Home Learning    

Please send all home learning to 

homelearning@northcrescent.org

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2

Summer Term

Please try to read with your child for a short time each day, record your reading on the Electronic log. Why not try a book from MyOn or Oxford Owl, click on reading tab on our class homepage for more details. 

The children's spellings can be found by clicking on the spelling tab on our class homepage. A sheet of spellings is sent home each Monday. 

The children will bring home a Grammar Hammer sheet to practise at home each Monday.

The children also have logins for Sumdog and TTRS to help them with their times tables and other areas in maths. There are times table songs  to sing along to under the times table tab on our class homepage. The children will bring home a TTRS sheet to practise at home on each Monday. 

Sumer Term home Learning

This homework is for you to complete from now

until the end of the Summer term.

1. Build an imaginary island.

First plan / draw your ideas for an island.

Then create/ build your island.

The  island could be a model or a collage.

Name the island. What physical and human features does it have? Maybe you could include a lighthouse, a pier or jetty, an airport or runway strip, hills/ mountains, rivers, bridge, roads, houses, shops, school, a park, a wood, farms, holiday resort or even different types of transport on the island.

Is it like Katie Morag’s island? How is it the same / different?

Take a photograph of your finished island and send in to homelearning@northcrescent.org

2. Travel brochure

Write a travel brochure to encourage visitors to come to your island.

What attractions does your island have? Where can visitors stay?

How do visitors get to your island? Could your travel brochure include pictures or photographs of different parts of your island?

You can use paper or the computer to make your travel brochure.

3. Island map

Draw a map of your island showing all of its features. Can you make a key for your map? ( e.g. different colours represent sea, land, mountains).  

Have fun!

There are also some other homework ideas in the documents below. 

Week 5 & 6

10/5/21 - 21/5/21

English

In English we are reading some of the Katie Morag stories which are based on the fictional island of Struay. Katie has lots of adventures in these stories and  at school we are going to write our own innovated island story, perhaps you would like to write a story at home too. Don't forget to bring it in to show us or send in using the  home learning email. 

Maths

In Maths we are looking at problem solving and how we can answer a question using different strategies ( methods).  Below are some questions if you would like to try some problem solving and some maths year 2 revision activity mats to consolidate maths learning. 

Week 3 & 4

26/4/21 - 7/5/21

English 

The children are looking at instruction writing. At home can the children look at different instructions e.g. recipes, game instructions, making instructions, planting seeds instructions etc.. What is the same? what is different? What instruction text features can they identify in these examples e.g. heading, sub headings, time connectives, imperative verbs( bossy verbs) 

Can the children write their own instructions  e.g. brushing their teeth , playing a game, etc.  

Maths

The children have been working on  position and direction.  Finding routes by stepping forwards, backwards, left and right. Then the children looked at making turns clockwise and anticlockwise.  For homework can the children practise  their left and right and make a map (with squared paper)  with directions worked out to get to different areas on the map.  You can draw your own squared paper or download the treasure map from the link below. 

Week beginning 12-4-21

Meerkats

In English the children are learning to write  a non-chronological report about meerkats. For homework they have been asked to find out facts that they can use to help them to write their report. 

Term - Spring  2

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2 Spring 2

  Blue Whale Research Homework  

Children to research for facts about a Blue Whale.

Then add these facts to the box up sheet.

I cannot wait to see what amazing facts you find out. 

All resources for this work can be found:

Website -> Class 2 -> Week 7 Friday-> English Resources

OR

Google Classroom -> Friday 26th February -> English Resources

Spring Term

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2 Spring 1

Homework during Remote Learning 

Your task, for the two weeks you are learning remotely, is to keep an exercise diary. Draw a table like this:

Fill in the exercise you have each day. It could be walking, running, cycling, yoga or a keep fit routine like the ones we did with Joe Wicks each day during the lockdown. Click on the link below to see lots of ideas for keeping fit and healthy as well as the Joe Wicks videos.  

Daily Activities

 Reading

5-10 mins reading every night

Don't forget to record reading on the electronic Reading Log in Google Classroom so your child can earn reads for Golden Tickets. (10 reads = Golden Ticket)

Click on 'Reading & Phonics' icon at top of class page or click on link below to go straight to the page for details about: 

Logging in to Bug Club and Oxford Owl. 

Taking part in the library 'Winter Reading Challenge'. 

Spellings 

- learn the weeks spellings ( see spellings icon on top of class page or click on link below) for a quiz each Monday.

Times Tables

- learn tables for a quiz each Monday.

Click on link below for songs and chants to help children remember their times tables.

Maths - KIRFS - Key Instant Recall Facts

To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we ask them to learn

Key Instant Recall Facts each half term.   

For Spring 1 the target is to know the multiplication and division facts for the

two times table.

By the end of this half term, children should know these facts  and recall them instantly. They should be able to answer these questions in any order, including missing number questions e.g.⃝ x 2 = 18 or ⃝ ÷ 2 = 6.

More information and top tips for learning these facts can be downloaded from below.

Autumn Term

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2 Autumn 2

Please send all home learning to 

homelearning@northcrescent.org

Autumn 2  - Home Learning

Creative project

As part of our learning about Explorers can you make a model of a ship.

Please choose either Christopher Columbus' ship the Santa Maria or the Titanic.

Then see what you can find out about these ships and tell me about them.

Send your photographs and writing to homelearning@northcrescent.org 

Phonics Practise

Please practise  the words and complete the phonic activity sheets that can be downloaded from below. (Click on phonics icon & phonics screening to find out more about the Phonics screening check).

Maths Week England

9th - 14th November

Join in this weeks competitions  on TTRS and Sumdog

               https://pages.sumdog.com/             https://ttrockstars.com/page/mathsweekengland2020           

Creative  Firework Activities

1. Create a firework picture and send a photograph of it to homelearning@northcrescent.org 

       The picture could be created using chalk, crayons, felt tips, glitter, fabric /                 paper  collage or any other idea you have. I cannot wait to see your pictures.  

   2. You might choose to design and make a new firework. What shape would it be?               What  would you call it? What would it do? Send in  photos  of your fireworks and          your writing  telling me all about your new firework. 

   3. Go onto Google classroom and use Google draw to create a firework picture. Don't         forget to submit your picture so I can see it. 

                                                              Have fun! 

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2 Autumn 2.

Reading - 5-10 mins reading every night

Don't forget to sign your child's partnership book so they can earn reads for Golden Tickets. (10 reads = Golden Ticket)

Spellings - learn the weeks spellings ( see spellings icon on top of class page) for a quiz each Monday.

Times Tables - learn tables for a quiz each Monday.

Maths - KIRFS - Key Instant Recall Facts

To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we ask them to learn

Key Instant Recall Facts each half term.   

For Autumn 2 the target is to know the multiplication and division facts for the ten times table.

By the end of this half term, children should know these facts  and recall them instantly. They should be able to answer these questions in any order, including missing number questions e.g.  10 × ⃝ = 80 or ⃝ ÷ 10 = 6.

More information and top tips for learning these facts can be downloaded from below.

Details of Joe Wicks '5 minute moves' on cards to download or follow youtube video clip below. Then design your own workout. You can download the sheet if you would like to or design your own format  on the computer or on paper. 

Autumn 1 - Home Learning

Welcome to the home learning  for Class 2 Autumn 1.

Reading - 5-10 mins reading every night

Don't forget to sign your child's partnership book so they can earn reads for Golden Tickets. (10 reads = Golden Ticket)

Spellings - learn the weeks spellings ( see spellings icon on top of class page)

Maths - KIRFS - Key Instant Recall Facts

To help develop children’s fluency in mathematics, we ask them to learn

Key Instant Recall Facts each half term.   

For Autumn 1 the target is to know the number bonds to 20.

By the end of this half term, children should know these facts  and recall them instantly. Please check your child knows their number bonds to 10 (e.g. 7+3=10, 2+8=10) before moving on to number bonds to 20. More information and top tips for learning these facts can be downloaded from below.

Special project

Design and make your very own Hoctopize.

If your Hoctopize came alive, what would it be like? Tell me all about your Hoctopize.(If you need an adult to write your ideas down that is ok)

Describe your Hoctopize to me.

What does it look like?

Is it a good or bad character? Explain how you know.

What does it like to eat?

Does the Hoctopize have any friends?

What does your Hoctopize like doing?

Is your Hoctopize happy or sad? Why?

What could you do to help your Hoctopize?

Does the Hoctopize have a family? What are they like? Where do they live?

Download sheet below to tell me all about your Hoctopize.

Creative Home Learning 

Look at all the creative ideas and choose one to do each week.

   Summer Holiday Activity     

Please could you do a special activity for me over the summer holidays?

I would like you to tell me all about yourself so I can get to know you better. You can write, draw or use photographs. It could be called 'All about me'. 

Here are some ideas to help you:

• You could draw a picture of yourself and introduce me to pictures of your family and pets. Can you add names too?
• Tell me about your favourite things e.g. favourite stories, toys, games, animals, colour, clubs you attend, hobbies,   tv programmes, sports or food.
• Who are the friends that you like to work and play with at school?
• What are you looking forward to in Year 2?
• You and your parents/ carers could write me a special message telling me something you would like me to know about you.

Happy Holidays

Take care and stay safe

Mrs Barber