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Year Two
Home Learning
We have created a list of activities for home-based learning to support you and your
child whilst we are closed.
Please remember that activities such as baking, gardening, game playing and just
talking are also of benefit and will teach your child many different skills.
We would love to see what you are doing at home, please feel free to upload pictures
and comments to ClassDojo or send us an email. The Year 2 Team will be available
daily to give support and encouragement, again contact us through ClassDojo or email.
We appreciate these are exceptional circumstances but would like to emphasise how
important it is that your child has opportunities to practise a variety of skills daily.
Please email us if you have any other issues or if you wish to discuss anything whilst
school is closed:
Literacy Week One
Mon Start by listening (or reading if you have the book) ‘Oi Frog’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLi6xx4YEY
What rhyming words can you remember from the story? Can you think of other words that
might rhyme with them?
Using the word ‘cat’ how many words can you think of that rhyme with it? List them.
Now have a go at writing a rhyming couplet using two of these words – each line has to end
with one of the rhyming words e.g.
I once had a cat
She liked to wear a fancy hat
Tues Draw a picture of your favourite food. Around your picture, list some adjectives to describe it
e.g. yummy, delicious, tasty, crunchy…
Can you now write a rhyming couplet about your favourite food using some of your
adjectives. e.g.
Chocolate cake is so delicious and yummy
I can’t wait to get it in my tummy!
(Adults – some other ideas of rhyming adjectives for inspiration nice/slice light/bite
creamy/dreamy sweet/treat...)
Now write two more rhyming couplets using different adjectives about the same food.
Wed Performance poetry! – Watch Michael Rosen’s ‘Chocolate Cake’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxQLITdOOc
Think about how he uses facial expressions, his voice and body language to perform his
poem.
Use these techniques to think about how you could perform your favourite food poem that
you wrote yesterday.
Maybe you could record these an email them to us or to a member of your family!
Thurs Create a shape poem!
Look at the examples of shape poems on the next page. Draw a simple outline of your
chosen favourite food (this needs to be fairly big so you can write your poem around the
outline!)
Now copy the poem you wrote on Tuesday around the outline.
If you want to, afterwards, you can rub the outline out carefully and you’ll see that your
writing shows the shape of your picture!
Fri Spelling—choose a variety of words from the Common Exception List. Use Look, Cover,
Write to practice spelling. Write them in a sentence.
CHALLENGE—can you use any of these words in one of the four sentence types
(statement, exclamation, question or command)
DAILY Reading—please ask questions about what they have read or that you have read to
them.
Handwriting—practice handwriting through learning days of the week and months of
the year (two birds with one stone!)
Shape Poem examples
Literacy Week Two
Mon Please complete ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ reading comprehension
on the following two pages.
CHALLENGE: How many rhyming words can you find in the poem?
Underline them or write them down.
Tues Remind yourselves what a simile is. They must use the words ‘like’
or ‘as’ to compare two things. For example – That drum is as loud as
thunder.
How many similes can you come up with to describe different things?
This could be to describe yourself, things in your home, foods, toys
etc. Please look at the word mat on the next page (after yesterday’s
comprehension) to inspire you!
Wed Remind yourselves what alliteration is. When two words next to each
other in a sentence begin with the same letter or sound e.g. amazing
acrobat or super swimming.
Using your name, how many alliteration words can you think of to
describe yourself? For example, Fantastic Freya or Amazing Anna.
Once you’ve found a few for yourself, can you find any for members
of your family and their names?
Thurs Create an acrostic poem!
Have a look at the examples of acrostic poems below (page after the
simile word mat)
Using your own name (or a member of your family if you like), create
an acrostic poem about you/them. Your challenge is to include
alliteration as much as you can in each line and at least one simile!
Please send these to us when you have finished. We would love to
see them!
Fri Spelling—choose a variety of words from the Common Exception List. Use
Look, Cover, Write to practice spelling. Write them in a sentence.
CHALLENGE—can you use any of these words in one of the four sentence
types (statement, exclamation, question or command)
DAILY Reading—please ask questions about what they have read or that you
have read to them.
Handwriting—practice handwriting through learning days of the week
and months of the year (two birds with one stone!)
Monday – Reading Comprehension
Tuesday – Similes
Thursday – acrostic poem examples
Maths Week One
Mon Practise giving someone instructions to move around the house or garden.
Encourage your child to use the words; forwards, backwards, left and right.
Discuss how you could record these movements (as directional sentences
or in a grid), and choose a method to record some of your instructions from
today.
Tues Introduce turns; full turn, half turn, quarter turn, three quarter turn, and
practise making these turns practically. Introduce clockwise and
anticlockwise and include these terms in more practical movements. Get a
toy figure and put it in a starting position, now move it and see if your grown
up can describe the movement using the above language. Now swap.
Record some of these movements; the Lego man has made a three quarter
turn, anticlockwise.
Wed Draw a grid, or use a board game grid. Decide on a start position and an
end position, and using a toy figure, give instructions to follow to reach your
end position. Encourage your child to use the vocabulary; right, left,
forwards, backwards, full turn, half turn, quarter turn, anticlockwise and
clockwise in their instructions. As a challenge ask your child to record some
of their instructions. You could put some objects to avoid on your grid to
make the game more fun!
Thurs Download the TTS Bee-Bot app and explore giving the beebot instructions
to reach a final destination. Encourage your child to input a set of
instructions, rather than just one at a time. Can you record your instructions
using the vocabulary used this week?
Fri Draw a map of your garden or local area. Write instructions for a route and
then ask a grown up to follow your route.
Problem Solving- Choose a 2d shape and make some repeating patterns.
How many can you make? Can you describe your movements?
DAILY Practise writing your number bonds to 10 and 20, (0+10= 10, 1 + 9 =
10, 2 + 8 = 10 and so on).
Challenge: Use this knowledge to write your number bonds to 100 and
1000.
Go onto Topmarks.com and play ‘Hit the Button’ focussing on number
facts.
Maths Week Two
Mon This week, we will focus on problem solving. There will be several
problems on the website for each day! Please feel free to make up
your own word problems for your child. We would like your child to
be able to read and understand a variety of word problems, and be
able to independently work out which, of the four operations, is
needed to solve each problem. Please don’t panic if your child finds
this difficult, problem solving is always a tricky one. If you’d like more
problems, then you can find many more on the White Rose maths
website, where they have a page of problems for everyday in March.
Tues Please look on the school website for today’s maths problems.
Wed Please look on the school website for today’s maths problems.
Thurs Please look on the school website for today’s maths problems.
Fri Please look on the school website for today’s maths problems.
DAILY Practise writing your number bonds to 10 and 20, (0+10= 10, 1 + 9 =
10, 2 + 8 = 10 and so on).
Challenge: Use this knowledge to write your number bonds to 100 and
1000.
Go onto Topmarks.com and play ‘Hit the Button’ focussing on number
facts.
Topic Week One
Mon Start a mini ‘Space’ topic for the week. Discuss who Neil Armstrong
was. Research some basic information about him (Twinkl has a great
PowerPoint). Create a fact poster with the information you have
gathered.
Tues Introduce timelines by modelling a timeline of important events in
your life. Create a timeline of events for the life of Neil Armstrong
(Twinkl has a great timeline template, but feel free to make your
own). You could include: the year he was born and died, when he
first got his pilot’s licence, when he first went into space and when he
became the first man to walk on the moon.
Wed Recap timelines and show your child how you can use maths to
calculate how long ago something occurred. Work together to
calculate how old Neil Armstrong was when he died, and how old he
was when he first landed on the moon. Challenge your child to create
a timeline of their life so far. Discuss what events are considered
important enough to mark on your timeline.
Thurs Make some space themed cupcakes! A few ideas:
Don’t forget to send a picture of your cakes to your teacher!
Fri Look at the planets in the solar system and try and learn them in
order (I use ‘my very easy method just speeds up naming planets’,
although pluto is now considered a dwarf planet). Create a piece of
space art including all the planets in the solar system and the sun.
Send your teacher a picture!
Topic Week Two
Mon
Shadow drawings – this task can be done on any day where the sun is
shining and you are able to get outside – however, if you can’t, using a
lamp in a dark(ish) room would work too.
Choose an object at home that can stand up on its own e.g. a toy or vase
of flowers etc.
Place the object in front of the light so it creates a shadow on your piece of
paper. Now draw carefully around it! Afterwards you can shade in your
drawing using pencil or colouring pencils.
Tues Sketching – you will need a blank piece of paper and a sharp pencil.
Choose something you would like to sketch e.g. a bowl of fruit, a vase of
flowers…
Place it in front of you. Observe carefully what you see and begin to sketch.
Keep pausing to look up at the object so that your sketch is accurate.
Using a writing pencil, try and copy the shadings of the objects, where is it
lighter and where is it darker?
Wed Sketching a portrait picture – you will need a piece of blank paper, a sharp
pencil and a member of your family (or yourself in front of a mirror).
You are going to draw a portrait of the person you have chosen. Their job is
to sit super still facing you. Your job is to carefully sketch their face. Like
yesterday, keep pausing to look up at them and at your drawing to keep it
accurate! Maybe the person you chose would then like to have a go at
drawing you?
Thurs Researching a famous artist – please use the following website to see fact
files about different artists and their artwork.
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/whos-who
Today, we would like you to spend some time having a look at some of the
artists and finding out some facts. Choose your favourite and do an
additional search to see some more of their artwork. Choose your favourite
piece ready for tomorrow!
Fri Yesterday you found your favourite artist and your favourite piece of their
artwork. Today, we would like you to recreate this piece of artwork. You
may use pencils, paint, paintbrushes, sponges and other materials you may
have to help you do this!
Please take pictures of all the masterpieces you have created this week
and it would be great if you could share them onto Dojo or to us by email!
