Class 2
Gallery
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Here's this week's gallery my lovely Year 2s. I've been quite emotional putting this together this week - you are doing so many lovely things and supporting the work that I put on the blog, it just makes me so proud to be your teacher! An update on Ella - her appointment was cancelled, so it's now next Friday! So keep all those positive thoughts going her way (look for Freya's lovely picture for Ella in the gallery). It's been a tiring week at school and I'm glad I've made it to the weekend for a little rest. See you back here on Monday for another fun-filled week!
Remote Learning Friday 12th June 2020
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Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a good week, thank you to everyone that has emailed me. If you haven’t been in touch it would be lovely to hear from you. It’s been a busy week with more pupils in school, all the children seem to have settled in nicely. How I wish we could have every child in school! I hope the rain hasn’t stopped you getting outside and getting some fresh air – I think it’s definitely helping the gardens get a little greener but I would welcome the sun back – wouldn’t you?
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle – perhaps you can try Andy’s Wild Workouts for a little change?
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Creative Friday
Maths
LO: Shape puzzles
- 27 + 32 = ?
- 50 + 8 = ?
- 9 x 5 =
- Double 20
- Write 83 in words.
- Name the 2D shape:
Have a look at this picture of triangles. How many triangle can you see? What do you think? Discuss with your adult.
Did you think 3? If you did, then fantastic! If you didn’t, can you see where the 3 triangle are? There are two small right-angle triangles and one larger equilateral triangle.
Have a look at this one:
How many squares?
Finally look at this puzzle…
How many squares? It might be a good idea to print out this puzzle and use different colours to mark on the squares that you find.
English
Thank you to everyone that has sent in their drafts for me to look at – we’ve had some wonderful examples so far. Today I would like you to put your information text altogether. First of all check through your draft with your adult. Look at spellings and make sure all your sentences make sense, can you change some words to make them better? Have you used interesting sentence openers?
Here is some lovely paper for you to download and make your work really special. You can include your illustration from last week and if you are able, you could print of some photos of your animal to include. Can you remember what captions are? They are brief descriptions that go under pictures and photos, perhaps you could include these too.
Use your best handwriting and I hope you are proud of your finished results. I can’t wait to see them!
Creative Friday
We had some lovely Aboriginal pictures sent in to us – here are just a few.
If you haven’t had time to do one yet, perhaps you’d like to today. Here are the weblinks that I posted last week to help you.
https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com/aboriginal-art-library/aboriginal-dot-art-behind-the-dots/
You’ll see lots of examples of dot patterns, so you don’t have to paint an animal, it could be a patterned piece. There’s a great tutorial on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmikwSgTO4 and if you google Aboriginal art, lots of ideas come up – have fun!
Did anyone make the Lamingtons? Here a picture of mine, they were delicious, if a bit naughty! Here’s the recipe again, just in case you want to make them this week.
The next creative suggestion I have for you is an Aboriginal rain stick. There are some great instructions here:
They use a kitchen roll tube, but you could use a crisp tube or cocoa tin. They fill the tube with rice, but you can use dried beans or lentils. You can listen to a real rain stick here: rainstick
Does yours sound the same?
Have a fantastic day and send me all your photos by lunchtime to ensure you appear in this week’s gallery.
Mrs B x
Remote Learning Thursday 11th June 2020
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A BIG hello and good morning to you all!
I hope you are all well! At the weekend, I went on a socially distance walk with my mum and dad, the first time in over 11 weeks! Going for long walks on the moors is one of my favourite things to do as the views are stunning and it allows you to escape from everything else that is going on in life. It was so good to spend some time with both of them and go for a walk which is something that we enjoy doing a lot! We went for one of my dad’s famous ‘moor tours’. He always says he know where he is going, but most of the time he makes the route up as we go along!
What walks have you been on? Any recommendations for me?
Here's the suggested timetable:
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20mins (remember to record your reading in your reading record)
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing guiding a PE lesson at 9am (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ)
Don’t forget GoNoodle:
Science
PSHE
Break – Try to capture what your life is like at the moment in one picture? Can you send it in so we can see?
PE
Computing
Science
This half term, we are going to be looking at living things and their habitats. We are going to focus on our local habitat. Can you remember the 7 life processes from last week? I will give you a hint, Mrs Gren.
Well done, here are the 7 life processes:
To stay alive and healthy, you and all other living things need certain conditions that let them carry out the 7 life processes. These are:
- Food and water
- Space to move, grow and have young
- Air and oxygen
- Shelter and safety
A habitat is a place where animals and plants live, where they can find everything they need to stay alive. It can be as big as an ocean or as small as a rock.
Think about these questions about the habitat that you live in:
- Where do you live?
- What living things live and grow there?
- How does your habitat keep you safe and sheltered?
- How does your habitat provide food and water?
- How does your habitat provide space for you to move and grow?
Humans are unique because we can make big changes to our habitats to make sure we have everything we need. How do humans change their habitats?
- We build roads and vehicles so we can travel everywhere we need safely and quickly.
- We pipe fresh, clean water into our homes to use for drinking, cooking and washing.
- We grow plants for food, and farm animals for meat and dairy products. We even have pets to keep us company!
- We build houses with heating to protect us from cold weather, or with air conditioning to protect us from the heat.
Here is a PowerPoint about British habitats.
Your main activity for today is to look at your local habitat and draw a map of it. Draw the trees and plants, and any animal homes that you find. What type of habitat is it? Draw and label any animals that you see.
PSHE
Here is a PowerPoint all about fire safety.
Recently, there has been a lot of fires being set on purpose and by accident on the moors. This is down to people using disposable BBQs and others playing with matches and lighters. Not only does this damage the environment and the animals and plants that live there, but also it could be harmful to the people involved in extinguishing them. Personally, I find this very upsetting as I live very close to the beautiful Marsden moors. Today, I would like you to create a poster to help protect our environment from fires.
PE
Another PE session, another Olympic event!
Today, we are going to look at long jump. You start be setting out a large space with a marker where you will jump from, make sure you leave enough room for you to travel after you have taken off. Depending on the space available, you can either jump from your marker standing still or if you have more room, you can take a run up to your marker before jumping. Make sure when you jump, your feet are behind the line if you are standing still, or your foot in behind the marker if you are taking a run up. Here is a video from the previous Olympics in 2016 of the long jump. How could you measure the distance you jumped? Can anyone else in your house beat your distance? Good luck!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB7OEnXb9z0
Computing
I really enjoyed listening to your compositions last week and I had a really good dance on Friday night to the different pieces of music! Because of the success, I have set this for you again this week. Good luck!
Have a wonderful day and remember to keep smiling!
Miss H x
Remote Learning Wednesday 10th June 2020
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Good morning Class 2! It’s Wednesday again – hump day. The year 1 children are settling in nicely and today we welcome back some of our year 6 children. The news yesterday that we won’t be expecting more children into school is really sad, but I promise you we'll keep working together from home and I'll be thinking about transition activities soon.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
R.E.
Maths
LO: Magic chains
- 26 + 32 = ?
- 38 – 8 = 33 - ?
- 8 x 5 =
- Double 18
- Write 75 in words.
- Name the 2D shape:
Here’s a puzzle for today…
- Think of a 2-digit number less than 70.
- Add 30.
- Subtract 20.
- Add 10.
- Subtract 20.
- Add 3.
- Write down this final answer.
Write down the number you think of and each answer as you go. Do this a few times, you can use this sheet to help you if you like. Do you notice anything?
Hopefully, you noticed that I asked you to add 30 and 10, but subtract 20 and 20, before adding 3. So you added 40, then subtracted 40, which means that you just had to add 3 to tell them their answer. Try the magic chain on someone else – you can trick them by getting the answer quicker than them, just by adding 3 to the original number.
English
First of all, I'd like you to brush up on your 'nouns' using this interactive game.
Today I’d like you to write either one or two more paragraphs under headings, using the same techniques as yesterday. Then you will need to finish off with an ending paragraph to finish off your information text nicely – this doesn’t have to be long, just a sentence of two. Here’s an example:
So as you have discovered, the koala is a fascinating marsupial of Australia. Its cute looks make it attractive to people but we need to ensure that this endangered animal and its habitat is protected now and into the future.
R.E.
LO: Who were Jesus’ followers and what did they do?
Last week you learned that Jesus had been baptised by his cousin John, and had been blessed by the Holy Spirit and then God the Father had said this is my Son and I am pleased with you, and I love you. Soon after that, Jesus chose 12 friends to help him with his work.
Discuss with your adult: What makes a special friend. Why do you like them? How are they kind? How are they loyal? How do you have fun with them? How do they help you? How are you a good friend to others?
Jesus had 12 special friends, who travelled with him. The men Jesus chose were all different, yet they were his friends.
Have a look at this short clip.
Discuss the clip. What is a disciple? What were they going to learn and do?
Activity idea: Cut out a paper chain of dolls, there are some instructions here:
If you had to choose 12 special friends (or how many you have in your paper chain), who would you chose and what qualities would they have? Name each of your people in your chain and write about what makes them special.
I hope you have a wonderful day! Keep sending me your photos.
Mrs B x
Remote Learning Tuesday 9th June 2020
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Good morning Class 2! Thank you for all your emails over the last few days. You’re doing great with all the work and so are your adults, so I’d like to say a huge well done to you all! Can I say a big hello to Ella - Ella is going into hospital on Friday and it would be lovely if she had some nice messages from her friends. Please can you comment on this blog today and wish her all the best?
Today is Tuesday, so you have both myself and Miss H on the blog today. We hope you have a lovely day.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Music
P.E.
Maths
LO: Solve logic puzzles
- 37 + ? = 50
- 36 – 6 = 32 - ?
- Double 17
- 8 x 10 =
- Write 50 in words.
- Name the 2D shape:
- Have a look at the ‘Sandcastles’ problem below.
Read it carefully together with your adult. How long was Lisa on holiday for? Who was she on holiday with? How old is Lisa?
So we don’t know from the information given, but if we don’t know these things, what do we know? Now what do we need to find out?
Do you have any ideas about how we might make a start? Why not pick a number to try for day 1 and see how we get on…Record that number for example ‘20’…
So day 1 she makes 20, day 2 she makes 16, day 3 she makes 12…. Keep going.
So, how many sandcastles is this altogether?
Hmmm, is that’s too many/ few? What do we need to do to the starting number…? Your challenge is to find the number that Lisa DID make on day 1, and the other days of course, to give a total of 80 sandcastles over the 5 days. The type of maths you are using is called ‘trial and error’. Like I always say – you learn from your mistakes and you might not get it right first time but keep trying!
English
Can you remember what a noun is? Can you remember what a proper noun is? How about an adjective? There’s also something called a comparative adjective – these describe words by comparing them! Two examples would be ‘bigger’ or ‘smaller’. Have a go at this game…
How did you get on with your introduction yesterday? Well today I’d like you to write the next two paragraphs. Look at your research and decide what you’d like to write about first. You need to think of an appropriate heading. You also need to use full sentences – not notes like you did in your research. Here’s an example of my notes and how to put them into interesting sentences:
Koalas – sleep 18 hours – don’t drink a lot – eat 1kg eucalyptus leaves…
Lifestyle
The sloth is one lazy animal but the koala is hot on its heels! Sleeping up to 18 hours each day, the koala has little time to do anything else. One other thing they do is eat. The little koala can eat a staggering amount of its favourite food – eucalyptus leaves (up to 1kg each day). Although they eat a lot of leaves, they don’t drink a lot of water – instead they get all the moisture they need through the leaves.
Have a go and see how you get on. Keep reading your work back – is it ‘hooking’ your reading in?
Remember to write just two paragraphs today – but make them really good!
Music
I thought as something a little different this last half term. Each week, we are going to learn a song from a different era. We will be starting with the 1970s! Here is the song Dancing Queen by Abba. Try learning this and performing it to people at home! Also, do a little research into music in the 1970s. Here are some questions to help you get started:
- Which artists were popular?
- What genre of music was most popular?
- What instruments were used most during this decade?
Make notes and let me know how you get on! Here is a link to a YouTube video of the song and here are the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
PE
Our next event in our mini Olympics is the cycling. Now, there are many different events within cycling both on the track and on the road. I would like you to take part in a road event by cycling a distance and recording the distance you travelled. Can you take a picture of the people you went on a bike ride with? Here is a video of some cycling on the track from the most recent Olympics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sewmeZa2K5Y
We hope you all have a marvelous day and keep in touch as we love seeing what you are up to!
See you tomorrow,
Mrs B and Miss H xx