Good morning Year 2! Here are your home learning tasks for today. There are some optional challenges too. We will also give you a suggested physical activity and mindfulness activity to help you to keep physically and mentally healthy.
Physical activity: Why not start your day by joining in with the free live PE with Joe video for kids. These sessions will be running daily at 9am.
Mindfulness activity (we usually do these straight after lunch but it can be included at any point in the day): OK breathing – Make an ‘ok’ sign on your tummy and slowly breathe in and out. This sign is to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions. No emotions are bad. Emotions change and you won’t feel like that forever.
Task 1 reading
Here’s the fluency text for this week. The children are used to having these these texts weekly in class and they are aimed at developing the children’s fluency when reading.
1.Read the non-fiction text below based on polar bears (like our class mascot, Snowy, that we have adopted from WWF).
2.Underline and copy out words you are not sure of. Try to find out some of their meanings using a dictionary text or online.
3. Reread the text and record two facts you have learnt about polar bears.
Challenge: write an incorrect fact about polar bears too.
Polar bears
Polar bears are the planet’s biggest land-based carnivores – although they actually spend most of their lives around water and ice (their Latin name means ‘sea bear’). So they’re at particular risk from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice they depend on.
Polar bears generally live and hunt alone, though they can be quite social too. They mainly eat seals – using their remarkable sense of smell they can detect a seal in the water beneath a metre of compacted snow, and from almost a kilometre away.
Adults are strong swimmers – they can swim for several hours to get from one piece of ice to another. Their thick white coat and a layer of fat keep them warm and camouflaged in their harsh Arctic environment.
Words I’m not sure of
Task 2 maths
1. Go on a shape hunt around your house and record, in your home learning book, the different 2D (flat) shapes that you find. For example, a rectangle on the front cover of a book.
2.You could also include their properties – sides and vertices (where two lines meet together at a point).
Challenge: Give clues to one of the shapes to a family member – can they guess the shape?
Task 3 writing
Your spellings for this week are all words ending in ey. Don’t forget to spend some time on Spelling Shed to practise these words. Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.
key, donkey, monkey, chimney, valley, honey, money, turkey
1.Write questions with half of your spelling words. Then, use the other half to answer the questions. The sillier the better!
2.Underline the spelling words when you use them.
Challenge: Start each question with a different word.