Hello Everyone!
Every Monday I will set your phonics, English and maths work for the week. I have broken it down into what to do each day to make it more manageable. All the resources you need will be at the bottom of this webapge. Don’t forget to look at the ‘family challenge’ activities on the website as well. The maths and English activities are the most important things for you to complete, but you may enjoy one (or more) of the family challenges.
I hope you are safe and well
From Miss Harvey 😊
Reading
I would like you to read some eBooks as well as the books you have at home. Read for 15 minutes a day and share stories with your family.
Use My Class Login button (classname: swift class, password: year2) on www.oxfordowl.co.uk website to access the ebooks.
Read the following books by filtering series to Read Write Inc or by age group. The books I want you to read this week will be based on your Read Write Inc colour group we use for phonics.
Free readers you now have a non-fiction and fiction book to enjoy each week.
RWI Group |
Read Write Inc eBook |
Age Filter |
eBook |
Red |
I can hop |
4-5 years |
Diggers |
Green |
The get fit club |
4-5 years |
Silver foil rocket |
Orange |
Horses |
5-6 years |
Kipper and the trolls |
Yellow |
A hungry fox |
6-7 years |
Rumpelstiltskin |
Blue |
On your bike |
6-7 years |
Escape of the giant chicken |
Grey |
The stone age |
6-7 years |
East of the sun, west of the moon |
Free Reader |
N/A |
7-9 years |
Non-fiction: Downhill racers Fiction: Stink Street |
Read, Write, Inc.
Your child will need to practise their phonics daily.
Please access the ‘Read Write Inc Phonics Lessons at Home Page’ on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ/featured for a daily phonics lesson.
The sound your child will need to focus on will depend on their RWI group before the school closure.
Monday
Your child’s RWI group |
Set sound |
Today’s sound |
Phonic video starts |
Spelling video starts |
Red/Green |
2 |
ow |
10am |
10.15am |
Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey |
3 |
ear |
10.30am |
10.45am |
Tuesday
Your child’s RWI group |
Set sound |
Today’s sound |
Phonic video starts |
Spelling video starts |
Red/Green |
2 |
oo – poo at the zoo |
10am |
10.15am |
Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey |
3 |
ea |
10.30am |
10.45am |
Wednesday
Your child’s RWI group |
Set sound |
Today’s sound |
Phonic video starts |
Spelling video starts |
Red/Green |
2 |
oo – look at a book |
10am |
10.15am |
Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey |
3 |
oi |
10.30am |
10.45am |
Thursday
Your child’s RWI group |
Set sound |
Today’s sound |
Phonic video starts |
Spelling video starts |
Red/Green |
2 |
ar |
10am |
10.15am |
Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey |
3 |
a-e |
10.30am |
10.45am |
Friday
Your child’s RWI group |
Set sound |
Today’s sound |
Phonic video starts |
Spelling video starts |
Red/Green |
2 |
or |
10am |
10.15am |
Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey |
3 |
i-e |
10.30am |
10.45am |
English
All of the resources and explanation documents are in the English folder at the bottom of the webpage. Each day’s activity is labelled.
Monday
We are going to look at nouns and adjectives today in English using the Paper Bag Princess story. Don’t forget to use your phonic knowledge to help with your spelling. There is a sound mat in the folder to help you.
Writing task: Character profile
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Can I write 4 sentences describing the character? Capital letter, finger spaces and full stops. |
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Can I write a descriptive paragraph using a range of exciting adjectives to describe looks and personality? |
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Can I write a detailed descriptive paragraph using commas to list adjectives within a sentence? E.g. Miss Harvey is tall, bossy teacher who sometimes sings too much. |
Tuesday
Something new today – Adverbs! We know lots about nouns and adjectives, but we haven’t looked at adverbs before. Adverbs describe verbs (how, when, where). We are going to learn about adverbs with our Paper Bag Princess story.
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Can I write simple sentences independently using the word bank to choose words? Capital letter, finger spaces and full stops. |
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Can I write a descriptive paragraph using the word bank? See if you can lengthen your sentences using conjunctions – linking words. |
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Can I retell the story or create my own version of the story using the word bank to include interesting vocabulary? |
Wednesday
This week’s spellings link back to last week suffix -ness. But this time we have a new rule to learn.
If a root word ends in a consonant + y, we swap the y for an I before adding the suffix -ness
happy happi + ness happiness
Spelling list: happy, happiness, jolly, jolliness, silly, silliness, bossy, bossiness, shy, shyness, dry, dryness
Write each of your spellings into a sentence in your workbook then play some of the spelling games/activities. They are in the English folder.
Weird Word Warning
Shy and dry do not follow this rule. Keep the y and add -ness
Thursday
We are going to look at monster poems today! If you are unable to print off the poems then for the highlighting activity talk to you grown up about what punctuation and capital letters you can see.
Writing task: Describe your monster include two exclamation marks and two capitalised words.
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Adult support reading the poem. Write 4 sentences independently describing you monster. |
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Write a descriptive paragraph about your monster. Look back at you Paper Bag princess writing, how could you improve your work this time? |
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Use words that have suffixes in your description writing, spelling them correctly (e.g. –ment,-ness,-ful,-less,-ly) |
Friday
We are going to look at monster poems again today and compare two monster poems looking at their poetic features. Don’t worry it is all explained. If you can’t print the poetry comparison chart then do this verbally going through each criteria on the screen.
Writing task: Draw a picture of a Gribble gribbling and write some sentences explaining what you think gribbling is.
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Use sentence starters to write two sentences independently. ‘I think that gribbling is…. ‘In my picture my Gribble is….. |
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Write 4/5 sentences using conjunctions to lengthen each sentence e.g. because, so, if, when, and, but. |
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Write 4/5 sentences using conjunctions to lengthen each sentence. Use a range of punctuation to make you writing more interesting for the reader. ? ! , . |
Maths
All of the resources and explanation documents are in the Maths folder at the bottom of the webpage. Each day’s activity is labelled.
Monday https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Week 1 Lesson 1 – Make equal parts.
We are going to start a new unit of work on fractions using white rose to help us. We use white rose at school and it help us learn in little steps. Watch the video and complete the activity document. This can be printed out or you can write the answers straight into your workbook/notepad. If you don’t have counters for question 7 use any other object you have at home – pasta is great! The answers are provided so that you can ‘tick or fix’ your work with an adult. If this is a little tricky for you, do the one peak challenge.
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Can I understand equal parts using concrete resources? One peak challenge sheet |
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Can I identify and make equal groups by sharing and splitting images? White rose activity |
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Can I identify and make equal groups by sharing and splitting images? Can I solve a sharing problem? White rose activity and then ‘Fair Feast’ problem. |
Tuesday https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Week 1 Lesson 2 – Recognise a half
Watch the video and complete the activity document. This can be printed out or you can write the answers straight into your workbook/notepad. I understand that some of the colouring and drawing activities will be tricky if you can’t print it out. Perhaps an adult can draw you some shapes to colour in half and draw the missing half. The answers are provided so that you can ‘tick or fix’ your work with an adult. If this is a little tricky for you do the one peak challenge.
Can I recognise if a shape is shaded in half? http://year1maths.co.uk/counting/fractions/interactive/halfornotimm/halfornotimm.htm |
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Can I recognise a half and whole by solving shape problems? White rose activity |
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Can I recognise a half and whole by solving shape problems? Can I solve a halving problem and explain my mathematical thinking? White rose activity and then ‘Halving’ problem. |
Wednesday https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Week 1 Lesson 3 – Find a half
Watch the video and complete the activity document. This can be printed out or you can write the answers straight into your workbook/notepad. Find some objects that you can use to help practise sharing. The answers are provided so that you can ‘tick or fix’ your work with an adult. If this is a little tricky for you, do the one peak challenge.
We haven’t seen ½ symbol before in Year 2 it just means one half.
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Can I find half of an amount of objects using pictures? 1 peak challenge activity with objects to share. |
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Can I find half of an amount and apply to fraction problems? White rose activity |
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Can I find half of an amount and apply to reasoning problems? White rose activity and then 3 peak challenge |
Thursday https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Week 1 Lesson 4 – Recognise a quarter
Watch the video and complete the activity document. This can be printed out or you can write the answers straight into your workbook/notepad. I understand that some of the colouring activities will be tricky if you can’t print it out. Perhaps an adult can draw some shapes for you. The answers are provided so that you can ‘tick or fix’ your work with an adult. If this is a little tricky for you, do the one peak challenge.
We haven’t seen ¼ symbol before in Year 2 it just means one quarter, 1 out of 4.
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Can I recognise if a shape is shaded into 1 quarter? 1 peak shape challenge |
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Can I recognise a quarter by solving shape problems? White rose activity |
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Can I recognise a quarter by solving shape problems? Can I solve a fraction problem and explain my mathematical thinking? White rose activity and then 3 peak task |
Friday https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Week 1 Lesson 5 – Find a quarter
Watch the video and complete the activity document. This can be printed out or you can write the answers straight into your workbook/notepad. The answers are provided so that you can ‘tick or fix’ your work with an adult. If this is a little tricky for you, do the one peak challenge.
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Can I find a quarter of an amount using pictures? 1 peak challenge activity with objects to share. |
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Can I find a quarter of an amount and apply to fraction problems? White rose activity |
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Can I find a quarter of an amount and apply to reasoning problems? White rose activity and then 3 peak challenge |