Hope you’re all happy and healthy and you’ve enjoyed the sunshine during half term.
We wanted to share that a few children have reached their next level in Lexia.
Well done to Hafsa, Zhuokai, Olivia and Penelope. Great work!
If any families need help with accessing Lexia while you are at home, please do contact us (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org).
Last week, the Year 2 adults were set a challenge to try and identify members of the class based on their baby photos. We have thoroughly enjoyed looking through the photos and trying to match them up – some being easier than others! All the staff would like to say a big thank you for giving us this challenge. It was great fun and it definitely made us smile.
As requested, here are the scores and, with no cheating, the winner is…
Mrs Maqbool who felt very proud to get them all right and get 22 points!
In second place was Mrs Bharath with 20 points.
In joint third place was Mrs Freeman and Mrs Taylor both with 18 points.
Thank you to all the families who took part in this challenge.
Hope you completed the activities from yesterday’s home learning ok and you are ready for what we have in store for today. Let’s make a start.
Task 1 Reading
LO: I can respond to a text.
Today, we are going to finish our How to NOT go to school text from last week.
1.Listen to Chapter 4. Click here and complete the questions about the text.
2.Listen to Chapter 5/6 to finish the story.
Here are the characters of the story which you could cut out to retell the story or simply colour them.
Great work – time for an active break from imoves.
Task 2 Maths
LO: I can follow a route around a map.
We are going to complete our position and direction learning with a lesson taken from Oak National Academy. When completing this lesson, click on next activity in the bottom right hand corner to move through the learning.
Task 3 Geography
LO: What are physical and human features?
Today we are thinking about different geographical features. These features are split into physical and human features.
Physical features are natural.
Human features are things that have been created by humans and would not have existed in nature without humans.
1.Firstly have a look at this document to show what physical and human features might be.
2.Using these examples, sort them into physical and human features.
3.Can you think of any other physical and human features you could add?
Hope you have stayed motivated to complete your learning for today. We’ll be back tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of the day.
Hello Year 2 and hope you are all well and you enjoyed your break over the weekend. It was lovely to speak to lots of families last week and please keep up all the great work you are doing at home.
If there is anything we can help with at this time, please send us an email (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) and we will try to help.
Alongside, or instead of, the home learning posted here, don’t forget the websites for home learning document to provide additional learning opportunities.
Are you set for a week of home learning before a well earned week off? Here we go!
Task 1 Reading
1.Click here to hear the fluency text for this week, What plants need to grow.
2.Read the fluency text yourself.
3. Underline/write out any words you are unsure of and find out their meaning.
Challenge: Can you use a synonym (a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase) for the words you are unsure of and swap them into the text? For example, you could change ‘tries’ to ‘attempts’.
Task 2 Spelling
The spellings this week can all have the suffix -ful or –less added to them (some can have both). The underlined words have an extra rule to follow when adding the suffix: drop the y for an i.
To make each spelling you need to add the suffix to the root word. For example, delight (root word) + ful (suffix) = delightful and use + less = useless.
1.Watch this video, What are suffixes? The suffix less means without, eg penniless means without pennies and the suffix ful means full of eg beautiful means full of beauty.
2.Write out your spellings (including the suffixes) using your neatest handwriting.
3.Choose one of the activities below to help you learn these new spellings.
4.Finally, get moving with this Super Movers video about prefixes and suffixes.
Task 3 Maths
1.Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson all about bonds to 100.
This learning is based on multiples of 10 eg 90+10=100 so a challenge, if needed, would be to add any two numbers to equal 100 eg 41+59=100.
2.Test out your knowledge by playing Hit the Button (select Number Bonds and play one of the games highlighted below).
Good work today, Year 2. You could have a go at this puzzle, from the childrens’ newspaper First News, to finish your learning for today. You can access the current First News paper here.
What great expressive reading of the recent fluency text!
Using Oxford Owl online is a great way to read a variety of texts.
Another creative design of the Eiffel Tower and a visit to see the real thing!
Wow – this model must taken some time and patience.
I also managed to find a photo from visiting Paris 15 years ago!
We loved this junk modelling – combining design technology, science and money education!
More creative junk modelling
Great money education and homophone spelling learning.
Science – experiments and trees
Keeping calm with some yoga
Possible Junior Bake Off contestant here having made their sisters’ birthday cake. Yummy!
We’ve had some more Lexia success with Sunny, Hafsa, Theo and Zhuokai achieving their next level. Great work – keep it up!
Lexia is a great online resource to support your child’s reading.
Do let us know (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) if you need any help with accessing this resource at home at the moment.
Today, we received a special delivery for the Year 2 staff and we are all excited to take up our challenge! Thank you!
Here are the links to each chapter for this weeks’ book, How to NOT go to school.
We hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the story and the activities too.
Some of our class are completing their home learning at school at the moment.
Look at these great drawings of the Eiffel Tower.
Learning a new skill of touch typing…
Well done to Ehtasham, Hafsa and Betsy who have reached their next level in Lexia.
Do let us know (carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org and jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org) if you need any help with accessing this resource at home at the moment.