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Year 2 Friday 3rd April
Good Morning Year 2
We hope you have all woken up with that Friday feeling and a spring in your step. We can’t believe that it’s Friday already! You should feel very proud of all that you have achieved this week. You can’t possibly measure just how proud we all are of you. We’ve had so many e-mails this week showing all of the amazing work that you have been doing. We’ve been so pleased to hear from you and hope that you continue to stay in touch. Well done to Renee, Ella, Ellie and Lucas for their lovely work below.
If you would like to do our HeartSmart worship today, there is a link in the worship section of the Educating Home page. There is a Boris video attached to it and some fun activities to do to.
Have you managed to join in with any of the Youtube PE fitness sessions with Joe Wicks or to get outside and get some fresh air? Maybe you’ve been creative with your lego or play doh or played board games with your family. Even during this topsy turvy time, we can continue to make plenty of happy memories.
Well done again for all of your hard work this week. We will post some fun (optional) holiday activities for you on Monday and the following Tuesday, but we’d like you to take a well earned break from our proper learning so that you are ready to go for the Summer Term. Rest, relax and stay safe.
Best Wishes,
The Year 2 Team
Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year2@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Ongoing Daily Activities
Here are the daily activities for you to complete each day. Continue with your handwriting booklet that you should work through very gradually, not in one go. You can either print the booklet, or do this onto paper of your own at home. We look forward to seeing how amazing your handwriting will be when we see your work. The Common Exception Words should also be learnt gradually, by selecting 2 or 3 words a week that you should aim to learn along side your weekly spellings.
20 minutes of reading either a school book or a home book. Remember there are online books that you have access to on Scholastic Home Learning.
Complete your 2, 5 and 1o times tables using TTRockstars, or a different method.
Complete your weekly spellings which will be provided below or are on Spelling Shed, and the Year 2 common exception words.
Year 2 weekly spellings- 30.3.20
English
In English today, we will be completing another grammar hammer. Lots of you are saying how much you are enjoying them. Keep up the good work.
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Today in maths, we will be continuing our work on fractions using White Rose Maths. Today’s lesson is about recognising the equivalence of fractions and understanding that a half is the same as two quarters.
You could investigate this in quite practical ways as well using food and toys. You could split the same number of cars, dinosaurs or teddies into 2 equal groups and then split the same group into quarters and discuss how you have the same number. Perhaps start with 4 toys, then 8, then 12, then 16 etc. Exploring fractions in these practical ways can really help to consolidate understanding so that children have concrete understanding before they face it on a sheet in a more abstract way.
As with the other lessons there is a helpful video to watch, which will help children to develop this understanding. We hope you are all enjoying our fraction work and are becoming increasingly confident with it. Have fun!
White Rose Maths Year 2 Link (Scoll to Lesson 5- Step 10- Equivalence of half and two quarters)
Year 2 -Lesson 5-Equivalence-of-half-and-two-quarters
RE
For RE today, we thought it may be nice to share the Easter story in another way, so below is a lovely version written for children. If your children would prefer to watch the video again, a link to this is included on the RE Today and NATRE home learning Easter sheet below. This resource is something that has been provided to schools by the diocese and includes some useful activities. However, if you’d prefer there are also some more reflective creative activities in the other link below. Both of these are quite different to how we approach RE in school but are useful ways for you and your children to engage in the Easter story. When teaching RE in school, the focus is on learning about ‘what people of faith believe’; so we always say to the children that ‘this is what Christians or many Christians believe’. We hope this helps you to feel more comfortable if you yourself are not religious or follow a different faith. It is also fine to complete a more reflective response to the story by maybe making an Easter card or Easter Garden. We hope you have lots of fun exploring this is which ever way suits you and your family.
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Possible resources to help you: (Note: you do not have to complete them all- they are for you to choose from.)