Hello, Year 2. We hope you’ve all enjoyed the mostly sunny weekend and you are ready for a new week of learning.
Firstly, here’s a reminder, from one of Mr Roundtree’s daily whole school news posts, with some tips to support this current home learning:
- try to develop a timetable for the tasks and stick to it – children benefit from the routine and it becomes easier
- build in practical tasks like cooking or planning an online shop so your child can use and apply the skills they have (with this in mind we will be posting some suggestions for this each day this week)
- use different devices to access the tasks if you’ve more than one child, or let them have a go at the same task, but provide extra support for the younger, or additional challenge for the older
- if a task looks too complicated for your child, be flexible – they could access the task set by a teacher in one of the other Sphere schools, or they could access some learning from our menu of home learning resources.
- let your child’s teacher know how they’re doing – it’ll help them to stay engaged if they get some feedback (and our teachers are loving seeing all the great learning that’s coming in – check out their Class News pages!)
- equally, feel free to ask your child’s teacher any questions about the learning
- importantly – be kind to yourself and your child: this is a difficult time for us all, so if they’ve done just two of the tasks, plus some reading (20 minutes would be great), some exercise and some other learning from our menu, then that’s a really productive day!
We really do enjoy seeing what you have been doing at home whether it is home learning or other skills that you are all developing so please share this with us to celebrate on our class news page.
Contact us (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) if there is something you are unsure of or if we can provide any other support for you or your child at this time.
Lexia: We’ve got a few children to congratulate for moving to the next level in Lexia – Betsy, Amelia, Olivia, Saif and Sunny. Well done to you all!
Physical activity: Do you want to practise your gymnastics skills or learn some new skills, as demonstrated here by one of our flexible class gymnasts. Why not have a go at #GymnasticsWithMax. It’s not every day that Max Whitlock, an Olympic gold medalist, can be your teacher!
Mindfulness activity: Here’s the chance to explore many different mindfulness activities in the Mindfulness for Children Challenge. Do let us know which ones you find beneficial.
Here are today’s tasks.
Task 1 reading
First of all, here are the answers to the fluency text questions from Friday.
Here’s the fluency text for this week linked to our new science theme, plants. Aim to read this daily so that by the end of the week you will become more fluent when reading it.
You can listen to me reading the text here.
1.Read the fluency text.
2.Underline or copy out the words you are not sure of. Try to find out their meanings using a dictionary or online.
3.Tell someone three facts about Venus flytraps.
4.Watch the first part of this video to find out more about this special plant.
Challenge: Can you use your online searching skills to find out another fact about this plant?
Task 2 maths
Warm your maths brain up by playing Karate Cats Maths. There are lots of maths games to choose from but today select the Fractions game.
We’ll continue our learning about fractions today.
White Rose Maths – Week 1 Lesson 5 Find a quarter
1. Watch the video and complete the activity sheet (on a printed copy or write the answers in your learning book).
2.Check your answers – how did you do?
3.Using some objects at home, follow the examples on the video to sort the objects into four equal groups to find a quarter of the total.
4.Think about which numbers this will, and will not, work with to get four equal groups.
Challenge: 
Task 3 writing/spelling
Hopefully you were successful with your spelling test last week.
This week, all the spellings are adverbs where the y has been dropped for an i before adding the suffix ly. In the left column, are the words as adjectives and in the right column are the words after they have been changed to an adverb. On Friday, please test your child on either word.
These spellings have also been added to your child’s Spelling Shed account. Spelling Frame also has spelling games as an alternative online resource (Spelling tiles has some good suffix based activities).
1.As the spellings this week focus on adverbs (words that add more detail to verbs), here’s a BBC Bitesize lesson all about adverbs for you to complete.
Challenge: Can you act out some of the adverbs from your spellings (or any other adverbs) and send us a photo for us to guess the adverb?
Other skills
We know lots of you are learning other skills while you are at home – gardening, cooking, household jobs and much more so here’s a suggestion for doing something a bit different today. How about starting singing?
Have a great day of learning and keep look at our class news page to see some of your fantastic home learning work.