Year 2 – Thursday’s Home Learning

Read a story picture book, of your choice from home. Depending on the difficulty of the story, you could read to your child, take it in turns to read a page each or let them read it all to you. It will need to have characters. 

Think back to the work we did yesterday in reading, where we thought about how the characters from ‘Each, Peach, Pear, Plum’ felt and why. Today ask questions to your child at various points in their reading, linked to how the characters are feeling and acting:

“Why do you think ______ said _______?”

“How is ________ feeling at the moment? How do you know?

“Why do you think ______ feels _______? ”

“Which word/sentence tells us that _____ is sad / happy / cross?”

Look back at your pictures from yesterday. Today we are going to put these ideas into complete sentences to describe the setting that we have chosen. Practice putting your ideas into verbal sentences first, before you write them. You may want to imagine that you are in that setting, if it helps and write it in the first person, for example:

“As I walked through the dark forest, I looked above me and I saw…”

“I could hear / see / feel …”

“The warm sunshine made me feel…”

Remind your child to use capital letters at the beginning of all their sentences and a full stop at the end of an idea. 

Challenge: If something is exciting or shocking they may want to use an exclamation mark. The children could try and ask the reader a question to engage them. For example “Have you ever been somewhere so wonderful that …?”

1. Class 7 baked 49 buns and only 23 were eaten. How many buns were left?
2. Class 8 mixed 35 litres of juice and Class 9 mixed 23 litres of juice. How many litres do they have altogether?
3. Mrs Marshman was practicing her high jump. Her first jump was 87cm and her second jump was 97cm. How much higher did she jump the second time?
4. Mrs Webb buys a ribbon 1 metre long. She cuts off 30 cm. How much does she have left?
5. A cake weighs 400 grams If I cut the cake into 4 equal slices, how much would each slice to weigh?
6. Mr Wells wants to fill a bucket with water. A bucket holds 3 litres. A jug holds 500 millilitres. How many jugs of water does Megan need to fill an empty bucket?
7. A piece of cheese weighs 350g. Steven takes a bite from the cheese then weighs it again. The scales say 230g. How much did Steven bite off of the cheese?
8. Year 1 were making potions. They mixed  45ml of blue cherry juice with 35ml of fizzy orange. They poured it into a 100ml bottle. How much space was left in the bottle?

You might remember that we looked at coding during computing activities at school. Remind yourself about this by looking at these BBC resources;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3tbwmn/articles/zykx6sg

(search BBC coding )

Watch the video, then play the game. Have you discovered anything new?

Please remember – always have a grown up with you when you use Internet resources – keep safe online.