Good morning girls & boys,

I hope you had a lovely weekend in the sunshine. Can you believe it has been this hot? It has actually felt like we were on our holidays the whole time, its been just lovely! Mani has been out in the garden a lot even if he is still a bit scared of the paddling pool. This is a picture of him finally taking his first steps in, I was a very proud mum!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lubo has just been trying to find some shade and his favourite place to cool off right now is in Mani’s playhouse, that is until his wee brother chucks him out, lol!

Again this week both Mrs Mirner and I will set tasks on the blog so they’ll be two posts you can access for your work. With your parents you choose what you do but remember a good structure for each day might look something like this;

• 1 numeracy task (i.e. a worksheet, website game, Studyladder)
• 1 literacy task (i.e. diary, book review, spelling game, Studyladder)
• Personal reading (roughly 15-20 minutes)
• Exercise/fresh air (i.e online exercises, playing in the garden)
• 1 other activity (i.e topic, art, ICT, music, baking)

 

Literacy;

• Reading

Please keep reading either using the your own personal reading books, Oxford Owl tab on glow, this free book website that I had share before or any other resource you have.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

• Writing

Why not have a go at writing your own newspaper article about whats been happening to you at home during lockdown. Given the lovely weather we have had you might want to write a bit about the fun you have been having in the sun or maybe something you have achieved during these past 10 weeks that has been important to you, like bike rides, baking or maybe its to do with gaming or a new football trick.

If you would rather you could choose to do a newspaper article on what has been happening in the world right now, a bit like our ‘Newsround’ homework task. I’ve attached a template below as guide to help you set it out but if you would rather just design your own then go for it.

You might even want to do one of each.

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• Spelling

It is a consolidation week for both groups so please use a variety of spelling strategies as often as you can to revise the words given to you so far on the above tab. If possible get an adult to test you at the end of the week.

• Grammar

I have attached a couple of Noun activities below. Remember a Noun is a naming word such as dog or chair or hat.  A proper noun is a special type of noun that always has a capital letter such as the name of a place or a person like Glasgow or Mani. Both count as type of nouns but just always remember to put a capital letter at the start of those proper nouns.

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• Studyladder activities (see Mrs Mirner’s post)

 

Numeracy:

How did you get on with your shop last week? If you enjoyed it then keep it going although you might want to change what you sell.

Mental maths

• Access ‘DK 10 minute a day’ app to practise your tables. You will need to download this app from your app store first.
• Visit easi-maths on your glow page and complete 3 x 20 minute sessions.
• Go onto Studyladder and complete some of the number activities set. (See Mrs Mirner’s post)

 

Fractions

All groups had been due to move onto fractions before school closed. While I am not intending on teaching anything new while you are working from home, I have looked at these activities and feel many of you will be able to give it a go by using your prior learning. Fractions basically just means part of something. So if you eat half of a pizza say you are in fact eating a fraction of that pizza. A fraction always has the total number of parts written at the bottom. So one half is written as 1/2 which means 1 part out of a total of 2 parts. Fractions are definitely easier to understand using practical materials or by drawing out shapes to divide up.

You might need an adult to help you with some bits but remember if you are finding it too hard then don’t worry as we will be going over it all again when back in school.

Squares & Triangles;

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Answers fractions workbook

Circles:

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(Some of the chilli challenges are more difficult than others so just do what you can. You’ll see that the answers are included in this pack so no peaking circles).

 

Summer maths

Given how lovely the weather is right now I have attached a lovely summer maths booklet if you would like to download it. It has lots of fun summer maths challenges but if you get too stuck with a particular page and an adult can’t help you then just move on. You can choose what order you do it in also.

Year 2 Summer Maths Activities

Year 2 Summer Maths Activities Answers

 

H&W:

I found these fun home sports day cards to do at home, why not give them a try with all the family.

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Other:

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Have a lovely week girls and boys. If you need any help with anything then just let us know and as always we will put a weekly check in up on Thursday.

 

Lots of love

Mrs Graham xx