Mr Applegate

Ongoing Daily Activities

Here are the daily activities for you to complete each day. Continue with the handwriting booklet, working through it 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. You should also have received login details for the Scholastic Learning Zone. We have allocated books that your children may like to read.

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 available on Spelling Shed, and the Year 2 common exception words.

Common Exception Words

The-Entire-Alphabet

Year 2 weekly spellings- 30.3.20

English

In English today, we will be creating our own book reviews. This can be a book review of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ or it could be another book that you are enjoying reading at home. It is completely up to you. When you write, think about your audience. You are writing to try and persuade other people to read the book you love. What is it about the book that makes it good? The story? The plot? The characters? The illustrations? Think how you will persuade people. You may want to use some of the persuasive techniques that you used when you were writing to the Enormous Crocodile last week. 

We would also like you to try and use subordinating conjunctions ‘because, if, when’ in your writing today, to extend your sentences and give reasons. We can’t wait to see them. Maybe you could also send them to a friend or family member (with your parent’s permission and support) to try and persuade them to read your favourite book!

Maths

Today in maths, we will continue our fraction work using White Rose Maths: Lesson 4- Step 9- Non-unit fractions.  Non-unit fractions are where we have more than one part i.e. two thirds or three quarters. It will be important for children to understand that the denominator (the total number of parts) goes at the bottom when we write our fraction; and that the Numerator (the number of parts shaded) goes at the top. It is also important to continue stressing that fractions need to be equal parts. Have fun with this fraction work. It may also be useful to reinforce the understanding of fractions by using practical things that you may have around the house. For example building a lego tower with 4 bricks, where 3 are red and 1 is yellow to show 3/4 are red. Have lots of fun. We hope you are finding the videos helpful. 

White Rose Maths Year 2 Link  (Scroll down to Lesson 4-Step 9-Non-unit fractions)

Year 2 Lesson-4-Non-unit-fractions

Year 2-Lesson 4-Answers

 

History

Queen Elizabeth II has a big family. Queen Victoria was her Great-Great- Grandmother. Look at her family tree and then try to make one of your own family. You can be as creative as you want with this! You may wish to add photos (if you have them at home). You could even ask family members to email pictures over to you and make it a whole family project. You may even discover facts about your family that you didn’t know before! 

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Good Morning Year 1

Dear parents and children,

We hope you are well. We have an exciting treat for you today! Miss Hall would like to read a story to you! You can find this in the video resources section at the bottom of this post. The password is the same as previous clips.

If you feel like you need a wiggle break or are looking for something extra to do, Joe Wicks does 5 minute movement videos. You can find them here: Joe Wicks 5 Minute Move

Thank you for your continued support.

Year 1 Team

Helpful Reminders

We are still checking our emails regularly and have loved seeing what you are doing. Feel free to email us if you have a question or just want to say hello at: year1@stmarksce.org.uk

You can access our general resources to support your child at home here: Y1 General Resources

Please do not feel like you have to complete all of the activities provided in one day. We have given a variety so that there are options for you to choose what works best for you at home.

Read Write Inc are kindly doing live daily phonics sessions. They are at certain times depending on which sounds you would like to practise. We suggest either Set 2 or Set 3 sounds. Find the link here: RWI Phonics

If you are running out of reading material, you can try Oxford Owl.You need to make a free parent account but it gives to access to some Oxford Reading Tree e-books that we use at school. Make sure you are reading a book that is at your child’s band. If they are finding this band too easy, you could try a songbird book from the band above.

Alternatively, you can find free Big Cat ebooks by following the steps linked here: Big Cat ebooks.

Ongoing Daily Activities

• Read for at least 20 minutes a day. This can be their school reading book or a book from home.
• Have stories read to them.
• Read or spell some key words.
• Practise naming the letters of the alphabet and sing the alphabet song (capital and lower case).
• Threading/Play dough/Cutting/Colouring/Painting
• Read Write Inc speed sound videos (linked in helpful reminders)
• Phonicsplay Obb and Bob (Click: Phase 5 – Revise all Phase 5): https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html
• Phonicsbloom – Phase 5 or 6 (Especially useful if phonicsplay is not working for you) https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
• Practise writing sentences about a story they know. When writing, please remind them to use full stops, capital letters, neat handwriting and finger spaces.
• Practise counting from 0-100 (forwards and backwards)
• Practise counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Numbots (login is in the back of the reading log)
• Name some 2D and 3D shapes
• One more and one less than a number
• Sing a number bonds song
• Hit the button (number bonds to 20): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling: Their spellings this week are:

he

is

are

says

today

there

 

• You can practise these in a variety of ways:
• Saying them aloud (you could put them into a song)
• Writing them down
• Painting them
• Put them into a sentence

English – Phonics

As our English activity today, we are focusing on phonics. We will be looking at alternate sounds today (more than one way of writing the same sound). You could watch the Read Write Inc video on Set 2 and 3 sounds live at 10:00 and 10:30 here: RWI Youtube as this would a great start to this activity. Afterwards, the clip is available for 24 hours on the RWI youtube channel.

After practising some speed sounds, have a look at these sounds:

What do you notice about them? What is the same? What is different?

They all make the same sound! They use different letters though.

Sound out and blend these green words. Can you be a great detective and work out which word has which oo/ew/u-e sound?

Alternate oo ew u-e Green Words

Here are some activities you could complete if you would like to continue learning about oo, ew and u-e:

• Monster Words – Sound out and blend the words. Draw a monster next to the words that are not real words (monster words!). Can you tell someone at home which oo/ew/u-e sound is in the word? Click here: Monster Words oo ew u-e
• Snakes and Ladders – Roll a dice and move that amount of spaces. Sound out and blend the word before moving to the next person’s turn. If your square has a ladders, you can climb it but if it has a snake, you have to slide down. The winner is the first person to reach the finish square. See if you can tell someone at home which oo/ew/u-e sound the words have. Find the game here: Snakes and Ladders oo ew u-e
• Write each sound on different pieces of paper and see if you can make a word that has an oo/ew/u-e sound in it. You could choose a word from the table above, or think of your own. For example:

Maths

Lesson 3 – Comparing Mass

We have already looked at finding out how much objects weigh using cubes (non-standard units). Today we are looking at comparing objects. Have a watch of the video. What do you spot? While watching the video and doing your activity, can you join in with the sentence? ‘The ___ is heavier because it weighs ___ cubes.’ ‘The ___ is lighter because it weighs ___ cubes.’

 

Watch the Week 1, Lesson 3 Video Here: Weight Lesson 3

When you have watched the video, click here to access the activity: Weight Activity: Lesson 3

If you would like the answers, they are attached here: Weight Activity: Lesson 3 ANSWERS

We have prepared some extra challenges for those who would like them. You can find them here: Lesson 3 Challenges

 

 

Topic

• Computing: If you have access to an ipad or iphone, go onto the Bee-bot app. Remember it’s free to download! Remind yourselves of the controls using the how to play button. Go into the Egyptians section and guide the Bee-Bot through an adventure in the pyramids of ancient Egypt. Watch out for the mummies! If you don’t have access to the game, don’t worry. You can write the words forwards, backwards, left and right onto a sheet of paper and cut them up. See if you can guide someone at home from one part of the room (or garden) to another using these cards to direct them. Remember to give clear instructions to keep them safe!

• Music: This activity requires you to be able to play an MP3 sound clip – please don’t worry if you are not able to do this on your computer. As we are learning about transport this term, use the audio clip provided to learn a new transport song! It is called ‘I’m driving in a car’. We haven’t tried this one yet so have a listen and see if you can join in. Find the audio clip here:

Here are the lyrics to help you learn the words:

Video Resources

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Ongoing Daily Activities

As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.

TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games + 5 studio games. Mrs Chapman will be online at 11am today in the Year 6 Arena area provided the website is running properly (sorry to anyone who tried to join yesterday, but it would not load on my computer). Her TT Rockstar name is Zander Madden and will play games in the Wembley Stadium area. 
Reading – Read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Weekly spellings – Practise these everyday in your spelling booklets – your new weekly sheet will be uploaded each Monday. Please notice that number 9 on the main spelling sheet has changed by having the prefix ‘dis’ added as the original sheet had the word ‘honest’ appear twice.

Download here: Spellings less tricky                Spellings Main

Your weekly success in seven for this week: Success in Seven week 6 
Daily physical activity of some sort – it’s great to hear so many of you are getting energetic with Joe each morning. This is a great way to stay fit and wake up your brain.

Maths

Answers to today’s success in seven can be downloaded here: Wednesday’s Success in 7 answers

For your maths learning today, as well as completing Monday’s success in seven, we also want you to open the home learning page for White Rose Maths and complete Lesson 3 of Week 1 all about using the ratio symbol. Please watch the video first until it asks you to pause it and complete Q1 and Q2. Next, continue the video and pause to answer Q3. Continue video to the end which will allow you to complete the rest of the task successfully. You don’t need to print it out; you can just answer each question in your maths book. If you have permission, you can print it out if you would prefer to answer on the worksheet. Once you’ve completed the work on the task sheet, open the answer sheet online and check your answers. The final question is very tricky so don’t get fed up if it doesn’t make sense at first. Have a look at the answer sheet with the workings – the drawing of the bar model will help you and hopefully it’ll make sense.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ 

Remember, you can watch the video as many times as you like. Sometimes, we have to watch things several times before we fully understand. By the end of this lesson you should be able to read and write ratios. The colon is the sign and we read it as ‘to’ e.g. 2 : 5 is a ratio we read as two to five. Do not worry if you couldn’t get all the questions correct. Just make sure you understand the basic idea.

Make sure you are on the correct lesson – see image below.

 

English 

We will continue linking our English to our RE work today. The Easter story will continue to be written, Please follow the PowerPoint slides carefully to help you.  

Science

Today, we are learning about what happens when light meets an object. Begin with the PowerPoint below. There is some information to read and then an investigation for you to complete if you can. For the investigation you will need a torch (you could use the torch option on a phone if you don’t have a torch at home). You will also need some different materials to test. You can use anything that you have around your house. Some ideas might be paper, tissue or toilet paper (If you have any to spare!), foil, cling film, material, tea towel or an item of clothing or anything else you can think of. Have fun investigating!

Science investigation sheet

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Daily Activities

Today your jobs are Maths, English and French.

• TTRockstars – Miss T (Missy Flowers) will be online at 3pm with her fingers crossed that it works today
• Numbots – Remember to use your TT Rockstars login and that it starts simple but does get trickier as you get further through the levels 
• Spelling Shed – Practise  your weekly spellings – email to ask for you password
• Reading –  Read for at least 20 mins and writing in your reading log.
• Spellings – Look, say, cover, write and check.
• RE – On Monday we uploaded a list of RE activities for you to complete if you wanted to over this week

Maths

Maths today is going to be in the same format as yesterday.

You can find the video by clicking here

When you do, you will, need to click onto the week 1 section of the web page (picture below)  

Then you will find the video for Lesson 2 – Decimals as Fractions (1) (shown below)

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have attached the worksheet for you, but you can also find it on the website. You can also find the answers there too, but we can also email them to you if you prefer or can’t find them.

Extra Challenges

We have attached some challenges to do with decimals for you to complete after you finish the first sheet. These again will be to consolidate your learning, with a few SATs style questions at the end.

English

Today you are going to be finishing your Millions story. So you have the problem section of your story left and then a short ending showing what happens after the problem. Like the last few days, Mrs Poole has written an example which can give you some ideas.

Remember to use:

• Relative clauses
• Parenthesis
• Different sentence types (e.g. the more the more, 3ed sentences and 2 pair sentences)
• Semi-colons to join two clauses
• Semi-colons for a descriptive list

French

The wonderful Miss Stonehouse has made a French video for you. I have attached the link for you. The password is the same as the one we usually use. 

If you have already watched this video, then have a go at the wordsearches below to recap some of the basic French vocabulary.

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