Hope everyone is ok and staying safe at home. Don’t forget to have a look at the class news page to see some of the learning and photos we’ve been sent.
Here are some ideas for a daily physical and mindfulness activity for you to try.
Physical activity: The Davies Sports 60 Second Personal Challenge is a weekly challenge you can set yourself to help improve your fitness. These challenges only take 60 seconds to complete and require little-to-no equipment. Each day of the week complete the challenge, note down how many you can do and try to beat your score the next day. At the end of the week, track your scores to see how well you have done.
Mindfulness activity: Why not turn your daily walk in a mindful walk focusing on all your senses to notice as many new things as possible – sounds, patterns, colours, textures.
Here are your new learning tasks for today.
Task 1 reading
Firstly, here are the answers to the questions from yesterday.
2. What is the title of the song? The Funny Tummy Song
3. How many verses are there in the song? three
4.Find and copy a word that means a.unsure worried b.on your own alone c.upset sad
5.Find two sets of rhyming words from the song. alone and phone, uh-oh and know, dad and sad, must and trust, OK and away
6.Which part of the song is repeated? ‘They’ll help to make it go away’ is repeated twice at the end of the song and ‘If it makes you feel funny in your tummy’ is repeated at the start of verse two and verse three.
Today’s learning
Today, 30th April, is somebody’s very special birthday who you may have heard about in the news. Captain Tom Moore is 100 years old.
1.Read the First News article of his amazing fundraising achievement (story number 3 – Moore and more and more money raised!).
2.Answer the questions (that follow the text).
Challenge: This story is just one of the many positive stories about how people can make a difference at this time. Can you think of any other examples? For example, a friend of mine has made 1,300 plastic visors to give to hospitals and care homes.
Task 2 maths
Yesterday’s challenge answer is below.
Tomorrow will be your times table test so spend sometime, if possible, on Times Tables Rock Stars today.
Today’s learning
We’re beginning some new learning about measuring length and height starting with using cm. These are the objectives, related to measurement, that the children should be aiming to achieve by the end of Year 2.
- choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g);
temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels - compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =
1.Start your maths learning by playing this Topmarks measuring in cm game.
2. Complete the White Rose lesson and activity sheet – Summer Term Week 1 lesson 3 and check your answers.
Challenge: Find some objects at home that are < 10cm and > 10cm. How can you check?
Task 3: Geography
Today, we are going to recap some learning from our earlier geography topic, Where in the world am I?
I can devise a simple map, using and constructing basic symbols in a key.
1. Draw a map of your local area, maybe this could show the route of a walk you’ve been on while you have been at home. Think about the main features you want to show on your map. This might include landmarks such as trees, a park, shops, roads, a church or traffic lights. If you can’t go out walking at the moment, maybe your map could be of school or around your house?
2.It is hard to put lots of information on maps that can easily be read. Therefore maps often have symbols to show important features. The map would have a key to help you read it showing what your symbols mean. Include a key on your map. Here’s some example maps from our learning earlier in the year.
3. Finally, give your map a title.
Challenge: Can you remember the four points of the compass from our previous learning (and a rhyme to help to remember them)? Have a go at one of these compass direction challenges.
Optional extra activity
Finally, we’ve seen how many of you are doing some cooking and baking while you are at home so todays’ alternative activity is to practise one of the cutting skills we learn at school, the bridge hold. Watch this video to remind yourself and then demonstrate this method to an adult at home.