past times. Make your own clock using ‘Clock Printable’ sheet or make one from a paper plate. Don’t forget to write on the numbers and attach hands with a paper fastener so that they will move. Play game ‘What’s the time?’ Your child asks the question ‘What’s the time Mum?’ and you reply using o’clock and half past times. For eg: 2 o’clock / half past 7 Your child then has to move the hands to show the time. Continue in this fashion checking each time if the hands are in the correct positions. To consolidate this work complete ‘Telling the time o’clock and half past’ worksheets 1&2. If your child is having difficulty telling these times then watch one of the other Numbertime programmes on Youtube that only focus on o’clock and half past.Tigers & Monkeys – If one of the numbers fell off your number sentence would you be able to work out which number is missing. Rule a line at the top of your book and write ‘WALT fill in the missing number’ along with the date. Then rule the page into 8 equal parts and copy and complete the calculations from one of the missing numbers work cards of your choice into your book. Make use of your number line to help you if needed. Use a calculator if you have one to check your answers. Bears – Mixed add and take away work card. Rule a line at the top of your book and write ‘WALT add and take away’ along with the date. Then rule the page into 8 equal parts and copy and complete the sums from one of the work cards of your choice into your book. Make use of Lego bricks or other materials to help complete if needed. Use a calculator if you have one to check your answers. Tigers & Monkeys –Google online Topmarks Inverse Machines and then click on ‘Inverse machines 3-8 yr olds Topmarks.’ Next click on the box on the bottom row ‘add –own – to single digit.’ Here you can choose the box ‘+1’ to start and then ‘+2.’ Why not get your child to write down the answer on a piece of paper or a whiteboard if you have one first of all before sending the number into the machine. Make use of a number line if needed. Did they get the correct answer? Continue in this fashion by pressing ‘again.’ If your child is confident with adding 1 or 2 then make it more difficult by choosing ‘+3, +4, +5 etc.’ Complete work from worksheet “WALT use function machines’ into your book.Bears – Google online Topmarks Inverse Machines and then click on ‘Inverse machines 3-8 yr olds Topmarks.’ Next click on the box on the bottom row ‘add –own – to single digit.’ Here you can choose the box ‘+1.’ Why not get your child to write down the answer on a piece of paper or a whiteboard if you have one first of all before sending the number into the machine. Make use of a number line if needed. Did they get the correct answer? In Numeracy folder find ‘1 more 1 less numeracy game’ and play with a family member. Complete attached worksheet to finish.Counting in 2s – Put your number cards out on the table in 2s – 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 20 and get your child to count these numbers with you. Do they notice anything? Explain that this is a number pattern and that you skip every other number. Get your child to place 2 cubes above each number and then count – counting in 2s! Can they go up to 30, 40, 50 using the cards? Introduce online song ‘The counting by 2s song / Counting songs / Scratch Garden.’Other activitiesPE Practise your throwing skills by playing ‘Stand up skittles’ game. Set up 6 empty 1or 2 litre plastic water or fizzy drink bottles in a triangle shape (like a typical game of skittles) Using chalk mark a line 2 metres away from the closest skittle. Standing behind the line, get your child to roll a sponge ball at the skittles. How many can they knock over? Score one point for each skittle knocked down. Play with a family member and have 3 goes each. Who scores the most points? To make it harder you may wish to stick numbers 1-6 on each of the bottles and then add up the scores of all the bottles knocked down. After you have played a few rounds of normal skittles, present them with the following Science challenge.WAU Science challenge: Can your child find out the least amount of water that they need to add to the bottles to keep them standing? This test can be approached in a variety of ways. They could start with the bottles full and then tip out a certain amount of water each time. Alternatively they could mark the bottles with their predictions and fill them to this level. Depending on their results, they can either add or remove water before trying again. NB: Make sure the lids are properly secured on the bottles before playing skittles. Encourage to child to think about whether their test is fair. Did they always stand behind the chalk line? Are the bottles of equal size? Was the ball rolled with the same force each time? How could the test be improved?Help your family around the house. Why not make your own bed and tidy up your bedroom!Lego Building Challenge – Build a Lego model of some of the places that Mrs. Honey visited during her week out and about such as a Park, Castle and or Church and send a photo of these either to jadams250@ or lsimpson001@ [for Mrs. Hawkes’s class] If you don’t have Lego then make your model from any construction toy you may have at home or just use recyclable materials.Make your own beach – Mrs. Honey went to the beach on Wednesday! Why not create your own beach if you have bags of sand left over from a building project. If you have a sand pit in your garden why not dig out those bucket and spades! Have fun. ................
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