Hazel

Our weekly achievement certificates are awarded to ...

Jack

for working so hard in school and putting 100% effort in all of the time. 

Ella

for fantastic work at home especially her writing about the medieval banquet.

W.C. 13^th July 2020

Spell Zoo Set 8

‘Words with ‘ea’ as /ay/ and ‘a’ as /ar/

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 28.

This week we will be continuing our work on fractions:  

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 1: To be able to read the temperature on a thermometer
• Lesson 2: To estimate and measure in litres
• Lesson 3: To solve word problems that involve litres
• Lesson 4: To compare millilitres and litres using fractions  

Optional extension activities: (See attached sheets below – most pdf files have 3 activities starting with diving, deeper, deepest or developing, expected and greater depth so you can choose the best activity to challenge you!)

English

To continue working on your lift the flap information book all about castles. If you need any plain A4 paper please let us know. Have a look at ‘See Inside Castles’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5eqZcvKY4 and ‘Look Inside a Castle’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xLomHMLls for some inspiration!

Some ideas for your book

• A title page
• The first castles
• Stone Castles
• Banquets
• Becoming a Knight
• Jousting
• Castles Under Attack
• Castles today
• Back cover with a blurb

Topic

• Computing – Games: Have a go at making your own ‘Grouping Quiz’ (see your alerts) you might want to create a healthy and unhealthy food quiz, or land animals and sea animals or any theme of your choice!

PSHE

• ‘Eat Well Live Well https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/eat-well-live-well-8f5dd2 Have a go at designing a healthy snack.  

W.C. 6^th July 2020

Spell Zoo Set 7

‘Words with ‘o’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 27.

This week we will be continuing our work on fractions:  

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 6: To identify unit fractions of a quantity
• Lesson 7: To identify fractions of a quantity and shape
• Lesson 8: To identify fractions of a quantity and shape
• Lesson 9: To identify equivalent fractions
• Lesson 10: To consolidate and review

Optional extension activities: (See attached sheets below – most pdf files have 3 activities starting with diving, deeper, deepest or developing, expected and greater depth so you can choose the best activity to challenge you!)

English

Over the next two weeks we will be creating our own lift the flap information book all about castles. If you need any plain A4 paper please let us know. Have a look at ‘See Inside Castles’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X5eqZcvKY4 and ‘Look Inside a Castle’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7xLomHMLls for some inspiration!

Some ideas for your book

• A title page
• The first castles
• Stone Castles
• Banquets
• Becoming a Knight
• Jousting
• Castles Under Attack
• Castles today
• Back cover with a blurb

Topic

• Computing – Games: Have a go at making your own ‘Match Pairs’ game (see your alerts) you might want to create a castle themed game or a number bonds game the choice is yours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTfbKLlddxQ

PSHE

• ‘Make Kindness Count’ https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/make-kindness-count-09e907/activities/1 You can write down your acts of kindness into your purple exercise book.

W.C. 29^th June 2020

Spell Zoo Set 6

‘Words with ‘oo’ as /ore/ and words with /i/’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 26.

This week we will be recapping fractions  

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 1: To relate halves and quarters to division
• Lesson 2: To identify parts of a fraction
• Lesson 3: To identify half of a shape
• Lesson 4: To identify halves, thirds and quarters of shapes
• Lesson 5: To identify fractions of shapes with different numerators

Optional extension activities: (See attached sheets below – each pdf file has 3 activities starting with diving, deeper, deepest or developing, expected and greater depth so you can choose the best activity to challenge you!)

English

This week our English work is based on Banquets!

• Activity 1: Castles reading comprehension attached below (choose a level to challenge you from * to ***).

• Activity 2: Read through the PowerPoint about medieval banquets. Write some sentences to describe what would have been eaten at a medieval banquet. Don’t forget full stops and capital letters!  
• Activity 3: Imagine you are hosting a modern day banquet, design a menu listing your favourite foods! Don’t forget to draw some pictures to illustrate your menu.
• Activity 4: Design and make your own crown to wear at a banquet!
• Activity 5: Write a set of numbered instructions explaining exactly how to make your crown.

Topic

• Computing – Games: Have a go at making your own ‘Drag’ game (see your alerts) you might want to create a banquet table and draw food to add to the table or you could draw a knight and his armour. Watch the video clips first to explain what you need to do.

PSHE

• ‘Agony Aunt’ https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/agony-aunt-979200

W.C. 22^nd June 2020

Spell Zoo Set 5

‘Homophones 5’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 25.

This week we will continue to learn about rotation, identifying rotation patterns and following a route on a map.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 11: To make predictions about rotation
• Lesson 12: To be able to rotate shapes
• Lesson 13: To be able to identify how patterns have been created through rotation
• Lesson 14: To follow a route around a map
• Lesson 15: To consolidate and review

Optional extension activities: (See attached sheets below – each pdf file has 3 activities starting with developing, expected and greater depth level so you can choose the best activity to challenge you!)

English

This week our English work is based on Knights and castle jobs!

• Activity 1: Reading comprehension choose one reading activity and write your answers into your exercise book:

Easier activity: Listen to the story ‘The Wrong Kind of Knight’ by Julia Donaldson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_w5UtxfyY and attempt the questions below.

Harder activity: ‘Knights and Dragons Unite’ reading comprehension below.

*Optional Grammar Activity*: ‘Knights and Dragons Unite’ challenge cards.

• Activity 2: Read the PowerPoint about who would live in a castle. Choose a job to apply for! You can either use the activity sheet or write your application into your exercise book.

• Activity 3: Play the game ‘dress and label the knight’

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/knight/index.html

• Activity 4: Read the PowerPoint about what armour knights wear. Then write some sentences to describe what armour knights wear and how it protects them.

• Activity 5: PurpleMash activity (see your alerts!) watch the video and answer the questions on the left to create your own information text about knights. Also look at the PowerPoint about how to become a knight.

Topic

• Design your own coat of arms (see PowerPoint below).
• Design an illuminated letter for your first name.

PSHE

• ‘My lockdown feelings’ https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/my-lockdown-feelings-73d5ff/activities/2

Have a think about what you have enjoyed doing at home and create/draw your own happiness jar.

W.C. 15^th June 2020

Spell Zoo Set 4

‘Homophones 4’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 24.

This week we will be learning about shape patterns, position, direction and rotation.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 6: To describe and create shape patterns
• Lesson 7: To compare and sort 2D and 3D shapes (For the branching database independent task pause the video and look at the worksheet to see the shapes you need to sort as they don’t appear on the video)
• Lesson 8: To describe the position of an object
• Lesson 9: To be able to give directions
• Lesson 10: To use the language of rotation
• Optional extension activities: (See attached sheets below – each pdf file has 3 activities starting with diving, deeper, deepest so you can choose the best activity to challenge you!)

English

This week our English work is based on Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris.

Watch Jackie read the story first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAdG102siOU

• Activity 1: Look carefully at how Jackie draws background landscapes – rolling hills and cities, complete with turrets, towers and castles. Design your own ‘dragon world’. Write some adjectives around your dragon world picture to describe it.
• Activity 2: Jackie creates very different dragons in the story, have a go at designing your own dragon. You might want to stick it onto your dragon world.
• Activity 3: Create a passport for your dragon describing what it looks like, its interests, favourite foods and abilities.

• Activity 4: Write some sentences (don’t forget full stops, capital letters and adjectives) to describe your dragon in the style of the story, here are some ideas…

My dragon is as big as…

My dragon eats…

When she laughs...

My dragon is a sea-dragon …

All day he …

• Activity 5: Imagine your dragon has been spotted at Underwood school write your own newspaper report or film a news bulletin for BBC East Midlands Today describing what might have happened (scratch marks on trees, burnt holes in the classroom door, eaten pencils etc.)

Topic

• This week research stone castles, find out what they were made from and what features they have and how they have been improved since the Motte and Bailey castle designs. Write your findings into your purple exercise book.

PSHE

• Learning about how we can play together but apart. You can have a go at the activity to think of a game you enjoyed playing at school and invent a new game you can play safely

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/playing-together-but-apart-4e7276

W.C. 8^th June 2020

Spell Zoo Set 3

‘Homophones 3’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 23.

This week we will be learning about shapes, recapping 2D shapes and symmetry and moving onto 3D shapes and their properties.

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/maths#subjects

• Lesson 1: To identify shapes by the number of sides and vertices
• Lesson 2: To identify right angles in shapes
• Lesson 3: To recognise lines of symmetry within 2D shapes
• Lesson 4: To name and describe 3D shapes
• Lesson 5: To identify 2D shapes on the surfaces of 3D shapes.
• Optional extension activities: Have a go at the diving into mastery activities saved below – you can have a go at writing your answers in your exercise book or discussing your answers with an adult.

English

This week our English work is based on the brilliant ‘Again!’ by Emily Gravett.

• Watch Emily reading the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBScWnaSjv8

• Activity 1: Part of the blurb on the back cover is missing. Could you complete it (or write a new one)?

• Activity 2: In the story Cedric loves having a bedtime story so much he wants his mum to read it again and again! What is your favourite bedtime story? Can you write a review of it in your exercise book? 

• Activity 3: Write a short story about Cedric's day, before the story begins. Use the illustrations on the inside front cover to help.

• Activity 4: Watch the video of Emily showing you how to draw Cedric. https://www.emilygravett.com/books/again Have a go at drawing your own dragon. Then write some sentences to describe your dragon, don’t forget to use some adjectives (describing words) and remember full stops and capital letters.

• Activity 5: Listen to the story again, can you see hear and rhyming words? Can match the rhyming words below and list a list in your exercise book? Can you think of any more words?

Sheep                     Shore                       Hair

Bear                      Leap                      Score

Door                      Chair                     Cheap

Creep                    Scare                    Floor

War                      Beep                     There

Dare                     Roar                      Heap

Deep                     Paw                       Stair

Wear                    Sleep                    Claw

Topic (Continued from last week)

• Research the Motte and Bailey Castles, find out what they were made from and what features they have. Write your findings into your purple exercise book.
• Make a model of a Motte and Bailey castle or create poster explaining what they are.

PSHE

• To know why effective hand washing is important – you can have a go at the activity to design your own poster reminding others how to wash their hands

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-02/pshe-year-02#subjects

W.C. 1st June 2020

Spell Zoo Set 2

‘Homophones 2’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 22.

This week we are recapping the work we have done on money: focusing on adding coins to make amounts.

• Toy Shop Money Game (Try challenging yourself with the ‘mixed coin’ option)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

• Coin Cruncher Game (Have a go at make the total and how much?)

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-5-8/coin-cruncher/

• Money Pairs Game Purple Mash (Click on your links)
• Making Amounts Game Purple Mash (Click on your links)
• How much money is in my jar? and Make Totals activities (click on link below) – choose from either *, ** or *** (hardest) challenge and write your answers into your exercise book.  
• *Optional* Money Challenge Questions – click on the PowerPoint below and write your answers into your exercise book.

English

• Watch ‘Castle Adventure’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3LCRmgxMQ
• Answer the reading comprehension questions in your exercise book.
• Plan your own castle adventure story with Biff, Chip and Kipper – maybe changing one or two things from the original story.
• Write your Castle Adventure story into your exercise book.

Topic

• Research the Motte and Bailey Castles, find out what they were made from and what features they have. Write your findings into your purple exercise book.
• Make a model of a Motte and Bailey castle or create poster explaining what they are. (This project will continue into next week).

Spell Zoo Set 1

‘Homophones 1’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 21.
• Twinkl Reasoning Paper 1
• Practise your 2, 5 and 10 x tables. You can practise writing them in your purple book, saying them off by heart and continue to use the multiplication checker on Purple Mash. 
• Purple Mash: X table re-call games- click on your alerts! 

• Purple Mash: relating + & X to objects game – click on your alerts!    

English

For our final week before half term we will complete this half term with Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

• It's BIG WRITE time!!! This week you are going to write your own exciting story about a Meerkat! Be as imaginative as you want to- it's completely up to you what happens in the story. Just remember your capital letters, full stops, finger spaces and lots of adjectives!!  Big write activity 1: Write the opening/start of your story: Start your story with a sentence opener, such as  Once upon a time or One sunny day. What characters will be in your story? What is the setting of your story? Where will your Meerkat go to? Who will your Meerkat meet? 
• Big write activity 2: Write the middle section of your story. What happens next? Is there a problem in this part of the story? 
• Big write activity 3: Write the end section of your story. How was the problem solved? How does the story end? 
• Purple Mash: Rainy day grammar- click on your alerts.
• Purple Mash: Lily's dog grammar- click on your alerts.

• *Optional Activity*: We love to hear what you have been up to! If you want to write a new postcard or letter to Hazel Class describing what you have been up to at home – you can choose to do this in your writing book or on Purple Mash.

Topic

• Have a go at creating your own African mask. You could use paper, card or even a paper plate. We can't wait  to see your ideas.      
• Purple Mash: Describing Spring- click on your alerts.

W.C. 11^th May 2020

Spell Zoo Set 12

‘Revision’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 20.
• Recap 2D shapes by watching https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjv39j6/articles/ztpwdmn Then have a go at the activities and quiz below the clip.
• Learn about 3D shapes by watching
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjv39j6/articles/zcsjqty Then have a go at the activities and quiz below the clip.

• PurpleMash 2D shape pairs game – click on your alerts!    

English

This week we will be continuing with our work on Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

• Watch Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU
• Design an invitation for Sunny’s Welcome Home party at the end of the story.
• Plan a welcome home party for Sunny: Write some sentences about what sort of party food, decorations you would have and what games you would play!
• Create a factfile/poster all about Meerkats
• *Optional Activity*: We love to hear what you have been up to! If you want to write a new postcard or letter to Hazel Class describing what you have been up to at home – you can choose to do this in your writing book or on Purple Mash.

Topic

• Have a go at designing your own Kente Cloth (traditional fabric from Ghana) https://youtu.be/toWybhX5ZV8

See attached instructions below!

W.C. 4^th May 2020

Spell Zoo Set 11

‘Possessive Apostrophe’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly arithmetic booklet: Week 19.
• Recap o’clock times, half past, quarter past and half past times by watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzRt9B04CMg

• PurpleMash What time is it Mr. Wolf? game – click on your alerts!  
• PurpleMash Time quiz – click on your alerts
• PurpleMash Describe x6 different things you do each day using the clocks – click on your alerts!  

English

• Watch Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcwuTRQ16MU

Sunny the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari desert. They are all very close . . . so close, in fact, that one day Sunny decides it's just too crowded and packs his bags. He's off to visit his mongoose cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in. And who's that shadowy figure who seems to be following him around?

• Write a postcard to Hazel Class describing what you have been up to at home – you can choose to do this in your writing book or on Purple Mash (see alerts).
• Design a missing poster for Sunny – don’t forget to describe what he looks like!
• Sunny takes his suitcase with him on his adventure, what would you pack in your suitcase if you went on holiday? Can you draw what you would pack and write some sentences to describe why you’ve chosen each item.

Topic

• To finish off African Jewellery Artwork from last week.
• To draw a detailed drawing of a Meerkat
• Sunny thinks that his home in the Kalahari Desert is too hot. Can you record the daily temperature where you live and for the Kalahari desert this week?

Spell Zoo Set 10

‘Contractions’

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly Arithmetic test booklet: Week 18
• Column Subtraction worksheet

• Measurement worksheet
• Purple Mash- Bond Bubbles – click on your alerts!   

English

• English Reading Paper 2 Set A
• Purple Mash- Little Red Meets the Wolf- click on your alerts!
• Writing- ‘My African Necklace’ – Plan your design for your African necklace/bracelet in your purple book. (See Topic planning below) Draw a picture of what you hope that it will look like (with labels) and then write down what you plan to do and which materials that you will use.

Topic

African Jewellery Art work (this activity may take a few weeks to complete) – Start by having a look online at some traditional African jewellery.  We would then like you to have a go at making your own African necklace using a paper plate or card. We would like you to decorate your jewellery using objects such as painted pasta on string, beads on string or anything that you can find.  You might prefer to make an African bracelet instead- we will leave it up to you! Please send us some photos of your African jewellery once you have finished it.

Purple Mash –Flower labelling – click on your alerts!   

Purple Mash- Plants and animals- click on your alerts!

W.C. 20th April 2020

Spell Zoo Set 9  Words ending with 'ful', 'ment', 'ness', 'ly' and 'less'

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Weekly Arithmetic test: Week 17
• Column Addition Worksheet
• Time Worksheet
• Purple Mash-Fractonio's Pizzeria-click on your alerts!

English

• English Reading Paper 1 Set A
• Purple Mash- Making Lists- click on your alerts!
• Writing- 'My Dream Easter Egg'- Think about the Easter Eggs that you have eaten over the holidays.We would like you to invent your own 'perfect' Easter Egg and in your pink books write some super sentences to describe your egg. Make it sound as delicious as possible by using some fantastic adjectives in your writing. Don't forget to use finger spaces, capital letters, full stops and exclamation marks! You can even draw a picture of your amazing egg to go with your writing.

Topic

• Purple Mash- Label parts of a plant- click on your alerts!
• Purple Mash- Describe what happens when a plant starts to grow- click on your alerts!
• African Sunset Art Work- create an African sunset background using sunset colours.

W.C. 30^th March 2020

Spell Zoo Set 8

Words with ‘s’ as /zh/

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Spring Maths Activity Booklet p9-14

• PurpleMash Multiplication Game – click on your alerts!   
• PurpleMash Easter Egg Mirror Symmetry – click on your alerts!   

English

• Spring English Activity Booklet p6-10
• Verbs Grammar sheet
• Questions Grammar sheet

Topic

• Safari Animals Fact Sheet – research and write about safari animals. You can present your work as a poster or in your pink exercise books or even as a PurpleMash poster – click on your alerts for the link!

W.C. 23rd March 2020

Spell Zoo Set 7  Words with ‘wa’ and ‘qua’ as /o/ and ‘wo’ as /er/

• Look cover write say
• Alphabetical order
• Choose the word
• Word Jumbles
• Write your own sentences

Maths

• Spring Maths Activity Booklet p2-8

English

• Spring English Activity Booklet p1-5
• Possessive Apostrophes worksheet
• Contractions Worksheet