4 activities a day Choose 4 activities you would like Ideas for things to do at home to do at home with your child each Year 2 – Jack and the Beanstalk with your child. day.

Maths: Solve these problems then Read Jack and the Beanstalk Find the tallest plant in your Grow your own bean. You will need to Google ‘Bean lifecycle’ write some similar ones with different (All this week’s activities are garden. Find the shortest plant in be patient, it won’t grow as quickly as Talk with a grown up about numbers. loosely based around it) your garden (don’t pick them Jack’s. If you plant 2, see which one how a bean plant grows. Can https://www.youtube.com/wat unless a grown up says it’s ok.) grows the tallest. you draw and label the life ch?v=W5rxfLRgXRE Use a ruler or measuring tape to (You might find a seed inside a fruit or cycle? measure them. vegetable to plant)

What else might you measure Imagine Jack got caught by Research what a plants need to Imagine you had some wishing around the house or on a walk? Go on Purple mash – link on the the giant and had to live in the grow. Can you make a poster beans! What would you wish for? school website dungeon of the castle. Write a telling someone how to take Write a list! Can you use adjectives In the search bar type in jack and the in your list? E.g. an enormous diary as if you are Jack about beanstalk. care of plants? chocolate bar. what it is like and what you Click on the activity called favourite have been doing? Are you part and tell me about your favourite trying to find a way out? Is part in the story. there anyone to help you? Can you make a harp instrument Visit the Twinkl website: Maths: Make a counting Find an image of a castle in a book or Create a Jack and the that actually makes music? Maybe https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resour beanstalk using cardboard tube a picture on the internet. Look beanstalk scene in a shoe box. use elastic bands and cardboard box. ce/t-t-15513-jack-and-the- and paper leaves. Use a lego man carefully at the shapes and have a go beanstalk-board-game to climb up as you count in 2s, 5s at drawing a castle. You could learn or 10s. some of the names for the different Play the board game with parts of a castle and label your someone from your family. Then drawing. create your own game.

Find another story about a giant. Write a letter to the Giant to Maths: Solve this problem. Phonics activity – Jack climbed See if you have any stories about say sorry for stealing all of his up the beanstalk. things. Tell him you know that giants in your house or if not try and How many other words can you find one to watch online. think of with ed endings?

4 activities a day Choose 4 activities you would like Ideas for things to do at home to do at home with your child each Year 2 – Jack and the Beanstalk with your child. day.

stealing is wrong and what you will do to make it up to him. Visit the website: Think of other magic objects for Create a map of Jack’s village, Maths: Find out who is the tallest and Maths: Take giant steps around https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class- Jack. What might they be? where his house was, the market shortest in your family. You could even your house. How many giant clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the- Write a story with these new and the beanstalk. You could also try it with your teddies or dolls. steps from your kitchen to your beanstalk-home/zff42sg objects in. How will they help create a map of Giant Land. bedroom? From the lounge to There is a different version of the Jack? the bathroom? story and lots of fun resources to do Record your results in a graph afterwards. of your choice. You could do a pictogram or a block graph.