Good morning everybody, I hope you are well. We have made it to Thursday. Let’s get going…
Here is a game that will help you to practise your fact families knowledge that we talked about yesterday. When you have clicked on the link, choose time and divide. This game will help you to learn the multiplication and division facts for the 2,3,5 and 10 times table.
For your maths today I would like you to print out the cards below. I would like you to look at the cards and sort them into fact families. There should be 4 cards for each fact family. 2 multiplication calculations and 2 division calculations.
You may recognise this story, we have it in school, but it’s such a good story I couldn’t resist.
For your English today, I would like you write your own version of ‘The Bear and the Piano’. Have a little look at the PowerPoint. This will help you get started.
Good morning everyone. Welcome to Wednesday!! I hope you are ready.
Here is a little game for you to try. It will help you to practise counting in 2,3,5,10s. Read the instructions carefully because the ducks begin at different numbers. Count along the ducks and click on the one that is the correct number shown. Be careful, the ducks start from different numbers!
Today we will begin with our maths. Have a little look at the PowerPoint. Todays maths is all about number fact families. These will help you to remember your division facts.
Please can you practise your spellings. If you are beginning to find them easy, you could always challenge yourself to write them backwards. This is really hard!!!
For your English today, I would like you to write a book review of your favourite book. It could be one you have read or it could be one that you have had read to you. It would be lovely if you could keep these in a safe place until we come back to school, then you could bring them in. They would look amazing in our Reading Area. They would be great inspiration for other people in our class who are looking for a great book to read.
Here is a reading comprehension for you to have a little look at. It’s all about the life cycle of butterflies. As always, comprehension 3 is the most tricky.
This afternoon is our science afternoon. This week we are thinking about keeping clean. It is particularly important that we know how to keep clean, especially at the moment. Have a look at the PowerPoint. When you have finished, there is a fun game to play that will hopefully help you to understand the importance of keeping clean.
Make sure you are free at 2.30 for our ‘Show and Tell’ meeting. If you would like to, please bring something you have done or made that you are really proud of. Have it near you so that you can show it easily and don’t need to take us on a tour of your house! If you would like to tell us something, that would be amazing too. If you just want to watch, that is absolutely fine too, it will be lovely to see your smiling faces.
I hope you have a lovely day and I’m really, really looking forward to seeing you later if you can make it.
Have a little play on Hit the Button, I know you enjoy this game. Can you practise your 2,3,5,10 times tables. You are going to need to know these facts for later in the week so it will be really helpful if you are confident. Feel free to practise others if you are really really speedy with these times tables.
Today in maths we are going to continue to think about division but today we are moving on to grouping amounts. This is a different way of working out division sums. Have a look at the PowerPoint.
For your English today, I would like you to watch the Bear and the Piano again. You must know this story pretty well by now!
I would like you to think about the bear in the city again today. You are now working for the concert theatre. It is your job to design the posters that tell people who is performing at the theatre. Have a little look at the PowerPoint and get designing!!
This afternoon is our Art afternoon. Last week we looked at a pattern and how making it smaller, made the pattern appear darker.
This week, to begin with I would like you to get a piece of paper and make as many different marks and patterns as you can. How many different shapes, squiggles, shades, patterns can you make? You could always listen to your favourite piece of music as you do this, sometimes it helps inspire you.
We are going to continue looking at shading this week. Have a look at the sheet and try the skills out. Remember, when you press lightly with a pencil, the colour is light and when you press hard with the pencil, the colour is much darker.
I hope you have a lovely day, I know we are all getting a bit tired now, but you should be really proud of yourselves. You have worked very hard this half term.
Good morning everyone and welcome to the last week of this half term. I hope you are all ready for a little bit more home learning.
Here is a little game to warm up your brains. In this game, you have to knock down coconuts that are multiples of your chosen number. I would stick to 2,3,5,10 to begin with but you could definitely challenge yourself with 4s if you are feeling very confident.
For our maths this week we are looking at division. You can use all of your multiplication skills to help you here. Have a look at the PowerPoint and complete the sheet, there is only one sheet today because we are practising the skill of sharing.
For your English today. I’d like you to re-watch the story of the Bear and the Piano.
Today, I would like you to imagine you are Bear. I’d like you to write a postcard to the your friends in the forest. Have a little look at the PowerPoint.
For your reading today, I would like you to choose one of the pets. Read the information about them and then write your own questions for someone else to answer. The information they need must be in the text.
This afternoon Is our last afternoon thinking about farms and we are going to get a little creative. Have a look at one or two of these videos, they tell you all about where the food we eat comes from.
Having watched a couple of the videos, I would like you to design your own farm. You may all ready have a few farm animals and vehicles in your toy boxes. I know we have some in my house. If you don’t, you could always draw and cut out your own or below are a few you can use if you wish.
You could draw or paint your fields on paper or use a mat. Raid the recycling for boxes to make barns and stables and milking parlours. You could even draw your farm on a computer. It is up to you. Have a think, all of your fields be grass or will you grow some crops? How could you draw or make hedges and fences?
I have sent an email to each of you inviting you to a ‘Show and Tell ‘on Wednesday at 2.30. Have a little think about what you would like to show and share. If you just want to watch, that is absolutely fine too. It will be really lovely to see you all, I hope you can make it.
We are also going to start our new class book, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. Keep an eye out for that happening very soon.
I hope you are all feeling relaxed and happy after your lovely day of arts and crafts yesterday. I cannot believe it is Friday already.
All week we have been looking at multiplication. We have drawn arrays and turned multiplication sums into repeated addition. Today we are going to learn multiplication facts. By the end of year 2, it will really help you if you know all the facts for your 2,3,5,10 times tables confidently. We have also talked about the 11 times table in school because it has such a nice pattern to help you…but it was a little while ago.
Remember, times tables, like addition calculations, can be done in any order. if you aren’t sure what 2 x 9 is, turn it around to 9 x 2.
Here is a little game to help you practise these skills. Remember to use your fingers to help you until you become speedy. Choose the times table option and select the times tables you would like to practise. You can make it harder by choosing more than one times table at a time.
Today, our focus is on learning our 2,3,5,10 times table number facts. So you have a couple of options.
Option 1: A times table treasure hunt. Hide the answers around the house or garden – in places where you won’t disturb people who are working. Work out the answers and find the correct clue. Then work out the message using the letters you find.
Option 2: If you are still feeling creative, have a go at making these 2,3,5,10 times table fortune tellers. Follow the instructions carefully. Use them to practise your times tables.
For your English today, I’d like you to watch the story of the book The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. It is a beautiful story of a bear, who learns to play the piano and the adventures he has.
Here are some pictures from the book. I’d like you to cut them out and order them. Then write a couple of sentence for each one explaining what is happening. Please make sure you remember capital letters and full stops. This is so that we get to know the story really well, ready for next week.
Have a go at adding the information to your bar chart. Remember to give it a title so people know what information the chart is showing.
As we didn’t have PE yesterday, I think today we perhaps need some exercise, especially as we have found out how it helps us to feel happier. Here is a yoga session for you to have a go at, but if you would rather go for a walk, ride your bike, scooter or play a game of football in the garden, please do.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone. Let me know how you are getting on and if there is anything you need.
I have opened the maths sheets this morning and whilst they look right on the computer, when I printed them the arrays were, well awry! I have no idea why. So here they are again just in case they don’t print properly for you. Have a lovely morning and we’ll hopefully see you later.
Today, warm up your wrinkly brains with this little game. We had a look in school and decided that this one was good because you could choose the times tables you wanted to practise. 10s, 2s,5s and 3s are a good place to start as you need to know these times tables by the end of year 2.
Have a brain break. Here is the sequel to ‘Oi Frog’. It’s just as funny!!
Please can you practise your spellings.
If you would like to, you can practise some of your blending, segmenting and spelling skills with a few minutes on Phonics Play. I know how much you enjoy the buried treasure game!!
This afternoon is our science afternoon. Have a little look at this PowerPoint all about exercise. You will need a way of timing 1 minute, a pencil and the sheet below to complete todays task.
I have sent you all an invitation to our Teams meeting today. We will meet at 2.30 if you are available and have a chat and a catch up. It will be so lovely to see you all. Any problems, please let me know before 1pm so that I can help you out.
To warm up our maths brains, have a go at this basket ball game. You will need to partition numbers into tens and ones. If you are super confident, try hundreds, tens and ones.
We have pretty much finished our rainforest creature report now. These are the features your report needs to have. If you haven’t finished your report, please can you finish it today.
A bright colourful title
Sub-headings to tell the reader what each paragraph is about
A description of your animal (this is the introduction)
A paragraph about what your animal eats – its prey
A paragraph about what eats your animal- its predators
A paragraph about where your creature lives – its habitat
Pictures of your creature with labels
A fact box with your 3 facts in it
Lots of lovely, bright decoration to make the reader want to read it
If you have finished your report, You can write a glossary. When we first began looking at rainforests, we wrote one, do you remember? Please can you choose 5 or 6 words out of your report that need explaining. For example: mammal, canopy, herbivore, algae, tropical.
Can you order them alphabetically…
Algae-
Canopy-
Herbivore-
Mammal-
Tropical-
…and explain for the reader what these words mean. If you can fit this on your page great, if not on the back or on another page is just fine.
Then I would like you to read through your report and check that you have all the features you need. These are what makes your report really interesting to read.
If you would like to send a picture of your report to me, I will make a class gallery and put them on the website so that everyone can see your lovely work.
Please can you practise your spellings.
How about a brain break?
Can you find 5 or 10 minutes to read your book. Somewhere warm, snuggly and comfortable.
For your art this afternoon, I would like you to have a look at the patterns I have made
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In the first box, I have drawn a pattern. Then in each of the next boxes I have made it smaller. Can you see what happens to the colour as I make the pattern smaller? Today, you can either start with my patterns in the first box and make them smaller or you can use the blank sheet and draw your own pattern and make it smaller and smaller in each box. This skill is great for adding texture to a sketch and fantastic for pencil control.
Have another little break…treat yourself, you are working really hard.
For our PSHE this week, I would like you to continue to think about the jobs people do. Last week, we talked about the jobs people in your house do. This week, I would like you to think about the job you would like to do, your dream job. Draw yourself doing it in the middle of the sheet.
Have a discussion with the people at home when they have a moment about what kind of skills and qualities you need to do this job. Do you need to know how to do something or work something? Do you need to be calm under pressure or cheerful? Write those skills and qualities you need around the outside. You can make it bright and colourful – even write in felt tip pen!!
I thought it would be really lovely to see you all on Wednesday at 2.30 for a catch up. People can share what they have been doing (if they would like to) and wave at their friends, we are all missing each other and I think it will be lovely to see everyone. I will send out a meeting to the children’s email addresses. It will have a Teams link on which you can use to access the meeting. It would be really useful if you could show your child how to mute themselves on the computer so that we can all listen to each other without background noise.
Please can you practise your spellings. In class, sometimes we practise our spellings by writing them BIG, small and without looking at all. You could try this at home.
Have a little brain break…
For your English today, you are continuing with your Rainforest Creature Report. On Friday you started writing your report. Today you are going to have another 20 minutes or so to continue writing. Please can you take lots of care with your presentation. You need to show that you can use these features of a report when you are writing yours.
A bright colourful title
Sub-headings to tell the reader what each paragraph is about
A description of your animal (this is the introduction)
A paragraph about what your animal eats – its prey
A paragraph about what eats your animal- its predators
A paragraph about where your creature lives – its habitat
Pictures of your creature with labels
A fact box with your 3 facts in it
Lots of lovely, bright decoration to make the reader want to read it.
Write for about 20 minutes. Then put it all in a safe place for Tuesday, when we will continue with it. Remember to make it bright, colourful and inviting to the reader.
If you would like to do some handwriting, here is the paper and a short video to show you the joins to practise.
Here is a reading comprehension about artist Georgia O’Keefe. Earlier this year, we looked at some of her amazing paintings of flowers and then used this as inspiration for our own work. Have a read and see what you can remember. As always, 3 is the trickiest.
This afternoon I thought we would go on a little school visit. I have found a lovely website which is a virtual rainforest tour. Have a little look at the amazing creatures. I hope you have a fantastic time. The video has got some lovely videos and great information. Obviously, the sloth video is my favourite! it’s filmed in double time so you can actually see them moving.
