Year 2 Home Learning Tasks – Monday 18th May
Hi Year 2
We hope you had a great weekend.
If you were in school like normal, this week would of been our quiz week. It would be your chance to show off all of your amazing knowledge.
While it is disappointing to miss them, you can still show us your fantastic learning by commenting on the blog or emailing us your work.
Here are today’s learning activities.
English – Grammar
You are going to be the teacher and do some marking.
Below are sentences that are missing capital letters and full stops.
Read the sentences then rewrite them so that they are correct.
English – Writing
This week we are going to be looking at letter writing.
Write a list, using bullets points, about what you need to include when writing a letter.
Are there any specific features in a letter you must include?
Have you written a letter before? Who to and why did you write the letter?
Sounds-Write Phonics (‘ed’ to a root word that ends with a y. Copy becomes copied so the ‘y’ becomes ‘i’ before the ending is added)
Review: Read the following Year 2 words – pretty, should, door, because, sugar, parents, Mr.
Read: copied, tried, cried, hurried.
Write: ferry – ferried, carry – carried, marry – married, worry – worried
Dictation: The worried man cried as he tried to carry the married lady.
Maths – Basic Skills
Below are some quiz style (arithmetic) calculations.
Find the total for the four different mathematical operations.
Maths – Task
Look at the two step problems below.
Solve the problem and explain what you did, what you noticed and how you did it.
Handwriting
Warm up: Wiggle your fingers up high, down low, to the side and in front of you.
Stretch your fingers out like fireworks five times.
Write the following Year 2 Common Exception Words joined up at least six times? Remember to leave a finger space.
* the
*should
* plant
* sugar
Tick your neatest formation and be proud of your handwriting.
History
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zj93bdm
For History today we are going to use a new BBC Bitesize online History lesson. It’s about Neil Armstrong and should remind you of your learning from our History lessons.
Watch the video/lesson and complete activity 1 and 2.
Please let us know how you got on with this style of lesson. Did you enjoy it? Was it useful? Was there anything you didn’t like about it?
Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1aJimzuzbg
Watch and listen to a wonderfully calming story.
Remember to leave us a comment on the blog to share your learning or you can email it to us at yeartwo@lingsprimary.org.uk. Get in touch with us via the email if you have any questions about today’s learning. We look forward to seeing your work!
Miss Duncan and Miss Battams
English
Every morning, I wake up at exactly half past seven. The first thing I do is run down the stairs and eat my breakfast. Usually, I have a boiled egg with toast fingers. Next, I have a wash and brush my teeth. After that I put on my school uniform. Finally I give my mum and dad a goodbye kiss and walk to school.
.full stops
.capital letters
.nice handwriting
.write their name
.put a stamp on it
.write their address
I have written a letter to Eric at an old people’s home and he wrote back to me. i write a letter to Santa at Christmas.
Well Done Elliot!
I like that you thought about your handwriting as well as the other features of a letter.
Miss Duncan
ENGLISH – GRAMMAR
Every Morning, i wake up at exactly half past seven. The first thing i do run down the stairs, and eat my breakfast usually. I have a boiled egg with toast fingers, next i have a wash and brush my teeth. After that i put on my school uniform, finally i give my mum and dad a goodbye kiss, and walk to school.
ENGLISH – WRITING
When writing a letter, these are the bullet points you need to include:
– Date
– Full stops
– Capital letters
– Have neat and tidy handwriting
– Their name
– Stamp on the envelope
– Their address
– Comma
– Your name at the bottom, so they know who it has come from
Wrote a letter to father Christmas to tell him that we have moved and to give him my new address, so that he could find us.
Wrote a letter to my old nursery, when we moved to Northampton. To let them what the house was like and how i had started my new school.
MATHS – BASIC SKILLS
22 + 7 = 29, 13 = 15 – 2, 7 = 35 / 5, half of 14 = 7
32 (40-12)
71 (91-20)
40 (100-60)
1 (50-49)
Well Done Zion.
It’s great to see you have included punctuation in your list for the features of a letter.
Miss Duncan
Maths
22+7= 29
13+15-2
7=35÷5
1/2 of 14 =7
We did three of the following questions
1. 38-6=32
2. 91-20=71
3. 100-60=40
Well Done Elliot!
Miss Duncan
Writing a letter
– need your address at the top
– who it is to
– what it’s about
– who it is from
– need the date
Good Job Kaya!
Well done for remembering the address at the top.
Miss Duncan
English
Every morning I wake up at exactly half past 7. The first thing I do is run down the stairs
and eat my breakfast. Usually, I have a boiled egg with toast fingers. Next I have a wash and brush
my teeth. After that I put on my school uniform. Finally I give my mum and dad a goodbye kiss and walk to school.
Well done Candice.
Miss Duncan