Week 3 - 4th May 2020
Please click on the buttons below to download the daily activities for this week. As a guide, we suggest that you encourage your child to complete one numeracy, one literacy and one topic/play based learning activity each day, alongside their spellings and mental maths.
Please do not worry however if you don't get all of these completed - find a routine that suits YOU and go with that! |
Monday
NumeracyThis week we will be recapping our learning about 2D shape. We need to be able to recognise 2D shapes and be aware of their properties.
To start, watch this song and encourage your child to join in and sing along...can they remember any of the tricky shape names?! Complete the game sheet with your child; take turns to throw a dice (or use the interactive one) and colour the corresponding shape in the picture. If there are no shapes of that type left, the player must miss a turn. The winner is the first to colour the picture completely. Repeat for the second picture.
Extension Challenge - 2D Shape Pictures
Encourage your child to use their imagination to create a 'shape picture' made entirely from 2D shapes. Give your child a variety of different 2D shapes to cut out. You could do this on coloured paper/tissue paper, or blank paper and ask them to colour the shapes in at the end. You could also make this an ICT activity by encouraging them to use the shapes on Microsoft Word to create their picture! Use these examples as a stimulus for them: If you feel your child would benefit from a little more support and structure for this task, you could use this pack that has ready-made templates for them to stick the shapes onto:
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LiteracyWriting Instructions - Writing that explains or tells us how to do something (called procedural writing) is very important in day-to-day life. This activity helps your child to understand what procedural writing is and how to read it. It also allows them to write their own instructions and follow them to see how well they work.
Firstly, do you have any recipes or cook books in your house? Have a look at these together. Discuss the features of instructional writing (title, ingredients, equipment, method etc). Alternatively, there have been a range of recipes and related resources allocated on Study Ladder for this week: Then, with your child, please choose a recipe that you will write instructions for. This may be a savory or sweet dish and can be a relatively complex or simple recipe. I have attached a simple example for you:
Then complete your instructional writing:
We would love to see what you have come up with, so when you have completed this activity, please send us your recipe via seesaw and if possible, a picture. Our aim is to put Year 2 recipes together to make a class recipe book - we will send this home when school recommences.
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Tuesday
NumeracyToday will be focused on the properties of 2D shapes. Use this shape mat to prompt a discussion with your child about sides and corners.
Show them how to count the sides and corners of each shape by pointing to them. Can your child count and tell you how many sides/corners some of the shapes have? Can they notice anything about the sides on the shape, are they straight or curved? Are there any shapes with the same number of sides as another? What is different about the sides of a square and the sides of a rectangle? (Pay particular focus to these main shapes: square, rectangle, triangle, circle, pentagon and hexagon.Do not worry if your child does not recognise the more difficult shapes such as octagons and heptagons...these can be used to challenge and extend them if needed). Use this Powerpoint guessing game to help your child practice recalling the properties of 2D shapes:
Online task:
Log in to your child's Study Ladder account and complete the 'Comparing the number of sides' activity in the 'Week 3' pod. |
LiteracyWord families - we call words with common letters and sounds word families. This week we are focusing on the 'ag' family. Here is an animated story to reinforce this concept:
Please complete the -ag activity below
To reinforce, play the word endings game in the Study Ladder 'Week 3' pod. In this game, your child must look at the picture to help them complete the word, selecting either 'og' or 'ag'. Please log into study ladder using the details that we have sent directly to you via seesaw:
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Wednesday
NumeracyToday, we are going to use Venn diagrams to sort 2D shapes depending on their properties.
Show your child the Venn diagram and discuss the headings and what they mean. Where would we put a shape that has 4 sides? Where would we put a shape that is green? What about a shape that is green AND has 4 sides? Or a shape that is neither? Help your child cut the shapes and sort them into the correct place on the Venn diagram. There is also a completed version below, that explains where the shapes should go and why. To challenge and extend your child, give them a blank Venn diagram and see if they can come up with their own criteria to sort the shapes again! Eg. number of corners/colour, number of corners/number of sides, straight sides/colour etc...
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LiteracyRecap ng - /ng/ is a nasal sound made in the same position as /k/ and /g/, so the tongue is raised at the back, touching the soft palate and the noise is released through the nose.
It is worth noting that this sound will never appear at the beginning of a word. Here is a short video to help reinforce this sound: ng aliens word hunt - place the word cards around your house or garden. Then using the activity sheet, allow your child to go on a word hunt. Please encourage your child to say the sounds to read the word and then say the sounds to write the word onto their activity sheet.
Seek the sound - ng
Help your child to read the story, whilst highlighting the /ng/ sound as you go. How many can you find? Count and total at the end. |
Thursday
NumeracyToday, we are going to concentrate on hexagons. Your child needs to be aware that hexagons are shapes that have 6 straight sides, but that they don't always look the same.
Give them the selection of shapes and ask them to sort the them into two piles; 'hexagons' and 'other shapes.' Encourage them to count the sides to find out which ones are hexagons and which ones aren't! To reconsolidate, learn and practice the little song and complete the activity sheet:
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LiteracyBug Club Reading Activity - please select the book your child is reading this week and click to complete the relevant activity.
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Friday
NumeracyTo recap and reconsolodate our learning from this week, complete pages 3, 4 and 5 from the NHM 'Shape, Measure and Data Handling' booklet.
If you do not have your child's booklet at home, please click the button to access the pages: |
LiteracyRecap qu - in almost all English words, the letter 'q' will be followed by the letter 'u', to make the /qu/ sound. Very rarely will we see 'q' on its own. When learning this sound, we say that "it has 2 letters but it makes 1 sound". Here is a little rhyme that you may want to learn to reinforce this concept:
Follow Geraldine the Giraffe as she looks for the /qu/ sound:
Then please support your child to build some /qu/ words. Tell your child you are going to build some words (these words are on the final page of this document) and that you need them to make sure they say the sounds individually, then put them together to build the word e.g. qu i ck makes quick!
Your child may need extra support to build their challenge word squirrel. |
Topic and Play Based Learning Ideas
Science never tasted so good!
This science experiment is always popular with the Year 2 classes, they are always amazed to see the milk transform into ice cream! Let us know how you get on by sending us a picture on Seesaw.
This science experiment is always popular with the Year 2 classes, they are always amazed to see the milk transform into ice cream! Let us know how you get on by sending us a picture on Seesaw.
Everyone is welcome to join the Green fingers club
Next time you are doing your shopping look out for packets of seeds and try growing a flower, fruit or vegetable inside your house in a little pot or out in your garden, spring is the perfect time to start planting! In Year 2 we love growing watercress as it is very easy to grow, grows really quickly and best of all you can eat it!
If your child enjoys drama why not try re-enacting parts of the 'Carrot Club' story. This story is also a lovely resource for discussing feelings and emotions.
If your child enjoys drama why not try re-enacting parts of the 'Carrot Club' story. This story is also a lovely resource for discussing feelings and emotions.
Fine motor skills fun
In the Foundation Stage we spend time working on fine motor skills as they are essential for writing, drawing and using scissors accurately. All you need is some clothes pegs, two bowls/ containers and small items to pick up and transfer e.g. pompoms, cotton balls, Lego.
Challenge your child to transfer all the items from one container to another as quickly as possible using the clothes pegs. Can you set a timer and race each other to see who can do it faster? or set a time limit and see how many each of you can pick up in e.g. 10 seconds, 20 seconds etc.
Challenge your child to transfer all the items from one container to another as quickly as possible using the clothes pegs. Can you set a timer and race each other to see who can do it faster? or set a time limit and see how many each of you can pick up in e.g. 10 seconds, 20 seconds etc.
Shape Pizza
Can you design a pizza using 2D shapes? Think about what topping could represent each shape. E.g. circles could be tomato or pepperoni, triangles could be pineapple or cheese and rectangles could be ham! If you have a paper plate and coloured paper at home try making your pizza by cutting and sticking different 2D shapes. If you don't have these don't worry you can simply draw 2D shapes on the activity sheet.
Cafe Role play
The role play areas that we set up in our classrooms are always hugely popular so why not turn a little corner in your house into your very own cafe/shop. Spend some time thinking of what your area will be and what you already have that you could use. Play is such an important part of children's development and role play areas provide fantastic opportunities for children to work on their talking and listening skills, be creative and have fun.
*Think of a name for your cafe/ shop and make a sign, remember it should be really eye catching!
*Make a menu/ price list for the items in your shop.
*Use real coins to 'pay', this is a great opportunity for children to work on coin recognition. You could use this as an opportunity to work on simple addition and subtraction for example within 10p.
*Think of a name for your cafe/ shop and make a sign, remember it should be really eye catching!
*Make a menu/ price list for the items in your shop.
*Use real coins to 'pay', this is a great opportunity for children to work on coin recognition. You could use this as an opportunity to work on simple addition and subtraction for example within 10p.
Extras
To recap and develop your child's knowledge about 2D shape, you could play Bingo. Give them a game board (you could give them one with the words only to challenge them), and call things like 'a shape with 4 straight sides that are all the same length' and see if they can cross out the corresponding shape. They should shout 'BINGO' when they have crossed out all of the shapes on their board. There are lots of different boards so you could play a few times, and you could even swap roles and allow them to call the clues for you!
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Why not play this fun mission game on a computer/tablet to help your child practice their 2D shape skills?
Click on the button below: Alternatively, go to:
https://pbskids.org/oddsquad/games/pienado/ |