Year 2 Home Learning week beginning 15th June 2020

St Monica’s staff are now in school most of the week either running groups for key

worker children or working with Year 6 or Year 1 and so there will be much less contact

on Dojo. We will still check in every day but won’t have time to always respond

individually to posts or work.

Please find below a list of activities that we would like you to complete this week. Please do not try to do

all of these activities in one day; spread them out over the week so that you are doing some school related

work throughout each day as if you were in school. Try to work between the hours of 9am and 3pm.

Continue to use class Dojo our online platform which allows us to communicate with you.

ENGLISH

This week we will focus on storytelling with a story the children always love ‘The lighthouse keeper’s lunch’. Read this

book together or watch it here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_XvnXWJEnk. We have also attached the

PowerPoint for you to read with your child if you would prefer.

Ask questions as you go along: What do you think will happen next? Why are the seagulls stealing his lunch? How does

the lighthouse keeper feel? Can you think of an alternative ending for the story?

Activity 1 – Draw a story map for ‘The lighthouse keepers’ lunch’, see below.

Activity 2 – Using your story map have a go at retelling the story. You can choose how to do this and what is best for

your child. They could act out the story, read the story back to you using their mind map to see if they can remember

the story, or rewrite the story using their mind map.

Activity 3 – If children have already written out the story can they edit their work? They need to check for punctuation

(capital letters, finger spaces and full stops) and can also try and make it more interesting by including better sentence

starters or adding adjectives. If your child has retold the story to you can they now write sentences from the story. For

example; Once upon a time there was a lighthouse keeper. He looked after a lighthouse. Mrs Grinling made Mr Grinling

a lunch every day.

Spellings –

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Write a sentence including each word. Don’t forget full stops at the end, capital letters to start and for the

names of each month and finger spaces between each word.

Reading – Continue to access the books from Oxford Owl and Collins. Make sure you read every day.

Maths – Following on from last week’s work on sharing, this week we would like you to look at sharing

and grouping odd and even numbers using the following link.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zr23c7h

In this lesson you will learn all about odd and even numbers and how to identify them using your sharing

skills. You will then answer the questions from the pdf sheet on the website. If it helps you may want to

draw your own number line that jumps up in units of 2, which is shown in the video. It may also help to use

your own objects from around the home to help find whether an amount is odd or even. There will then be

an interactive game to help practise your odd and even numbers and their properties as well as a number

and place value maths game.

We would then like you to have a go at completing the ‘odd and even investigation sheet’ pdf file. This will help

you identify facts relating to odd and even numbers.

We have also set an activity on odd and even number recognition in My Maths.

RE – The Kingdom of Heaven

Although every Gospel talks about how Jesus wants us to build a new, fairer, more just world, Matthew’s

Gospel talks about this more than any other Gospel writer does. Other Gospel writers talk about this new

world as the Kingdom of God, Matthew calls it the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Kingdom of Heaven isn’t a real place – it’s a place in our minds and hearts where we imagine that God is

in charge (like a king) and everyone lives their very best selves – the way God hoped we would.

Look at the emojis. Put a circle around (or list) all the feelings you think people would have in

God’s kingdom.

Once you have completed this task, we would like you to draw a picture to show what you imagine The

Kingdom of Heaven would look like.

ART – This week we will be looking at how artists use sound to inspire them in their work.

Artists have often been inspired by sounds that intrigue them or by music they love.

This is an artwork called Percussion by André Bicât. He was an artist who liked to listen to music while he made art. He made this artwork as part of a series called ‘Rhythms of different artworks’ inspired by different instruments and sounds.

Using the link - https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art-technology/draw-sound-creature You will listen to a sound and use it to inspire a drawing.

There are five different sounds to choose from and your challenge is to draw a creature inspired by the sound you hear. What does it look like? Does it sound like a big or small creature? Is it real, imaginary, or a bit of

both? Where does it live? Does it have a superpower?

You can either draw your creatures onto paper or use the amazing Tate Paint feature which allows you to paint directly onto the computer! https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint

For a challenge can you describe the music you are listening to whilst drawing your creature – is it loud, quiet, fast, slow. Has it got a strong beat or soft smooth sounds?

PE – Please carry on being active as possible in your garden or local park/woodland. We have attached a

new ’60 second - Figure of 8’ challenge you can try at home if you have ball.

Science –

This week we are going to continue our topic on plants and look at pollination and the role of bees.

Watch; https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44222859

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0128z6q

Activity 1 ) Bee Spotting

Why not see if you can spot some bees? What sort of bees can you see?

You could make a tally chart of how many bees you see this week and which plants in your garden, or in

your local park, they like the most. I have lots of bees in my garden at the moment and they seem very

fond of my lavender plants.

Queen bees are the first to be seen in the spring searching for new colony sites. At this time of year

smaller worker bees take over food collection while the queen lays more and more eggs. You can start

seeing bees when the warmer spring weather starts and can usually see bumblebees before honey bees.

Look amongst bee-friendly plants for a better chance of spotting them – see “Helping Bees: making your

garden bee-friendly” for more information on the types of plants that attract bees.

Have a look at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s “Bumblebee Key” by going to:

www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/images/common_bees.jpg

www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/images/Rarer_bees.jpg

For further information: www.bumblebeeconservationtrust.co.uk/bumblebees_id.htm

www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/identification-guides-and-keys

Honey bees are sometimes mistaken for wasps (which also have striped abdomens and a sting). The main

visible differences are that wasps are bright yellow with yellow on their faces and on their legs. They also

have longer antennae than honey bees. The wasp’s flight pattern is noticeably different and they can sting

repeatedly (whereas a bee can usually only sting once).

Activity 2 - Activity 2) Bee foods

Think about what you have eaten this week. Draw a picture of all the things from the list below you have

eaten this week.

Now look at the list of crops that bees pollinate below – if bees were to become extinct, these crops would

not be able to survive. How much of what you have eaten this week would not be available if the bees

were to disappear?

Because bees are so important for the pollination of so many crops, in many countries bee keepers have

become contract pollinators rather than honey producers. This involves beekeepers moving large numbers

of hives, containing millions of honey bees, to orchards and crop fields at just the right time in their life

cycle, so that they can be pollinated successfully.

Roughly two-thirds of the bees in the US are moved to California each year for almond pollination.

Almonds are California’s number one horticultural export and are under real threat if the numbers of

honey bees continue to decline.

Extra curriculum

We know that lots of children are finding it hard at the moment not being able to get close to their friends

and family. Watch ‘While we can’t hug’;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaRgY&feature=youtu.be with your children and discuss how

they are feeling at the moment. Could they use one of the ways the hedgehog shows the tortoise he loves

him to send or share with their family or friends. They might like to send their friend/family a letter or cycle

past their house and wave at the them! Maybe they might see people they know in the park and have a

little dance just like the hedgehog and tortoise do in the clip. We are all missing human contact and have to

think of other ways to share our love.

Please keep in touch with us via Class Dojo, we look forward to hearing from you with your stories. Stay

calm and safe and we can’t wait to see you all again very soon.

Best wishes

Mrs Jackson and Ms Sorrentino