Year 2 Wk6
Friday 15th May
English activity
What do you think is interesting about the octopus?
- What did you already know and what have you learnt?
- Why has Matt Dawson presented the facts in this way?
- What is the effect of the layout on the reader?Who is the intended audience?
- Why is the fact about camouflage written in a different coloured font?
Use your research from this week about a sea creature of your choice. Present the information in an interesting format using a picture like this one.
Maths activity
This week we are following lessons on White Rose Maths.
Click on the link and open Summer Term - week 4 (w/c 11th May) Try the Friday challenge!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2
Science activity
Grow Your Own! try planting some seeds and watch them grow. Record what you see each day. If you don’t have any seeds, you can try growing your old food scraps!
- Celery – cut off the base and leave in warm water until new leaves start to appear
- Tomatoes – wash and dry out the seeds and then plant in soil
- Avocados – suspend stone just over a container of water using cocktail sticks
- Garlic – plant each clove straight in the soil, root end down –simple!
Have a look online for other suggestions.
You could then make your own weekly diary/ take photos and write about the changes you see.
Thursday 14th May
English activity
Watch the video all about sea creatures again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJkvhSpBiQ
Choose a third different sea creature and write some of the facts that you have learned from this video. You could also draw an illustration of your sea creature including some labels.
Maths activity
This week we are going to follow lessons on White Rose Maths.
Click on the link and open Summer Term - week 4 (w/c 11th May) and watch Lesson 4 – you need your sound on.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Next, open the activity sheet here: Y2 S4 Lesson 4
If you can print this at home, great, if not write the answers in your jotter as best you can.
Art activity
Create your own painting using this link! Can you create your own painting of the sea/beach.
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint
Wednesday 13th May
English activity
Watch the video all about sea creatures again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJkvhSpBiQ
Choose a different one of the creatures and write some of the facts that you have learned from this video. You could also draw an illustration of your sea creature.
Maths activity
This week we are going to follow lessons on White Rose Maths.
Click on the link and open Summer Term - week 4 (w/c 11th May) and watch Lesson 3 – you need your sound on.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Next, open the activity sheet here: Y2 S4 Lesson 3
If you can print this at home, great, if not write the answers in your jotter as best you can.
Science activity
Watch the clip below about living things.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zg7s39q
There are two different types of things in the ecosystem – Living and Non living Things.
All living things breathe, eat, grow, move, reproduce and have senses.
Non living things do not eat, grow, breathe, move and reproduce. They do not have senses.
In your jotters divide your page into two columns. Title one column ‘Living’ and the other ‘Non living’.
Can you write the following things in the correct column.
Animals, stone, birds, pen, insects, book, plants, bottle, humans
Tuesday 12th May
English activity
Watch this video all about sea creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJkvhSpBiQ
Choose one of the creatures and write some of the facts that you have learned from this video. You could also draw an illustration of your sea creature.
Maths activity
This week we are going to follow lessons on White Rose Maths.
Click on the link and open Summer Term - week 4 (w/c 11th May) and watch Lesson 2 – you need your sound on.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Next, open the activity sheet here: Y2 S4 Lesson 2
If you can print this at home, great, if not write the answers in your jotter as best you can.
PSHE activity
This week we are thinking about our worries. Watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmNyLcWvS0
In your jotters, draw the people you can talk to if you are feeling worried about something. Can you draw and label things you can do that may help you stop worrying? E.g take deep breaths, draw a picture, talk to a grown up.
Monday 11th May
English activity
Imagine that you have just walked into your kitchen to find this. Choose at least 3 of these activities:
- Role play the conversation you might have with the octopus.
- Role play the telephone call you might have with a friend or family member to tell them what you have found.
- You can only ask 3 questions to the octopus. What would you ask and why?
- You decide to let the octopus stay here, but the next morning you come into your kitchen to find it joined by another creature. What might it be?
- The telephone rings. It is the RSCPA and they are concerned: they have had reports from a neighbour that you are keeping sea life in your kitchen sink. What do you say?
- Try to persuade the octopus to leave. Then try to persuade it to stay. Which was easiest? Why?
- Write the story of how the octopus came to be here, and what happens next.
Questions to think about:
- How did the octopus get here?
- Why is it wearing a hat?
- Is it speaking your language? Do you understand what it’s saying?
- Where did the plants come from?
Maths activity
This week we are going to follow lessons on White Rose Maths.
Click on the link below and open Summer Term - week 4 (w/c 11th May) and watch Lesson 1 – you need your sound on. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Next, open the activity sheet here: Y2 S4 Lesson 1.
If you can print this at home, great, if not write the answers in your jotter as best you can.
Art activity
Find out about the artist Frank Bowling. He was inspired by ‘the outside’ and ‘maps and countries’ but made art at home in his bedroom. He looked out the window for inspiration. What do you see from the windows in your home? Click on the link below and you could try some of these activities and be an artist too!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-amazing-messy-painting