Year 2 – Monday’s Home Learning

Over the next two weeks we are going to be thinking about Tradition tales and stories.

Listen to ‘Each, Peach, Pear, Plum’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIAVjQEs5oI

Pause the video on the part where Cinderella is on the stairs. Where are the 3 bears? 

Predict:Where do you think they may be going? (Hunting) why? (Daddy bear has a gun) 

Pause on the next page with the bears. What has happened? Why is Mummy bear cross? Predict: Where do you think Baby Bunting’s basket will end up?

Use this time to discuss the different characters and which stories and nursery rhymes they are from.

Listen again to the story of ‘Each, Peach, Pear, Plum’ choose one of the characters from the story. 

1. Draw the character you have chosen. What story or nursery rhyme are they from?

2. Today we are going to write a character description for that character. Think about:

Appearance – What do they wear? What are their eyes, nose, ears etc. like? Describe their hair, size etc.

Personality – What are they like on the inside.

Challenge: try and use a variety of clauses and sentence starters

EG: Baby bear wears a small hat that is … Sometimes Baby bear is a bit clumsy because…

This week we are looking at different units of measure. 

Today’s measure is length.

Remember that length is how long something is.

Task 

1. Find 5 things in your house and order them from longest to shortest. 
2. Measure each object using a non-standard unit. 

This could be lego brick, marbles, paper clips or whatever you can find.

Remember when measuring to always start at the end of the object and that what you are using to measure has to all be the same length. 

Record your results. e.g Barbie doll     12 paper clips

1. If you have a ruler or a measuring tape now measure your objects in the correct unit and record this result. Can you remember what the standard unit is for measuring length? 

Challenge – To find 1 thing in your house that is  

1. Longer than a metre.  
2. Shorter than 30cm
3. Exactly 1 metre long. 

Have a look at this website;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/eyfs-ks1-music-play-it-bring-the-noise/z4sq92p

(to avoid typing this email address, search – bbc bring the noise play it )

Headphones are optional! Choose from the songs. Listen, sing along, add sounds of your own.

When you have rehearsed and perfected your song – perform it to someone else!

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