Year 2 Holiday Home Learning

1. Have loads of fun and a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!

2.  Be super helpful and polite.

3.  Do you know these facts  ? 

There are 60 seconds in one minute.

There are 60 minutes in one hour.

There are 24 hours in one day.

There are 7 days in a week - These are:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

(Can you spell all of the days correctly?)

A fortnight is 2 weeks

There are 12 months in the year – in order these are:

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

There are 365 days in a common year (and 366 days in a leap year).

Year 2 - Party Food for Friday 20th December

Dear Parents,
We are having a Christmas Party on the last day of term (Friday 20th).
We are hoping that the children can bring a selection of party-style foods for our Festive Picnic.
So that we have a nice selection on the day, I have put a list on the window of the Y2 classroom so that folks can choose what they are going to be able to bring along.
Many thanks,
Duncan MacBean

Year Two - Money Maths

Our next Power Maths unit in Year 2 involves working with "Money".
In this unit we will:
-count coins and notes
-compare different amounts of money
-find different ways to make the same amount of money
-work out the amount of change
-solve 2-step problems involving money

Home Learning - Year 2 Wed 27th Nov

1. Practise your “lines” for the Christmas Show 

2. Dragons and Unicorns
   

Can you do a short piece of writing about “Dragons” or “Unicorns”?

Your writing could take any shape you like:

- a poem

- an acrostic poem

- a story

- a factual account of how dragons or unicorns appear in stories or coats of arms

- a newspaper article

- a description of a particular dragon/unicorn

- a play script

The choice is yours! Happy writing!

Year 2 Writing Wall of Fame

The children in Year Two have put some of their written work about Daedalus and Icarus on the Writing Wall of Fame. Please come a take a look.

Year 2 - Home Learning - Measures

Y2 Home Learning Activity

You will need a tape measure, kitchen scales and a capacity jug.

1	How tall are you in m and cm?
2	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of shampoo? (ml)
3	How much does your box of cereal weigh?(g)  (Look on the pack.)
4	How tall is the tallest person that lives in your house? Measure in m/cm
5	How high up do you sleep when you’re in bed?  – measure in m/cm
6	Find the biggest potato (or apple, or banana) in the bag.  How much does it weigh? (g)
7	Measure the distance from your seat in the lounge to the television.                                      (m/cm)
8	How much does your breakfast cup/glass contain? (ml) Estimate or measure.
9	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of ketchup? / or tin of soup? Have a look at the label on the bottle.
10	If a cereal/soup bowl was full, how many ml of liquid could it hold?

Year 2 - Face Paint

Dear Parents,

As part of our “Myths and Legends” artwork, I was hoping to let the children have some fun with our “Face Paints” and turn each other into monsters (...bigger monsters).

If you would rather that your child did not have their face painted (allergies etc), please could you let one of the Y2 Team know.

Many thanks,

Duncan MacBean

Year 2- Home learning -week of Wednesday 13th November

Suffix

To use suffixes to generate new words from root words.

These suffixes may help you :- 

-ing, -ship, -er, -ful, -est, -ness, -ly, -ment, -ish, -hood, -dom, -less, -like

Here are some words you know. They are called 'root' words.  Can you make other words that start with them?

start

child  

glad 

nice 

care 

cold

joy

enjoy

ask 

hope 

friend

beauty

free

run

Home Learning Year 2 , Wed 6th Nov

Mathematical investigation  "Make the Magic Potion":

Spiders 8 legs

Lizards 4 legs

Bats 2 legs

Potion must have a total of 20 legs. What different potions could you make?

potion 1 = 5 Lizards    4 + 4 = 4 = 4 = 4 =20 legs

potion 2 = 2 Spiders and 1 Lizard 8 + 8 + 4 = 20 legs

Record your answers clearly.

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I have also given the children a copy of the words that they will be reading out in our Class Assembly on Friday 22nd November. 

Year 2 Plastic Bottles Please

We would be grateful if you could send in a plastic bottle or two after the half term holiday. These are to be converted into replica "ancient Greek vases" in our Art/D.T. lessons next half-term.

Bottle that don't have ridges around the outside are best for our purposes.

Many thanks.

Home Learning – Year Two Wed 23rd Oct

Write down as many different totals as possible that you can get from ...

two different coins:

(There are a lot of answers!)

Show your answers like this:

1p+ 2p= 3p

1p+ 5p= 6p

Have you been systematic in the way you have tackled this?

Year 2 Home Learning - Monster Poetry Weds 16th October

Can you make up a poem about a monster where you describe the monster using things that you don’t like?

This is the monster

I made up last week.

A monster so scary

I’m now losing sleep!

It has…

Make a list of things that you don’t like.  Then put these into the poem about a monster.

barbed-wire , stinging nettles , car alarm noise,  cold porridge, wasp-stings, bullies, burnt toast, getting a library fine,  getting a puncture on my bike, having an argument,  dusting the house, toothache

Here’s an example:

It has barbed-wired feet

And stinging nettle arms

When singing it sounds

Like the noise of our car alarms

It has  cold porridge for eyes

And a wasp sting nose 

It has bullies for fingers

And burnt toast for toes

It has library fines for teeth

And flat tyres for eyes

It sounds like an argument

Whenever it cries.

My poem uses rhyme, but yours does not have to.

Home learning – Year Two World Map Wednesday 9th October

The children in Year Two are being given an "unlabelled" map of the World.

For a “home learning” activity, I would like them to find where each of the continents and the oceans are located - and label these on the Map. 

Continents	Oceans
Europe Africa Asia North America South America Oceania   (Australasia) Antarctica	Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean

Year Two - Home Learning -Wednesday 2nd October

Make a simple plan of part of a building, such as your home. 

Can you label some of the different rooms and show where the doors are?

Can you show where some important things are kept, like the fridge, cooker, T.V., bath, toilet?