Year 2 Home Learning Tasks – Monday 1st June
Hi Year 2
We hope you had a wonderful half term and are ready to get your brains working.
Here are today’s learning activities.
English – Reading
Read the text and answer the following comprehension questions in full sentences.
- How much of all land is made up of desert?
- Name a desert.
- What does the word ‘adapted’ mean?
- Can you think of another adjective instead of ‘cold’?
- Would you visit a hot desert or cold desert and why?
English – Writing
Look at the picture.
Imagine that you are there.
Using your senses, what can you see, hear, and smell?
How does it make you feel?
Why do feel like that?
Why can you hear that?
Write your responses in full sentences and remember to use conjunctions in your writing.
Sounds – Write Phonics – Focus sound /r/ spelling <r>
Review – read the following Year 2 common exception words: pretty, should, because, my, door, sugar
Read – grass, ride, river, protect, properly,
Write – Rose, robber, practice, reason
Dictation: The robber did not have a craft to ride on the river so he ran on the growing grass.
Maths – Basic Skills
Write down the three times table from 0x3 to 12×3.
Maths – Task
Answer the following quiz (reasoning) style questions
Spellings
Practice spelling the following words.
Use the same ‘copy, copy, copy, cover word and write’ process we use in class.
*pretty
*should
*because
*my
*door
*sugar
Geography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE
Listen to the song.
Name the seven continents and write a fact about each one.
You can do this as a piece of writing or as a poster.
It is up to you how you present your knowledge of the continents.
Story
Watch and listen to this great Julia Donaldson story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkdX73Onf04
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We look forward to seeing your work!
Miss Duncan and Miss Battams
Hello Miss Duncan,
Hope you had a good break and enjoyed the sunshine.
ENGLISH – READING
1. How much of all land is made up of desert?
a third of the land is desert.
2. Name a desert ?
the Sahara desert.
3. What does adapted mean ?
when you move to from a place to another place.
4. What is another word for cold ?
freezing.
5. Would you visit a hot desert or cold desert and why?
I would go to the cold desert as the sun is really hot in the summer time.
ENGLISH – WRITING
The picture is of a Sahara Desert. I can see lots of sands, trees and the rising of the sunrise. I can smell the sand between my feet as i am walking. It makes me feel great and grateful as god, has made such a beautiful thing.
SOUND – WRITE PHONICS
Rose, Robber, Reason, Practise
MATHS – BASIC SKILLS
3 Times table
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33 & 36.
MATHS – TASK
55 + 5 = 60
45 + 25 = 60
Sam has 55p. Ben has 10p less than Sam. Tick the coins that Ben has. 1 x 20p, 2 x 10p and 1 x 5p = 45p.
A shop keeper has 20 fish and 5 fish bowls. He puts the same number of fish in each bowl. How many fish go in each bowl? 4 fish each.
13 + 6 = 10 + 9
I can here the wind howling. It makes me feel boiling because the sun looks hot. I can see a marsh.
55+5=60
25+35=60
Ben has 45p
20p, 10p, 10p 5p
4 fish in each bowl
13+6=10+9