Year 2 – Thursday’s Home Learning

Read a book to a grown up. Choose a book that might challenge you as a reader. 

As you find a word you do not understand, write it down on a post-it or in your book.

Use the internet or a dictionary to find out what those words mean and write the definition in your book.  

Look at your mind map from yesterday.

Write an acrostic poem using either SPRING or SPRINGTIME. 

An acrostic poem is a poem where each line begins with a letter from a word. 

The lines can be long and extended or they can be one word, it is up to you!

Remember to look back at your work from this week to help you with your ideas.

Here are some examples.

Start each new letter on a new line. Think back to when we wrote acrostic poems about jungle animals. You can use pens or crayons to make the first letter stand out even more. 

Challenge – Can you use clauses to extend your sentences? Can you use different sentence types e.g question or exclamation. 

You will need – a pencil, paper, ruler, rubber, something circular to draw clock faces (clean jar lid etc). Optional – camera / device to photograph your completed sheet to email to school.

List down times of events throughout the day. Next to each event, write the time and draw a clock to show this time. Grown ups – it may be necessary to round times to the nearest 15 minute interval – i.e. 2 o’clock, ¼ past 2, ½ past 2, ¼ to 3. Some children may need support with this, others will know times beyond the main 15 minute markers (those listed above), such as 5 past, 10 past etc. Allow the children to tell you what they know and work from there.

Events – getting up – eating breakfast – home learning – snack – break – tv time – lunch – exercise / playing outside – dinner / tea – bath / shower – reading – brushing teeth – bed time (use as many of these as you can).

When drawing the clocks – remember to use a ruler – the long hand shows the minutes, the short hand shows the hours.

Other: 

Easter theme

Draw or paint a picture / card – anything they want along the theme of Easter. Try to set them a target e.g. try to fill the whole page or include an element of Easter in your picture. Once your child has drawn or painted their picture, get them to tell you what they have drawn, ask them questions like ‘What is your favourite part?’ or ‘Is there anything you might change?’

You could use this as a stimulus for writing a sentence about their picture.