Week beginning 15th June 2020
Dear Parents,
Thank you to you all for the amazing work you are doing with your children. Thank you for your posts, comments and messages on Class Dojo. We value them dearly.
Here are some instructions to help you know what you can doing when you are learning from home:
Morning Activities
During the morning, you should focus on Maths, Reading, Spelling and Writing activities. You should also read daily. Regularly ask an adult to test you and see how many you can get right.
Enclosed is a suggested updated timetable for this period of learning at home. TIMETABLE – Howard home learning timetable-1
Remember the importance of drinking plenty of water throughout the day and taking regular movement breaks. Try and get some fresh air and exercise each day to help you keep healthy and well.
Afternoon Activities
During the afternoons, choose one or two of the activities to complete.
Parents can contact us via email at howardyear2@gmail.com
Children can contact us via ClassDojo – https://www.classdojo.com/en-gb/?redirect=true
Please feel free to share nay alternative work you’re doing or anything at home that you’ve completed that you’re proud of. (Check out the help at home section below)
From Ms Brown and Ms Agyemang
Remember to stay in contact with us via Class Dojo ? We welcome your pictures, videos, drawings, thoughts, work etc …
Daily
PE
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
Every day at 9 am, join Joe Wicks for PE session !
Welcome to Virtual Sports Week
As this week is Virtual Sports Week, we have decided to theme our learning (where possible) around sports. For links to the activities (and video tutorials), please click here (https://www.howard.croydon.sch.uk/classrooms/virtual-sports-week-2020/) .
We have put together videos of Mr Sinclair showing how to do each activity, and there is a pdf document also explaining the activities and different scores to aim to get etc. which are on the Virtual Sports Week blog page.
There are 10 activities, children are to chose 5 activities out of the 10 activities and put these into the tracker (or they can create their own tracker) which is attached (pdf and word).
Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1
Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1 (PDF)
For each activity, the children have 60 seconds to complete as many reps of the activity as they can. The aim of the week is to beat their personal best, so we would like to see an improvement on their tracking sheet throughout the week. The PDF documents that explain the activities have Bronze, Silver and Gold targets for them to get. So there is also a section on the tracking sheet for them to tick if they achieve the Bronze, Silver and Gold. The tracking sheet also includes extra daily challenges for them to complete – they can chose which one they want to do each day – on Thursday there is an opportunity to dress up as their favourite character whilst practising.
Please do share your videos, photos and your activity tracker with us via ClassDojo
English – pobble 365
Colours of the ocean – 077_Colours_of_the_ocean
The spilt – 176_thesplit
The port key – 054_The_Port_Key
Maths –recapping all learning
We have completed all strands of the year 2 maths curriculum!! Well done us!
So here is a booklet which recaps all the learning we have done. Please complete it throughout the week at your own pace
When calculating, can you use the strategies you were taught in school?
You can think about using:
- A number line
- A place value chart
- Drawing out apparatus
- Inverse operations
- Arrays
Work-https://digify.com/a/#/view/97cb49b3f92f47289c6e508c66291dd8
LA- fractions (halves)
Colour half- http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/resources/newlook/halfsheet1.pdf
Find half- http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/resources/newlook/halfsheet2.pdf
Problem solving finding half in different ways- http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/resources/newlook/halfsheet3.pdf
Find half of an amount- http://www.snappymaths.com/counting/fractions/resources/newlook/halfofaset1.pdf (it would be very useful to use practical resources to help with this activity e.g. buttons, counters)
Challenges- fractions
Happy halving- https://nrich.maths.org/217/index
Sheet- https://nrich.maths.org/content/02/03/letme1/Happy%20halving.pdf
Halving- https://nrich.maths.org/1788/index
PowerPoint – Halving (1)
SPaG
Please complete at your own pace through the week.
https://digify.com/a/#/view/97cb49b3f92f47289c6e508c66291dd8
Spelling- words ending in -le
https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/84/7-The-l-sound-spelt%E2%80%93le-at-the-end-of-words
You can do any of the activities in the spelling tiles section, play Bullseye Spelling and try testing yourself for free!
Reading comprehension
There are a few different reading comprehensions within the booklet.
Please complete at your own pace through the week.
https://digify.com/a/#/view/97cb49b3f92f47289c6e508c66291dd8
Science- Animals including Humans
Animal babies
Do you remember doing this story in school? How is this story related to your science topic?
Video- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z8x76sg
Powerpoint – baby animals
Work- t-t-2701e-animals-and-their-young-matching-cards-mixed-up-order -Animals and their young matching cards. You could do:
- Do a cut and stick
- Play matching pairs with your family
- Turn the cards over and play a memory game
Test your knowledge with this quiz- https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/science/animals-babies/
Geography/ history- seaside
Lesson 3- seaside’s of the past
PowerPoint – #Lesson Presentation Seasides Past and Present
Work- UK map- find and locate seaside locations in the 4 countries of the UK – Seasides in the UK Activity Sheet
Use the online map to help with your map work :https://www.factmonster.com/atlas/europe/united-kingdom
Work- cut and stick seaside’s now and then (2 star worksheet) (in folder) – Differentiated Now and Then Seaside Sorting Activity Sheet
RE- Judaism
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/why-did-moses-lead-the-israelites-out-of-egypt
Art
Lesson 1– https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-investigate-the-colours-670fab
Music
https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music
password – makingmusic123
Each weekly lesson will be available online for 5 weeks. Feel free to use in the classroom too if you are in school.
https://charanga.com/yumu/login?redirected_from_cmw=y
PSHE
Work –
big-hugs
Reading
Children should be reading every day.
When reading with your child at home ask them questions related to their book.
Questions to ask before you read
- Can you look at the pictures and predict what you think will happen in this book?
- What makes you think that?
- What characters do you think might be in our story?
- Do you think there will be a problem in this story? Why or why not?
- Does the topic/story relate to you or your family? How?
Questions to ask during the reading
- What do you think will happen next?
- What can you tell me about the story so far?
- Can you predict how the story will end?
- Why do you think the character did _______?
- What would you have done if you were the character?
- How would you have felt if you were the character? (use different characters)
- As I read____________, it made me picture________ in my head. What pictures do you see in your head?
- As you read, what are you wondering about?
- Can you put what you’ve just read in your own words?
Questions to ask after reading
- Can you remember the title?
- In your opinion, was it a good title for this book? Why or why not?
- Were your predictions about the story correct?
- If there was a problem, did it get solved?
- What happened because of the problem?
- Why do you think the author wrote this book?
- What is the most important point the author is trying to make in his writing?
- What was your favourite part of the story?
- If you could change one thing in the story, what would it be?
- Can you retell the story in order?
- If you were __________, how would you have felt?
- What is the most interesting situation in the story?
Is there a character in the story like you? How are you alike?
Computing
Create a project
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted
Play a game and review it
Giving directions
Coding
Share with us any computing work you are doing at home
Handwriting
Creative ideas
